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I guess it'll eventually get worse and be easier to diagnose.

Too bad you missed that invitation.   I figured it must have gone to junk. ;)

165... and it's opening on time.

Well, I believe it's flowing like it has since I got it so far as I can tell.   At first, it over heated if I pushed the throttle but cruised fine at 2k.  I've replaced most everything now though... that turned out to be a combination of a failing thermostat cap and a terribly clogged heat exchanger.  Yesterday I noticed that it sat right on 165 at 1800 but at 2250 it was more like 185.

Mike

I've added maybe 2 cups in the last year.

Well... I've never noticed the soot before this year, but then I've run it about 400 hours in the last 12 months!

It disappears quickly enough so maybe water, but not sure it that's good or bad.

I had to run at 1800 rather than my normal 2250 today (dodging coral heads on the grand bahama bank) and noticed that it's just the occasional puff at that speed.

Is love to hear what you learned.  In the last 9 months, I've taken mine from NC up to the Chesapeake (summer), then down to Key West, and I'm now in the Bahamas.   My transom is pretty dirty looking.   I see smoke all the time but struggle to pinpoint color.   If pushed, I'd say white.  Maybe gray.  Photo attached.

Not burning oil.   I check every day. Add when necessary but the amount is pretty small. 

I had the vent line off on a recent trip... because I was using the elbow access to view inside tank to determine level... and had a thunderstorm.  When the rain really started to fall, and the scuppers stopped being able to keep up, I was shocked to get water flowing back down my vent line.  Has anyone else seen this?

I got mine from Garhauer... Doug rocks!

Mainesail...  i'm looking forward to it!

I'll check again later today but I swear there's no hole for wiring under my port forward pulpit leg!

Sorry I didn't read the signature block first!  I love my 1.5's walkthrough but envy that lazarette!

My bilge pump outlet is center of the lower transom.

I can't picture the starboard of the aft lazarette.  My aft lazarette is port side, so the starboard side of that is in the cockpit?

Can anyone tell me how the wiring for the bow light runs in the bow pulpit?  My PO rewired on the outside of the pulpit into the anchor locker and into the permanently open inspection port.   I'd like to correct it.

I can feel the bottoms of the front legs of the pulpit inside the inspection port and I feel the tips of screws?  The rear legs I can't access without pulling the bulkhead

December 92, hull 1251

Sure makes sense in theory... anyone know if there's some part of our boat that happens to be parallel with the design waterline so a level could be used instead of my eye? :)