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Since were getting into offshore fishing now it's time to get some better safety equipment. We currently go offshore with other boats. But wewant to start going offshore by our selves occ. We have 2 boats that go offshore 86 grady offshore and a 86 268 searay. Both boats are equiped with vhf's...

My 86 does the samething. Normal esp since there really isn't any support in that area

I don't know why the pics aren't showing up. I've been looking for a used 150 but they seem rare. finding alot of 175's and 225's thou. I really don't keep track of my oil usage. i just make sure sure the remote tanks are full when heading offshore. Parts are pretty cheap for these older...

I just don't get it.. I c no reason why this engine failed. There was oil under the crank. There was oil in the nozzles and found nothing in the carb to cause a lean condition. None of the rings broke

Re: Twin 225 OX66 Steering Woes, With Photos! 272 Sailfish My offshore uses twin yamaha 150 with seastar steering which is basically like yours except my tie-bar allows either engine to be tilted up.

Got the engine off tonight. Took notice that there still was oil in the oil nozzles. Should'nt the intake side be coated with oil? Still didn't really find a reason for the failure

Seeing how clean the cylinder head is that's what's leaning me to think those cylinders went lean

Last year it was cylinder #3 that got destroyed this year it's cylinders #5 and #6. When the engine was rebuilt the other pistons and rings were checked. Since they checked out within spec they were re-used. They went back into the cylinder they came out of. This time around i'm gonna be...

Looking at the cylinder heads it appears cylinders 6 and 5 ran lean. Gonna order the pistons and gaskets unfortunately the machine shop can't do the block for another 6 to 8 weeks.

i edited my first post. Last year it was cylinder#3 that failed. For some reason google photo isn't playing nicely with image tags. I took the other cylinder head off the other side and found another damaged cylinder. Cylinders #6 and #5 are damaged. All other cylinders look fine.

lets try this again

Last year i blew the port engine. Spent the winter rebuilding it. Last year it was cylinder #3 that had a melt down. Couldn't find anything wrong with the oiling system so it looked like a carbon issue in the one cylinder. So i had cylinder#5 bored out .20". Replaced that piston and all the...

We just spent a week at Indian River Marinia on our searay. While out in the inlet we took notice that the offshore model's seem to be popular in that area. Out of the 100 or so we saw doing the week we only saw 10 that had twin outboards. When we bought our 86 offshore we were told it's highly...

The wife is spoiled by the searay's cabin but she also likes to fish. It's cheaper for us when we go saltwater fishing for us to stay on the boat at a marinia. We currently go to Indian River Marinia in Delaware. Towing the boat there is roughly a 4 hour drive. The marinia charges us 300 bucks...

Looking at selling the our searay cabin cruiser and going to a 28 to 30 foot sailfish. We love our 86 offshore 24 but wish the cabin space was bigger. The searay is 27 foot long is great for long stay aboards but it isn't the greatest fishing boat. Found a couple of mid 80's sailfish's. Is the...

Yes it felt good. I did all the work myself except i sent the block out to be bored and had the other clyinders honed to clean them up.Between the machine work and parts i have around 500 bucks in that engine. Got lucky that the block and crank was still reusable. I work at a chevy dealer so...

Last September i blew the port engine off the coast of Delaware. Spent the winter rebuilding her. Had cylinder #5 bored .020" over. Installed new rings in all the cylinders. Spent the weekend at Indian River Marinia boat worked flawless. Short video of the boat back in action again...

check your pm's. Hopefully it worked

I know the wood core is nice and dry yet.. Last winter i had the engine bracket off to be linex'ed. While i had the bracket off i coated the bolt holes with epoxy to keep it dry...lol

Where would be a good place to mount 2 5 inch underwater lights?