Recent content by Capt. B

Ken, Curious as to the high pedestal for your helm chair?

Sailfish is now on a trailer but I have yet to purchase a tow vehicle. Gross payload of boat and trailer is 9,600 pounds. Want something used that I can drive from the Midwest to the East coast in the Spring; tow, launch and retrieve about 10 times during the season, then drive back to the...

Is this something a fuel/water separator such as a Racor would eliminate? I had a near sinking this year and the water level on the starboard gunnel got so high that water found its way into my fuel tanks through the breather/overflow outlets. Engines started fine and ran fine as well. When I...

Pardon my ignorance but what is "phase separation"?

Capt. B Brent 87 Sailfish 252G 2x 1999 200 Optimax

Well worth my support. Merry Christmas to all (come on Spring!)

They (Indian River Inlet Marina) actually pulled the boat from the water with a forklift. When they realized the tines would not clear the trailer, they blocked the boat then moved the tines to above the boat and used straps attached to the tines to lift her back up. Then they walked off to...

My Sailfish has the lifting ring on the bow topside and I can now understand why. When I pulled the boat this season had the marina help load the boat on a new trailer for first time. They used lift straps to hold the boat just above the trailer so I could adjust the bunks. With the boat in...

Maybe should have mentioned it is a Load Rite trailer model LR-AB26T8000102TB2

I just purchased a new trailer that had been set-up to carry a 26' Proline. I have a older (Pre Sea V2) Sailfish that I will be trailering. Does anyone have their Sailfish on a trailer and have dimentions of how the bunks should be positioned?

Capt. Ken, How do you deal with the "oversize" issue when trailering? Thanks for the offer; very nice of you. Keeping all options in mind. By the way how do you like the loadmaster trailer? Did you get locally? I'm in the process of researching. Thanks

Considering moving my boat to the mid Chesapeake waters for fall and spring Rockfish then back to the Atlantic for summer offshore. Trying to decide whether to trailer the boat twice a year or cruise up the Delaware Bay, through the C&D then down the Chesapeake. Have not found a marina as yet...

I just had 2 batteries destroyed because the Guest charging system overcherged my batteries. My mechanic states that if even just one cell on the battery is low the charger will keep supplying power and in this case cooked all the electrolytes. They were deep cell batteries (27 series).

I would also remove the batteries and store indoors.

I have a pair of 99' Optimax 200's that are experiencing a fuel starvation problem that is yet to be thoroughly diagnosed. Either engine (usually starboard) will become fuel starved (as evidenced by loss of power and a compressed primer bulb) but the problem is immediately relieved by switching...