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------------------- Very good point. Personally usually I drive a smaller car, a Subaru WRX and with the hood on her, she'll go right under any stock truck or SUV on the market. However, the ground clearance doesn't matter in some cases since force is equal to 1/2M(***)V(elocity) squared...

Fishing is definitely in the top 5 for best ideas for a new college sport. If the NCAA lets them drink beer while fishing (not calling it a performance enhancing drug) it's number 1 in my book.

Seafoam might fix your problem here. Props (pun intended!) to the person that said that. But that's only if you have water in your gas. Yes, Stabil works and works quite well. I have used both the "Marine" and "Regular" versions of the product and both do what they claim to. They will keep...

@kibby "I also found the stuff to be amazingly difficult to use without a lot of cleanup of the weld area afterwards. You've got to be pretty adept at brazing before you even attempt to use it or you'll make a blobby, disgusting mess." That can be cleaned up by an angle grinder I assume?

Having done a fair amount of steel welding myself; I wouldn't use this stuff. To my mind, TIG welding is the way to go for most problems with an aluminum hull. Personally, I've never done any of it, nor could I afford a TIG welder at this point. However, my way of thinking about this goes...

Is this really your job or did I just have a mild stroke? :D Awesome casting pond btw. =D>

"Why don't you just get your EMT/Paremedic training?" Because at this point, with student loans, a crappy economy and a worse job I can't possibly afford to. Even if I had the extra money, I couldn't take the time off. For me personally, at least in the short run, a really good college...

Well, as I said others like Ictalurus probably know more about this than I do, hence go with his advice. I was under the impression you wanted to coat the whole hull.

Wow, that's freaking terrible. As others have said, it's pretty safe to say that no one in that SUV survived. If they did, they prolly wish they didn't. *Good* post though. A cautionary tale for sure. Trucker probably feels terrible. I talk to those guys on CB all the time when I'm on the...

I don't understand this and while others have said to go for it, personally I wouldn't trust it. The reason lead-acid batteries eventually die is because the reaction within the battery causes solid things to precipitate (solids form in a liquid solution, in this case the liquid acid) as a by...

If you run in saltwater, or even brackish water anti-fouling paint is probably a good idea. If you run in freshwater exclusively, to my mind, why paint it? All it does is add weight. I have no idea what size your boat is but I remember reading about American Airlines back in the 1990's and...

I'm sure others will have differing opinions on this, but here's my $0.02. Personally I like red because it doesn't affect my night vision as much. My stern/anchor light attracts A LOT of bugs, so I always keep a can of Deep Woods OFF in my tackle box. For deck lighting on my small boat I...

Personally, I like red for deck lighting in a small boat, but to each his own. These lights are 5 LED, waterproof/submersible. Pretty bright, camera really doesn't show it as well as I would like. Put them on a toggle switch so they can be turned off and on at will independent of...

Do you know how to use/have access to a TIG welder? The crack in the keel is easy to fix as long as you can weld aluminum. No offense, but that would be my first priority.

Thanks for the input guys. I knew that wood filler wasn't structural, but something had to be done fast to stop the rot from spreading and there were only a couple months left in the season anyway. Now it's time to get ready for this season! As for the Spar Urethane, I have a gallon of it, so...

I named mine "Hathor" for the Ancient Egyptian goddess who personified the principles of love, beauty, music, motherhood and joy. Was looking mainly at the love, beauty and joy parts. I certainly hope I don't ever get drunk enough to attempt getting her pregnant!

So I bought this boat and trailer for $600. I immediately realized it was not up to the regs. It needed lights (for night running) both internal floor lights and bow/stern lights as well as Coast Guard required items such as a fire extinguisher, air horn signalling device etc. I also noted very...

OK. Let's try this again. Note the rotton floorboards in the background in the second picture and the random metal tubes that were under them. Also, in case you're wondering: the hose/water are because I was flooding the boat to clean up the floor. It was covered in little bits of soggy wood...

Can you guys see the pictures I attempted to attach?