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Now that we are listening for the gurgling sound, we hear it periodically during the day and night. If the aft berth window is open at night (mine was wide open all night), the gurgling is much louder. It doesn't matter if it's 55º or 75º... flat water or slightly turbulent water. There's no way to ...

I have Whale bilge pumps and they do not cycle on/off.

When we are out on our boat for a few days, we sometimes hear a short, soft (1-2 sec.) gurgling sound (like bubbles in a pipe). It occurs at odd times, not a regular pattern... it might occur once or twice at night or once during the day. Or not at all. With the starboard berth window open at night,...

In case this is helpful to those interested in downsizing your Microwave as Tim did, I did the same thing about a year ago for the similar reasons... The 1200 watt unit we had onboard hammered the batteries and sometimes popped the inverter breaker or the main breaker. And we wanted to make better u...

Hi Dick,

Very generous offer. My gaskets are doing well. We do use 303 annually and it works well. But at some point, I will need to do this.
Question... what kind of sealant or glue is used for this? Or does the gasket material have a "sticky" side?

We had a similar issue when we bought our PDQ in 2016. It had years of extensive water damage (black stains) on both berth shelves, the shelf behind the lower helm seat and the sloped surfaces next to the entry door steps. The damage could not be sanded out. Our first task was to find and fix the le...

Wayne, that is a great diagnostic story. So, now that your old solenoid is working, will you keep the new one or return it? I suppose if you are SUPER confident about the old one, you could save $100 by returning the new one. On the other hand, I know it's a serious temptation to keep the new one as...

Rafe, did you really mean to say 94 gallons (out of the 115 gals) remained in your main tank when your port engine quit? 94 equals almost 82% of the fuel was still in your tank. I don't get. Nothing like that happens in our boat.

I too have high side and low side... and do 3 dips each time. The challenge with using the high side is that it looks more like ling "legs" on the sides of the stick, like a glass of wine with empty space in the middle. That seems impossible to read to me, whereas the low side is a distinc...

NIck, interesting question. I don't know what the total amount between the two marks, but I do know our Yanmar dealer recommends keeping the oil level between the half way to FULL mark. I do that and find that it takes roughly about 1.5 to 1.75 quarts from the half way to FULL mark. Hope that helps.

Nick, where is that sensor located? I wasn't aware of it.

I have a problem with my washdown hose pump. When the breaker is ON, the washdown pump works fine -- salt water comes shooting out the hose at a normal pressure. However, when I turn the hose nozzle OFF, the pump continues to turn on/off/on/off in a clicking manner... like it is trying to suck water...

I think this is a "What you see is what you get". A single annual subscription does not provide different features... however it does allow Navionics to work on both your iPad and iPhone. And, as I'm learning now after our upgrad to Garmin electronics, routes created offline on an iPad, fo...

Our boat did not come with short legs, just two semi-custom cushions. They did not fit together to fill the space on the table top without any gaps. We had them modified and re-covered. They fit perfectly now. A charter guest actually broke our table about a year ago while sleeping on it (maybe he h...

So, we have the horseshoe shaped dinette. We have custom cushions that fit the space on the table top perfectly and provide a really decent bed.