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To add onto what Seasick said... another common cause for corrosion in this area is when water is allowed to sit on the aluminum. Or, more specifically, when aluminum does not have contact with the air. When Al has good oxygen, it will self protect itself. So, the solution, as noted above, is...

I was talking generalities regarding the hull steer phenomenon I was referring to that you quoted. I wasn't referring to any specific boat. Just talking about the hull steer list that happens to pretty much all of them in case that's what you were experiencing

At 2 decades old, it's very much a moot point whether or not it came from the fatory like that. The next step, now, is to physically ID where the hoses go. We can guess all we want - but since the boat has been in the hands of who-knows-how-many- previous owners, all bets are off. All that...

From my experience, it always seems to be to port. I'm guessing it has something to do with prop spin/weight distribution/wind/current as I don't think there's something inherent about the hull, itself, that determines which way it goes. But it has always seemed to be to port for me, anyways.

Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification. Something to think about... if you're referring to the list to port primarily when the engines or down (or mostly down), that's quite normal for nearly all planing-style hulls. There's too much hull in the water causing too much drag and that's exactly...

It's going to depend on the boat and the engines and distance they are apart from each other. So every boat is going to be a bit different. Trimming up pushes the stern down... which causes the bow to raise. However, it will cause the opposite side of the bow to raise. Meaning, stbd stern...

Use your tabs - they're a great tool. Kinda silly to leave them in the toolbox

No, you're good - way to old to have this fantastic EPA thing....

Yup, they are probably better than you are assuming they are. What you need to determine is what you currently have and, well, more importantly, what you WANT. Essentially, you have various thicknesses of vinyl (and slightly different versions of it based on brand) and then polycorbonate or...

Good - get that thing out of the mix. Although often times overfilling leads to clogging it, it shouldn't have been there to begin with. EPA oversight.

What is the weight difference between your current engine and your anticipated new engine? What is the Max HP on the CG capacity plate (or look in your manual... it might be there in the specs section)?

Make a quick box out of cardboard to simulate the size of the battery or batteries you're thinking about. Easy peasy lemon squeezy to just go play around and see what you like. It really doesn't matter where anyone else, or the factory, put it -- put it where YOU want to.

Yup - and it was really a band-aid to begin with - trying to cover up an unsealed gap. I can't believe they let that go on for so long.

Hmmm, yeah, that's just not making sense - that when you STOP the flow, it spurts out. So... thinking through this... when fuel is flowing maybe it is overcoming a slight pressure in the tank... but when you slow the flow, the pressure in the tank overcomes the flow rate and it burps back out...

Do you mean the "bang cap" - the piece that covers the top edge of the transom where the engines sit? It's just a piece of L-channel - you can source that anywhere. Your local dealer probably has the vinyl ones in stock, though - it's a common thing to replace. Well, to replace the...

Hmmm. This isn't making sense. If I'm reading your post right, you are saying that, for example... if you have a nearly empty tank, and you pump 2 gallons into it and then release the lever that fuel will spurt out at you?

Read my post.

The brown color looks alot more like wet wood color, to me. If there's wood in those holes (did you look inside or even just look up underneath?) - then that explains it - simple enough, water gets behind the bolsters and wicks in.

Morganzer... yes, if your calculations show that 6g is fine for the rount trip (+ & -) then although it "feels" weird to then connect to 12g, it's fine. The windlass can use 12g because it's "round trip" from where IT get's it's power is only a few feet. It doesn't care how far away the...

Nice to meet a small percentage of the population! :) Interestlingly enough... your Merc 4-stroke is about the same weight as an older Yamaha 2-stroke. It's kind of amaazing that Merc can get their 4-strokes so light and still have something amazingly reliable.