Marine Auxiliary Machinery 5 min read
Lubricating oil system for a marine diesel engine
Function of lubrication: The lubrication system of an engine provides a supply of lubricating oil to the various moving parts in…
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Marine Auxiliary Machinery 6 min read
Checks and Precautions
Optimization Ship’s Main Engine for Slow Steaming, we discussed about all the steps that are to be taken for optimization…
Marine Auxiliary Machinery 6 min read
Bunkering is Dangerous
Bunkering procedure is one such operation on a ship which has been the reason for several accidents in the past.…
Marine Auxiliary Machinery 11 min read
Bilge system
All cargo ships are provided with pumping and piping arrangements so that any watertight compartment or watertight section of a…
Marine Auxiliary Machinery 2 min read
What is Water Hammer
High temperature steam is used in the engine room for several purposes such as heating fuel line and fuel tanks.…
Marine Auxiliary Machinery 6 min read
Marine Steam Turbines Auxiliary Components
Marine Turbine Auxiliaries I have laid out the marine steam ship engineroom as I remember it when I was an engineer at…
Marine Auxiliary Machinery 2 min read
ENGINE ROOM SYSTEMS AND LAYOUT
Engine room is the heart and muscles of a ship, providing necessary power and essential “fluids” for a modern vessel.…
Marine Electronics 5 min read
New at ICAST: Evinrude iDock and Ray marine Axiom Pro
I won’t be at the ICAST fishing show this week, but I do know something about two of…
Marine Electronics 9 min read
Beta testing Float Hub boat monitoring, and the wonders of marine Wi-Fi
I don’t usually write about beta testing, but the FloatHub monitoring system is already proving itself so smart and…
Marine Electronics 5 min read
Modern charts
Now let’s review various charts a boat like Crystal Blues could fairly easily have at hand on a tablet or dedicated marine…
Marine Electronics 3 min read
Ledge Chart & Nav History
So let’s take a look at the chart history of the Crystal Bluesledge, which lurks in the southwest passage to Potts…
Marine Electronics 5 min read
Computer-assisted groundings? Bad Navionics charts?
Despite incredible advances in chart availability and chart plotting, keels keep banging on reasonably well charted ledges and reefs…
