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Owls work if you move them every night. Hard to do that of course.

Yeah, there is no way to know for sure. Maybe somebody reved the motor out of the water during a flush. But it looks like the motor was babied during break-in, which is not a good thing. Maybe the rings never got seated. If I had the motor, I would pull the plugs and do a compression test. Is...

The system won't log a time at rpm range unless the engine was run for at least 0.1 hr. The 5429 rpm at 3.8 hr was likely just a full-throttle burst for a minute or so. It would take 6 minutes (0.1 hr) at over 5000 rpm to register on the data logger.

Your record shows that the engine turned 5429 rpm at 3.8 hr during the break-in period. That was on the boat, not with a test prop. So something must have happened since then to screw up your performance. You indicated that the seller performed the 20 hr service just before shipping the boat...

Yep. At this point, a dropped cylinder is becoming more likely. BTW, isn't the engine under warranty? Why not let an authorized Yamaha mechanic take a look at it?

You definitely have a problem. Your engine should be able to turn at least 5500 rpm with that prop and get you a least 40 mph with that prop. GW performance data tends to be a bit optimistic, but here is what they got with your setup minus the hardtop and bow pulpit: 208 Performance Data A...

The 2 species called bonito are easy to tell apart. Skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) aka oceanic bonito have stripes that are parallel to the lateral line. Atlantic bonito (Sarda sarda) have stripes that run off at an angle. The fish in the picture is an Atlantic bonito.

I ran a 17' Silver Streak in your area from February through July back in 1998. It was a similar performing boat to the 192 although the 1992s I've been in on the Gulf of Mexico have a softer ride than my old SS. I have a few comments that you may find helpful in making your decision: 1...

They went with Greenwood transoms about 1998 and have had much fewer problems with rot than the older vintage boats. The transom cap is a design flaw. But if the boat has been kept out of the rain the transom is likely fine. A good surveyor should easily be able to tell if there is water in...

Use your sonar when you are setting your traps. Avoid rocky or foul areas. Dungeness crabs like to forage over sand.

Tighten the torque tab anode and see if the problem goes away. I've driven a few boats where the anode was missing or broken off and all that happened was the wheel pulled to one side. I've never been in a boat where the tab could move freely. When troubleshooting a boat problem, you start...

Maybe it's a New England thing. I bought my first Grady in 1975 from a dealer in New York. I kept it in Niantic Connecticut, which had a Grady dealer right on the river. They told me they would only service boats and engines for their own customers. They softened that policy a year later...

I always went with PLBs because they were portable and cheaper than EPIRBs. But I recently realized that EPIRBs were actually cheaper. The battery on a PLB lasts for 5 years and they cost so much to replace that most people just buy a new unit. An EPIRB battery is good for 10 years. Comparing...

It has a lot more to do with age rather than hours. I saw a 2005 with only 300 or so hours that was pretty rotted. They had an alloy problem with certain sourced midsections. Not all engines were affected. They never came straight about the issue so nobody really knows what is going on...

I see pitting. It should be replaced.

If the midsection looks like this one, it should be replaced. Notice the pitting. This is a dry part of the exhaust system so flushing does nothing to prevent the problem. It only seems to occur on engines used in saltwater.

This is a picture of what I would call "normal" corrosion in a 200-250 hp Yamaha midsection. No deep pitting. The spots look like salt deposites.

I assumed he had a battery switch since he mentioned an isolator. Somehow my mind told me that connecting to the battery terminal meant connecting through the switch. As stated, the bilge pump should be connected directly to the battery with everything else connected through the switch.

You should have 2 batteries. But everything that is hooked to the battery terminal now belongs there except for the fish finder. The directions for most fish finders say to connect directly to the battery. But that is not necessary. Most people power their fish finders off the fuse terminal...

If you have enough chain on your anchor it won't swing. The chain won't move if it's sitting on top of the anchor rode.