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Thank you ! I spent a long time restoring that boat and I wanted it to outlast me. That boat went through Hurricane Ivan and survived getting ripped away from the dock area and tossed into a field.

Wood boats planked with cedar go to sea in yachts and commercial vessels. It's very good looking and bugs don't like it

Good luck

I used Alabama Cedar, cut, fit and clear coated. Will surely last a long long time

I agree with airshot Across the board (printed circuit boards too), updates can be a problem. Even the latest update on my apple phone annihilated the use of voice to text so I have to wait for the fix in the next update. It isn't just software that can be updated, it can include updates to...

For safety I would definitely not recommend a cleat at that location. It's a bad thing to catch body parts, clothing, and when loading and unloading from a trailer a snag you do not want. Look at the slot in the bow cap, if you absolutely must run a line, that could do. Use the boat a few...

Check your propellor, if it's damaged it can be running out of balance.

For old engines not designed for ethanol, I think it is an extremely bad idea to use ethanol gas. I could write about this at length, but it's pointless if you think additives and filters are going to make it all good to use it in a gasoline vintage engine.

Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) is a member-owned cooperative that provides safe and secure financial transactions for its members

At tax time I was asked how much I had in crypto, none and still none I asked an expert and they said if you don't own the whatever, key ? then you really don't own it It's best use for someone like me would be to use it to avoid the Swift, so buy cryto, do the pay out, take ownership and done...

Comment Don't run the prop into the ground The pin is probably not a shear pin but a drive pin If the prop broke, sounds like it was deigned to fail when striking the immovable earth I like the idea of carrying spare parts and tools

As a general rule if the wiring looks good, it probably is good. Dissimilar metals in contact with each other naturally corrode, add water (fresh or salt) with electricity and it gets worse not better. You want clean connections mechanically tight. Crimped or pressure connectors are superior...

Use a sledge (or a hand anvil) on the outside against the rivet head, on the inside lightly tap on the rivet with the rounded end of a ball pee hammer. You don't need a big ballpeen hammer. You can practice peening with a nail clamped in a vice and use the ballpeen to mushroom the end of the...

Boat Show Contact your servicing dealer if there is one and see what they will do

It would be polite to say "in my opinion" rather than "this isn't true" Just take the battery to Walmart and have them do a computerized test on it. Then you will know for sure the state of your batt'ry.

How do you feather oars in a pinned oarlock?

Nav lights likely also connected to gauge lights? But no, there should be no current draw. If your battery goes dead with nothing turned on, use a Volt Ohm Meter (VOM) set to DC amps and remove one of the battery terminals. Measure the current that flows from the battery terminal to the...

Please move to the Pensacola area so we can be friends. :)

Yep, and I would add inflation which for everything I seem to spend my money on has either doubled or up to five times or more than pre pandemic. I gave up wanting a new outboard even though my wife authorized the expenditure. But I could not do it without gasping for air, so I keep fixing the...

I recommend wax, you can add Cayenne pepper to it to prevent growth of marine organisms. Commercial Fibreglass (with gelcoat) vessels use this to great effect for 90 days between hull cleaning and rewaxing.