Re: Stus-List Fresh water plumbing winterizing

Me too. A cute little crapsman Shop-Vac that lives invisably under my chart table. Blows the lines out, sucks to initiate a prime,  - and even does some vacuuming on occasion. Not something that a hard core racer would have on board all the time,  but I don't sweat the small stuff!

Re: Stus-List Fresh water plumbing winterizing

I’d be cautious about using a shop vac to blow air into a potable water system. Even if you remove the filter and clean the tank, there are plenty of places for all the bacteria contained in that detritus you sucked out of a bilge pocket to hide. It’s no problem if you don’t drink your water

Re: Stus-List Fresh water plumbing winterizing

Just makes me think of Spaceballs where Mega Made is switched from Suck to Blow Mega maid suck to blow | | | | || | | | || Mega maid suck to blow | | | |  Bruce Whitmore (847) 404-5092 (mobile) bwhitm...@sbcglobal.net From: Josh Muckley

Re: Stus-List Fresh water plumbing winterizing

Instead of an air compressor I use a shop vac set on blow instead of suck. I have fewer fears of over pressuring the system and a small 1 gallon shop vac is great for around the boat anyway. Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C 37+ Solomons, MD On Mon, Oct 9, 2017, 3:32 PM Tom Lynch via CnC-List

Re: Stus-List Fresh water plumbing winterizing

Marek, Thank you for your very detailed procedure. What type and size of air compressor what you recommend for this job? On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 2:37 PM Marek Dziedzic via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Tom, > > > > This is how I do it: > > > > 1. drain water from the fresh water

Re: Stus-List Fresh water plumbing winterizing

Tom, This is how I do it: 1. drain water from the fresh water tank (does not need to be completely empty) 2. drain water from the water heater 3. highly advisable - install a water heater by-pass (multiple models available from RV supply; but I strongly suggest getting one with TWO valves

Stus-List Fresh water plumbing winterizing

What's the best practice for Winterizing the fresh water system? My system: 40 gallon tank estimated Water heater Pressurized water pump 2 fixtures hot / cold from the pump 1 fixture in the galley from a foot pump. My boat is on Lake Superior northern WI. And no I cannot sail it to warmer

Re: Stus-List Gotta Love These Hurricanes

Meanwhile in Colorado: beautiful day for CSYC’s annual pursuit race yesterday. Sunny, temps in the 70s, breezes at 10kts gusting 15. Today: freezing temps, several inches of wet heavy snow on the ground, tree limbs breaking. Two more Sunday races left, then hauling out by Halloween. Cheers,

Re: Stus-List Gotta Love These Hurricanes

We had Turkey Trot (Canadian Thanksgiving!) races yesterday and today. Yesterday we had 20-30 kt. winds most of the day, with temperatures over 20 C - as Michael said - October sailing in short sleeves! Today the remnants of Nate arrived - no wind (0-4 kt.) and rain. Not much of a sailing

Re: Stus-List Gotta Love These Hurricanes

Interesting about the wind gusts; we are in the middle of the Ohio Valley and went out in the remnants of Hurricane Nate: we had mean winds of 14-18 mph with gust in the mid to upper 30s; I clocked one gust at 39: of course it put the rail in the water..grin, grin...! Richard s/v

Re: Stus-List Gotta Love These Hurricanes

Winds have been up this year. I went for the last sail of the season then un-stepped the mast yesterday. At 5 AM Sunday the Toronto Island Airport which is across the Western Gap from the National Yacht Club recorded a 47 mph gust, 32 mph winds. The forecast was for the wind to ease in the

Re: Stus-List LED Interior Flourescent replacements

I did the same thing as Tom, and I used these:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MSJ58UI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8=1 Overall I'm happy, they were rated for somewhat more lumens, and I used 2 in each of the fixtures.  In a perfect world, I might have even added a 3rd per

Re: Stus-List C 35-3 Rudder Drain Holes

We I bought my boat, the surveyor noted that the rudder had been rebuilt by the seller, however, he noted that he found three (3) 'voids' in the rudder. He outlined the void spaces with a marker on the sides of the rudderI confirmed that by tapping the rudder with a small hammer and the

Re: Stus-List C 35-3 Rudder Drain Holes

Sounds like a similar approach. If you have the luxury of time, heating the rudder for several weeks during winter months (when the ambient air is dry in colder regions) is fool-proof, and without expensive equipment or labor. Obviously, you don’t want to overheat the rudder and cause damage.

Re: Stus-List Replacing Perkins ignition switch

There is, but not “mandatory”. On mine, the starter would not start if the key is not in the “glow plug” position. This is the factory set-up. Some people change this to a separate “pre-heat” switch and no interlock. The advantage is that you don’t have voltage drop on the glow plugs, when you

Re: Stus-List C 35-3 Rudder Drain Holes

I don’t speak from personal experience, but I read somewhere of drying the core using a vacuum pump (at least, theoretically, water should evaporate at much lower temperature if the pressure drops). After all the moisture gets out, you can fill the voids (or saturate the core) with very thin

Re: Stus-List Gotta Love These Hurricanes

Great news. Good to hear. Marek Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Dennis C. via CnC-List Sent: Sunday, October 8, 2017 19:39 To: CnClist Cc: Dennis C. Subject:

Re: Stus-List LED Interior Flourescent replacements

I just replaced the cabin lights on Peregrine with warm-white dimmable LEDs from IMTRA. The lights over the galley and nav table also turn red. Very bright and beautiful light. I put a couple of those bright LED strips behind the valance above the stove and lockers in the galley, but the light