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Use it all the time. It produces the 90-90% solution. Has saved me tens of hours of time plotting courses over the last 3 years including the Loop. BUT nothing replaces looking at the route and insuring that it goes where you want it to go. I don't load it into auto pilot and forget it. I just...

All boat owners are rich and should be taxed accordingly.:banghead::banghead:

Scuttlebut t is 10%

I prep the boat so that I only have to do the things necessary for continued safety and comfort, which keeps me busy enough. ;) It's a boat.

Lubriport Lab I use Lubriport Labs in Houma, LA. No special reason. My engine surveyor used them so I continued. They do a lot of oil field work. No problem with my Yanmars and Onans. Couple of weeks turnaround. Do my gensets when the mood strikes/500 hrs or so. My mains every time I change...

Did the whacking. 13+v at the starter. When I jump the start solenoid it just clicks. No start motor turning. Next step looks like replace the starter. Kubota engine so replacement available. (unlike my other genset which has a Cummins which has parts that are almost always obsolete)

I have an older 8kw Onan MDKD. When I push the start button all I get is a buzzing sound on the control box end, below the control box, opposite the starter motor. Thought the noise was coming from the control solenoid but replacement did not solve the problem. Buzzing is from below the control...

Posting great stuff! Thanks!

Anyone have any experience with any of the new generation MOB alarms. Wife and I have decided that if one of us slipped overboard underway the helmsman could easily not notice for awhile. Looking for something simple like Crewwatcher https://crewwatcher.com/pages/features But it needs to work.

Thanks for all the input. Switching to dyneema. And will inspect the inside of the davit. Also got a tip that if the new cable wasn't properly loaded when installed it can coil and kink. Ditto if you don't keep an adequate load on it after. All problems that go away with synthetic line. I had...

A mystery...New winch cable (1200 lb winch) broke. Put my dinghy up 2 months ago and stowed the davit; connected the hook to an eye on deck, take out the slack and turn off the davit breaker. All went smoothly. Cable looked fine. Cruised from Chesapeake to Plymouth, MA. Normal mixed weather...

Shopping for dock lines and need some advice... When do replace a dock line? How do you know it is unsafe, absent obvious chafing? I saw a dock line for sale that was one half the tensile strength (and 1/3 the cost) of another same size and type dock line - 3/4' double braid nylon. How is...

Thanks all. Port exploring is primary goal. Know we can't hit it all so just looking for that representative few. Probably only chance to get that far north. Loop next year and some travel abroad after that.

We're leaving the Chesapeake at the end of July to cruise north to Maine, maybe Nova Scotia. Anybody have an itinerary? Looking to anchor and marina along the way.

Thanks to all for the insight. Will repost when I have more info on version and current integration. Am reassured by your responses that it's a system worth keeping if it's up to date. Will beware of add ons and price it all out if it isn't integrated yet. More to follow.

One I'm looking at was re powered with yanmars. So don't have the DD challenge. Agree on the galley-PILOTHOUSE setup. Nice day to day space. Stand up engine room works too.

Anybody have any experience, good or bad, with Nobeltec Nav systems? Looking at a boat that has the system installed. Thanks :confused:

First post...Looking at a 1996 OA 548. Anyone familiar with anything I should look at or beware of? Lot of boat to go over and want to leverage anybody else's experience, good or bad. Thanks