Pat, It's always a little dicey doing what you suggest. Part of the reason is that on a boat "24V" isn't ever really "24V" It can range up to almost 29V depending on your battery charging scheme. LEDs

Tom, I’d go with the local hydraulic guy. We have had good luck with them everywhere we have traveled and needed the service. Hydraulics are really common on boats and equipment of all kinds, and the

Pat, I can assure you that there is nothing at all "special" about the prefilters used for a watermater. A 5 micron rated filter will do fine. If you have dual filter housings in series, a 20 or 25 mi

Darryl, Which model generator do you have? Bill Kinney SM160, Harmonie Annapolis, MD, USA

I will add, both of the genoas we have had on Harmonie (one from North, and one from Island Planet) have had webbing for lashing like this. It’s a great safety feature. On the other hand, if your haly

People frequently describe insurance companies as "risk adverse," and while that's kind of true, what they really are is adverse to unknown or uncertain risks that they can't plug into their financial

Daniel, First, congratulations on your new-to-you Mango! And double kudos for seeing this as an issue. I am by NO means an expert on Mangos. I have never been on one, so feel free to dismiss everythin

We are pushing 9000 total hours. She just keeps working, probably because we run her regularly and take good care of her. Diesels seem to have as many health issues as humans do with being “couch pota

Thanks Olivier, The leak in our metal unit is from the middle of the transverse hole. While it might be technically repairable, to do so would require cutting the entire unit apart and welding new sea

Mike, Many people have installed, such a system, and I'll let them tell you the how's and why's. Our boat did two circumnavigations and accumulated over 8000 engine hours with NO primary fuel filter a

Another perspective: We have 630 Watts of solar panels on an arch that supply roughly half of our electrical needs. A good reliable, efficient system that greatly reduces our genset runtime. We really

Another lesson learned: Do NOT wait to replace your engine mounts. Bad things can happen. Engine vibration and noise creeps up on you, very slowly. You don't notice that it is a little bit worse today

Our Amel made aluminum waterlift muffler has started a slow leak, that will not get better by itself. It has had a long and happy life, but now a replacement is needed. My inclination is to go with a

Pat, Those studs are for vibration isolation. They do isolate electrically, but that is incidental. Like you we replaced ours when the old ones gave up. The studs do not connect through. Bill Kinney S

I have see boats made of fiberglass, wood, steel, aluminum, even (shudder!) cement. But a zucchini hull is a new one! I have no doubt if it proves cheap enough to manufacture, Group Beneteau will find

Mark, If it isn't one thing, it's another. But more likely both at the same time.... Another method for removal of the membrane end caps that is a likely to be a bit more gentle to the parts is to att

Paul, We have been going to the Annapolis Show for many years. It seems everybody has their own approach, but we prefer the "Preview day" on Thursday as the best day to conduct real business. In gener

The outlet of our sea strainer is 1 1/2 inch BSP. In this size, BSP and the US Standard NPT have identical thread pitch and depth, but different thread shapes. You can screw either one into the other

Alex, I don't know about Miami, but I have used Complete Yacht Services in Fort Lauderdale for many parts for Yanmar engines over the years. A good business and they know the engines well. They also m

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Randell, The term “mizzen ballooner” is Amel’s odd and unique way of referring to what everybody else in the sailing world calls a “mizzen staysail.” They are equivalent terms that refer to the same s