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Hello Team Today's challenge is, for those of us with electrically operated heads, there is a very fancy industrial control valve which lets water into the pot, and this valve is hidden... somewhere not visible. I'm pretty sure my aft valve is getting intermittent, sometimes sticking open...

hi All My aft head has a 3 position switch for head operation... push the top of the switch, it fills the pot. Push the bottom of the switch, it flushes the pot. Left alone, it returns to the center position, ready to be pushed again. The problem I have / the switch has is that the switch...

My 45 Yacht seems to be ingesting water through the horns... or not. I took off the access panel, pulled the vinyl hoses apart, dumped out what wasn't that much water, and put it back together. Viola, horns worked. One week later, no horn joy once again. It had rained during the week, but...

hi Team the hardtop sunroof rides back and forth on 2 stainless pins which slide in rotomolded grooves in a piece of... starboard?... which are screwed into the hardtop. part of my portside guide has broken off. it looks like it stresscracked right where it's drilled for the forward most...

mine's getting cruddy. Has anyone ever replaced the gasket around the sunroof ?

would be glad to hear from my Chesapeake Bay based friends how the water conditions are in your neck of the woods... Here on the Bohemia River we're seeing a moderate amount of trash from a combination of the higher than normal water as well as all the nifty goodness we've come to expect when...

What have people done for an anchor bridle ? the no brainer is to tie it off to the bow cleats, but if the boat swings enough, the bridle will yank the spotlight off the bow. If only there were a couple of fairleads in the rubrail. If you move back to the fore spring cleats, then at some...

Both of my Raymarine E120 displays, installed at the factory in 2007, now have significant problems. 1 unit last year lost it's NVRAM. I can still use it as a full screen chart, but I can't configure the windows or save settings. every time I turn it on, it's a brand new default page. A...

Has anyone ever successfully calibrated the fuel gauges ? I've learned 1 thing, after gauge calibration disappeared from my settings menu... the "station select" button (the key at the top of the little control panel with the 2 red lights over it) must be pushed so that the 2 red lights are on...

For years now the trim tabs have always been just that little bit flakey... start the boat, and sometimes the starboard tab is down 1 dot instead of showing green... I hit the up button once, and off I go. This weekend, cruising around the northern Bay, I hit the port down button once (which...

We're not big fans of running the generator all night long. We've been using some of the D battery operated fans to move some air, but like all cheap Chinese junk, they're, well, cheap Chinese junk. I'm interested in what people have done, fore or aft stateroom, in way of permanently installed...

My mechanic called me 2 weeks ago and said "the fluid came out with some water in it, and was black on one side, meaning the clutch pads are about ready to go". So we replaced upper and lower seals on both drives, and clutch pads on both sides, and while we were at it, installed a recommended...

got to my boat last Friday, and what do you know... :o could it be?

I had some work done this last week and one of the things my mechanic did was update the intake manifold pressure (and temp?) sensor on the top of each engine. Campaign item, no charge, didn't take long. My mechanics happen to be particularly diligent about this stuff. You might want to ask...

So when we launched this spring the hardtop sunroof wouldn't open. Formula's advice was put a voltmeter on the leads to the motor which drives the ram and have someone hold the switch. Sure enough, it's getting power both ways, so a motor replacement is in order. 1 week and $271 later, I have a...

Has anyone found a source for replacement screens for the portlights, other than directly from Formula for a billion bucks ($150ish) each ? I have a couple where the screen has started to break away from the frame. I've sprayed them with rustoleum to stop them from deteriorating in the short...

My yacht was built July 2007 as an 08. That means this summer my batteries will be 5 years old. I'm assuming they're original equipment DEKA sealed batteries (AGM, gel cell, can't remember, have to look it up every time, getting old). I think they're all doing fine, but am wondering if this is...

My 2008 45 Yacht has overall been a great experience, but it wouldn't be a boat if it didn't have at least one problem which defied easy resolution. In my case, it's the air conditioning, specifically the raw water supply. My boat has only a single 1 1/4" through hull and strainer. I understand...