[PUP] Nordhavn Owner's web site

[Philip Eslinger]

John,

I did not realize that you had a Lugger.   Recently, Alaska diesel  
through Bob Senter has been conducting a series of engine seminars  
for Lugger Diesels.  I went to one last winter in Seattle and Bob  
spent most of his time talking about the 668.  I was the bastard  
child in the group with my N50 and its 6801(?) which they no longer  
produce.  Because of the popularity of these seminars, Alaska Diesel  
has been expanding the program and offering seminars in other parts  
of the country.  If you are interested in attending one, I will  
gladly forward any dates that I see come up on the Nordhavn Owner's  
site.  [I just checked and the posts I saw for seminars was from a  
couple of owners HOPING that Bob will conduct a seminar at Mystic in  
August or in the Chesapeake Bay area.]  Contact Bob Senter for future  
seminars: bsenter at northern-lights.com.

I also checked all of the posts from the beginning of 2007 and many  
of them were boat specific: a 57 owner asking how other 57 owners  
stored their tenders, a 46 owner asking about zinc locations.  Some  
posts would be useful to PUP, but they have already been covered: an  
owner asking about the effectiveness of Prop Speed.  Still others are  
very technical: Mickey Smith posted the settings for the Xantrex  
SW2512 inverter for charging AGM batteries because the settings  
listed in the manuals and the default settings were wrong.  Many  
owner's ask questions that are never answered on the owner's site and  
would be better served by PUP or Trawler World: ie: a recent question  
about getting air in fuel lines.  Why more owners aren't members of  
PUP or Trawler World and why the Nordhavn Owner's site does at least  
allow reading by non members, I don't know.   Maybe, the way the  
board is set up on Yahoo doesn't allow it.   Many members do belong  
to both boards and regularly cross post such as Scott Bulger and  
Scott Strickland and myself.   Others, such as Dick Barnes aboard Ice  
Dancer II, posts on PUP and never posts on the Nordhavn site.  Who  
Knows!

I actually got chewed out by the owner of the Nordhavn list last Fall  
because I posted my cruise summary for my California to Hawaii  
crossing in PUP and not the Owner's Site.

Phil Eslinger
Flat Earth N50