A quarterly bulletin from the shop.
Five issues a year, written by Dom or one of the crew, for the captains and engineers who have us on speed-dial. The bulletins are not blog posts and they are not marketing. They are notes on a class of failure we have seen enough of to write about, or on a job we just finished that taught us something. Each issue is one essay, footnoted, with the standards and tools named.
Fish-hold refrigeration controls — what failure looks like
A short field tour of the four ways an RSW board fails on a scalloper, and the controller settings that cover most of them.Grounding and bonding aboard — ABYC E-11 in plain English
Why your zinc anodes are eating each other, and what a proper bonding system looks like on a steel-hulled boat with a 24 V house bank.Shore-power cordage — a winter survey of the State Pier
We walked every cord on the State Pier in late November. Here is what we found, named by hull, and the quiet way we got it fixed.Load-line survey prep — the 11 items we tag first
A surveyor's tape measure does not lie. Here are the eleven electrical items that catch boats out, ranked by how often we see them.A clean NMEA 2000 backbone — terminators, drops, and the LEN budget
The four cabling rules nobody reads. Why your bridge electronics keep glitching. The $40 of cable that fixes 80 percent of it.Subscribe by mail
If you want the bulletin in your mailbox, send a name and an address to yard@acushnet-marine-electric.example and we'll print and post the next one. We do not have a mailing-list service. There is no opt-out form. If you want to stop, ask, and we stop.
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If there is a class of failure you would like written up, write us. We pick topics based on what we are seeing in the harbor — if you are seeing the same thing, that's the strongest signal.