Would love to hear y’all’s thoughts. I have an older Norcold 120/12volt refrigerator. Would it be better to buy another 120/12volt fridge OR buy a much more efficient 120 volt refrigerator and an inverter. I’ve heard they use up your battery, but at anchor for the day, my current one runs off battery and doesn’t do that great of a job. I’m thinking the 120v one do a much better job and wouldn’t use as much power, but I wanted to see if anybody in the group has experience doing that?

EVERYTING WORKS fine with generator. When I plug into shore power the breaker ON THE DOCK trips. It ONLY trips when I flip the MICROWAVE circuit on inside the boat. Otherwise the dock power is fine... I tried other plugs on the dock as issue.



I am not attempting to use the microwave, just flipping the dedicated switch om the boat panel causes the dock to trip.



I disconnected the shore power, started the generator. No power fluctuations and used the microwave with no issues..



I plug back into t ...

Seriously thinking about adding an autopilot at some point in the near future. I have the original 5/16” od vinyl hynautic steering lines and fittings on my 28 voyager. What type of fittings/adaptor do I need to tie in the autopilot pump to the hynautic lines to go from the hynautic fittings to the standard hydraulic fittings on a raymarine autopilot pump?

Thanks

Good morning everyone. I'm new here with a 1986 Carver 42 aft cabin. Wondering if anyone may know where to find a hynautic Inc K1 steering cylinder. I took mine off and shipped it to boat steering solutions in Nokomis FL to be remanned and USPS lost it in route apparently. Thought there maybe a slight chance of one not being used. Boat steering solutions said they didn't have the parts to build one but could reman mine. Any ideas would be great. Sorry for the long first post

My A/C condensation pan is over flowing and is messing up my floor in the galley. I pulled out the galley sink and can't find a drain hose. People have told me that the drain goes to the shower sump. As far as I can see, mine doesn't drain to the shower sump. The forward and star board sides of the pan has plugs. The drain hose must be on the aft or port side of the pan. I am not able to see the aft or port side of the pan without removing the galley counter top. Removing the counter top w ...

We currently have a soft top over the aft deck on our 3607. Before we moved it to Kenora, it was stored indoors and the aft coverage didn't have to come off. We obviously had to remove everything to move it from Gimli to Kenora and ever since we have not been able to get the top on properly. Our marina also requires us to remove that structure in the fall to be able to wrap for the winter. Our plan it to replace all the canvas on top so I am looking for other ideas for the structure. I woul ...

We have a new to us 466 and the fresh water tank gauge does not work. Until we get it fixed can someone tell us how to tell when the tank is full, there is a statement in the owners manual that says don’t overfill. On our last boat we just filled it until it ran out the fill hole. Thanks for any help.

We're getting ready to install a new Davit system on our Carver 355 and was inquiring about the construction of the platform. Is it a solid wood core or a hollow core?

I have a 1991 634 Santego and lost all 120 volt power to the outlets on the port side. All the breakers are on and there is power going thru the breaker. I suspect that there is a GFI plug hidden somewhere. Does anyone know where the GFI's are on one of these boats? I just bought it last year and am still learning. I know there is one by the sink on the starboard side and that is the only one I can find. All the plugs work on the starboard side so I think they are on one circuit and the port sid ...

Hello,

This has me baffled. My old Santa Cruz has all kinds of original fully functional cabin lights - each the standard 1156, 12 volt bulbs and switches that work perfectly. However, when out on the water (like Voyagers Nat'l Park on the border with Canada last week), I am always paranoid about waking up to dead batteries if using the interior lighting in the evening. (One can not paddle 7 thousand pounds of boat 25 miles back to the landing...)

So, despite the ridiculous price of $15 per bulb ...