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  1. Kiggsia

    Looking for reefs with Raymarine Element

    I live in Toledo Ohio where there are several reefs nearby, east of Toledo, near Port Clinton, dubbed the walleye capital of the world. I am new at using my Raymarine Element fishfinder and haven't needed to learn about navigation charts since I fish near shore in familiar places. My Element has...
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    Laceyville on a fishfinder?

    Has anyone ever been on a boat on Lake Tappan in Ohio and seen the sunken village of Laceyville on their fishfinder? I am wanting to find it with my Raymarine Element but would need to know just where it is, if there are still buildings intact enough to be visible since it's being underwater...
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    Distorted Fish Shape On Fishfinder?

    I am wondering if the fish in the lower left section of the left part of my Raymarine Element 7HV is a fish that is actually wiggling like a long and relatively slender fish would do, or if this is a distortion of his body as the clay bottom of this creek mouth is apparently distorted by some...
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    Oil Injection Kit?

    I have a 1998 Johnson 30 Horse 2 cycle that doesn't use oil injection. Is it possible to buy an oil injection kit to use with the motor?
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    Interpreting Hypervision Sonar Images

    I am using my new fishfinder a lot looking at bottom structure on the western end of Lake Erie and Green Island. Might anyone know what the ragged bottom contour near Maumee Bay State Park is in the first attachment? And in the more ornate images just off Green Island northeast point, are these...
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    Testing Carb Emulsion Tube for Leakout

    The carb of my 1998 30 horse Johnson BJ30BAECS is leaking fuel from the air intake area. A repair manual says that the emulsion tube could leak and tells almost everything I need to know to test it, but not enough. As seen in attachment here of the text about the leak issue, a syringe is to be...
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    What's A Drain Wire?

    I installed a Raymarine Element fishfinder last week. The power cable, in addition to the red & black battery wires, has a gray wire called a drain wire intended to be hooked up to a common RF ground point. Would this be the metal chassis of my stereo radio/cassette player which is insulated...
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    Would Like Accurate Diagrams For My 30 Horse Johnson

    It is a 1998 BJ30BAECS Serial No. G 04519320. Last Autumn I did a head gasket job on it due to only 90 lbs. compression in each of the 2 cylinders even with oil squirted into them. Cylinders and pistons were not scored. I didn't make as many notes as I should have because I had bought a big...
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    I'm Needing To Vent

    Until my two 6 gallon outboard gas tanks are getting low on fuel, gas sloshes up into the small tank vent thumbscrew, and runs out a bit along the top of the tanks, and the smell in the gas tank compartment leaks out into the boat and is sickening. Even the regular vented fumes are strong enough...
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    Sealing Seam Below Waterline

    I have a 15 foot aluminum boat with leaking keel seams under the bow shelf, below the waterline. What would be the best sealant to use to seal these seams and around the keel mounting nuts, from inside the hull of the boat, per photos? The keel itself makes the seams inaccessible from outside...
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    Compound Rib Fracture

    One of the ribs in my 15 foot aluminum boat is broken in two places. After I replace the loose rivets there, I need to repair the crack. Might JB weld, perhaps in several layers, work, or must I take it to a shop to have it welded?
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    Leaky Keel

    My 1957 15 foot Crestliner Voyager has a leak at the joint where the keel meets the bend of the bow, as shown in attached picture. I want to caulk the part of the keel from inside the boat, trying to reach it under the riveted platform under the bow. What type of caulk should I use? But I hope I...
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    Lucky Clutch

    I did a lower unit reseal job on my 1998 non electric shift 30 Horse Johnson. Watched an excellent youtube video showing how to do it. The gentleman doing the job on the video had told how to refit the detent ball bearings and their tension spring under the dog clutch, when the clutch slides...
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    Can't upload photos anymore

    A few years ago I was able to upload photos to my posts and to the photo library. When I follow the prompts to try to do these things today, the end result is an "error uploading image" error message. What might be wrong?
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    Need Illumination About Boat LED Spotlight Issue

    I do a lot of nightfishing on Maumee Bay in Toledo Ohio and up the Maumee River. A lot of sunken logs to be ever on the alert for there. I bought a 27Watt 12 volt LED Headlight advertised as a 8 degree pencil beam spotlight. It is so bright you can't look at it without eyestrain. But it makes an...
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    Tired of Repainting Props and Skegs!

    Rather than having to keep repainting props and skegs, when the paint gets galled off over time, I removed the paint from them and now all I'd need to do is brighten them up when needed with the acid you use to brighten up aluminum like on screen doors, Airstream brand bare aluminum camping...
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    Steel Tank Fuel Guages

    Does anyone know who may still sell those mechanical fuel guages for the old 6 gallon OMC steel fuel tanks? Some were round and a part of the vented fuel cap, with a cork float that slid up and down between rods, and operated a dial like a car gas guage. Others were a rectangular flange that was...
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    Rounded Corner Seats Edge Molding

    Can one obtain some sort of flexible aluminum edge molding for 3/4" thick boat seats with rounded edges?:confused:
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    Poor Luck Buying and Selling Boat

    Last summer I bought a 16 foot Lund with 40 horse Evinrude and trailer for $2600, couldn't get the guy down any lower. This ("red") boat didn't meet my needs, so I bought back my favorite boat ("blue boat") I had sold 2 years ago, due to upkeep expense, and will grin and bear the expense, the...
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    To Run My Minn Kota?

    :confused:I Have a used Minn Kota Mag 36W bow mount electric trolling motor that came on a boat I bought. Can't quite figure out how to operate it especially the steering. I believe the 2 cables along the power cord to the unit are seized, as well as that shaft turned by the teardrop shaped...
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