Trojan Boat Forum

Juice, It was a cooperative effort between the dealer and myself and was completed right in your back yard, in St James City. My factory shafts were 1 1/4" and were borderline acceptable if I went with the 8.1 gas engines. Having to change the shafts, props, logs & struts made the jump to d...

I repowered my 33' Trojan International 10 Meter last year. Replaced the worn out 454's with Yanmar 6cyl turbodiesels. I didn't want to do a rebuild of the 454 blocks & heads and then have to deal with all the old bolt on items like heat exchangers, oil coolers, starters, etc being 25 years old,...

Joe, My 454's were really, really tired. My first choice was to replace them with new 8.1's, however to do them right, I needed to upgrade the shafts & props. At that point the difference between the 8.1's and diesels became less significant. The diesels increase the value of the vessel the amou...

I have a large (don't know the capacity) oval livewell that is PORTABLE. I upgraded the raw water washdown pump and use quick disconnects. The overflow line is simply routed to one of the rear scuppers. Takes about 5 minutes to strap the tank down and hook up the lines. This way when we cruise, the ...

I used to keep the blower speed up on mine, that way it created a "white noise" that masked everything. Ours International is not a mid cabin model however and the HVAC unit is in the engine room. With her 2006 retrofit to diesel power we replaced the 23 year old Cruiseair system with a ne...

Find a good fiberglass guy who can take one from another boat and modify it. They can be easily stretched or made shorter horizontally or vertically by a good fiberglass company, however don't expect this to come cheap. An alternative would be to have an aluminum arch fabricated by companies who mak...

Better take a reality check and consider taking your budget and doubling it. Then consider the hours it will take to get this vessel seaworthy. Increase that by a factor of at least 5. Cars end up in scrapyards, boats end up in a variety of places. Metal rusts and in most cases can be restored. Wood...

Based on my experience with the 10 Meter, I believe you can expect the published weights to be dry and for the bare bones vessel without any accessories, including the genset, referigerators and any cockpit furniture except the std operators seat.

RWS

The 10 Meter uses the Hynautic system. What makes it unique is that it is a three line system with a feature tha keeps air pressurized in the hydraulic supply tank. I installed a Raymarine autopilot unit in 2004. In 2006 the helm steering unit began to leak. Based on it's age and the cost of rebuild...

Be careful with these. In my 10 Meter, these switches ase actually the CIRCUIT BREAKERS. many of which had been replaced with plain toggle switches by the previous owner rendering NO PROTECTION to the circuit, appliance or the wiring, which could result in damaged wiring and possibly a fire. I repla...

The trick is to keep amonia based products off those curved side windows. Mine are a bit hazy also. There are products made specifically for plastic windows, some may be available at a motorcycle shop (clear windshields) I wonder if a clay bar would help ? It might be worth a test in a small spot. I...

pggarland: I did not have to drain the tank as the sender is located on the top of the tank. However, since there was no inspection plate, I had to cut a hole in the cockpit deck and install a removable deckplate in order to gain acces to the sending unit for replacement. Four years later I replaced...

Using a chainsaw you could remove some significant weight and cut down on windage as well. Any sacrifice to stregnth could be buttressed with some 2x4's or in the best interests of saving weight some aluminum angle could be utilized instead to handle the weaknesses created when you remove the integr...

Run around with a half tank of fuel instead and save your valuable time. Don't destroy the vessel's value by stripping her down. In my opinion the few hundred pounds you could save isn't worth your time. 100 gallons of fuel weighs between 700-800 lbs.

RWS

Wish I could tell you the correct resistance on that guage. I can tell you that several years ago I replaced my sending unit, and it was simply an off the shelf unit from West Marine stores. When I did the repower I replaced all the guages. The fuel guage is a VDO and was purchased from Lauderdale S...