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Launched Thursday. Friday opening day of seabass. Sucked. One keeper 4 tiny ones. Where are they ? I did, however, have my best blackfishing day in years although they’re out of season. Five between 15 and18”. And got to try out my new toy….. Kraken . Absolutely a game changer. I...

Nice catch. Don't blame the circle hooks. They work much better than J hooks when freespooling live bunker. Dont set the hook, just let it run a few seconds and then reel. I have best success hooking bunker in nose, not the back. In the back they get plucked off.

another season, another trouble. So, last year I ended up with a Racor filter&bowl on one side and Sierra filter&bowl on the other side. This year I bought two Racor filters. The Sierra Bowl really just doesn't work right on the Racor filter. The O-ring is different. I put one racor filter on...

I have a center rigger that clamps to the rod rack on the hardtop. The telescoping pole is removable from the mount. Slightly off center due to a rodholder in center. Don't remember where I got it. Halyard is 400# mono thru a glass ring (old school) bungee'd to the crossmember of the hardtop...

There is no f'ing way you are replacing them in the water. Prepare for pain.... Sorry...been there... https://www.greatgrady.com/threads/deck-drain-scupper-surprise.28979/

OK understand what you have now. The DC stepdown makes sense. Not so sure that paralleling the TM bank ( the 12v you get from the stepdown) with the 2-12v AGMs is a good idea. You have a charger connected to house and the motors are charging. Too much to consider. I'm assuming you have...

Are you saying you have one 36V/60Ah battery or you have three 12vdc batteries in series to power your TM.? If you have three 12v batteries powering your TM then you can, in some ways, rig it to also use them in parallel as 12v house. One upside to using three 12v is simplifying using them as...

Which zuke motor and gauges do you have? SMG4 gauge? You are reading the fuel tank level on the zuke digital gauge? But don't have fuel burn?

none of these boats sit level.

Make sure the zuke is set to american vs euro gauge. Swing arm fuel senders are not accurate. Hall effect senders are better but they are divided into 8 levels. Thats the BEST they can do. Your tank have a v bottom then the bottom 1/8ths hold less than the top 1/8ths. Then there is the...

You could plug the bad one from the outside until you can fix it. Wood bung or a nerf plug... Those hoses with the wire in them are terrible. Guessing it looks like this .

Blue is not ground. It is never ground. It is lighting. There it is backlighting the switches. it may have been fed from the key originally. That lights them whenever the key is on. Its better to feed the backlights from the NAV/ANchor switch, so they are backlit only when you have...

That looks bad. Not just looks....Needs to be fixed Look at the inside....inside anchor locker? My guess is it is compromised on the inside. There should be a block of wood glassed inside. The U bolt goes thru it. there is usually a bracket on the U bolt with a hole to attach anchor rode.

Dark blue would normally be cockpit lights. gray would be the NAV (red/green) bow light

Are you saying you are reaching thru a 6" piehole? Not familiar with the 282 layout but if possible, unscrew and remove a deck panel. That will let you in there with a shoulder or two. Later, put in a larger deck hatch so you can get a shoulder or two elbows in there. Those pie holes are...

In a single motor configuration, it would charge the "2" battery while the switch is on "1". You would not have to use the switch to alternate batteries to keep both charged. Everyone with a single should use this.... In a "factory" twin setup, there are two battery banks and two switches...

plb is fine

My crew struggles with the forward hatch. Constantly pushing it to far and popping out the rubber stoppers. The braces come out of the track. It is a nightmare to get both of them back in. I added some screws behind the rubber stoppers. Should have used a bigger drillbit, but it still works.

OK, so after many different tests of mounting, over pulpit, then under, then under with a wedge, then maybe remove pulpit, I finally just kept it simple stupid and went over the top. To clarify things; Normal mounting has you angle the motor toward the gunnel. On a CC that keeps it out of...