Ken, I was originally thinking of something that would interface with my B&G display but I think that you make a really good point about having a stand alone system in this case. It helps a lot to hea

Ken, A great educated/ personal review of FLS. Your logic concerning the value and useage of FLS seems sound to me. This is timely as I am looking at adding FLS to our boat. Recognizing that this seem

Arno,. You are correct, the Divinycell won't rot if water gets in. For a boat with a teak deck that has fastener holes I would prefer the Divinycell since with that many holes water is going to get in

Bill, I am glad that you pointed out the concern of leakage into the core from cracks as this does happen. Not all cracks are the same, some are a concern and some aren’t and telling the difference is

A mid range Divinycell (H80) has a compressive strength of about 174 PSI (http://www.fiberglasssupply.com/pdf/core/hmanm.pdf) End grain balsa core has a compressive strength of around 1,837 PSI accord

Bill, Thanks so much for alerting me to this potential problem. I will remove the hatch as you suggested and will seal the core at every deck penetration. I will also use filled epoxy for this job jus

Bill and Karen, You know your stuff Bill, thanks for the alert on the exposed balsa core. When it comes to balsa core, prevention of damage is certainly far preferable to replacement! End grain balsa

Philippe, My boat is a 1987 model Maramu. Removal of the electric powered gearbox at the bottom is simple. Just remove the four lower bolts. I was unable to remove the manual gearbox on my boat after

Arlo, My apologies. After taking a closer look, I think that Craig is correct that what you have is a fuel water separator that does not have a filter inside. I was looking at the top portion of your

Arlo, This looks like the same CAV filter used on my 1987 Maramu. Here is a link showing the CAV filter for comparison to yours:https://www.parts4engines.com/perkins-4236-fuel-filter-assembly/ To chan

Nick, I would be looking at about $4,400 USD (I found a US supplier) for 300’ of the 8mm which is a little less than 2.5 times the cost of the Aqua7 grade 70 that we are using now. (We are using the g

Hello,. I was wondering if anyone could comment on the expected service life of the Cromox chain? Also, has anyone had any failures or corrosion issues with this grade of chain. This would certainly b

Nick, Assuming that the worm gear and the shaft are both metal... I would try heating the component ( I assume this is the worm gear) with the hole to expand it while cooling the other part (the shaft

Ian, Lots of possibilities here and the experts on the BB will help. Just adding that especially since work was done not too long ago to check all of the pertinent fasteners to be sure that nothing ha

David, Definitely NOT a dumb question and maybe not as simple as it would first appear. The relationship between the in mast furling system and the drive that controls the foot of the sail is non line

Vic, You have some good questions and it will be interesting to read the input. I can tell that for myself I try to only use the Shields exhaust hose below waterline and always double clamp those conn

Pat, This sounds like an interesting option to me and apparently there was no damage done to your gel coat. I like the fact that you avoided using harsh chemicals. You also checked your boats bottom f

Tilo, Bill and the others responsible for the making of the Battle Born presentation, Very well done, thank to and a big thanks everyone involved! This video should answer many of the questions that w

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Thanks a lot for the recommendation. If we go, we will consider the car rental idea for sure. James SV Sueño Maramu #220

Tim, I did contact Amel but while they have done an absolutely amazing job of providing many of the parts I need, they could not help me with the bearings and seals. The sizes of the seals were marked