Its part of the annual task of spooling out all of the rode and cleaning out the chain locker so its easy to do then. Steve Anderson "Intrepid" KK-42

Hello all, We have finally purchased a boat, but it's not a trawler. After looking at 8 trawler style boats, the last one a 34 Mainship in Solomons, MD that was a disaster, we came across a 1979 33ft Egg Harbor "Over Easy" w/ twin low hour Cat 3116 diesels. The boat surveyed above average and the price was right so we jumped at it.

Hello all, Our Hatteras has 1983 vintage Mansfield Vacuflush heads. Vacuflush heads are a new experience for me so please forgive this elementary question. All three work, but one looses pressure if the plunger is maintained in the on position and causes the pump to cycle to build up the pressure every so often.

That’s not easy to do, > but some are attempting it …. It is actually quite easy.

*Dear TACOMA:* *Would you like to participate in an All-Ages Coloring Contest? That means from age Zero to One Hundred and Twenty Seven!!* * * *Print out one or two of the following images and color it in, then email it back to me at aarotrot@gmail.com and I will publish the best ones very soon, very very soon.

Lets really get Tacoma on the Art map and quit "checking the block" email me back, love to hear ALL opinions! Art

They are all under the pilothouse, i.e. just behind the bulkhead on which the CO detector is mounted, and when we are in a marina, they are under constant charge from our Heart Freedom 2500, so your explanation makes sense.

An unprecedented event unfolding all down the north-east coast it seems...how many actual birds must have been involved?? Julian HoughNew Haven, CT  Sent from my LG Phoenix 3, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone

Calling All Fellows! If you have not done so already, please sign up for one or more of the following initiatives/committees by TOMORROW Friday, November 13, 2015. Fellows Mentoring Program * Fellows have asked to serve as mentors to new/young city attorneys and IMLA will develop a proposal for implementing this for approval by the Fellows.

The new guys are die-hard canallers, and have a lot of plans for the canal system, including reconstruction of several locks, major dredging all over, and a lot of maintenance, some very much overdue. This all takes money, lots of it.