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    Pipe Dream or? (1/2 ton towable aft cabin cruiser)

    Aft cabins come in WAY less than 24-26 feet folks.. Our '87 Searay is one example, it's 21'. We spent 4 vacations and many many weekends in between camping out in this boat...
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    Short Ramp Hang-up

    Yes- the caster probably won't be any easier to get over the edge of the ramp, and you'll likely just snap the new longer bolt off. If this is a common thing and you don't mind drilling a couple of holes in your trailer, make, or have made, some angle iron skids. 4" x 6" x 5/16" thick angle...
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    trim pump issues '95 Mariner 115

    Been working on getting the Party Cruiser going, just put a new SEI lower unit on, fired it up, so far so good-- Except the trim pump- it worked just fine, but the drive would slowly lower, wouldn't stay up. So I pulled the pump assembly off and tore it apart. All looked good except a couple of...
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    Faded Hull Restoration

    I'm bringing this thread back up for a couple of reasons-- First, because I agree with Rentalux's 'glass mechanic. I too believe silicone wax has no business on gelcoat. Or paint for that matter. Wax without silicone, okay. If you can find it... Short version, silicone amplifies the sun's rays...
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    Actual weight by angle, how to calculate?

    I'm no math whiz, for sure... So what I'm asking is essentially this: When pulling a boat up an 8° angled launch ramp, how do you calculate the actual weight the tow vehicle is pulling? I ask because I'm going to attempt to pull our SkipperLiner out this weekend, with our motorhome... The...
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    So I was wondering how much CO my torpedo heater produces--

    Good business is forcing me out into the garage. Out goes the car and a bunch of other stuff to make room for new machines. Since winter is coming I'll be needing some heat until something more permanent can be installed. I have a 10 year old or so Sears 110,000 btu kerosene 'torpedo' heater. It...
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    So, is half the internet dead, or is it just me?

    Seriously, half the place I go online come up "unable to find the server at---" like Stamps.com, the IRV2 forum, another boating forum, my domain host (so I'm not getting email), my ISP server-- Iboats and google ARE working... Paypal is working but without any html, its just text ebay, not...
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    Portable garages

    Decided I want a portable garage for our Chaparral. I can put it up out in the corner of the storage lot at the boat harbor, and use the storage area fence to help anchor the thing. I'm going to need 30' long minimum. Far as I can tell most look to be relatively the same as the next. Most...
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    How can a computer start programs itself?

    I've seen many weird computer things, but this morning was a new one-- My BIL who works in our basement shop, started his computer up as normal this morning. It's an old refurbished Compaq tower, XP, 40 gig drive, 1 gig ram, 2.8g no-frills processor. Used mostly to run Corel, his old engraving...
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    Using Non-Acid Based Coil Cleaner for Cleaning the bottom of fiberglass boat

    Re: Using Non-Acid Based Coil Cleaner for Cleaning the bottom of fiberglass boat Some real world experience-- 50 series aluminum, which is what they make pontoon logs out of, is completely and utterly unaffected by muriatic acid, at least in my experience. Cast aluminum and 60 series aluminum...
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    Is safe?

    Re: Is safe? "safe" depends on whether the logs are compartmentalized as s-crater mentions. It's amazing how much floatation those logs are capable of. The day we re-named the Party Cruiser (must've done it wrong & ticked off the gods) we attempted to trailer it, and unbeknownst to me, the boat...
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    Trim pump quit again, problem found & solved

    At the end of the 2011 season, my trim pump stopped working. I pulled it out, checked it out and fixed it. Last weekend it quit working again! This time I checked it out a little harder ;) ... Boat is a 2003 Chaparral 260 SSi, 8.1Gx Volvo DP-- Pics are from the first fix, but not much...
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    Boat will not run right...

    Re: Boat will not run right... When we first bought our '88 Sun Runner (in 2002) I was having similar issues. And there were several problems I found that contributed. Problem 1 was the bad power valve in the Holley, it was dumping fuel constantly. Replaced with a higher vacuum model, and wow...
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    Acrylic Kitchen Sinks- good or bad?

    We're upgrading our home (also my business, and used to be my parents home) in bits and pieces, usually whenever something else is paid for or we find a screamin' deal on something -like the $1985 MSRP Jenn Air drop in ceramic range top I found in a corner of a clearance room for $268 out the...
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    Made some new emblems for our SkipperLiner

    For some time now I've been going to make some new logo emblems for our SkipperLiner, I finally got around to doing it. Here's one of the old emblems: We repainted the boat quite awhile ago (still have to do the front patio and flybridge!). In my spare time (what's that?) I've been trying...
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    Well, Lake Powell, it was fun while it lasted

    I was hoping this would never happen...
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    Anyone know what this boat is?

    Pardon the crappy picture, I took it from the TV-- this was part of a commercial for an Outdoors/Sportsman expo going on here in town, and this boat being towed was about 3 seconds worth, but it caught my eye, mostly because of the stripes. I rewound and paused it so I could take a couple of...
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    Volvo DP trim fix, what I found/fixed

    Was browsing thru the "MUST HAVE technical info on Volvo's" thread, and found # 12. Troubleshooting SX/DP-S Trim System-- I thought I would post my experience with this in hopes it may help someone out. Last summer my trim just quit working out of the blue. I got it to work a couple of times...
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    FYI: the "state towing laws" link----

    <edit> Sorry, just noticed after posting that someone beat me to it!
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    Utah Boat show--

    Went to the boat show yesterday, and man, what a zoo! Which is a GOOD thing, nice to see the place packed! We go every year, and I always like to take a lot of pictures. Lots of nice product, but I'm sure glad I'm already stocked up, because about the newest thing I found at the show was higher...
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