Just got back from 5 Nights in Catalina! Awesome trip. Great weather, no boat “issues”. Pic above was taken Monday afternoon in Avalon (hiked up above the Bell Tower). The mooring field and the island in general were still packed on Monday. Finally Summer in SoCal….
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Headed to Catalina tomorrow in our 44’ Sundancer. Planing to come back next Tuesday. Seas are supposed to be flat tomorrow for the crossing (70 NM). Monday and Tuesday however, are predicted at 6-8’ at 12 to 14 second intervals. Don’t really want to cut the trip short and...
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Moving forward with the electronics upgrades on our 2006 44 Sundancer. Came with a single E120 and 4’ Analog Open Array Radar.
Ordered the new panels from Tecnografix. They came out perfect, of course.
Installed two Garmin GPSMAP1242+ (one of the is the xsv). Installed...
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Sea-trialing a 2006 44 Sundancer with QSC500s tomorrow. Engines have 440 hours. This is the only pic I have thus far. Does the color of the turbos look “normal”? Wouldn’t quite call it “vanilla” nor would I call it “chocolate”. Somewhere in the middle?
Obviously, I’ll get RPM and Fuel...
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I have a sea-trial ‘etiquette’ question. We’re sea-trialing/surveying a 460DA with 450 Diamonds tomorrow. The local Cummins dealer is doing the engine survey. I realize we’re supposed to load up the boat to get accurate RPM/fuel burn tests. Filling the water tank is no...
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Been reading this site for a few years. Finally decided to sign up and sponsor. Gotten well over my fee paid worth of knowledge from all of you...
The admiral and I have been thinking about upgrading from our gas 330DA into something bigger with diesel for a while now. We found a...