Trojan Boat Forum

Stripped the bottom to fiberglass followed by barrier coat and paint.
Pulled the pulpit and re-bedded the pulpit and cleats based on moisture readings found in the survey.
Fixed a soft spot on the flybridge.
Re-worked the AC ducting to better balance the system
Replaced the carpet

Rossjo, Where did yours crack? was it frozen open prior? had maybe someone used excessive force to try to close it? I have them on my 1990 F32 and they were not mentioned in the survey 2 years ago. Both still operate fine and the ones I had on my 1985 were fine also. I did at one point disassemble o...

Todd,
Did your old ones fail? I have the same ones on my F32.

Don't forget to protect each circuit with a ground fault device. If you are using an outlet to do this the hospital grade ones usually only found at an electrical supplier are a lot more durable.

Sucked a jelly fish into the AC intake on Sunday, I found a few tentacles hanging from the strainer basket, I assume the rest of him was stuffed in the thru hull. I made up an adapter to allow me to blow down the intake side of the strainer with a small shop vac. http://i1292.photobucket.com/albums/...

Mel,
I love that, having it in the center is nice. I do not have room there with my gauges and I am not sure I would move the compass to put it on top. I am thinking I will end up with it on the stbd side of the helm where the old one is now but not really a fan of that location.

Paul,
The salesman at west marine told me it was a last minute decision to put the unit on sale. I did not see it advertised anywhere but in the store.

P.Dogg, thanks for heads up on that sale, I did not see that advertised. I bought the 740 and the vision card.

I am looking to set up my F32 with some new electronics and would like ideas on the layout. I will be starting slow by adding a chart plotter which will become a backup as I eventually add a plotter / sonar combo.

Also what would you recommend as an entry level chart plotter?

This one is a 1990 my last one was a 1985 and it had the same fuel valve set up. Very easy to use and understand which tanks you are pulling from. It gives you lots of options.

Generator has it's own pickup in the aft port tank. I normally run off the front tanks leaving the aft tanks full to help with the aft quartering seas issue. I never open the crossover to avoid contaminating the fuel systems on both engines from a single contaminated tank. On a long run I will burn ...

Located on the FWD bulkhead of the engine compartment, 4 tank setup.

Thanks Larry and Paul. That is an example of what I call redneck engineering... you just "Get er done" whatever it takes. I will be adding a vent in the head. Probably wait until next winter to do that. Put the boat back together tonight and just want to finish up a few more things before ...

The boat has a 16k unit in it and a vent on the counter top and one in the V birth. I was getting flow thru only 1/2 of the vent in the salon and very low air flow to the V birth. Upon taking it apart I found that it had sharp bends in the duct to the salon.The V birth duct came out the bottom of a ...

Main vent is here: