Boat Forum / Boats / July 2008

    This is our 1st time "camping" for more than overnight in our boat.
I had planned on strapping the cooler (150quart) to the swim deck with food &
drinks -- and putting all the "gear" out of the way up in the cuddy.
Someone said it's better to put all the load towards the rear and ...

First doc's appointment since the surgery to fix Breeze's arm, and the
doc says it's healing well, just the way he wants it. He left the left
cast on, I think he just wants to be cautious because she'll be doing
everything with her left for awhile! The right is still a temp. cast,

A person that I know (online only) just told me that he's binned from
Chuck's site because he mentioned Harry's imaginary lobster boat! Can
you imagine? What in the world is wrong with someone asking a question
about someone's (alleged) boat in a boating forum?

There was so much noise on this group that it was impossible to see the
signal, or even that there was a signal, i.e. anything on topic.  But I
put three authors into my kill file and, voila!, the bandwidth is about
1/10 of what it was.  And what's more, the subject lines appear ...

It rains a lot here and I am thinking of drilling an 1/8" drain hole so the
rain water drains from the topside of the footwells down into the hull/bilge
area and then out the back of the drain plugs when I am not using my
waverunner.  When I am in the water, running the bilge can ...

We have recently become the owners of a Bass Tracker Pro Team 17 with
a Mercury Marine Tracker 40 HP 4 cyl outboard...
I need help finding the engine serial number.
I took pictures and put it in a blog, figuring it would be easier than

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Perhaps I am reading sea conditions wrong or perhaps because it is so
shallow here that I cannot get any idea of other conditions.  My
Tolman Skiff seems to pound in 1’ chop at any speed over 12 kts.  Of
course, it does have a very small deadrise of only 8 degrees but it

I have recently removed and relocated a radio from my center console,
leaving the hole in the console where the radio had been. The hole is
about 3" x 6".
What recommendations do you have for covering and sealing up the

Does anyone has this service manual for Mercury sportjet 120XR, please send
to me or please tell me where to get or download this free manual
Thanks

I'm seeing many older jet boats, say the 2000 sea-doo challenger 1800
or 2002 sea-doo islandia for sale locally. What are the fuel economy
on these older ones? Anyone know where you can find the information
out? Someone told me they get 5 hours on a tank, but I see the have

I have to tell you when it comes to luck I have the worse!!
I finally decided on a boat and purchased it.
1990 Maxum 18ft 1800SR
Open bow 135hp Merc I/o

My GPS puts out RMC -- but I have a device that needs ZDA to get the time/date
-- RMC contains time/date -- is there any way (ie: any device) that can convert
between the two?
-josh