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When we reached our new slip, we found that the exhaust riser was being held together by the insulating jacket.  We have been cleaning up a mess!
Today we are attempting to put on a new exhaust riser...
Thank you all for your expertise and advice earlier.

 After pondering on it all evening, we are thinking it could be from when we had to idle a good bit today waiting on railway bridges, locks and swing bridges to open. Maybe the carbon built up
We cleaned the sooty air filter and will keep checking on it...

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?

We ran the Motor and did not see any exhaust leaks. Soot was mostly contained to the engine compartment. Engine water output looked fine. Had too clean the air filter as it was covered in soot.

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.

Debating between Somerset Sails and Rolly Tasker. Somerset is much cheaper and it sounds like they use the same materials.

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

Thank you for the feedback!  We were at the 2018 Annapolis sailboat show.  Rolly Tasker seemed to be the most helpful.

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

Ours had been rebuilt twice and failed.  Not necessarily looking to upgrade, just replace it.   

Greg and Celeste Ray
solitude

Budget: under 500$
Engine: universal 35b
Amperage: book says 52
Battery bank: 2 batteries

Sorry for not posting enough information 😁

Greg and Celeste Ray
Solitude

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

Ron,
The white deposits are located on the lower part of the engine to the right of the alternator belt.
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I am a nurse and would never do that...hehe! 
Maybe I can talk my husband into trying that ;-)