Recent content by Triton2300

Have a local marine surveyor check it out for you. He may find stuff that will save you a ton of money down the road. I want to guess a surveyor May charge in the neighborhood of twenty bucks a foot.

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Had my bottom soda blasted this winter. 23 Triton 2002 had twenty plus hard coats. Stripped the bottom, applied barrier coat then one coat of hard coat. Bottom is smooth. Looks new. It it needs any bottom paint I will apply ablative bottom paint. Boat is dry stacked now. First run was last week...

If you take a straight edge off the bottom of the keel (the lowest point in the back of the boat) and run it back past the lower unit, it should be even with the anti cavitation plate. If you are running on a plane you should be able to look over the back and see the anti cavitation plate even...

When I bought the Triton in 2019 it had an OX66 225 yam with 560 hours. The owner had a stack of maintenance receipts that would make you feel pretty confident. During the sea trial we opened her up and the best she would do is 5200 RPM. 14 1/2 by 15 pitch stainless wheel. I knew the engine was...

Exactly. White smoke.

Two summers. First season in a slip, second in dry stack

2019 DF300. Runs great. Quiet. Fly by wire is so smooth! Make sure they mount those engines at the correct height. You should be turning between 6000 and 6300 trimmed up. I boat in Delaware and at 140 hours, my zinc anodes needed changing. Towboat guys down here saying they are getting 4000...

I run my 300 Zuke on average between 4500 to 5000. Redline is 6300 at full trim. What will kill an engine is excessive idling. I plan to decarbon this spring with a Sea foam shock. Dump a can of sea foam in with a gallon of gas, add oil if 2 cycle. start the engine and let it idle for 10...

Read some posts from the internet and the knowledge here looks to have depth. Been boating for awhile starting with an 8 foot mahogany pram with a 1964 3 horse Johnson. Owned a number of Whalers, Glaspars, Hydrostreams, Formula, and currently a 23 walk saltwater Triton with a 300 Suzuki.No...