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I am tired of shlepping my tool box from home to boat and boat to Bolinas and need to build a tool collection to keep on the boat and in the dock box. Christmas is coming and my wife and kids might give me a tool or two. So, starting with the tool box, what do you all think would make a good...

I love the idea and love the picture -- glad it's a 25 and has twins. If I wanted navy blue instead of burgundy and "Tessa" instead of "The Athena," and no designating of all those who claim to be captain to crew how would I get the shirts made? Not much time before Christmas!

We stuck our nose outside the Golden Gate yesterday, and got slammed around. On Wednesday, the temperature is supposed to be warm and the winds are supposed to be light. But a surfing site says the swell will be 5-6 feet. I don't know how to translate that into smooth or rough for our 25...

Tessa at Angel Island

Final answer: corrosion positive bus bar (I hope I have the terminology right) adjacent to the house battery. This took a while to figure out, during which process a preliminary conclusion was that the windlass motor was bad. Manually, we could operate the windlass with a winch handle, but...

Thanks everyone. I'll let you know what I discover, if anything. Don

Latest installment: fished for a couple of hours at low trolling speed -- only one salmon -- with all electronics off, except the radio which seemed to be sort of half off half on. Then increased speed and headed back into SF Bay. In a couple of minutes the electronics came back on and the...

Got a new house battery (cabin electronics were weird this morning and the volt meter at the helm said zero). Went out salmon fishing. Flicked the windlass toggle switch and the house battery meter went to zero and all of the interior electronics stopped working. Engines still running, but no...

If the problem is the switch, wouldn't toggling it have no impact on the volt meter? In my case, it definitely registers a change on the volt meter.

If the starting batteries are in parallel and the windlass still doesn't work, what batteries need to be replaced. All of the voltage meters seem to indicate they are fine.

If the engines are running and the starting batteries are in emergency parallel, how does that help if the windlass is connected to the house battery?

When I toggle my windlass switch to down or up, nothing happens, no sound, and the house battery gauge goes from just under 14 to just above zero or so. Simpson-Lawrence Sprint 600. The switch is next to the helm. Behind the helm chair is a stand-alone heavy duty circuit breaker with a red...

Out at Crystal Cove on Treasure Island in SF Bay yesterday, and the anchor would not drop. Not a sound when I pushed the toggle switch. I checked the special fuse for the windlass, but it seemed not to have been triggered. However, every time I tried, the GPS/fish finder would turn off and...

They're sending me the right stuff. Thanks.

Thanks for the suggestion. I ordered some online. When it came, it was labeled "thin" -- almost as if were written on the label with a sharpie. The official website says "thin" is also available, but I wonder if "thin" will have the viscosity and durability that I want. Any thoughts?

I have a 2006 25' Cruiser. Suddenly this year (I bought it in 2012 and moved it from SoCal to the Bay Area - kept at the dock both places) there was fluffy white corrosion where one grommet screws into the window frame. The white fluffy powder falls down and collects on the shelf below the...

I got my boat back from its bi-annual outboard motor servicing. Everything was fine on the trip home, but at the dock I noticed that water wasn't coming out the little hole on one of the motors. The mechanic cleaned out the hole, and I started off back toward the shop to have another task...

I'm in - Tessa from Berkeley

When flushing twin Hondas using the Salt Away mixing unit, how much of the concentrate should I put in the cup of the mixing unit? Salt Away suggests a 30 second flush. If I fill the cup with concentrate, that will leave some of the diluted solution in the cup. If I used it the next time...

I came across this book in a Google search: Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems. Do you know it? Do you like it? Do you have other suggestions?