Questions sailors actually ask. Answered by the boat.
Every answer cites its source and shows the working: the regulation, the page, the reasoning. The way the Purser answers on board, not a black box.
Backed by 13 sourced rulebooks: AMSA Domestic Commercial Vessel and Class 3 fishing, Australian Sailing Cat 1/2/3, insurance survey, and the recreational rules for all seven coastal states and territories. 214 requirements in all, each traced to its authority.
“The engine overheating alarm is on. What should I check first?”
It went straight to your boat’s own Volvo D3 manual: intake-manifold temperature on page 71, fuel and charge-air checks on pages 53 and 55. Then it named the first physical checks any overheating alarm warrants, and said plainly where the manual ran out rather than guessing.
Cited from Shimbiri’s Volvo D3 manual (pp. 53, 55, 71). A real answer from your documents, not invented advice.
More on the way: fault-finding walk-throughs (a photo of a part, the manual page, the fix) as the Purser captures them from real jobs aboard.