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I am in Tacoma and am looking for an experienced marine electrician willing to oversee my boat rewiring. I want to be heavily involved so I know my boats guts, as I truly need to rewire this thing properly. My battery banks are wired all over the place and there is wire everywhere from DIYers...

Get yourself a MiFi from Verizon Wireless. This is a 3G hotspot that allows you to connect anywhere you have cel service. I bought one for my iPad and it also allows up to five devices to be connected to it at once. When traveling you can (as a passenger) be surfing the Internet as you roll...

We did it........left Matts Matts bay at about 12:00 Saturday and made it into Shilshole Marina at about 3:00. We decided that we couldn't make it to Tacoma by dark so we stayed at Shilshole until the next day. Headed out of Shilshole at about 11:00 Sunday morning and had a beautiful trip to...

PeterB, I love the look of what you did with the canvas...GREAT JOB! I think that is what I will do. Steppan, Your boat looks amazing with the addition, you got me thinking, which is not good, and now I have this urge to 'go for it'. Thanks everybody for the ideas from "don't touch it" to...

Yes they have both. So it must be a new addition. MP

We did it......we are moving our boat to its new slip in the Foss Harbor Marina in downtown Tacoma WA. One step closer to living aboard. Anybody in the area? would love to get to know some peeps with similar interests in the area. MP

Just wanted to ask if anybody had any ideas or thoughts on if I could make the canvas top over the back deck into a hardtop....thus adding more room to my flybridge and making the back deck more useable....maybe more room for extra sleeping quarters...or..or...who knows. I am trying to get the...

I have seen this done where they build a big bonfire and plank the salmon, then they stake them around the fire. I have not had better tasting salmon. Thanks for the memory jog, I am going to try this. MP

I love pop tarts.....my favorite ones are the cinnamon and sugar with the frosting. I am also a huge fan of 50's detective movies.....anybody...anybody. MP

I have noticed that threads really tend to go off on crazy tangents on this forum.........and also tend to get a little hostile......you guys need to play nice with each other.....I mean thats why we own trawlers ...right...so we can go slow, take a deep breath, and relax a little bit. MP

We talking about BMW's now?

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There is nothing dripping at rest. I think the little water that is in my bilge is water that comes in to the boat via the windlass hole (where the rode feeds out) and possibly the little that may come in at the back deck where my quadrant access door is, other than that this boat seems very...

My boat is in Port Ludlow WA, which is about 19 miles from Port Townsend WA. Would love to know about good boatyards in the area, and what people think of the boat yard at the Port of Port Townsend.

There is no dripping when the engine is off and my bilge pumps cycles very little, in fact I was just on it for a few days and I didn't hear it come on at all. I did notice that where the anchor rode comes out of the boat, water leaks into the bilge there. As far as the stuffing box, do you...

Here is the stuffing box picture....look familiar to anybody?.......any comments?

Thanks....answers the question perfectly......I now know where to look for the ceramic seals and I think Marins ? as to if carbon graphite is considered ceramic is a good one. As to the bellows....what material do I need to look for there.....is there something besides the rubber that would need...

OK......I guess my real question has been getting clouded by my confusion......so here is what I need to know: What are ceramic seals and bellows, and how do I know if I have them? I thought they were referring to the wet cooled stuffing box with flax(which I have) and now it seems I need...

The catastrophic failure I am talking about is with the newer dripless shaft seals without the flax. I guess I am now even more confused as to what the ceramic seals and bellows are then. If someone wouldn't mind giving an example, maybe linkwise, as to what this is.....I GOOGLED ceramic seals...

Ceramic seals? What exactly are we talking about here? The actual stuffing box, where the flax or teflon packing is being referred to as a ceramic seal, or a seal and ?bellows? that are separate from the stuffing box. I actually started another thread on stuffing boxes, so hoping someone will...

I know there are probably extremes on both sides of this, but i respect all opinions as there seems to be an amazing wealth of knowledge here....so here goes. I have been doing a lot of research ever since my initial post on my older boat. One of the suggestions was to replace the stuffing box...

Sorry......I'll keep my sarcastic and cynical mouth to myself...........'I'm here to learn' 'I'm here to learn' 'I'm here to learn' 'I'm here to learn' 'I'm here to learn' 'I'm here to learn' 'I'm here to learn' 'I'm here to learn' 'I'm here to learn' <writing 100 times on the chalkboard> MP

Have you guys ever heard of this West Marine place.......they've got a lot of stuff for boats and things that may come in handy for boats, and stuff for your boats as well. Check em out....I don't know much about em, but I got some great stuff for my boat there...heres the link...

I knew you guys could do it...........you finally killed the horse...woohoo! Now lets beat that sucker for another page or two.......I love this forum, you guys get riled up.....lotta spunk here. MP

NOOOOOOOOO..........I believe a fifth page is in order.......the horse is not dead, and once it is it still needs to be beaten! MP