Milt gave an excellent description of his reasons for a wet exhaust rather
than the more Nordhavn conventional dry exhaust.  I am wondering if  Bluewater
will have any alarms on the wet exhaust on the main such as either a  water
flow sensor to high temperature alarm or both or none.  On my boat I  added a
Wet Exhaust Temperature Alarm from Borel Manufacturing (www.borelmfg.com
(http://www.borelmfg.com) ) and am considering adding  that and a Raw Water Cooling
Flow Detector on the new boat.  My thought is  that I would rather know of a
problem before the overheat alarm on the engine  goes off as I am sure that I
don't watch the temperature gauge often enough to  be sure that I would catch
the problem in its incipient stage on temperature  gauge.

Jim

(Jim & Mim McCrea, mcc272@aol.com Nordic Tug 37-134  "North Star" Home Port
Norwalk, CT)

I'm getting ready to set off on an extended tour of duty and expect
to be well out of reach of the US Post Office for a year or more.

How do folks handle getting mail?  There are just some things you
need to have even when you're cruising, like bank and credit card
statement, and of course USCG documentation renewal forms!  Are
there any services that you can use to collect your mail, and
periodically have them send you an international overnight FedEx
shipment?  Do they weed out the just mail first?