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Our boat!! On November 5th, 2006, Devin my dad and I, drove to San Pedro to look at a boat that we have been searching for, for almost 6 months. When we've arrived this is what she looked like! This website will cover our lives on the boat and adventures on board and out in the sea.
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On December 8th, 2006 we picked up the keys to our boat.
She needed a lot of maintenance updates and upgrades:
 Leaky shaft seals, almost artistically beautiful, but could be disastrous in the middle of the ocean!
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New graphite dripless shaft seals Gen II by LASDROP installed on Jan 16th 2007, 1 3/4" stainless shaft and 3" boot.
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Old and weak batteries, with starboard side losing voltage
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Brand new Optima D31M batteries putting out 1125 cold cranking amps! wow
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| Primary Racor filters were so cruded and filthy engine could only run at 2400 RPM | Dirt had to be chiseled out with a wood! Secondary filters also replaced. RPM went up to 3000. | ||
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| Filter element
out of the Racor was replaced with a 10 micron insert
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Sludge from the
element
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Aft 1500 GPH bilge pump was malfunctioning, kept tripping the circuit breaker
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 New bilge pump 3000 GPH with new mercury auto switch
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