We are honored for the opportunity to work on our customers boats. We’ve seen and fixed a lot! See some of scary we’ve encountered and our solutions.
Changing zincs on a Westerbeke heat exchanger. We check these during our system checks. If you wait too long to check your zincs, it will break off and you will have to remove the heat exchanger to get it out.
Corrosion caused the shore power plugs to heat up and almost catch on fire. Glad we caught in time and replaced with a Smart Plug setup.
Smart plugs are great! They not only reduce heat but make it much easier to plug the boat back in, especially at night when you can't see that "one prong"!
Customer was having intermittent starting issues. Installed a starter relay to reduce voltage drop from the key switch to the starter motor. The customer hasn't had an issue since!
Installed 640 watts of solar on this sailboat. Used four 160 watt Renogy solar panels.
Installed two Victron 100/50 solar chargers to convert the solar energy into chargeable voltage. These have a great bluetooth feature so you know exactly how many amps are going into your batteries.
Properly sized and fused wires on this solar installation. Note the solar charging buss that allows for additional solar/wind/towed generator to be added.
NOT OUR WORK!!! What a solder ball connecting the float switch and high water alarm on this bilge pump. There is a much better way.
When connecting multiple wires together, we like to use a 2-circuit terminal block. Shoving multiple wires into a butt connector looks bad, allows moister to enter and often times fails.
After a complete rebuild of a customers VacuFlush head system, we found the problem. The bellows was cracked and would not hold a vacuum. After putting the VacuFlush VG4 back together, the unit worked great and held a vacuum indefinitely.
Installed a proper bilge pump switch (the right way).
ABYC allows for only four connectors to be connected to one stud. This Beneteau came from the factory with 5 or 6 wires to each stud. We installed a buss bar with 4 AWG wire coming off the house battery switch and properly fused it with a 100 amp ANL fuse holder. Now we can connect bilge pumps and solar charging to the buss bar and stay ABYC compliant.
Proper way to test your bilge pumps is to fill the bilge with water and let the float switch activate. This boats two bilge pumps are working flawlessly.
Did a complete battery re-wire on this Lancer 36 sailboat. Installed a Blue Seas ACR (automatic charging relay) to keep the house bank separated from the house bank except when charging the batteries. The ACR will combine the battery banks whenever it senses one bank being charged and will separate the banks when a bank is being discharged. We added a Victron battery monitor with Blue Tooth in order to monitor the batteries voltage, rate of discharge, and amps consumed/added. All loads go through the switched buss with the exception of the two bilge pumps and battery charger which are hooked up to the un-switched buss. This Sailor now has a very reliable battery system and will never be left with a dead starter battery due to leaving the switch in the wrong position.
Time to replace these old Raymarine instruments!
Nothing brightens the boat up more than installing new instruments on your boat. We installed a complete new B&G electronics package on this Beneteau sailboat. The chart plotter looks great with its Navionics charts.
A lack of maintenance will result in missing fins from the salt water impeller. A good mechanic will find the fins to prevent future cooling issues.
Completed a full electronics package replacement on this Beneteau 423. Raymarine Axiom 12", Axiom Pro 9", VHF, AIS, new radar, new NMEA 2000 backbone, and a new speed/depth display.
This Pearson 32 sailboat was in great need of a proper re-wire. Lot's of ABYC and safety violations here.
We did almost a complete re-wire and the installation of hree Expion 360 (120 Ah) batteries, Balmar 100 amp alternator, Victron 2000 Multiplus Inverter/chager, Victron solar charger, and a Victron DC/DC charger for AGM start battery.
This Universal Diesel was in need of some TLC. A salt water leak had corroded a lot of the front of the engine and a hole in the fresh water pump housing. We replaced the salt water pump, fresh water pump, thermostat, completed a full engine service, and painted the engine with the factory paint color.
Replaced a broken and unused Glendinning Cablemaster with a simple Smart Plug set up. The boat owner is much happier with the simplicity of the system.
Installed 1100 watts of solar on a 70 foot catamaran, utilizing two locally sourced 365 watt house panels and four 100 watt flexible panels from Sunpowered Yahts (a local company located on the Big Island)
Two custom stainless steel frames were created from a local metal fabricator
Power from the two 365 watt panels goes to the Victron MPPT 100/50 controller and the four 100 watt panels goes to the 100/20 controller.
Brand new Lewmar anchor windlass on this Beneteau 42CC sailboat
An often neglected maintenance item on Diesel engines is to not regularly check and change the heat exchanger zinc anode.
Installation of a new Seawater Pro 40 water maker system.