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    Painting Epoxy Over Plywood

    I am planning to build my first homemade boat this summer and am starting to think this little project out. I'll be building a 14' epoxy over plywood 14' flat bottomed boat (the Garvey 14 from Bateau) that will be used mainly for river fishing, maybe some hunting down the road. It will be...
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    Onto dry land

    Well, I haven't done anything too stupid yet on my boat, but I pulled a goodie with my jet ski. I took it up to my buddies cottage on the Fox river here in Wisconsin for the first time this past summer. After tooling around on the river, I wanted to beach it rather than tieing it up to the...
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    Adding a Trim Gauge

    A little while ago I purchased a boat with an 88 OMC 3.0L Cobra sterndrive. There isn't a trim gauge equipped on the boat. I would like to add a trim gauge so that I have a general idea of where the outdrive is. I've just been working on it in the driveway and I'm already sick of walking back...
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    Pulley wobble

    I have an 88 OMC 3.0L (the GM version). When running, the lower pulley on the front of the engine (the one attached to the crank), wobbles. The wobble is not back and forth, perpendicular to the engine axis, but parallel to it (along the engine axis). The shaft doesn't wobble or move at all...
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