I believe Tempest is a particular brand of double-braid polyester line: https://www.lancelin.com/en/portfolio/the-tempest/ As their marketing material suggests, it does seem to be softer in the hand t

We also just did our C drive maintenance yesterday and discovered that the crush washer (we have one) and O-ring that Maud sent us are too big for our drain plug. I contacted her earlier today about t

Hi Bill, This seems like a tall order. If one is handed a random board without any specifications nor way to power it on, figuring out how it is supposed to work and then figuring out why it isn't is

Hi Peter, Coastal Climate Control in the US can likely set you up with a new control panel. I had a broken one when I first bought my boat 3 years ago, and they had several replacement control panels

Hi Peter, I concur with Bill -- you almost certainly have a ground fault. The 32A breaker on the outside of the panel box is also a ground fault interrupter. If it is tripping instantly, that indicate

I've been searching for replacements for these caps since almost the day we bought our boat, and I haven't found them anywhere -- but that was before the very helpful info from Bill! I settled on buyi

Miles, Where/how do you connect your hand pump to the flow meter and other tubes? Bill, I appreciate the additional instructions, but as with so many winterization instructions for this unit, they mai

Hi Arnold, Thanks for the info. We followed basically those instructions already. Blowing into the blue hose (I assume this is the one marked with blue tape, which is the product water output) did not

Hi all, We have the 60L/hr, 24V-only Dessalator. Following the great instructions from past threads on this subject, we've successfully winterized the raw water side with pink antifreeze. But none of

I believe ours was also aluminum. I thought it was stainless until we actually removed it, and it just didn't feel like stainless. Ryan and Kelly SM 233 Iteration Salem, MA, USA

We just went through this replacement process a few months ago. If you're willing to spend the money, probably the best option is to have a new one fabricated in metal or fiberglass so you can continu

The Fusion stereos (and presumably other brands of actual marine stereos) have two major advantages of car stereos: 1) they use class D amplifiers, which use significantly less power compared to class

Hi Mike, The exciter relay coil is powered by 12V from the ignition switch, and when energized applies 24V from the house bank (via the indicator bulb) to the alternator. If the alternator has been re

On our boat, they're 8mm. I used this LED to replace the pressure water indicator and it worked great. Ryan and Kelly SM 233 Iteration Boston, MA, USA

Hi Guillaume, On our SM (233), the manual bilge pump is a Henderson Mk 5 (now Whale). The service kit part number for ours is AK8050. The most likely failure is a hole in the diaphragm. Ryan and Kelly

Hi Porter, The capacitor should be labeled. On one side of the disc, I expect you'll see some tiny numbers. If you can write them down and/or get a clear photo, that would help a lot for identifying i

Here's another data point: the brand new mizzen furler gearbox we bought from Amel for our SM came completely filled with grease. We've never noticed a drip. Ryan and Kelly SM 233 Iteration Boston, MA

Hi Bill, I've attached the one I made when I renamed our boat. The dimensions listed are in inches. Some SMs have a grab rail to port of the steps which might eat into this space, so keep that in mind

Chris, On our SM, the main circuit breaker is also a GFCI. On mine, this is indicated by a label reading "I∆n = 0.03A" on the circuit breaker, which means it has a 30mA ground fault limit. Given that

Hi Pat, I have not tried that. I will look into it. There is still plenty of travel left on the throttle lever when we hit 2100 RPM, it's just that pushing it farther has no effect. This makes me thin

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