Recent content by dogdoc

Season is over for me, strapping down the boat and heading north in a week. Last week of fishing was insane. 3/7 on sailfish, 12 mahi, and a few nice kingfish. Should have done better on sails but had to fish alone a lot. All trolling skirted bally which everyone says does not work this time...

My old Grady has the spring mechanism to keep hatch open. I would like to convert to strut. Not sure how to measure length, any help with that.

Out by myself today. Got 4 nice Mahi and my right thigh. Number three went ballistic when I brought him in an somehow managed to hook me with the second bally hook. He was on one hook and my leg on the other. I had a death grip on his head with my right hand and couldn't cut the hook with my...

When it comes to that problem. Shift lever bumped out of neutral, engines do not start and mild panic ensues. My observation is that "there is them that has and them that will"

Noticed that over the last several trips occasionally the gauge (starboard) set to that screen does not read total fuel flow but only the engine it is connected to. This seems to occur late in the trip and often after drifting or trolling when I power up to cruise. I never shut the engines...

Drifting live baits of Ft Pierce inlet. My rod got smacked hard and fish on, 2 seconds later my buddies rod is hit and fish on. Its the same fish, hooked on both rods. We both fought him for a good 10 minutes, it was chaos, for sure. For some reason he says he gets credit!

Ok ignorance is bliss, but I should have known this all along. The cable that I assumed came from the transom did no such thing.That was the gps source and connects to the back of the Garmin supplying gps data to Zukes gauges. Good learning experience, cleaned up a bunch of sloppy wiring...

Once again you are correct. The cable does not connect at the end of the backbone but connects at one of the tee's. So I suppose it is a "drop". I know where one end of this cable terminates at the backbone which also has the power coming in and where the 2 drops for the gauges are located. I...

"1 engine data" My research showed that Suzuki dual engines can be set up with only one backbone cable running from the transom to the helm. So what I meant was "only 1 engine data cable" not the 2 I would have expected run from the engines to the helm backbone. It is done with the adapter...

just noticed your engine backbone has power and 2 drops to gauges, then power iso and backbone to mfd, auto, sonar am i not seeing something

Focus Skunk, stick to the problem at hand. Hehehe.... Just noticed only 4 cables at the Suzuki backbone. 1 power, 1 for each gauge, and one engine data. Somehow and I would love to know where each engine data cable merges at dual engine hub and a single data cable goes to the helm backbone.

Ok, just bought the new mfd. Made a cardboard template of the 12 in mfd and did a test fit. It fits but just barely and I am it sure would be a pain opening the cabin hatch/door. It is an old boat and the console is full, so has to be a trundle mount. So decided to go down to the 9 in which...

did as those above did, pulled the fridge and use space for storage. did however get a small 12v/120v freezer. it sits where the small table was in the v berth. wired to DC panel. we don't waste bally, chum, squid, etc,,, anymore. just thaw as needed. second best addition after auto pilot.

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currently all engine data comes from smg4 gauges, no info on the raymarine or garmin mfd as neither is connected to the suzuki backbone. as i see it i have 2 network backbones. number one is the suzuki engine backbone which is nmea2000 and the only info input is from the engines. the other is...