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i have called sea dek and ordered a sample. never seen it in real life and not at all clear on the texture of this stuff. i see it is used as flooring yet it as a foam. durability and stain resistance would be concerns.

i have used the basic wise ladderback for my 190 and 223. comfortable, decent quality and much nicer in my opinion than the factory rotomolds. they have held up and cushions are close to grady white. it was a few years now but they were under $150 each new (on sale) if you purchased the seat...

so, i wish my motor had an aux charging output. just looking at the yamaha system online. seems to vary a little between motors but a very good idea. it gives you your battery isolation for free. you just need to size the wire to handle the max potential charge. if you can use 10 gauge...

nice thread. this is on my list in spring. i am going to use screw jacks to support the header over my garage door. i need to source those angled pvc side pieces from grady.

this is an excellent point. you need to map your current system and understand it. i assume the engine electrical system is completely and permanently separate from the house battery electrical system and everything in the boat sees one or the other. if you have the option of letting the...

i like that thing.

this is an example of what i mean. a 2 amp trickle charger like your deltran only it runs on dc and only needs 2.7 amps (plus the voltage drop). it gives gives complete isolation and is fairly simple to rig. you could comfortably use 10 gauge wire (or maybe even 12 gauge) to wire it 20 feet...

assuming you have shore power also and do not draw down heavily on the house battery, a simple remote charging solution is a dc-dc battery tender installed as an accessory and switched off your ignition circuit. it will use fairly normal size wires to give the house battery a trickle charge...

it started with the fact that the best price i can find on replacements are 2" thick and 6" wide while the originals are 5" wide and about an inch thick at most and i was thinking this would make the new ones in the way and contemplating asking for narrower and less foam and that led me to the...

i have pretty good slots worn in their right now unfortunately. they look like bullet holes. that raises another question though, don't they use hdpe for the trim pieces on the newer boats instead of the fake wood stuff i have? i was thinking of replacing that also. is that stuff pvc?

has anyone deleted the side bolster cushions and found a nice way to cover up the mounting holes on the inside combing? i can obviously fill them and repaint or gelcoat, but that is a big area to paint and match so i am wondering if a strip of hdpe or something else might look good? i am just...

got it. i think i prefer a belt and suspender approach given the downside. my asvs are accessible from the inspection hatch if they get stuck. if yours is not you could maybe get an inline one and position it right under the hatch for each access.

just curious as to why you would delete it?

i agree with trapper. i'd go with a 15p. for my 190 with a 120hp a 17p works to 5500 rpm and makes the boat faster, but the 15p it came with gets me right to the max wot 6000 rpm and means the engine jumps on plane and is never straining regardless of load or conditions. the engine is 33...

my personal belief is shock treatment is pretty much ineffective once you are carboned up. i did it years ago on a truck that had higher compression than factory when i bought it. an unbelievable amount of soot came out the exhaust after the first overnight soak. i used mopar decarbonizer and...

for that money, i would go find a newer much cheaper 225 with the hull in nice shape but with a dodgy motor and maybe even no trailer, re-engine it with a new motor, then transfer as much as i could from my old boat. then you sell the old boat and the two bad motors very cheap. but if i am...

a bracket hull is still seaworthy and is much slower to drain water than an 80s era notched transom with the wide notch and the wide open splashwell and low transom. even a modern notched transom will drain more slowly. i think if you end up with the same drainage capacity of a more modern...

i am not a chemist, but i worked directly with one who works in a refinery. what i stated is what i was told in the context of being told not to waste money on bottles of techron or anything else. they all add something else, including things very similar to naptha, but the vast majority of...

thanks, i had not read carefully that he was getting those voltages when engine running. either bad connection or bad charging system or maybe one of the batteries has a bad cell. he could try isolating the batteries and starting on one battery at a time and see if it starts and charges on one...

what he said