Boat Forum / Boats / December 2004

All your base are belong to us.

I thought the black nylon cylinder was much tougher.
It broke at the top where it is flat and thin and is supposed to be able to
flex there.
Does anyone know how much for a replacement part and where to find one?

Can anyone direct me to some sites where I could get some ideas on what I
should be doing to wire up a boat correctly (with diagrams - I  prefer to
see things) for properlly servicing the boat and managing the batteries
properly. Beyond lighting I'm not sure what I could/should be ...

I plan to buy two 12V trolling motor batteries and hook them in parallel for
use with my 12V trolling motor and Q-Beam spot light.  What gage wire should
I use to connect the two batteries?    When I charge the batteries can I
leave them connected in parallel and charge them both ...

From today's New York Times:
December 4, 2004
Officials Lay Groundwork for Cleanup of Great Lakes
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY

I have a runnig Glaspar 17 foot Sedan boat with a 65hp Mercury engine, and a Cox
trailer all is working.
However I'm looking for parts for the Cox trailer
which were at the web site www.boattrailerparts.com, but now the site is gone

I have been having problems when using Mapopolis on my Ipaq. My feeling is
that Mapopolis is monopolizing the COM port and I am unable to run any other
GPS software.
I am running:

Highly Refined Lady Loves to Play Rough
If it's Thanksgiving in the Pacific Northwest, we can safely assume that
several million people will dine on turkey and cranberries. It is almost as
certain that we'll have an extremely windy day, possibly even a full-blown

I have a runabout 4.55 metre aluminium boat. The boat becomes cramped
with 3 people in it so I am going make some mods the boat. I am going
to put in a kill tank and an underfloor fuel tank.
I have a couple of questions regarding the fuel tank and venting the

I wanted to build a 1000 plus gallon aquarium in the new house I was having
built. I wasn't sure how thick to make the front glass. The rest of the tank
would be fiberglass covered steel. The dimensions I arrived at were 8 ft.
across, 6 ft. front to back and 38 in. tall. This would ...

I have a question that has me questioning the laws of fluid physics. I will
be posting the question in a day or so, but first I want to get some others
input regarding water pressure at different depths. First, do we all agree
that pressure is only dependant on depth of water? Lets ...

I screwed up this weekend.  I was going to fuel my boat.  It has 3 tanks.
The main tank is 200 Gallons and the 2 auxillary tanks are 50 gallons each.
I had fueled the aux tanks previously and added the appropriate ammount of
Biobor.  I used the boat this weekend and burned fuel ...

I put online a site about the design of a new houseboat in Belgium :
www.el-fishstick.com
We work on it for more than one year ... and it is not yet finished
I am waiting for your reactions ...

Dicks.
Galyans is a first-class sporting goods operation, with wide selections
of fishing, hunting, boating and outdoor gear of all kinds. The chain
sold out to Dicks, which is a couple of steps up from Wal-Mart.

The main hard drive on my little server.
Sigh.
I have a data backup, but not a software backup, which means...
fun times re-installing. And squintytimes on my laptop.