Jim, I have an anti-siphon valve on the exhaust elbow of my 120 Lehman. It was installed after my hydrolock incident in 1987, soon after I had purchased the ...
Dear friends, I have just picked up the rebuilt transmissions from Boatswain's Locker in Newport Beach, CA (Borg Warner factory service). The mechanic...
I am told, and it makes sense, that changing tranny fluid every couple of hundred hours is a good insurance policy, even if the stuff looks ok. Anyone have any...
Bill, Trans fluid will look ok for a long time, but it should be changed annually. It is cheap insurance. Also recommend running ATF (if you happen to be...
... annually. ... Rob is right on on his advice. Right on. I do use the same oil in my eng and trans. Swapped over to eng oil upon pur the boat 19 yrs and...
I just replaced my tap *washers* in Friday Harbor while on vacation. The piece on ours is called a *no-rotate* and they had them at the hardware store in all...
Hello, I am new to the list after having discovered the CHB 34 and finding it to be the perfect boat for my family. I am now in serious research mode to find...
JB... they are a great boat! We just returned from a month cruising ours in the Canadian Gulf Islands and Washington San Juans. First half of the trip...
Do all CHB's have velvet drives? Like the motors are in backwards facing the stern? God I hope not. I have had my share of bad experiences with them. I have...
Trans fluid will look ok for a long time, but it should be changed annually. It is cheap insurance. Also recommend running ATF (if you happen to be running...
... Ready, You have transmissions and V drives mixed up. V drives reverse the transmission of power front to back a transmission is just that. Just like a...
Hello everyone: We recently purchased a 1977 34CHB in Washington State and delivered it to our moorage in Victoria, BC. We've had some interesting experiences...
I have been changing the fluid every 100 hours for the last 6 years. All my best, Capt. Art. ... From: William E. Barbour<mailto:bbarbour@...> To: ART...
We have a ChB Trawler and it was plumb for a washer and dryer. We put one in and the dryer has a vent but it also puts to much moisture in the engine room , if...
M/V "Challenge" is a Northsea 35 by Chien Hwa, and came equipped with a Volvo TMD-40A, normal cruise power being 3200 RPM turning a smaller wheel than the...
Our dryer was dumping under the lower station! It was full of lint under there and would get terribly moist - very bad for the electric panels located there....
i a trying to find out which model my chein hwa is, the hull id starts with CC but the first leter i cannot read it might be a R T P D B because i can only...
Well... I put the question out to the list a while back and received everything from *You're Crazy!* to *No problem... this is how we do it.* Having returned...
We are thinking of installing the one unit washer/dryer. Does anyone have one and do you have vented or non-vented? How do you like it? Christi Golen David...
Welcome aboard, Clive. I know the area you cruise, as I was born and raised on the south coast of England (Southampton). I still have nightmares about...
Andy Clark
slowboat@...
Aug 7, 2004 5:56 pm
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David, I am having the deck work done by a couple guys (father & son) in our Yacht Club who do this sort of stuff for a living. They started right after our...
Hi, my husband Jerry and I just purchased our 1978 34' CHB in July. We are berthed in Loch Lomond Marina in San Rafael. We are happy we found this group as...
Jon, Thanks for the informative response on your water damage in 87. I thought I had somehow had a siphon problem, but it turned out to be a failed oil cooler...
Jim Van Eimeren
jveim@...
Aug 8, 2004 6:14 am
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Thanks Jon. Wish we'd have been in your area .... our costs are far beyond your quote.... and no boat yet. Final sanding, gel, non-skid sposed to go down this...
One last thought on cooling system re-do's. If I were to do it over again, I would just replace the oil and transmission coolers. Here in CA they are only...
Jim Van Eimeren
jveim@...
Aug 8, 2004 6:54 pm
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Well, I guess we're starting at the begining - how to lock the pilothouse door. We have a lock with a hole that goes through - you can look right through it...
http://www.ntsb.gov/academy/CourseInfo/MS701_200408.htm Chubbies, This site is the NTSB. They are considering this month a rule to require all on board to...
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