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I have the boat scheduled for service but being an obsessive compulsive Control Freak I am trying to get a grip on how big this problem is or what it is. I purchased the boat at 61 hours and have put 43 hours on it. I had an engine survey done and a 100 hour service done at the 61 hour mark...
I see on a lot of marinas to call them on channels like "66A" and it is not clear to me if you can actually tune to a "sub-channel" A. It seems like this is just a formal representation on 66 for hear in the US and when calling these A channels, I should just use 66 for example.
Can someone...
I have a 2005 Chaparral 240 Signature and recently had some exhaust valve damage and had all new valves and machined heads installed. We are still searching for the root cause which the service center felt was overloading. The boat does blog down when trying to plane and according to the service...
I am using the Raymarine RNS 6.1 Rayplanner and I have my Navionics Gold Card with the Navionics USB reader. When the card is in my A65 Chartplotter I get great details such as marina layouts, etc, etc. However in the Rayplanner software I get hardly any details.
Anyone have a clue as to why?
I am trying to pre-populate my Raymarine A65 using their RayPlanner RNS 6.1 software and I find looking at Marinas via Google Earth to be very helpful. However when I use the Google Earth GPS Coordinates for a location they do NOT match the map in RayPlanner. In fact I would not say they are...
I've got 256 hours on my Volvo 5.0L MPI engine and after getting some poor compression tests and pulling the heads. There is water damage (such as pitting) to the heads, valve seats and tuliping on one valve. The mechanic checked the riser/elbows and see no water entry and are unsure as to how...
Does anyone know the email address for a complaint to Volvo? I filled out the online form but I'd like to copy their extended warranty administrator (FPC) in a single email.
