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Go for the simple things first, check your fuel water seperator on the engines, change your inline fuel filters then check all of your fuel lines for any sign of leakage. Check your battery connections. After that if it still happens and assuming that the engine(s) are new enough to have...

I fresh water rince every time the engine is exposed to salt water. I wash with soap almost every time I go out for any length of time. That said I am near a coal fired power plant.

My guess is that the person that serviced your engine did not have or did not use the special tool that is designed to capture oil from the removal of the filter. If you remove the filter without it oil spills into the engine casing and drains down your lower unit housings and find an exit...

I would absolutely hate to be the one that experiences this statistical reality but it happens in all mechanical equipment. That is, that it is a simple statistical reality that a very small percentage of engines will fail prematurely regardless of how well you treat or service them. To make...

Very sorry that you are starting the season off this way. When I think about the problem and the lack of any sign of water in your oil it points to the interface between the block and the head. Be it a warped head, bad gasket or screwed up block. No water in the oil could mean that cooling...

Blue Angle, If the service work had no impact on the running temp than I would be willing to bet you wrapped a plastic bag around your lower unit. When you came to a stop and raised the engine it fell off. I wrapped one up on my last boat and went out on over temp. I saw it (an ice...

Heard the same thing today, albeit from a not so reliable source.

Congratulations on the new 275. WOW!!!! The boat looks fantastic and the radar arch is perfect, I would have never thought it would be such a great fit astatically. The cockpit canvas is also fantastic. I wish that I had seen your photos sooner as I was waffling between having a cover like...

The issue you are fighting against is the expansion of water when it freezes. When it freezes solid be it for a minute, hour or week once frozen solid you will have damage. If you leave a bowl of water on your porch will it freeze solid in your current weather situation? If so you have...

I could not find anyone that was making covers for my 275, production or custom. I called GW customer service and they gave me the number for the company that makes their canvas, they were willing to make whatever I wanted but they needed a boat to pattern off of. They were also a lot more...

On by hand off by hand. One screw up with dirt on the buffer and you will wish you did it by hand. I have used 3M marine paste wax for years and have been very happy with the results. Goes on easy comes off easy and I use the 3M on the window rubber and the rub rail it protects and does not...

Not sure that this applies but it’s worth a look. Grady has a practice of jumping the grounds from one battery to the other and then to the ground verses both to ground. Last year I wound up looping the battery two ground back to itself by accident. The result was that battery two would...

In my eyes the point of having extra horsepower is to have it when you need it most, it is not WOT. This means for example when you have four people, a full tank of gas and the weather kicks up crappy, you can get home safely. The point is to have the ability mussel up and down a building...

If you are referring to the new 250 & 300 four stroke designs, last I was told by my dealer (at the Boston show in Feb) they are not available and probably will not be until late spring early summer.

My guess is that the cockpit area will be equal to or a little more than the 225. The increase in wetted hull in the water will make a big difference in ride. There is also a big segment of the customer base (me included) that wants a transom door and not a bracket. My guess is that this...

Doc Stressor, I as well respectfully disagree with you, however, I do so on a substantive basis. Tempting as it is I will pass on your comment regarding “political nonsense”. You wrote “They were not asked to make recommendations about shutting down fisheries. Their job was to make...

Megabytes, The fire sales were with GW & Yamaha support.

The word that I heard is that GW sold in the range of 80 DC's last year. The market is good enough that Pursuit is reintroducing a 26' DC in May. In my eyes 26' is a perfect sized DC boat, question is will it have a perfect sized price tag. I would guess that a negotiated boat well...

Wow, those parts should last a lifetime I would think. Sounds to me like you have more going on than simple corrosion, perhaps some type of electrolysis. Are your scuppers partially under water when the boat is in? What kind of shape are your zincs in? If your zincs are gone brass is next in...

I am no expert but I have owned boats for years and do all of my own work. Your question is loaded. Do you boat in sandy or muddy areas and beach a lot, have you hit anything or wrapped mono or worse braid around you prop shaft? If these are the case then you need to keep a closer eye on it...