Listees: As we anticipate our passages Southwards, one of our greatest pleasures will be being able to dive in the wonderful WARM waters that we will be traveling in. (LOVED the whales in the PNW -- never did warm up to the cold-water diving, in spite of the drysuit.) Having an air compressor aboard will greatly facilitate our diving, so we are looking to those with on-board dive compressors for their advice: 1. Those of you who have installed a dive compressor - what model of compressor did you spec? From what power source does it operate (hydraulic? belt driven? 110v? any other creative sources (besides Houka [sp?] which we're not interested in for this application) 2. Where did you put your compressor? Obviously, one has to be careful about air intake, but, as always, space is at a premium - any clever ideas on installation?? 3. During your travels, did you have any problems with tank inspections? Were you religious about it?? How about the various valve fittings - any problem in other countries with the various fittings? 4. Any questions we're not asking that should be answered?? Feel free [as if ;) ... ] to give any other advice/opinions you may have. Many thanks to all of you willing to share... Best, Kathy & John Youngblood m/v Mystic Moon - Selene 53 _http://mysticmoon.talkspot.com_ (http://mysticmoon.talkspot.com)

We purchased the Max Air 35 STD for Cigano. It charges a tank in 20-25 minutes. Ours is powered by a 240 v. motor although you can get it for 120. Optimistically, we bought it 2 years ago when we thought the boat project would go faster than it has and so it's currently "installed" in my shop, where I fill my tanks from time to time. Cigano has a relatively large lazarette, sealed from the engine room, where it will be mounted. I worry a little about CO while running the unit off the genset but it would be easy enough to install a CO experts detector in the lazarette or run an intake hose up to the flybridge. http://www.max-air.com/ Regards. Larry Cigano, 47' Prairie Sundeck Lying Covington, LA ----- Original Message ----- From: <PrncessKHY@aol.com> To: <trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com>; <passagemaking-under-power@lists.samurai.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:49 PM Subject: T&T: Air compressor for SCUBA tanks > Listees: > > As we anticipate our passages Southwards, one of our greatest pleasures > will > be being able to dive in the wonderful WARM waters that we will be > traveling > in. (LOVED the whales in the PNW -- never did warm up to the cold-water > diving, in spite of the drysuit.) Having an air compressor aboard will > greatly > facilitate our diving, so we are looking to those with on-board dive > compressors for their advice: