Recent content by busterblue

Re: Cape and Islands Grady club? Is it alive? I fish boat Buzzards Bay , CC Bay, The Vineyard and Cuttyhunk.

drain plug To replace the drain plug I used the opaque white plastic ssold a westmarine. Previously the original plugs had been replaced by a boat yard with the same material. Problem was the threading got destroyed by removing them and replaceing them every trip. My solution was to get 3/4"...

Done (almost) I did not remove my engines or bracket. I used a variety of tools; fillet knife, hack saw blade, various other knives and finally a dremmle tool with a very thin wire wheel and totally cleaned out the // between the bracket and the hull. I actually created a very slight groove...

Best advice, sell the traps and buy some lobster :roll: . the easiest way to protect the boat is to buy some carpet long enough to lay over the gunnel and have it reach the water to protect the hull because you will bang the hull with traps and long enough to run over the gunnel and onto the...

No problem on the hijack, that is a beauty finest, did that bracket actually raise your stern? My back end could certainly use a lift with the twin 4 strokes on the origianl aluminum bracket. what did it cost ? (hope you don't mind me asking)

"MY RESULTS MAY NOT BE TYPICAL" My bottom was horrible. I don't think it had ever been properly prepped. I started to strip it by hand/chemical and there were layers of every color and type of bottom paint sold since 89 on it and several layers of paint that appeared to be other than bottom...

yes

same as on/off but priced for cleaning decking not boats

Wow Finest, that look's sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet. i'm rethinking the mahogany replacement panel

oxalic acid hardware store = wood cleaner

89 sailfish 252 g with twin 175 suk 4strokes on bracket. stripped to gel coat the 2nd year we owned it. found bad repairs that were allowing water penetration. found areas where the gelcoat was gone (cloth not wet out when built and gaps in chines where there was NOTHING behind the gel...

BPM bpm is who I ordered my parts thru; including the new impeller housing :( Being a first timer the first engine went very slowly, reading directions from two sources and developing, stbd, a system. The good news, on inspection it appears that the stbd engine was OK, no wear,etc. we...

tried, got "this page is mot available" very interested in seeing them. Where'd you get them? price? where did you install them? thanks

done one, one to go very easy once you have GOOD directions

truck good point, love my tundra v8