Boat Forum / Boats / June 2007

Looking for reviews of 1993 sea ray laguna 18'.
Anyone own one of these and can recommend?
Pros Cons?
I live in Jacksonville, FL and would be using it mostly in the St.

i just installed 2 new thermostats in the engine and they dont open.
the engine is getting very hot. i would like to verify if i installed
them correctly. the thermostat cone or top of the t-stat is facing the
motor and the stem is facing into the housing where the 2 black houses

Went to an interesting launching.
A local fundamentalist church supports some orphanages in So. Africa.
One of the members is a pretty skilled boat builder, and he dreamed up
a project to support the mission. The church started a boat building

Guess what I found in the middle of Webster Lake today?
Go ahead - guess?
Give up?
A freakin' mound about six inches below the surface which beat the

Justwaitafreakinminute with his largest catch of the day.
http://www.swsports.org/images/Pictures/062907_0928a.jpg
~~ snerk ~~

I just finished "Laws, Flaws, and Sacrificial Lambs" in the latest
NOR'WESTING. It was great. Sure hope you'll reproduce it here so all can
read it.

Ok, friend of mine sent me an .avi this morning of a monster striper
he caught off of Martha's yesterday.
Since I upgraded Quicktime to Quicktime Pro and installed iTunes, I
can't open .avi files.  The QT player will open, but it doesn't play

        Does anyone have any ideas for cleaning a blackened mike
cord? I tried good ol' soap and water, even a green kitchen scourer,
but it only removed a bit of the surface material. I know it can come
off, as I ran the edge of a box knife blade along the cord and it

Going to tow up to Vancouver Island.  Anybody in the region know where to
buy Gulf Island and Ucluelet charts?

Bought my outboard used and it ran good for 3 years.  last time out it
wouldn't fire at all ideas?

Harry:
Look at this picture, and let's see if you came up with the same idea I did
for a caption or description. :-)
http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/ap/Eavesdropping_Subpoenas.sff_WHRE106_200706271835
56.jpg

OK, in my little CC 169, I have in the tinted-covered glove box (if
you want to call it that)  a small, but inexpensive first aid kit. OH,
it's more than a box of band-aids, it has some gause  dressings, and
ointments,but still basic, and not really extravagant.  It's still

Vessel Management Software
Working on feature set for design of a vessel management software suite...
What are the things you'd like a package to provide as it relates to your
boating?

Which radar/GPS plotter and possibly sonar and autopilot would you
recommend for a 30 footer (motor boat) and why?
Over here one seems to get decent support for Furuno, Simrad and
possibly Raymarine.

http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/2007062338
Long story short: Four adults and two children in a 16' Bayliner on the Ohio
River at 2AM Saturday in fog run into a barge. One adult and two children
dead.