Bilge system
All cargo ships are provided with pumping and piping arrangements so that any watertight compartment or watertight section of a compartment can be pumped out when the vessel has a…
What is Water Hammer
High temperature steam is used in the engine room for several purposes such as heating fuel line and fuel tanks. Water hammer is a common phenomenon that occurs in steam…
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 sea. The turbines in the steam ships in operation were…
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. Usually a merchant ship has propulsion and auxiliary power generators…
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 the major pre-show product announcements that came out today. For…
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 functional that I want its Kickstarter campaign to succeed and…
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 display these days. In U.S. waters, and many other places…
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 Harbor in Casco Bay. Again risking irony, the easiest way…
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 all over the planet. Why? I’ve made far too many…
Anchor alarms, apps style
I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a sophisticated anchor alarm, and it’s an app called My Anchor Watch running on a Blackberry! Introduction to anchor watch The general idea When starting…
