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    Offshore 24 Canvas

    You sure you want the bars inside, I found that on my older 22 the bars were great to hold onto when going forward, putting them inside only gives you the bow rail, which is sort of out of the way to hold onto if its rough out. Plus, your safer grabbing something more centerline in the boat...
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    Baitwell & S/W Wash Winterization

    You can buy a scution cup like reverse funnel that will create a tight seal from the sea cock below the boat, and put the tube end into a bottle of marine/rv anti freeze, and run the pumps until it comes out the other end. I know plenty of guys who do this. I've never done it before, I run the...
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    Canyon roll call for tues

    180-205gal, have not exceeded that and I've run the Tom's and back from the highlands. I burn roughly 16-17gph at 28mph cruise, sometimes I'll run 30-35 if the seas are flat and burn more fuel, but tend to burn about 75-80gal each way to the canyon. Trolling I burn about 4-4.5gal/hr, and...
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    Offshore 24 Canvas

    A canvas guy needs pictures to do his job? Seems funny to me, they should know what to do if they do this regularly unless your having something custom done. Should be very basic design for them, clear plastic from the bimini down on 3 sides, and clear to the bottom of the aft side window up...
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    What’s in your on board tool box?

    My boat has an extensive list of spare parts and tools, I have a crasftmen full mechanics tool set with everything you can imagine, you need both metric and strandard tool sizes, this is a must, most boats a strandard, and engines have metric or both. I have multi meter, a spool of 50 ft of...
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    Canyon 283?

    It was released that all CC's over 28ft would be named the canyon, it is there new series of center consoles that they hope to market in an effort to target offshore fishermen to compete with other brands. The 33 and 36 are awesome designs, if Grady sticks with this throughout the lineup, they...
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    I had to use a sledge hammer on my Marlin today!

    My line used to do that a lot, used to get a twist as it came up and would grab a wrap of line, I solved that by soaking my line in clothes detergent, made the line softer and allowed it to lay neatly and untangled in the well. As it sits during the season it will firm up again and tend to do...
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    MOLD

    In the cabin add a moisture absorber, there are many that are cheap and work well, that will take care of the cabin, if your down for the day and not out, open the doors and vent windows or the overhead port to allow air in as well. As for the HT, I use bleach each spring, this seems to kill...
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    This is why you always need BEER on the Boat

    Why was the fish put on deck, wahoo and king fishermen know they go right in the box, anything with teeth like that is not coming in my boat. Surely cannot make that story up, not even after lots of beer, thank god there was beer on that boat though haha otherwise things might have turned out...
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    2002 Gulfstream Reserve Tank

    Leaving it 100% empty should be fine, but that means 100%, 95 or 97% will result in a break down and water formation in that remaining fuel and will give you issues whenever you do refuel. Your best bet is to fill the tank with maybe 20-30 gal each fill up, and treat it, then burn it off right...
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    265 Owners

    As far as HPDI's, they are one of the most reliable engines Yamaha has ever built in the 150-200hp range, larger hp had issues due to a different block design. Range will be better then 4 strokes, and cruise speed will be faster, overall operation cost of 4 stroke vs hpdi will be the same when...
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    Jet Drive?

    Really...a fishing boat with a jet drive, bad idea. Hard to manuveur and go in reverse usually. Jet drives are great for getting into shallow water, and are very efficient since there is no drag from running gear, but also require some different hull designs to get proper flow to the impeller...
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    Hull Deck Joint adhesive

    use WeldOn, a lot of high quality builders use it, your hull or deck will break before the adhesive seperates, it is one of the stronges products out there for the job. http://www.ipscorp.com/structural
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    GPS/Chartplotter under $500 any advice?VHF radio what model?

    As far as vhf, only go with an ICOM, they are hands down the most reliable out there, they do cost more, but they are louder, clearer and crisper to hear, and from my experience last longer. Oh, and the pros use them which typically says a lot, they do have some cheaper models for about...
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    Boat Graphics Removal

    Use a hair dryer or heat gun, have a sharp razer blade handy as well, sometimes helps to get it going easier. After it is removed, clean the glue off if present with any house hold cleaner. I recommend then using collinite 920 hull cleaner to blend the hull color back, bad part is you will...
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    Bay area albacore....

    Very nice catch!! Those tuna will be mighty tasty, albacore, or as we call them on the east coast, lonfin are my favorite to eat!! Only 45lb of ice for all those fish? I typically take out about 200lbs of ice for a day trip and 350lb for an overnighter, gotta have 1/2lb of ice min per lb of...
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    9/15/09 NJ bluefin report

    That fleet was nothing, that was after the fleet left....75% of those boats in the background are my friends we called in to the bite!!! Earlier in the day the second spot we moved to was with a fleet of maybe 50-60 boats, amazing to see that many boats out on a Tues, if it were a weekend I...
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    Getting back to winter storage

    Have had e-10 for 5 years now in my marina, leave my tanks full and put in startron, and have 0 problems, only problems I've seen in my marina are with guys who leave tanks 1/2 or less full, the more air the wuicker the e10 can break down in the fuel and form water, air can hold water molicules...
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    Negotiating Price or Amenities with Marina

    Before you do this make sure you have another option, you need a backup amrina to go to, depending on the manager of the marina they might think it is an insult and it could backfire and they could ask you to leave or give you slip away, most will not care, some will say no others will be...
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    Eisenglass curtains and winter

    Absolutely take it off for winter storage if you have shrink wrap, shrink wrap is the WORST, it gets really hot each day then gets really cold at night so your plastic canvas goes from one extreme to the other very fast, not what it was intended to do. you can leave it on but it will...