7.0 kW Westerbeke Gen set Stopped Running 15 Minutes at Sea

We did find a 3 way gen transfer fuel valve (the owners manual shows one gen fuel pickup tube in each tank)that allows pulling gen fuel from either stbd or port tank to balance out how much fuel in main tanks left in order to not run one dry just from gen. Still not totally sure that the gen fuel pickup tubes are actually higher in the tanks than the propulsion engine fuel pickup tubes but that is my thinking, makes sense to me? i might mail Regal and ask them if they have any info on my assumption. Wont post to "ask Regal" as previous mentioned in a another mail, never see a reply to any post in that sub topic?

I'm looking to get contact with Regal Engineering on a hard top question and I can throw this one at them as well. While I love the blue lighting on the 33 OBX, it would have been great if it was true RGB lighting so that you could choose the color. The problem for me is that even at the highest setting the blue light does not even cast enough of a glow on the buttons on the console to figure out which one to press for which function. The letters aren't backlit either. My solution and I tested this with 4 RGB puck lights that simply take batteries and attached to the hardtop with double face tape.   With just the cheapo puck lights, I ended up with plenty of light to see the switches when I used the white light setting.     My plan is to add 4 LED 12V Stainless white lights that surface mount. I plan to install them with a 12V 4 Zone remote switch dimmer. That will allow me to fully control either all 4 lights separately via the 4 zones or the port and starboard side leveraging 2 zones via the remote dimming from off to full brightness. What I need is a power source for these lights that isn't dimmed. I could just use or tie them into the hardtop blue light strip, but I'd rather be able to control them separately.   So I'm reaching out to Regal Engineering to see if there is an always on power source I could tap into within the hardtop wiring, or what it would take to route a power and ground wire up there for this purpose and maybe tie it into a switch that isn't used on my boat.    

So when I call them I'll ask them about the generator pick up.

Generator pick-up tubes being shorter, than engine p/u tubes, is common practice for all boats. Basically a safety measure to ensure you don’t run your tank dry running your generator.

Quick story - For a few weeks before my boat went to the yard for repairs my generator kept cutting off intermittently. Would run a little while then shut off. Sometimes I could get it restarted, sometimes I couldn't. I figured low coolant, overheating, impeller, dirty fuel filter, etc but all checked out. Fuel gauges both read 3/8ths of a tank. Two weeks ago I picked up the boat from the yard and ran her home, the generator wouldn't stay on so just kept it off. Decided to go home on the ocean side out of Port Everglades and in through Haulover inlet (notoriously hairy!). Had my mechanic come take a look he insisted there was almost no fuel in the tanks and below the pickup for the generator. I showed him the 3/8ths per the fuel gauges, he said they were wrong and to get some gas. Note I just got this boat in Feb 2020 with 3/4 tank of fuel and this was my first time getting fuel. Fuel truck comes, boat takes 147 gallons in port and 150 gallons in starboard (297 gallons of fuel, tanks hold 328 gallons total) - I was in the ocean and out of fuel! Whattya know since I filled the fuel tanks the generator has run like a charm. So yes, I believe the generator fuel pickup is below the engine pickup, and I'm glad it is!