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It was my counter roatating engine that failed. I'm currently in the process of tearing the powerhead off. If i can get the powerhead off in one peice i'm thinking i'll get it rebored and install over size pistons. If not i'll be spending the winter searching for another engine or a pair

If i go with a newer 150 2 stroke don't i also have to replace the starboard engine as well?

While offshore on Saturday i blew the port engine. It's 1987 yamaha 150. Cylinder #3 failed looking at the pics below what type of failure was it? No oil or did that cylinder run lean? Now just to find a complete outbaord of that vintage. I broke 2 head bolts and all the bolts that hold the...

the boat has a soft top.

Is this a grady drive bracket? On my 86 offshore with twins i have the grady drive bracket. I removed it last fall to find the foam water logged. I had my bracket media blasted, primered then line-xed. I reinstalled with 5200 and didn't install the foam cause i wanted to make sure no water was...

It;s functional. I got bashed on another boating site for having both engine cowlings and outboard bracket line-xed. I bought the grady to fish and crab. after fishing for 12 hours the last thing i want to do is spend another 3 to 5 hours cleaning and making it shine like new. Now it just gets a...

My other boat is a 86 searay 268 cabin cruiser with a single 350 alpha drive. The boat cruises at 25 mph with a top speed of 32 mph. Just thought the grady would be faster. The boat is quick thou. She hops right up on plane is doing 30 mph so i can'r complain. Max rpm's for the yamahas according...

Doesn't look bad at all. Brings back memories of doing the searay. Now i feel like going and buying a boat to restore NOT....Don't miss the itching...lol

i have a 1986 offshore 24 with twin 1987 150 yamaha 2 strokes. One outdrive is counter rotating. What would u think the top speed is? I cruise at 4K and the gps is showing 30 mph. If i run the engines at max rpm which is just under 5500 i can do 38 to 42 mph. Maybe it's just me thought it would...

Re: High speed water pick up causing either hose or pump to The scoop is facing forward and it's on the bottom of the hull so it always gets water

I'm having a slight issue with the high speed water pump pick up on the bottom of the hull on a 86 offshore 24. When up on plane the livewell starts to fill up with water to the point it starts to splash out when hitting waves or turning hard. If i close the valve in the hose after the pump...

I've heard about bowers beach. We generally make a weekend out of it. We will come down late thursday night and get a slip at indian river marina then leave sunday night. traffic wasn't bad in spring but now that summer is here route 1 going south is a parking lot at times. We currently drift...

Now that we have the 86 offshore ready for fishing we started to get back into saltwater fishing. We currently go to the indian river inlet marina boat launch. Are there closer places? For me with no traffic it's a 4 hour drive one way

I've looked at the expresses but like u said it's not a walk around. The sailfish or marlin is more what were looking for. I have eoh on my trailer as well and i love it. Makes towing less stressfull...lol. When we were at the marina for the week we did see alot of the newer expresses in the mid...

Current cabin cruiser weighs close to 10K and I tow that to Delaware 400 miles round trip truck handles it just fine.

Thanks my tow vehicle is a 2001 crew cab Silverado 3/4 ton with a duramax diesel so towing isn't an issue..lol

Me and the wife are thinking about selling our searay cabin cruiser and getting a walk around with a full v-berth and stand up head. Any suggestions?? I have no probelm with buying a boat from the 80's or 90 era. Must have twin outboards thou with a closed transom and still be trailerable yet...

Yeap trim the motor up some. I had the same problem with my offshore

Got to work on the boat a little today. After pumping the gas balls up i could smell gas. Found the screws holding the pumps together were loose. tighten them all up and unbolted the pumps from the crank case and no fuel was coming out the hole. This winter i'm gonna rebuild all 6 carbs along...

If u already ordered the socket u can also put hose clamps around it to keep it from spreading open. Actually we had pretty good weather while we were down there. i was hoping to get the searay into the ocean for a little but when we saw the breakers and how bigger boats then us were getting...