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Volume II June 2009 Newsletter |
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Closed Crankcase Ventilation
By Steve D'Antonio
When I was a teenaged kid working on one of my neighbor's boats, a stern-drive-equipped runabout, I recall my first encounter with the engine's crankcase ventilation system, or CCV. This boat had seen a hard life and the engine, before its eventual rebuild, was tired to be sure. A pair of hoses routed from the top of the valve covers on this 8-cylinder engine to the carburetor air intake emitted
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Crisis Management And Damaged Goods
By Nancy Hegland
After 12 years of meandering across the Pacific and Oceania to Southeast Asia in our boat, Laughing Buddha , my husband Jim and I are halfway home to the United States. We have been refitting at Rebak Marina, located on a tiny islet adjacent to the larger island of Lankawi on the northwestern side of Malaysia.
It's fair to say we have little of our original equipment still aboard and
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PMM Updates
By PassageMaker Magazine
Giving Back
Over the past two years, PMM has raised over $60,000 for the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society through auctions at Trawler Fest Events.
The first benefit event was held at Trawler Fest in Poulsbo, Washington, in June 2007...
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Abandon Ship Preparedness
By PassageMaker Magazine
Abandon-Ship Preparedness
Abandon-Ship Survival Kit
•Use a heavy-duty waterproof ditch bag fastened to a life preserver; interior contents should be in zip-lock bags.
•Fill two 5-gallon jugs with water (two-thirds full) for flotation, just before each offshore passage.
•Secure bag and jugs with 30 feet of brightly colored polypropylene line as lany
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Buddha's Ditch Kit
By PassageMaker Magazine
Elliot Six-Person Inflatable Liferaft: Canister – 173 lb.; L: 39"; W: 25.5"; H: 12.25"
ISO Type I Group A Emergency Pack (
Manufactured: April '96 Last Survey: 18 March '07
ISO I-A Equipment Packed In Raft
Signals
Red Handheld Flares, 3 Ea.
Parachute Rockets, 2 Ea.
Signal Mirror
Whistle
Medical
Sea Sickness Pills, 60 Ea.
Space Blanket
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