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Good evening again! My husband and I are on the last leg of our journey north up the ICW. We have a 98 34 mkII. The engine kill pull at the helm will not work now. It pulled out further than it normally does and will not fully go back in. We have to manually push the shut off lever on the engine. The cable connection at the engine is good.  Is this a solid cable from the engine to the helm?

Good evening! My husband and I have a 1998 34 mkII. We are almost to our destination and noticed engine soot throughout the engine area. No alarms and the engine has been running fine and not hot for the last 200nm.  Any suggestions?  We have checked the oil every evening and have not seen this before. Thank you for your input, we are worried about completing our trip tomorrow.

Has anyone ever purchased new sails from Somerset Sails located in NY. Thank you.

Good evening!  We are looking to purchase new sails for our 1998 MKII.  Doyle(super cruise) and Rolly Tasker(Marblehead) are similarly priced.  Not sure which one is better.  Thoughts?  Thanks in advance⛵

Greg and Celeste Ray

My husband and I noticed a very small amount of dark brown water in our bilge when we were dewinterizing our 1998 c34 (not near enough for the bilge to turn on). This keeps slowly accumulating and smells very stagnant.  Our holding tank was emptied in dec 2017 and has not been used.  We have not had this happen before.  Has anyone had a similar problem.  Thanks in advance

Celeste and Greg Ray

Does anyone have a good recommendation for replacing the alternator? Thank you.

After running the engine for 2 hours (not running hot or rough), I noticed white, salty looking or calcium deposits on the front of the engine( the door under the steps) while I was doing the final clean before leaving her at the dock.  Any suggestions as to what the culprit could be? There was no water in the bilge and the rest of the engine looked fine( I looked from the aft cabin as well)
Thanks in advance!

Has anyone cleaned their heat exchanger?  If so, how often do you need to clean it?

Need to replace our bilge pump and float switch again (replaced within the last year).  Pump runs so so with lots of back flow and switch died.  Recommendations?

We have a 1998 Catalina MK II. The last 2 times we have run her engine for more than an hour, the water gets too hot(engine temp is normal),almost boiling and sets off the pressure valve. We have flushed the hot water tank and run the engine previously without the pressure valve releasing.  Thoughts?

The mast stopper that holds up the sail slides in our mast keeps coming out.  We have bought a new one and even tried loctight on it.  It comes out when we lower the main or reef our sail.  Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.  We have a 1998 34 mk

While measuring for sound insulation, I noticed cracks in the fiberglass near where the motor mount hole are. The mounts are intact,secure and have no noticeable damage.
Any thoughts or suggestions? We puchased this 1998 mkii last November.

Any advice on fixing the leaks on our 1998 ocean series lewmar hatches?