[PUP] Nordhavn Owner's web site

[Truelove39 at aol.com]

Hi  Phil-
 
Thank  you for the information. I have spoken with the service manager at 
ADE's head  office and have purchased spares such as FW pump bearings, etc and 
will be  swapping them out this summer. I will also write to Bob Senter as you 
suggest.  There is no substitute for experience when it comes to a particular 
engine  model, and it sounds like he must have it. I'm fortunate to have had a 
career as  an (operating) engineer and so I do my own work aside from 
injection  equipment. It's  the quirks peculiar to the LP668D aka Deere 6068, and the 
MTBF of  certain components that I'm interested in. Thus far, no moving parts  
other than the Jabsco impellers and the serp belt have required replacement, 
but  since we do make offshore passages routinely I'm not stingy when it comes 
 to maintenance. Better to do it in port than out in the Stream  rounding 
Hatteras on one engine; I'd rather have a failure in the middle of an  ocean than 
have it there.
 
Interesting  also to learn of the dearth of answers on the Owner's site - I 
suppose that many  owners hire their engineering work done and therefore aren't 
too  interested.
 
Interesting  also that you were taken to task by the list owner. There are,  
however, obvious but unstated relationships between  certain manufacturers and 
some boat owners; list owners, too. To Georgs  credit, I have not seen such 
bias here, despite my often inflammatory  writings!
 
Regards,
 
John
"Seahorse"
 
    
 
 
 
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





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