Catalina 350 International Association

Heating engine. Ran today 2 miles up river from Lake Shirley. Back Down to New River. 3 miles up. No heating issue. I checked exhaust for water flow. Seems Ok. Checked oil level Rught in the middle. Thx John. I did check raw water and there was some sea grass. Still runs rough at idle. So much to le...

Found the water pressure issue was not the pump. Item in the trunk slid sideways when the boat tilted at little shark. They pulled the cold water hoes off the transom shower. All Ok.

I’m going to see about a trans replacement. It’s cheaper than huge tow bill.

Anyone replace both engine and trans with larger beta or yanmar?

2 engine issues. It now overheats under heavy load. 6 knot current plus 20 knot head wind engine at 2000 rpm hits 200 degrees. Found the coolant in my system was pure water. Bottle was low and added Green coolant to correct level. What is normal on temp? Do these. Engines get hot like a car engine g...

hi in FT Lauderdale

so much... happened next post issues with boat

We are at North Miami. Inside ICW. 22 knot wind. Sky black. At Anchor just off channel. Lewmar. Holding. Found a huge mansion under construction and used front yard 9.6 deep. Had a fright today. Fixed bridge north of downtown Miami barely cleared. We are 52 plus anonometer. That one was 56 on the bo...

And we used and suggestion on M Button to fin this location. Anchorage resort and Yacht Clib. Terrible current and winds to 20 tonight.

Tide went down. The portlight is one of those that don’t open. It was under but did not leak. We stayed by Channel Five Bridge and madeKey Largo North Bridge. Got a slip and water and the is NO pumpout!!! Oh did I say I now have nightmares of random crab pots coming at me. Boat is doing well. I’ve b...

I need recommends on a marina northbound like in Key largo on the inside. Bad outside 15 knots wave to 4-5.

We are out of Little Shark and now in upper Mata Combe. Inside. Will look for pump out and continue north. At Shark the error was not so much the CQR but that I was in a rush and did not put the boat in reverse to set. Plus these moon tides and current. So much to learn just to be safe. Then we can ...

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No. We had the anchor fail in the mouth of Little Shark River. We abandoned carried by national park officers to Flamingo. TowBoat US contacted wedo not know extent of damage or maybe OK. Water was up past portlight when we left. Going back out at 4:30 with Rangers. More stupid errors while anchorin...

Gary/Janet. Have you rounded S FL?

We wee severely affected by currents as my choice was too near the outlet to the sea. Won’t happen again.
I don’t know if my post went thru that we at at a slip in Marco Island. 70$. Nice.

We decided to make for Indian River inlet just south of cape Ramano. That could change.

Stopped in Venice at crows nest 4.7 gal fuel. Filled forward tank pump out. Macerator does not work. Pulled into cay costa s d anchored too close to shore. Tide was -.33 and 3knt current drug is up near shore. Bounced s few times at 4am and just waited. No one mentioned the CRB POTD. Ndodging them a...

We did not make Venice. We go a late start noonish. We are anchored on the outside of big pass south Sarasota. Went close to shore somewhat protected just outside marked swimming area of huge hotel. Dinghy towed fine. 5-6 knots. Primary an hor would not deploy. Breaker was off. Usining CQR. If it pu...

We were just going to try to Venice then ICW for a ways. No on the seasoned sailors. We are fine. Just taking it slower.

Heading out from Snead in the morning. Decided to take Southwest Passage not Egmont. We will see and decided perhaps Venice or stay off short an go further. Got some extra diesel. We will most likely tow the dinghy. We have davits but don’t know how to get them all adjusted and connected.

I now have the Maptech Cruising Guide. I will post as to progress and some pics.

The full replacement of the Webasto unit completed Boat yard indicated that this was one of the worst installations he had seen in 18 years, and needed to be re-done correctly. During the testing, he did put a charge into the system and it did indeed, start cooling. However, the switch controls in t...