Making Sure Your Vessel Is Ready For A Marine Survey By: Marinetrader | - You have received an offer for your boat; the buyer is now organizing the marine survey. The survey is an in depth inspection of your yacht and can be the make or break part of the contract. Therefore planning for the particular survey ought to be taken seriously. Marine surveyors hope for a clean, well taken care of yacht; it sets the atmosphere for the inspection. I have had a lot more than a couple of surveyors say to me that they can often know what they really are about to discover by h ... Tags:marine survey, marine surveyor
Tips On Using Zinc Anodes To Your Advantage In The Marine Industry By: Suzie Williams | - Zinc anodes are becoming almost indispensible in the marine industry. Zinc has been used in various sectors right from automobiles to construction to furniture to even utensils. But when used in the marine industry, zinc proves to be an excellent anti-corrosion solution.
Aluminum anodes are also largely used in the marine industry. They are suitable for use in a tropical water environment. Aluminum anodes are known to last slightly longer than their zinc counterparts.
Switch To Zinc Anodes As An Alternative To Anti-corrosion Treatments By: stuvartpeeter | - When at sea, ships and boats are in constant contact with salt water which corrodes the hull. In such a situation, corrosion is almost a given. However, with the use of zinc anodes, corrosion and deterioration of marine structures can be prevented. Since metals used in building ships are often very costly, corrosion can lead to some serious losses in the ship. These anodes are best used in sea water because it has a caustic nature.
Snapping Shrimp By: Marinetrader | - As a boater we encounter many distinctive and sometimes strange conditions; and many times they are not what we believe they are. We had these dock mates a couple years ago that were complaining to me about the galvanic decomposition on their boat's submerged zincs while staying at a local marina. "It was so severe, you could in fact hear the decomposition occurring; we will never visit that marina again." I just smiled and nodded my head.
Things To Consider Before Getting Aluminum Anodes By: Suzie Williams | - Aluminum anodes are most widely used to protect costly materials attached to water vessels in salt water and brackish water conditions. Used thus, they are aptly named sacrificial anodes, as they allow themselves to be worn out before the other costlier metals get corroded due to high moisture content. Hence, they are considered to be friends of mariners and boat owners and are used profusely in all types of marine environment. However, before buying anodes for your individual use, it is importa ... Tags:aluminum anodes, zinc anodes, magnesium anodes, boat zincs
Boat Zincs Protection At Its Best By: stuvartpeeter | - Boat zincs help in keeping engine and other water submerged parts of the boat clean. It is one type of protection tool which can help in increasing a boats work life. Rusting and corrosion can take place because of salts present in sea. Brackish water is another reason why rusting and corrosion takes place. It is also one of the leading reasons why these parts break or give up working when you need them the most. Protecting engine is very important especially if you use your boat or yacht on ... Tags:Aluminum Anodes, Magnesium Anodes, Boat Zincs
About Aluminum Anodes And Some Of Their Popular Varieties By: mpeter12 | - Aluminum anodes are used to protect different kinds of appliances from corrosion and erosion. Due to this excellent property of these anodes they are used in various industry sectors today and accordingly they come in different varieties. Here are a few popular variations and their detailed descriptions.
How To Check Boat Zincs By: Phil Marks | - If you are buying a used boat, or just maintaining a boat, the zincs - hull anodes or sacrificial anodes - are an important part of her protection. If boat zincs are not working (or replaced when they need to be) can lead to a fatal failure of thro-hull fittings. For example, a brass seacock may slowly dissolve and finally fail and sink the boat. Many boats have sunk on their moorings because the boat zincs were not replaced or fitted in the first place.
Magnesium Anodes And Their Field Of Application By: mmartin | - Magnesium anodes provide the much-needed protection to all kinds of vessels in a marine as well as land environment. Made of an alloy composite of magnesium and other metals, they usually come in two alloy compositions. One is a combination of 90% magnesium, 6% aluminum and 3% zinc and the other consists of 99% pure magnesium. while the first type is better suited in marine situations, the second variety is used to protect poorly coated steel work on land.
Magnesium anodes are cost ... Tags:zinc anodes, aluminum anodes, magnesium anodes, boat zincs, marine anodes, corrosion, anodes
Hints To Get Your Yacht Ready To Sell By: Marinetrader | - Sooner or later every boat owner is faced with selling his/her boat. You want to sell her as quickly as possible yet obtain the best value you possibly can.
Below are a few ideas to make the deal go as intended.
Prepare the Boat for Sale:
Make any evident repairs. Damaged glass, rotten or discolored wood, ripped canvas or zippers, discolored upholstery, are negative attention getters. Remember that $5,000.00 invested up front to correct problems may n ... Tags:selling your boat, boat for sale, boat
Getting Quality Zinc Anodes Online For Your Various Applications By: mmsmith | - Zinc anodes are basically used as sacrificial anodes in various marine environments. Their excellent capacity to resist corrosion and protect other more valuable metals makes them ideal for use in various industry segments.
The following content relates to their different varieties and application areas.
About Aluminum Anodes And Some Of Their Popular Varieties By: mmsmith | - Aluminum anodes are used to protect different kinds of appliances from corrosion and erosion. Due to this excellent property of these anodes they are used in various industry sectors today and accordingly they come in different varieties. Here are a few popular variations and their detailed descriptions.
M-816029-A and M-806189-A:
Known as Mercury Alpha 1 Out Drive Short Trim in Aluminum and Mercury Alpha 1 Out Drive Short Trim in Aluminum respectively, both these vari ... Tags:aluminum anodes, magnesium anodes, boat zincs, zinc anodes
Magnesium Anodes - The Ideal Solutions For Protection In Fresh Water By: Nathan Syngrem | - Magnesium anodes are used in a variety of industrial applications today. Manufacturers dealing with anodes today produce various range of specialty cast and extruded varieties for complete protection. And they can be safely tagged on to any object that is placed in fresh, brackish or seawater environments. Most of the magnesium anodes today also come with an optional plastisol coating. This is so designed that it could be cut away from the anode, whenever and wherever required.
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Use Aluminum Anodes To Protect Your Valuable Appliances By: Nathan Syngrem | - Aluminum anodes are being used extensively these days for their excellent capacity to protect other metals from various other detrimental factors. In this article you would find information on the different areas where they can be used. They are accordingly named as per their application areas.
Aluminum Anodes As Sacrificial Anodes For Brackish Water By: Nathan Syngrem | - Aluminum anodes go a long way in fighting corrosion. For this property it is used as sacrificial anode in the marine industry. A sacrificial anode as the name suggests gets depleted in the process of protecting a more valuable metal on any submerged vessel in a marine environment.
Varieties Of Zinc Anodes And Their Uses In Marine Industry By: Nathan Syngrem | - Zinc is one metal which is used in almost all industry sectors. Its alloys in many different forms find use mostly in cars and construction, motor housings, door furniture, toys, taps and pipes, roofing and guttering, coffins, and batteries, tires and zinc creams.
Maintaining Your Trawler The Easy Way By: Marinetrader | - You have been considering a long time about finding a nice used trawler or motor yacht to cruise the ICW and perhaps the Islands; it has been your lifelong aspiration. But you are brand new to big boats and imagine you need to get a better understanding of what it will take to sustain her before you proceed.
Relax, we have all had to start from somewhere. Before the Internet was born it was a learn-as-you-go affair; rarely was there some one about to ask. to help those of you yet ... Tags:used, trawler, mootr yacht
Fouled Propeller - Are You Prepared? By: Marinetrader | - It was early December; we were nearing our chosen anchorage, Shark River, on Floridas west coast at the western most point of the Everglades. The seas were calm; the weather has been partly cloudy and warm all day. A nice cool cocktail on the fantail watching the sun set over the Gulf would be great. In just another hour or so we would be there.
Suddenly, thump, thump and the port engine died. What happened? A quick look down below by me produced nothing amiss. But o ... Tags:trawler, yacht, boat, diver
Servicing Your Yacht's Cooling System By: Marinetrader | - Most used boats with inboard engines are provided with fresh water cooling systems. These fresh water systems in conjunction with the raw water system cool the engine during operation. The fresh water circulates within the engine and transfers the engine heat to the raw water system as it passes through heat exchangers. This article will explain the step by step approach to servicing your yacht's raw water cooling system
Any time you have two different metals that are physically or electrically connected and immersed in seawater, they produce electrical current. Some DC current flows between the two metals which can corrode metals such as props, shafts, thru hulls and sea strainers in the engine room.
The way we stop galvanic corrosion is to add a piece of metal called a sacrificial ano ... Tags:yacht, yachts, boat, boats, zincs
