Thank you Bill, Bill, Paul and Tom for your recommendations. The port jib sheet broke at the block on the car on the genoa track, 1.96 meters away from its whipping and 1.6 meters away from the tensio

Hello, our jib sheet broke during a gust to 39 knots apparent while close-hauled under full genoa, while sailing from Delos to Kea. The breaking point was the block on the car on the genoa track. No e

Steve, Yes, after several years with it, for the cruising areas we travel to (NE US/Canada/Atlantic Europe/Med), the Makrolon triangular side panels are perfect. Other than a few times we've removed t

This won't help address your specific problem, but may be an idea for future: I've found that the nav lights I have for the dinghy, which are the Navisafe Navilight TriColor 2NM and the Navi light All

Our bimini is similar to the Hafner, except the transparent plastic goes down to the base of the winches. There are leather reinforcements in the small patches of the plastic that rub against the winc

FYI, on SM2K the linear drive is M81134 "long." In general terms, stronger is better. Space availability could be a constraining factor in your case. In my opinion, the rotary installed on Peregrinus

We anchored by Ellis Island in late October 2014, on our return trip from Canada. Rocky night, trillion-dollar view. Peregrinus SM2K Nr. 350 At anchor, Kalimnos

Hello Bill, Gary and Craig, The new sensor got installed. If it remains disconnected, the generator works great. If its terminals are connected, the engine does not start. If the engine is started (co

Hello Craig, I jumped the cables (black and white) across the sensor and the generator turned off, as predicted. Good! However, now the generator is dead. Nothing. I've tried re-setting all the breake

Hello Bill. Interesting. I attach a picture of my sensor. Notice on the terminal still attached to the sensor there are two white wires, joined together at the connector. Note on the broken off termin

Thank you Bill. Exactly my concern: if half the wires to the temp sensor are broken off, and the genset computer hasn't figured it out, or someone has disabled the function, then what good is it to si

Hello, Our sensor, marked F230 402-370 0013, was found failed (one of the wire terminals broken off) during an Onan inspection in Italy, and the part would have taken weeks for express delivery from O

Alexandre, One way to trip both a breaker internal to the boat and a breaker at the dock at the same time and to not trip the Diruptor breaker can conceivably be: 1. The breaker internal to your boat

Thomas, We have a Mastervolt EasyView display installed at the nav table. It is a very easy to use device once it has been set up, but setting it up "from itself" is very, very difficult. Conversely,

The Mastervolt manual for the 24v/100A Chargemaster does not specifically state that the chargers must be used with batteries always. However, this is strongliy implied, as it reads that batteries sho

On the initial post Duane mentions a 10-minute cool-off period after a long motoring. Following advice I recall from this group, from years ago, we do a 5-minute cool-off period. What are people's tho

Bill Kinney, I did not know you could safely run fresh water through the desalinator... Good to know. The first year we cruised we had very good Deka lead acid batteries. But there were 78 caps to che

Thank you all for your responses. Bill, never even considered measuring the TDS on shore water. Lesson learned, especially if staying at same place more than one tankful or so. Barry and Robyn, yes, t

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Hello, After 8 months of use, the heating unit on our Quick B3 heater came out completely covered in hard white deposits. It was a bit difficult to pull it out from its slot and some of the deposits f