Recent content by Pez Vela

As we say when relieving ourselves, "It's deep too!"

If your .jpg files are on a Mac, open them in Preview and use the dropdown menu: Tools/Adjust size, and select Custom: 1280 x 1024 or smaller. If your boat wasn't designed for a bracket, I'd stay away from that option. They're terrible for fishing and dunk your motor when coming off plane. Did...

Depends, maybe 2004 if you got the right one.

I can only report my experience and can't argue the electromechanical explanation. I am reading from a sender attached to an EP-65R connected to my NMEA2000 network.

I have found that cleaning the fuel sender's ground contact miraculously adds many gallons to the readout on my fuel gauge.

$50,000, stating the obvious perhaps, but really, don't you think you get what you pay for?

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I plumbed my 40 gallon Pacific Edge tank as you describe, although it's on a Sailfish, so I can't give you specifics on your routing. For me, getting the weight as far forward as possible was a must, as well as walk around access. I routed both the fill and discharge lines through the deck...

Re: High speed water pick up causing either hose or pump to Indeed. You mean your deck is getting wet? Perhaps (a) closing the valve partially would slow down the flow rate or (b) pulling the drain plug could prevent overflow, or (c) eliminating the hard charging driving mode would keep...

For its convenience, I use the white finish gelcoat sold at Westmarine, along with the tints which are included in the Evercoat Gelcoat Repair kit. No two boats are going to be the same due to the aging process, and different areas of the boat will differ due to their exposure. I have found that...

Thank you. That's a home made hardtop for my tower (which you can't see in the pic). The light and dome are the least of my worries. The tower goes 14' 6" or so and and tops out well above the light. I hate it when I get wherever I'm going and there's berries and leaves and twigs and bird's...

No two situations are identical, but for my trailering with a tower this has worked out swell.

So, ask the owner to email pictures to you of all those accessible areas which are of concern. Perhaps he can Facetime you for a live chat and video tour. Popping off an inspection plate or two should be easy enough. There's no telling what previous owners may have done to the boat, so an...

I would take a minimalist approach to the bulkhead repair and just use the boat until one or both of the fuel tanks begin to leak. If they're 25 years old, that should be any day now. That's the time to do your carpentry, when the old tanks are taken out of their compartments for replacement.