Recent content by samagy16

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    Please take a look and tell me what you think

    I was unfortunate enough to run aground last week and the pictures attached show the damage to my keel. What is the assesment of the damage? Real bad? Medium? Should be fine just keep and eye on it? What if any temporary measures can I take before taking serious action if its not too bad? The...
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    Replacing Wires to the battery

    I will be replacing the batteries on my boat in the next few days and saw the wires were in bad shape. Are these wires marine grade or marine specific? They look exactly like the positive and negative wires from an automobile and I was wondering if I could just pick up the wires in a auto...
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    Tilt and Trim not working on 2000 Merc 200HP

    I have tried both the switch on the motor and the switch on the throtle and the motor will not go up or down. What can I look for? Easy, hard? Cheap, expensive? Thanks for your replies.
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    Replacing old BlackMax cowling with a newer model Merc cowling

    I have an old late 80's Mercury Blackmax 150 HP and I want to replace the cowling with a newer model Merc. My mechanic told me that it can be done, that I can use anything newer up to around 2005 between 150hp and 200hp but that it would need a bracket to install correctly. Is he correct on...
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    Help Re-installing a bow rail

    I just bought an 18' Angler last week and the previous owner had taken off the bow rail. With the purchase of the boat I also got the bowrail and want to re-install it but have never done this type of work before. I am pretty handy and believe I can do it myself with the help of my brother to...
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    Help, need advice on weighing down the trailer a bit

    I took my trailer in for a makeover and one of the things that I decided along with the Trailer Manufacturer was to take off the brake system. It was not in working order, this was the second time this happens in the 5 years that I've had the trailer. The saltwater had done its magic once again...
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    Is this an issue?

    Below I have posted pictures to better show my dilemma. Two weeks ago while trailering I completely blew out one of my bearings.:mad: I bought a complete hub assembly to just replace the whole thing and make things easier but after I disassembled everything and cleaned up a bit I saw that the...
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    Tie bar for Dual OB Sea Star- it broke Help!

    Gentlemen, on my way out this morning as I was raising my outboard engine to trailer the boat and head out for a great day out in the water, the tie bar on the Sea Star steering system broke :mad:, pics are attached. Seems like an easy fix, except I am having a hard time finding the part...
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    What would you look for??

    Gentlemen, I am presently looking for a boat in the 20' range between the yrs mid 80's to mid 90's that needs a new engine or engine work. I am basically looking for a boat in pretty decent shape cosmetically that simply is being sold because it needs engine/ engine work so that I can deal...
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    ???? Three batteries with Perko switches

    Below is a picture of my boat battery setup. In addition to what you see in the picture there is also and on board GUEST Charge PRO Model 2613 (you can see a corner of it on the pic). I did not set this up this way, it was already setup when I bought the boat 4 years ago. The way it is in the...
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    Engine revs but won't go

    I have a 2002 115HP outboard. Today while I was out cruising everything was perfect and then I went to a sandbar and when I left after a couple of hours I would try to accelerate and the engine would act as if it was in neutral. It would rev but it wouldn't go anywhere. The reverse worked...
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    ??? bear 69cuda

    bearcuda, I see that you mounted your rod holders on the in the stern where the bumpers go, how did you do that? I need somewhere to mount a rod holder although I am not a fisherman, just need to fly a telescoping flag pole, and that is the perfect solution as I want to be able to do this with...
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    Cover your boat... Do you or don't you?

    As Summer is underway it got me to thinking, I have already taken my boat out four times since the beginning of May......... Do you cover your boat religiously after every single outing specially over the summer when the boat gets used much more than the rest of the year? Last fall I finally...
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    No power to Radio.... HELP!!!

    Thank you to those that reply to this thread. My problem is the following. The Radio switch on the Switch panel on my boat does not come on so naturally the radio is getting no power and does not work. This is something that happened for the first time two weeks ago as I was running my engines...
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    Outboard swap cost

    Guys, I am considering swapping out my dual Yamaha outboards for bigger (added HP) Yamahas.:D I have never priced something like this before and don't know what to budget for. :confused: I am looking for approximate costs as I won't know exact costs until I actually get real quotes when I am...
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