Yesterday I took a new wind vane and anemometer up the mast (the plastic wind vane is broken). The yard had gotten replacements that looked like exact duplicates from the deck. It turns out that the old instruments (ST60) are attached with a tiny Alan screw on the side whereas the new ones have a small screw in the middle. Upon removing the wind vane we found only a solid stud with an indent for the Allan screw. There was no hole in the center of the stud that would accept the screw.

Has anyone replaced these components, and do you know if the old type with the Allan screw are available? I will head over to the yard later today but it would be nice to be armed with more information. The manual on the Tech CD doesn’t give any part numbers for the wind vane.

Thanks,

Craig Spear

I have the Snake River Ultra 8 Tank Monitor on my C387 #96 and finally after a few years of messing with it finally figured it all out.  Originally, the installer wired the blue and red wires backwards on all tanks.  (Got that figured out year one and fixed.)  Even then the waste tank monitor did not function.  That became this year’s project.

What I discovered was this.  The holding tank has two strips painted down the side that are supposed to eliminate the need for the foil strips that are used on the other tanks.  Onto this was attached the copper foil patches wired to the sensor which was wired to the control head.  At least on my holding tank, there was no electrical connection between the copper patches and the conductive strips on the tank.  The symptom of this was that the reading was always empty until the

Hello all,
My port light was not working after a long trip. I decided to replace both bow lights, port and starboard. The starboard side works fine, but the port does not. I tested with a multi-meter and it only reads 10volts. I checked under the v-berth and see only 2 wires going forward. I guess this is for both lights. Does anyone know where these wires are connnected at? There is no access to these wires without pulling the bow pulpit. Do the screws for the pulpit go only in to glass, or is there a nut beneath?

Thanks,
Russell C380 #20

Hi Russell,

I replaced my bow lights with sealed Hella Led units last year. I wanted to maintain the continuous integrity of the wire on these lights so I did pull the pulpit. My bow pulpit has machine screws that thread into an aluminum plate embedded

Seward Products was sold but the electric panels, harnesses, and parts (gages, switches, etc.) were not purchased by Whale.  Instead, Dennis Igarashi, previously with Seaward has setup his own business in the factory in Whittier, CA.  He builds the panels and harnesses for Catalina, and makes replacement panels for older Catalina boat owners with an occasional custom panel for some Catalina boat owners.  He also carries most of the replacement parts for them as well.  

He has proved to be very helpful to us in the past so if you need replacement parts or even a new custom panel, give him a call:

Address is 3721 Capitol Avenue Whittier, CA 90601 Office phone number is (562)699-7997 x.210 Cell number is (626)374-6422 He is usually in the office Monday thru Thursday…

His email address:

digarashi@earthlink.net

(Reprinted from the C320 site)

New boat to us, and previous owner did not have the knotmeter installed in hull fitting, just the plug was installed. Boat is still on the hard, and bottom of plug has bottom paint on it, which led us to believe that the knotmeter was not working.

Was able to get someone to watch meter while I turned the paddlewheel. Meter is working, but paddlewheel is binding, and I doubt if it would turn at all at very low speed.
Any work that has to be done on the sender unit is highly restricted because of the length of free cable and it’s position in the forward cabin.

Two questions;

1. Has anyone ever cut the cable and installed male and female plugs in order to remove sender from boat and work on it

2. Before I attempt to remove the pin, and ream out hole in the paddlewheel with