REPLY As someone who has spent hours in a Mustang suit I can attest to the fact you don't die from heat prostration. With these suits it is feasible to work with the zipper opened partially in front to provide some ventilation. Jim seems to think of it in terms of down his part of the world. Been there tried that.

They all thought I hand-carved the signs, but I was a router jockey all the way, except for a bit of fine finishing with a die grinder and Dremel tool. My main carving technique was to use a 3/4" wide V-Groove bit on a fixed base router. I'd "float" the base up for fine work, and plunge it in for depth/width.

They say both engines would die at the same time, anyway. It would seem to me that once one quit and there might still be a significant time lag until the second one quit. Maybe time enough to get the problem sorted out. I'm wondering if any of you twin-engine trawler people have had any experience with one engine continuing to run after the other had quit?

BTW my absolutely all-time worst experience was when I had an eel swim up into an unguarded water intake to the AC pump and die in the line between the through-hull and the basket filter.

Still, the engine will die if I throttle all the way down to 600 RPMs too quickly. I just called Caterpillar. The person I spoke to gave me a few more ideas on what to check. He also said that if I send the fuel injector pump assembly to them, it could run up to about $1,000.00 to fix!!... I hope it doesn't come to that...

I have seen people die from these infections. There are reasonable alternatives to a watermaker--but don't take a risk with your life. Yes people live in these areas--There is some immunity to these diseases--but there is also morbidity and mortality. Do not risk your health. A watermaker is not the only safe way.

It's not in manuals, but bolt on stuff causes all kinds of failures which make engines die before their time. If you have Lehmans and call Bob or Brian at American Diesel, they have a good handle on the duty cycles. Elbows are 2000 hours, for example. Re coolers, oil in the water isn't terminal, but water in the oil can be.

The only problem I see is that There is a scum in the salt tank caused by the creepy-crawlees die-ing when they hit the brine in the tank. I talked to Vic Wilman at Reritan about that and he said there was no reason it wouldn't work, and it will use marginally less salt. The vacuflush works fine, except that I get a build-up of salt in the plumbing.

"A Glorious Way to Die," by Russel Spurr (if you're into books about naval conflict, this is the extremely well told story of the Japanese battleship "Yamato", which with her sister ship the "Musashi," was the biggest, most powerful battleship ever built.) C. Marin Faure GB36-403 "La Perouse" Bellingham, Washington

There is a risk of Mr Rat crawling into a corner and dieing--but I sure don't want to wake up with one on my head, chewing on my ear. I had one on a sport fisher. We knew about it, but were unable to club it or get it into the open--shooting it was not an option.