Properly Breaking in your Generator and Why this is Important

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 For most users, little thought is given to properly breaking in a generator...   Stories about marine diesel engine longevity are legion and it seems to...

Feature: Learning to Read Exhaust Smoke – Editorial: Marine Industry Going Green

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From the Masthead In an effort to go, or appear, green, is the marine industry shooting itself in the foot? I recently attended the North American...

Feature Article: Unraveling the Corrosion Mystery – Editorial: Technical Competence and Job Skills

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From the Masthead Just as I began to write this column I received an email from a colleague, he manages the physical plant for a...

Heat Exchanger TLC

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Text and photos © 2020 Steve D'Antonio Marine Consulting, Inc. From the Masthead A few months ago, while carrying out an inspection on a new vessel,...

Editorial: Soliciting Negative Feedback – Feature: Of Piston Rings, Cross Hatch, Blow-By and Carbon

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From the Masthead Soliciting Negative Feedback If you are a parent, then you know the last thing young children and adolescents want to hear is criticism,...

Antisiphon Valves – Editorial: “Workplace Distraction Revisited”

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From the Masthead Workplace Distraction Revisited: The Tale of Submarine S-48 Submarine technology was still in its infancy when the 240-foot S-48 was launched from the...

Planning for and Dealing with A Sinking Ship

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By Dick Stevenson  Copyright March 2014    Dick and Ginger Stevenson's Valiant 42, Alchemy, underway off the coast of Turkey. A strategy for managing a flooding situation aboard your...

Securing Your Boat to a Dock, with a Homage to Cleats

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From the Editor   Australia is a huge country, the sixth largest by land mass, after the US and Brazil, yet, it's very sparsely populated, fifty-second,...

Conventional Wisdom for Conventional Stuffing Boxes

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Text and photos by Steve D’Antonio Copyright © 2017 From the Masthead I recently wrote an editorial for a marine industry publication, lamenting the lack of a formal marine...

Alternator Charge Regulation

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Text and photos by Steve D'Antonio Copyright © 2017 From the Masthead Apprenticeships Revisited Readers of this column know that I’m passionate about marine industry professionalism and expertise, an integral...

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