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    The "Hull Truth" forum, how rude !!

    After searching some boating topics a link to a website "The Hull Truth" appeared and I signed up. I am posting in the forum and someone says something very rude to me so I defended myself. I did not go overboard or break out any heavy artillery and I get banned. No need for a boring story , I...
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    I hate daylight savings time, its getting dark earlier so they make it worse !

    Oh what fun lets make it so its dark after work. Bummer this forum doesn't have a poll feature, thought it did, I would have bet "fall back" is universally hated.
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    How About Using Vodka To Winterize Your Boat's Fresh Water System?

    Just a photo I snagged off the net but I have never had my vodka turn to ice , I heard of using vodka before just thought I would share it seeing all these winterize the motor threads. Residual vodka some say is preferable to residual antifreeze in drinking water systems.
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    Winterize splinterize, with an outboard why bother ?

    Keep your motor tilted down in the water during freezing temperatures to keep the water pump from icing over. ... Mercury Marine, for example, rates all of its outboards to operate at temperatures as low as zero degrees, just in case you can still find open water when the air is that cold. And a...
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    My Hurricane Mathew rope experiment

    What we are going to do is on my buddies sailboat down the end in the wide slip is put a thin length of rope from the bow to the dock shorter then the heavy ones and see if it breaks. If it does of course the fat ones going to that heavy piling will still be there. 1/4" 3-Strand Nylon 1,490 Lb...
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    What if 2 hurricanes collide ?

    That is what I wanted to find out and The Fujiwhara effect, sometimes referred to as Fujiwara interaction or binary interaction, is when two nearby cyclonic vortices orbit each other and close the distance between the circulations of their corresponding low-pressure areas. The effect is named...
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    The biggest lie on Craigs List boats "fresh water only"

    Hi I live in Clearwater beach Florida and the JetSki / Boat I have had for 15 years is fresh water only .... I live right here but why would I go out in the Gulf of Mexico to fish or cruise around the inland waterway and chill on some white sandy islands when I could go in some crummy lake ...
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    Would my helix anchor design hold in a hurricane ?

    This is the design I just thought of, get a post hole auger bit, create a long extension and drill it WAY down .
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