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You might also consider a different approach: a smaller genny that is supported by a lager inverter; The disadvantage of a larger generator that is sized to meet your peak demands is that 99% of the time it will work at only a small percentage of its total power; not good for the diesel engine...

just read your comment about the cpp I am currently planning a repower/reprop for my trawleryacht next winter An I am curious about your experience with this manufacturer how did everything work out? tx a lot

thanks. Centrifugal pump with suction for filling the day tank. has a vacuum gauge but not really helpful with the high flow rates (always very high) and a two filter valved setup with vacuum gauge between day tank and engine quite happy with this part of the setup though. For both filtration...

tx what you describe is how I am doing it at the moment (yes, I have sight tubes and an engine room were I can stand and walk around); and the changes in flow are slowly over days as the hight of the fluid column in the main tanks gets lower and the filter more clogged ... I am just try to work...

Thanks guys, many really good ideas and helpful suggestions. The ‘day’-tank is located higher than the lowest points of the two main tanks (2500 L / 660 gal each on both sides of the engine room from the bottom to deck level). Actually, the previous owner used it as a separate tank to have...

Thanks for your helpful comments. I was thinking of upgrading to Mareton for other systems as well. How does the pressure sensor react to bumpy sea conditions (cause this is when the algorithm of my US sensor takes his time (more than 1 min) before giving a precise readout. In the harbor or with...

Thanks a lot. Unfortunately, my 'day tank' is more a '6-8 h tank'; so I need to refuel more often and typically try to do it every 6 hours or so. While I do my ER checks every 2 h, I don't need to go below for the refuling as the pump switch is on my dashboard. So in the marina, my system works...

A technical question: how do you manage refilling your day tank? A few years ago after installing a new day tank and an ultrasonic gauge, I managed to overfill the tank and flood the bilge with some diesel fuel (a mess to clean up). The reason: while in the marina the electronic of the...

the ideal pic should sport a rainbow my brother in law made this one of my baby a few years ago on the island Texel ( North Sea)

thanks for the helpful picture of your fins it seems to work perfectly in your setting! For better comparison: To what extent is the water infested with lobster pots and kelp/watherplants ? TX

thanx cpt bill and drb 1025 I have done some moor google-research and come up with the following three options (I have cut only the intersting part from foto material provided on the net) any ideas about pro's and con's and what works best?

has anyone experiences / recommendations for the type of line deflector best fitted together with stabilizer fins The boat is a 35 t vintage Dutch steel cutter with Naiads fitted a few years ago. I am very happy with them and they work perfectly. However, I had two times problems when the fins...

only the others boaters have bad fuel ... if your tanks have a drain at the lowest point (which they should), a first step after the filter change should be to drain the water and crud that might have accumulated there (wait until the boat has rested a few hours in a protected place like a...

if an engine suddenly dies after put in gear, just add a fouled propeller to the long lists of possible diagnoses and change the filters anyway after 100 h

with a large tank and old fuel the most likely reason is that the motion stirred up the crud from the bottom of the tank after similar experiences, consider the following (have been through all of it) - change both racors immediately! and have lots of spares before going to sea again (best if...

On a recent trip to the city of Antwerp, I made an observation which I would like to share - hoping that a few of you guys which a special interest in boat design and function could help me further: I noticed three trawlers that had a sort of giant swim platform build around their canoe stern...

A resource I found very helpful are the white papers of Victron energy; of course it is also about their products, but anyway contains a lot of useful info about everything around energy on board and with different sample solutions for different needs...

Tx Fully agree with your comment about the autopilot; I had to replace my vintage model last year and I m happy with my new Simrad - I didn't mention because its not relevant for the radar question Hope their other equipment is up to that standard

Tx for the flowers :) And the original is even more beautiful than the model you found on the Internet (actually, it stands in the living room of our city home)

lessons learned so far first of all, I would like to thank you all for your valuable input! I found the comments very helpful in addition to talking to other boaters and a few professionals and doing some more internet research. I do mainly coastal in the North Sea, but would like to be able...

In addition to the fuel selector lines, I have a connection between port and starboard tanks which I normally keep open to prevent overfilling of one tank in case that the return line drains to the other tank ( which easily could happen after dome dumbo ( me) puts one of the stopcocks in the...

Last weekend my >30 yo radar died (of course in the middel of te Issellake in moderate fog - but thats a different story...). Was already thinking al for a while to replace it (and clearly should have done so !:banghead:). However, it was a 10kw professional scanner and it was robust and worked...

have never used it in mud, so have no own experience however, as mentioned previously some of the high tech fluke anchors used for oil rigs seem to have similar features (i.e. having to change the fluke angel akkording to the soil conditions) - so to me its eems to be more than a gimmik and I...