New Season - New Series of Problems - Part 2

Dust/Ash Particles from Main Engines Exhaust Pipes

As the boat started cruising her second season, we noticed some ash-like particles coming out of both engine exhaust pipe junctions. After consulting with a few Volvo Penta Service Centers, we have been advised that due to the fact that exhaust pipe insulation works were not performed properly, exhaust heat combined with vibration were decomposing the insulation material and causing it to spread out to the engine room.

Aside from the mess this has been causing in our Engine Room, we did not like the fact that spreading dust would now be absorbed by Main Engines + Genset air filters as well as cooling fans of all electronic equipment mounted in the Engine Room (ie Inverters, Chargers, Electrical panel cooling etc.)
Status: Pending since 12 May 2019

Dust particles coming out of the Exhaust Pipe insulation of Main Engines.

Main Electrical Panel Malfunction

The main electrical panel which was faulty since the very first day was occasionally either freezing or some of the segments in the Voltmeter were not displaying correctly.
A restart of the panel usually solved the problem, until it happened again.
Princess has been made aware of the issue but they did not rectify it claiming that they did not have a remedy for it yet.

Faulty Voltmeter display on Main Electrical Panel

During the second season, we have noticed that on top of the missing display segments, the Voltmeter was displaying faulty voltage indications as well.
To make sure that this problem was not related to the shore voltage, we measured the voltage from our shore cable via a Multimeter.
Status: Pending since 6 June 2019

Voltmeter on the Main Electrical Panel displaying 203V, whereas the Voltage supplied from shore pedestal is 232V.

We measured the shore power voltage with a Multimeter -without removing our shore power cable from the pedestal- and it read 232V

Saloon TV Lift Getting Stuck

The optional 32 inch TV in the Saloon is fitted with an Up/Down Lift operated via a switch next to it.
Whilst lowering or raising the TV, we noticed that it was getting stuck in any random position and freezing in that position. The only way to have it work again was to cut its power off from the circuit breaker, wait couple seconds and reinstate it. This resetting often times would not fix the issue and the Lift would get stuck again. Because the Lift would not go all the way down to lock in place, the TV would not switch off as well. Since the TV's remote control IR receiver is no longer exposed when the lift is stuck, it would also not be possible to switch off the TV manually via remote controller.
Status: Pending since 24 May 2019

TV Lift in Saloon getting stuck in any random position, either during lowering or raising. 

Wobbling Port Side Electric Window

Initially, both electric windows (Port + Stbd side) were working fine, but during the first season, we have started noticing some strange sounds coming from the port side window. This later turned into wobbling whilst raising or lowering the window. It kept on getting worse throughout the second season, we therefore turned off its circuit breaker and stopped using it fearing that it would fail whilst the window is open.
Status: Pending since 12 June 2019

Port side electric window increasingly wobbling when raising or lowering.

Parquet Flooring Edges Separating from Base Moldings

Another issue that we noticed during our second season was parquet floor related problems. We have observed that most of the wooden floor edges were changing shape and gaps were forming on the edges where the flooring joined the base moldings. We believe that these edges should have been properly finished and filled with marine grade flexible filler material. 

Status: Pending since 17 May 2019

Floor edges starting to separate from base moldings and forming a gap in between.