Index of Trawler MV Tortuga’s Posts
This is an index of tortuga’s posts.
- About MV Tortuga
- New Trawler Owners: About Us
- Naming our Trawler”Tortuga”
- Boat Renaming Ceremony
- Bringing Tortuga Home to Jacksonville
- Tortuga’s New Home: Ortega River Boat Yard
- First Voyage on Trawler MV Tortuga
- Cruise to Astor, Fl
- Bahamas Cruise Part One
- Bahamas Cruise Part Two
- MV Tortuga’s Cruising Itinerary
- Gardner Diesels and Spare Parts
- Inspection, Maintenance, and Repair of Wooden Hulls
- Wiring Project: Battery Nightmare or Dream Come True?
- USCG Battery Mounting Requirements
- MV Tortuga’s Through-Hull Plan
- Metric Copper Tubing (head restoration)
- Interior Design Aboard Trawler MV Tortuga
- Engine Room Flooring
- Engine Room Flooring Update
- Commercial Operation Documentation
- Furuno Radar aboard MV Tortuga
- Bilge Pumps: Your first line of defense
- Bilge Buster Review
- Portuguese Bridge Wing Repair
- 3M Vinyl Ester Fillers
- Replacing the Holding Tank
- Repair of Carvel Wood Hulls
- MV Tortuga’s Maintenance and Underway Calendar
- Zimmerman Marine’s 20th Anniversary
- Zimmerman 36
- Gardner Fuel Lift Pump
- Poor Planning and Hospitality aboard our Crippled Trawler
- Trawler Maintenance
- Trawler Maintenance Log
- More Trawler Maintenance
- Trawler Humor and Jokes
- Life Changes: A New Career
- Boat Wood / Hull Rot
- Marine Computer Selection for Trawler MV Tortuga
- Testing Water Quality Aboard Your Trawler
- Alaskan Trawler Brochure (1970s)
- Marine Head Restoration
- Fresh Water Toilets (Heads)
- Trawler Plumbing
- Tracing Hidden Wires
- Electronics Aboard Tortuga
- Bottom Paint Maintenance
- Hull and Deck Restoration
- Hull Maintenance
- Inverter Installation
- Electrical Maintenance
- Electrical Load Requirements
- Diesel Fuel Tank Site Tubes
- Racor Installation
- Raymarine ST40 and Triducer
- US Power Squadron
- The Brazing Book
Jim is a retired Navy Lieutenant Commander (Mustang). Growing up – he moved from the Boy Scouts to the Sea Cadets at the age of 14. Including his teenage years at sea through his retirement from the Navy Reserve in ’93, Jim has spent over 24 years in sea-going occupations. Jim attended graduate school at Georgia Institute of Technology where he studied Human Machine Systems Engineering, his Bachelors in Chemistry and Computer Science is from Mary Washington College and his Associates in Chemical Engineering is from Columbus Technical Institute.
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