[PUP] Nordhavn Owner's web site

[Truelove39 at aol.com]

Thanks,  Phil. 
 
I'm  surprised and sorry to hear that there's not much gear-specific info on 
that  site. Because we have a lot of identical equipment aboard,  such as 
Lugger, Sutton, Kabola, etc. I'm really interested  in learning from the 
experiences of others with operational and maintenance  issues. For instance, our 
4-year-old Lugger LP668D just turned over 5000 hours,  and according to Lugger, 
it's a good time to check certain things. Some of these  things are relatively 
expensive to do, and in my experience with  other engines we didn't do those 
things until we had at least twice that  many hours. So knowing the time between 
failures on other installations  would be nice to know.
 
Another benefit  to all would be  where to get the best prices on replacement 
parts. Some time ago I did a lot of  legwork (okay, keyboard work) to find 
out where to get Lugger (John Deere  models) parts for less. I found a great 
source and posted the  result on T&T. As you may know, the Lugger folks change 
out some  of the JD parts, replacing them with their own, so I also wanted to 
get some  info on which Lugger dealer would be willing to shave some prices, but 
 no one from T&T responded. Because Nordhavn uses so many Lugger  engines, as 
well as Northern Lights gensets, I'd think some people on the  Nordhavn group 
must have the answer, and might be happy to know the results of  my efforts 
as well. I understand the need for a group to exclude  non-members from 
posting, but they could allow us to read what they post. I'm  sure that folks like 
yourself, and John Ford, who helped me with my paravane  questions some time 
ago, could pick up on anything helpful posted here and  pass it on to the 
Nordhavn owners if appropriate. 
 
Regards,
 
John
"Seahorse"
 

>  I posted the agent list suggestion on the Nordhavn Owner's site only   
because they have a files section to conveniently store and add to   
the list.   PUP has no such files section. Almost all of the posts  I  
submit go to both the PUP and the Nordhavn Owner's list, which are  my  
two favorite web sites, although I am a member of Trawler  World  
also.   Most of the posts on the owner's site are  "boat specific": In  
other words: :Have any other N46 owners had a  specific problem with  
their boat and what did you do to fix  it?"   In the future, I will  
make an effort to cross post  any subjects which come up on the  
Owner's site that would also be of  interest to the PUP.





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