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I'm suprised you didn't find the other thread going on batteries and eastern winters. It's here: http://www.greatgrady.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11597 The OP (original poster) was asking about battery care of batteries removed for storage. My suggestion was a trickle charger like a...

As promised, a couple'a pics with them installed. They really work slick. I dunno, I'll bet they quit installing them for three reasons... cost on the smaller windows its a little redundant I bet they leak I have not tested them for water-tightness although it's evident they're not. For...

Looks like it blew the caps-lock out on his keyboard too... Duplicate thread in TIPS, MODS,.... as well.

This is the life of an old-boat owner. Try a 50-100 year old wooden boat for headaches. :wink: I had a fifty (it was 35 back then) and my brotherinlaw had one that was a hundred. Wooden boats. You work on them, and you work on them. It becomes a lifestyle. It's heartbreaking as well to...

Welcome to the forum! Sometimes they are called radar arches as well, and they do work and look great. Onoeric has one on his 208 here. Unless you can find a fabricator locally that makes tuna towers for boats, which is not likely in MI, you'll need to have one shipped in. For a radar...

Welcome to the forum. And thank you for your service to this country. The 22' is going to be max-sized to tow with a mini-truck. I wouldn't do it, but you can most likely get away with it for awhile, there are a lot of guys pulling max loads with their light trucks. My preferrence is for a...

And it won't. If the rest of the hull has faded it will require wet-sanding with 1000-1200 grit and buff/polish.

This is a myth, debunked many times over. Here is a segment explaining it from the link below: 14.1. MYTH: Storing batteries on a concrete floor will discharge them. False! All lead-acid batteries will naturally self-discharge which can result in loss of capacity from sulfation. The rate of...

If you get a trickle charger like a BATTERY-TENDER, with a half to 1A rate you won't have gassing, probably fine in a basement. They have multi-bank chargers too. http://www.batterytender.com

Hmmm...less use, more time gas is sitting in the tank, more likely to get stale and collect water. I personally don't buy into the condensation deal on half or fully empty tanks, but I have read about the logic for it and against it. Yes, it's easier to prime your fuel line if you pre-fill...

Do a search on tabs, there has been quite a bit of discussion lately, several threads. Running into 2-3 footers and larger, nothing much is going to help more than just slowing down. Frankly I think the permatrim works better for just slogging it out at 12-15 knots as it keeps the bow down...

That's funny you would say that. I didn't want to muddy the waters, but was figuring the same thing. If my filter on my duramax is good for 20-25K miles, that's 12-1500 gallons of fuel. And it is way more picky than my outboard. It has a water bleed-off valve too but no bowl. So I figure the...

I had been trying to find the link to the Racors and here it was in my favorites at the office. This is for the 10 micron filters with the clear bowl and and water bleeder. And it's the one that fits the yamaha filter mount. For $35 how can you beat it? I put one on a couple of months ago so...

Thanks guys. It's a fun project. One always wonders when you start cutting and stitching into your precious canvas pieces whether you're going to ruin them or not. :roll: Below is a pic of KingJ's and my boat rafted up last year on one of our lobster trips. Twin 208's, Jim's is on the...

Got all my supplies from Sailrite. As I mentioned they offer a how-to streaming video for $5. The secret is the basting tape as everything is laid out and stuck on before you even start sewing. It's almost like cheating it's so easy. However this first zipper took me about 3 hours from setup to...

I have a bronze thru-hull with a seacock, and a Shurflo 800gpm baitsentry pump. I installed two hose bibs in the cockpit for the baitwell and a washdown pump. The pickup/pump is just thwartship from the bilge pump. I think there were already wires to the switch panel. Here's a pic with the tabs...

Welcome to the forum! The adjust screw on the seats tightens a band around the post so they don't turn. I recommend you take the seats off the post and clean and grease them. Then you can cinch them down so they don't wobble, but will still turn smoothly with some pressure. The other...

No, was thinking of something that would sit in the foot well and warm up the whole cabin and cockpit with the canvas enclosure while we're lobster hooping. Plenty of ventilation, but I would want a way to tie the thing down so it didn't go flying from a wake or something. Some of them have a...

I'm surprised to hear you run bow-high. Do you have a photo compare to my sig-pic? I only run one tab down to correct for prop torque, and trim the motor all the way out for high speed running. If there's a chop, I may trim it down a bit, but if you bow-down too much then she's pushing the bow...

We don't get that cold of weather here, but I grew up in the northwest and all those thousands of boats have canvas up all year 'round, even when it snows and freezes. So my opinion would be no problem, let 'em be. When that glass gets cold they can be a real bugger to get stretched and...