Recent content by wynkoop

I never tie my batteries together unless I have to for starting on a very cold day, or for charging when the engine is running. When operating under sail or sitting where I do not have shore power I use one group 24 for my house needs. In that situation let us say you are running the...

I suppose it depends on the battery bank on your boat. On my 27 with a pair of group 24 batteries I would keep the motor running, even at less than 5A draw. On my friends 38 foot Ketch with a bank of 4 4D batteries (total AH around 800) I would not worry about the battery drain over a few...

Modern radar equipment ranges from 1.5 KW to over 50 KW in power. Most radar on recreational vessels in in the 1.5 - 3 KW range. Using Ohm's law a 3KW radar will require 250 Amps peak. Of course the duty cycle is not 100% so the effective draw will be less, but radar is a big power hog. On...

Where did you get sculling oars? I want one for Silver Maiden. I hate that I will be DIW if wind and engine both fail!

Correction three maintenance items with the electric drive.....belt, batteries, stuffing box. I elected to repower with diesel because of the space and weight of required batteries. I did not want to give up that much storage.

I am a professional mariner. I have worked as a bridge officer on large freighters, and as captain of various head boats and day charter boats for the past few years. Many of the boats I am currently running in NY harbor have combined plotter/radar displays. I much prefer having one screen...

When I was repowering Silver Maiden I made a mount for a 35lb thrust trolling motor. It could move the boat at about 2 knots, but I would not have wanted to count on it with adverse wind or current. I used it mainly to move around the marina as needed. Bruce King once told me the E-27 needed...

At my marina in NYC we have NY registered boats, NJ registered boats and MOST of the boats lack current registration, of course those do not go anyplace ever and I suspect the owners will argue they are non-powered and therefore need no registration. We have a bunch of old cabin cruisers and...

The E-27 has matching grab rails top and bottom and they are easy to pull with two people. On the port side I put packing tape over the bottom holes and injected in the top holes. I plan to do the same on the starboard side when I can. READ ALL THE DIRECTIONS and make sure you have a wire...

There is a whole thread about injectadeck on the forum. I think it pretty much discusses it. I love the product, but it will not make up for not having a proper solid properly sized post under the mast step.

So far I have done the port side coach roof on Silver Maiden. I have also done the starboard side coach roof to within a few inches of the grab rails. Project for this spring is to remove the starboard grab rails and inject through their holes like I did on the port side. I got caught with...

If I suspect the compression post is damaged from water coming down the hole that the mast wiring runs through. The wiring runs behind the trim that you have a photo of inside the head. I fought for years to keep water from coming down there on Silver Maiden. No matter how well I sealed the...

I think we have some of the best built yachts in the world. Silver Maiden has amazed me more than once with her ruggedness and seaworthyness.

The reason so much naugahyde has been used over the years is that the naugas have never learned to hide.

Silver Maiden can go from head overboard, or head to tank and the tank can go overboard or be pumped. I like the options this gives me. I have one Y valve and one Y to accomplish this. I rely on the flapper valve on my holding tank pump to act as a check valve when aligned to pump overboard...