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If all else fails 3m rubbing compound followed by a coat or carnuba wax. Our Nordic Tug had bad water spots that wouldn’t come off with vinegar. Ran into someone detailing a yacht in Anacortes and he said rubbing compound followed by wax is how he handled the problem. Tom

DDW, Like I said, Starlink is often not internally consistent. What I posted was apparently a Starlink response to a bevy of customer questions. Tom

I just saw this on the Starlink’s for boats Facebook page. If true it seems to indicate staying in territorial waters will be treated as roaming. Unlike some things Starlink does, this would make sense. One thing we have noticed about Starlink is that they are not internally consistent. One...

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If you can't get away from knots for wind why go to meters for depth?

Windy includes ship reports in their observations which is helpful when fixed observation sites miss hourly updates, something that happens all to frequently.

Steve, I agree completely, the real observations are more important than the forecast, especially if you can look at observations from multiple locations. Windy does that and other weather apps probably do that. NWS doesn't do that on their website, and listening to the radio is an exercise...

I find the NWS forecasts misleading and in some cases downright dumb in SE Alaska. They pretend to give you a forecast for a location with a resolution of a few km. For example, you click on a location on the marine weather map, and it gives you a forecast for so many km from a place you never...

Same model for sale in Wrangell AK. Shows as sale pending. https://www.alaskaboatbrokers.com/search-results

I have drawn on paper my LFP upgrade architecture with the only missing part being the battery I want to select. With the ABYC recommendation for using UL1642/1673 tested batteries, that is what I am focusing on. The problem is the Chinese battery manufacturers don't seem to advertise their UL...

My solution is to turn it off, wait till you hear the relay drop, then turn it back on. That resets it to bulk. 4 years ago I questioned Victron on this, their response was that was the way it works, even if it goes to float it will still provide all the amps to the batteries they want, which...

Steve, on most phones when you go to airplane mode, you have to turn WiFi back on since airplane mode defaults WiFi to off. Tom

DDW, If you can make a call in airplane mode then it is a WiFi call. Some phones get confused when they see a weak cell signal and will attempt to make a call through the cell network. I generally run my IPhone in airplane mode to prevent that. My wife's Android phone is always confused even...

Kevin, Probably 75% of my underway time is having the autopilot follow a route. If you regularly have to deal with winds and tides, following a route lets the electronics do what they are designed to do and takes workload off the captain. With a route you can keep your eyes outside and in bad...

Victron chargers will not return to bulk mode unless the voltage drops below 12.3v if memory serves me correct. The only way to get it to go to bulk before that point is to turn the Multiplus off and then back on. That resets the charging algorithm. Victron insists this is the proper way for...

This is my first summer with 400W of solar. For the first month, I don't think I got 100AH total, rain and clouds dominated. When the sun came I out, I actually broke even for about 10 minutes. I saw a peak of 339W for a very short time in mid day. I would say on a trawler with a Starlink...

Helped a friend with a Seahorse 53 that had a stripe on the front of the upper helm to overlay it with a vinyl wrap. Easy to do using the cutting tape to outline the stripe and then put the vinyl on. All the materials are available on Amazon.

Raymarine MFDs have a private WiFi network you connect to when you want to remote control it from a phone or tablet. It uses private IP address space, 10.0.0.X, which apparently is in the same subnet as the marina network. If you turn off WiFi sharing in setup on the MFD, it should work. Tom

Why are all the bolts and nuts loosened clockwise?

As TT said something on the NMEA2000 side has GPS data used by the autopilot unless you are only running on headings and not steering to waypoints. A lot new MFDs have internal GPS. Look at the Actisense gateway in CE settings/electronics and see what devices are on the NMEA 2000 network. I...

Tom, Yes it was. The flight crew managed to restart the engines after losing quite a bit of altitude. I recall the airplane sat around Anchorage for a little while waiting for new engines and other inspections and cleaning. It resulted in a major change in procedures in Anchorage Center as...

Jim, If I had to hazard a guess, I would say they are using some derivation of mapping software used to make topo maps. You feed in the soundings and do a lot of interpolation and you have a detailed chart. The crowd sourcing of bathymetry seeks to improve the accuracy of the charting by...

Jim, I wish I knew how they can provide precise detail, but my experience in using it in SE AK is it seems to have precision but lacks accuracy. I've seen the depths off by 100 ft. I have similar charts on a new Garmin 943XSV but I normally use it with a full screen for LiveScope. Sitting in...

I found Aqua Map on the Ipad gives you some good vector charts that can have satellite imagery in the background. You can vary the visibility of the satellite imagery in the background with a little slider. I like the presentation much more than Navionics, but Navionics has better bottom...

While I was in the Air Force, we were in the office on Elmendorf and had a great view of Mt Redoubt when it erupted in 1989. One of the people in the office asked another what it looked like. The response was "30 megatons".