Boat Forum / Boats / September 2008

As the GOP House members vote down the bailout bill...

PLEASE go back to ignoring the idiot, his lover/clone and his puppy/
clone. Also his new reach around buddy. They are dragging the group
down once again because the head narcissist is getting the attention
he craves. Please stop!

On Monday, the Dow finished lower than when George W. Bush assumed the
presidency: 10,587.59 on January 19, 2001 compared to 10,365.45 at its
close on September 29, 2008.
NASDAQ, the American stock exchange, too, was lower now than it was when

On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:38:43 -0700, Curly Surmudgeon <curlysurmudgeon@live.com>
wrote:

A round of applause.
Reading through the voting results from yesterday, it would appear
that members of the Congressional Black Caucus, many of whom come from
safe districts and aren’t at risk politically, voted no.

Is anyone else having trouble getting up to Gene's server, I keep
getting a "timed out" when setting up the new box. This is just trying
to download the list of groups..
Thanks. Scotty

The Stockton, California Record, a Republican newspaper,
today endorsed Barack Obama, the first Democrat for President it has
endorsed since the second term of FDR.
Editorial

Took the boat out of San Leandro Marina yesterday.  Nice marina, free launch
and free washdown water.  Looking at a day of California Halibut fishing.
very calm in the morning.  Ran across the bay to Oyster Point at 37 mph. (32
knots) .  Trolled Popsicles for nada.  Not even a ...

The World lost a great man on Friday.....talented, bright, genrerous,
a man's man commited to a 50+ year long marriage in a Hollywood
environment.
RIP Cool Hand.   You were da man!

WoooHooo! (guess WaMu can't say that anymore). Cruis'n Rulz! ran
perfect-better than when new. A slight oil leak from one valve cover-no
biggy. WOT rpm was 700 low, Found the timing recommended in Seloc too
low-set it up about 5° and got WOT rpm 4600. Puget Sound was

I am looking for feedback from a bass boat owner, preferably OMC about their
prop.
I have a Sprint ProTournament 18ft bass boat with an Evinrude 175 HP motor.
Problem is that someone stole my Stainless Steel prop and I need to replace

My brother called me aboiut it,a nd I honestly don't know. I winterize
my boats (both GM engines) and really never gave it much thought,
seeing they only get stored about 5 mo. out of the year. and with
exception of drainging water and flushing wwith the "pink stuff'

Hurricane Kyle is on it's way north to us.
The hope is that the cold North Atlantic waters will decrease it's strength
back to a tropical storm.
Hard to believe, it's almost five years to the day that we gor slammed by

I just bought and received a new tonneau cover for my truck. I should
have posted the tracking number here, I'm sure everyone would have
been thrilled to follow it's progress from South Dakota to my house!
Much more interesting than a printer, I'd bet. I also should have

What is the purpose of draining the monitor before the lower unit? The
other night I changed by lower unit oil. I just opened the screw at
the bottom, opened the monitor cap and left the loweer unit (in the
down position) drain into my pan over night. The next AM the monitor