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Based on the Sunshine Coast, Tideline Boats builds high quality, durable aluminum boats built to make cruising in comfort a year-round experience. From 17' center consoles to yachts, landing crafts and commercial and recreational fishing boats Tideline and their team focus on their client, working together to come up with the ultimate bespoke creation. www.TidelineBoats.ca
While crossing the Mona Passage, 35 nautical miles offshore, we ran into trouble with our Yanmar 4JH4E. We were motoring in light winds when we noticed a change in the exhaust pitch — turns out, seawater wasn’t flowing properly. We checked the impeller and, strangely, it looked intact… but it could spin freely by hand — not a good sign. After getting towed back to our anchorage at midnight (huge thanks to Michael, who came out and saved us!), we dug deeper and discovered that the gear inside the old water pump had worn down badly. It turns out the pump wasn’t making full contact with the internal gear, likely due to an aftermarket impeller and shallow gear engagement. We ordered a new OEM water pump from R&B Power in San Juan, and they were awesome — super responsive and got us the part
Saxdor Yachts have been experiencing explosive growth since their creation only a couple of years ago. With growth comes growing pains and the solution was to invest heavily into this 10,000sqm facility where the entire production from start to finish will be under one roof. Coming online in November 2022!