by Timothy Langley
June 13, 2024
TSPS Members sponsor various activities related to sailing or being out-on-the-water; this is one of them.
A WhatasApp Group, “Marine Diesel Maintenance & Repair Group” was established by former Commander Dave Edwards last month. It is picking-up steam.
If you seek competency to take care of mechanical issues that might pop-up, or are interested in finding out how the diesel-engine actually works on a boat, you should join this WhatsApp Group. Recommended for boat owners but also to hopeful Owners as well. Learn what to look-out for, and what sounds to attune your ears to, how to fix any issue that might arise. Very useful.
The first session (June 1, 2024), originally intended as a refresher-course, was a full-blown seminar on fuel repair and maintenance. Evan Burkowsky, Captain/Owner/Rebirther of a 33’ Peterson sailing yacht (45 years old), christened “Garuda”, held a 4 hour-seminar on his boat in Hayama Port … on the Chiba peninsula, between Kizarazu (Costco) and Tateyama (tip of the peninsula).
A follow-up seminar is planned so sign-into the Group to register your interest.
In the next session, we will be looking into the cooling system: wave ‘goodbye’ to overheating engines and ‘hello’ to cool cruising! Maximum ~10 individuals. Exclusive to TSPS Members.
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Great to learn more about the resources and benefits TSPS. Makes it worth it to be a member!
This event could win the prize for best education outside of JMRA class for 2024. Great job Evan! And great right up.
So How do i sign up or find the chat group? some sort of link?
Thank you for the question, Toshi! Just post a message to the WhatsApp Group and they will let you in. There are about 5 different WhatsApp Groups related to TSPS sailing. You just need to keep abreast of developments by checking on the discussion regularly. I hope this helps.