My boat sits out in the driveway under a cover most of the year. I keep the battery healthy by keeping it on a Schumacher 1.5 amp battery maintainer any time it's not actually in the water.
I got many years of use out of last year's battery using this procedure until it finally died last...
Yep. The rear steps on both sides are drooped for reasons I never understood. The actual frame that supports the boat is made out of galvanized C channel with the widest dimension vertical. The frame does not sag.
That's my fault, I should have made it clearer. The tires I have used with good success for all of these years are ST tires and that's what I will be looking for this time. The only reason I'm looking at bias ply tires is that I live about three miles from where I put my boat into the sound...
I'm back to the step one again. I went back to the tire shop this afternoon and it appears there was a misunderstanding. Two different guys were sitting side by side helping me this morning and the last guy didn't seem to catch on I wanted both tires and galvanized rims. He just quoted me...
I have a 17' stern drive runabout that lives out in my driveway. I had to have the trailer repaired recently and it was pointed out to me my boat sat awfully close to the road and that my tires were dry rotting. Well, the dry rot wasn't that obvious to me but the tires do have 10 years on...
I just got a new boat cover and this is the perfect time to address the pooling of water that occurs on the cover when it's installed on the boat. In the past I'd made a makeshift frame out of PVC but it was always a major PITA to position. I'm looking for ideas for a better way.
The outdrive on my 1985 Galaxy worked fine right before Hurricane Florence came to town. I've had the boat stored at a friend's house on the mainland since mid-September to weather the storm and wasn't able to get it until yesterday due to higher priorities (house repairs, etc).
So it sat out...
Please bear with me. I haven't worked on my boat doing any of this sort of work for many years as I always had protected the boat enough that it wasn't ever necessary before. But now it is.
I live on a barrier island in North Carolina, only a few miles from Ground Zero for Hurricane Florence...
I live on one of the barrier islands just to the north of Wilmington, NC. My house is about 100 yards from the sound and 300 yards from the beach. I find myself at a loss as to what I should do about preparing for Hurricane Matthew if it decides to come for a visit next weekend. My boat lives...
I've had pretty stiff steering on my 85 Galaxy ever since I bought it in 2010. I've had the steering rack replaced during the winter of 2010 but frankly, an afternoon on the water leaves my arms and shoulders aching. What would be involved in adding some sort of power steering to my boat, cash...
Now that I've become a venerable Master Chief, I note that my old rank still displays as a Senior CPO, with the new rank displaying immediately underneath. Can this be corrected?
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I've got one of the common pitot tube speedometers with a pickup mounted to the transom and the gauge on the dash with a plastic tube that runs between the two. Today as I was running down the ICW, I noticed immediately that my speedometer wasn't working. Some time after that I became aware...
I recently had to have the hydraulic lines replaced on my I/O Mercruiser Galaxy because the outdrive no longer would reliably go up or down. The work involved pulling the engine and the outdrive so I had some additional work done while they had them out. I went out yesterday for the first time...
You don't have to pay $140 for a new post. Go visit your local trailer repair facility and see what they have lying in their used pile. I got a perfectly functioning rust free galvanized post for $25 with the trade of my existing post.
