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When I beefed up my transom as a kid, we first used whatever we had laying around. As a kid all you want is to be on the water, all else be damned. 2 years later when the bolts were showing obvious signs of rust, we swapped them out for SS bolts and whatever kind of sealant there was in the late...

It's set that way to accommodate a short shaft outboard. If you go straight across your outboard will sit too high and you'll have performance issues galore. At least that's how I see it. If going straight across is easier, do so but cut out a notch where the engine will sit. From what I see...

Bear this in mind, when turning you may well find out it is unsafe. You will have too much "rudder" in the water and turns will be sharper than normal. Get a jack plate or, beef up the back of the boat with wood. you can use a 1/2" plywood on the outside another on the inside of the transom and...

If you damaged the prop, get it repaired or replaced. If it's a nick don't fuss over it. If you get 5,900 RPM with a light load IMO you are propped right or as near to perfect as you can. Adding the Mrs. drops your RPM down to 5,500, you are still fine, but I agree, things sound better at 6K...

I still hold a grudge against my ex GF for taking all the vacation pics when we broke up. That was a fantastic time! I was on a smallish power boat and had the time of my life, can't imagine being in a canoe!

In my lay opinion, a Jon boat is a small aluminum flat bottomed hulled boat with a squared off bow. Plastic ones, while essentially the same, don't qualify IMO. Perhaps a wooden boat will but there just aren't many around to even discuss anymore. If it has a V at the bow, it's not a Jon, if the...

Pretty up there, one of my best vacations ever was to Anacortes and the San Juan islands.

Montana, all I think of is cold and isolated.

Often people will comment to me, "I'd never live where you live, you get hurricanes, snow storms, Nor Easters, flooding etc." I rather all those things I can prepare for, an Earthquake and Tornado, well that chit sneaks up on you, BAM, you're dead.

You're late to the party, they already did. I heard even the View said so! I'm in NJ, but was in Indiana the day it happened, no damage to my house, my sister called me to ask if I felt it. I laughed, she felt it, but it wasn't significant in out part of NJ, Directly across the Hudson from NYC.

I should mention, the boat in the link I was quoted a 60k price delivered to my door.

N0 thanks, 800 hours and 8 years. Not going to show like new. Plus 600 HP will drink too much fuel for me. I'm pushing my comfort level @ 300 HP, Thanks for looking for me. Right now centered on Sea Ray, Regal Four Winns type bow riders in the 24'-27' range. Big enough to go out the inlet on a...

I saw one as a kid, wasn't impressed at 4 (Or whatever age I was), I don't take much interest these days.

https://www.splendorboats.com/sunstar/239-sunstar Don't misunderstand my post. I wouldn't really take this out an inlet, but we get 3 footers in the bay here all the time. Even at 1,500 RPM the hull did not squat much to enable the bow to maintain a high attitude. This boat, as big as it is, is...

Family and I made a trip out of a Sea Trial this past week. We flew to Indiana and my wife got to meet a half sister she hasn't seen in 45 years. That was good to see, always good to meet family and good people. However the sea trial didn't go as well. It's half my fault for wishing a hull...

Thoughts and prayers to you and the family.

It spits, doesn't have a stream or tell tale like Merc's of the day. Relax and enjoy the ride, solid engine.

To do it right, you want to strip it.

HP is HP as far as I'm concerned. As long as it's measured at the same point, "Crankshaft vs Prop". The industry is kept to a 10% range, so a 60 HP could produce as few as 54 or as much as 66 ponies. Short of doing a dyno test you'll have to seek out what engines are considered "Strong" engines...

They have back up power. Supposedly that too failed as the system was overloaded. They managed to restart the backup system once they managed to diminish the load. This is what I'm hearing and if course we don't yet know everything. Word is they did drop one anchor and that combined with getting...