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I'm no help other then to say you do nice work.

When you said skiff, my mind went right to this specific boat. Durable but hard hitting.

Sounds like a scam/troll to me. One post, never replied....

At least I have enough common sense not to touch things I don't understand.

To me that's a hard pass. $3,300 for an unknown entity. Here's a 2020 Yamaha for less...

They are rough and wet, boat is solid though. You have to decide if it will work for you. The best bargain will be a poor choice if the boat kills you.

Waves, are different then chop. As established here, the chop will eat you up in a tri hull. Only you can determine if it's chop or wakes.

There are all sort of deadrises, you can have dead flat, 2 degrees, 4 degrees, 10,12,13,14,all the way up to I think 24 or 25 degrees these days. I picture or two of the boats or model/brands would help. A traditional tri hull is not dry compared with a Carolina flare V hull, but depending on...

I had a 10' hydroplane with a 25 merc on the back. One day went out with a buddy jumping wakes and forgot to tighten the motor mounts. The prop caught while the engine was turned to port and bam, the engine was 6' deep only hanging on by the steering cable and fuel line. We managed to get the...

Exactly, most people today (city/suburb) folks can't change their own tire or oil let alone hook up a generator properly. I would be among the latter. I'd just plug my fridge lamp and extra goodies into a power strip and run extension cords here and there until the power came back.

I'm having a hard time understanding the body of water you ride. Outside of wakes, how is the water? What are you calling a Deep V, deadrise wise? If a boat have a V hull at the bow entry and only a 12 degree deadrise at the stern, that's not a deep V. From my personal experience with a 17' tri...

I'm fairly ignorant when it comes to electricity, but isn't 6% rather high? I thought I read somewhere that power from the power company comes in around 3%. I'll see if I can look it up. EDIT: How much total harmonic distortion is acceptable? The limits on voltage harmonics are thus set at 5%...

Wow! That Suki is an 85, nice power option. You do nice work, I always admire people that could work with their hands.

I agree with the OP, when you get a little air under the hull, you have less drag. Of course, too much chop and you have the opposite effect.

That was one ugly inside hull. Not a task I'm up to taking. Keep the updates coming.

Propane by us Propane here is about $3.20 a gal. NG is less expensive and the option of choice where we are. If NG was not an option, I'd be all over propane.

I don't know how much colder it gets in Ohio then NJ, but we get zero often enough, with 10-20F being common in winter. In all my 60+ years we've never had a problem with NG service. Maybe it's because nearly every house and business in NJ uses it, IDK. When we lost our summer home at the shore...

Just addressing the no flame when cooking with NG due to the NG generator sucking up too much. You have to plan out your line into the house accordingly. Same when it comes to those newer instant hot water heaters. They need a lot of gas to develop those 200,000 BTU. You need a 2 or 2.5" line to...

I neglected to add that in this post, but yes, it is in my previous post. In an emergency situation (where I am in NJ) power has never in my life gone out more then 24 hours at a time. So whole house genset and having all the luxury items some have also aren't needed. I just want to keep the...

Yup, my parents born in 24 and 30 respectively, we learned all the lessons they lived. Much better off for it too.