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    Boat will not plane at wot

    Hey guys I need some advice. I just purchased a 1979 25ft Apollo Cruiser that had been sitting for 2yrs. After a few week of making sure everything was water ready, including changing gas, oil, filters, tune up and rebuilding the carb. I finally took out for a test drive. It runs great but will...
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    help with boat color

    Hello everyone, I picked up another project for the winter 1982 24ft bayliner montery cabin cruiser. I need to repaint the stern gelcoat. The color is not the typical white or off white, its almost a cream color. Can anyone tell me if there is a shop out there that has this color paint, or...
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    chev 350 engine swap

    ok guys I have search the threads and cant find the direct answer so here we are posting somthing that has prob been touched on 100+ times. I am swaping out a chev 350 short block. I have pulled the motor, and swaping it with a truck small block. I will be useing all marine parts,including the...
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    running out of water

    Hey guys, I just picked up a new project boat (82 bayliner 23ft montery) it has a chev 350 w/volvo 280 drive. The boat has a closed water system on it. I picked the boat up really cheap, and the old owner said that the engine was knocking really bad before he shut it off and used his kicker to...
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    battery question

    ok guys need a little help with a friends boat, he has a newer 18ft crestliner that came with a bow mounted trolling motor (12volt system) on the newer crestliner boats they have a main power switch near the outdrive control arm that shuts the power off to the starting battery, but not the...
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    fishfinder parts

    hello everyone, I have a lowrance lcx-16 that is missing the data card door in front of the unit, I contacted lowrance and they said they no longer carry parts for this unit, does anyone know of a place that sells used fishfinder parts, from destroyed our damaged units??:confused:
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    charger on honda 20hp

    I just purchased a 2005 20hp honda 4stroke, there is a conection for the battery, since this is a pull start (not elec) I am asuming that it is a charging system, does anyone know how much the put out? amps? I took it out today, drained my battery with minnkota trolling motor, thought I would...
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    what is this boat worth??

    2006 Lowe 12ft alum, with a gamefisher5hp motor, minnkota trolling motor, trailer, motors run fine, and boat is like brand new. I picked it up at a dealership from a privite party that was going to trade it in, they were only going to give him 500, so I gave him 600:) Now I have another boat...
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    cousin carls half fast

    There was this company that made trout flashers, the name was cousin carls, the product name was half fast. they went out of business awhile back, and I was wondering if anyone out here knows any place that still has some on their shelfs???:confused:
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    cousin carls half fast

    Does anyone out there, know a place that is still selling cousin carls (half fast) flasher blades?? they went out of business, but there has to be some somewhere:confused:
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    thanks to everyone

    hello folks, been busy, and unable to get on here lately, but I have to get on here and thank all those fellow boaters that helped me in getting my boat running, I wouldnt be on the water without you guys, you guys really helped me get my boat running, thanks again :D
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    battery tender

    ok folks, I have a question for ya, I have a cabin crusier that has two 305 motors, they are not in a dog house, but in their own egine compartment under the back deck, I have 3-batteries (1-seperate and 2-wired together) now the battery charger (tender) that I purchased, says to make sure area...
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    charging batteries

    hello iboaters, here is my question, I have a cabin cruiser that I keep in the water, I have two 12volt batteries wired together on one side of the battery swicth #1, and on the #2 spot on the battery switch I have a very large 12volt battery, looks like a truck battery, now I want to hook up a...
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    draw bridge not shut

    boy was going down to our boat today, its about 45mins away in the delta, you have to cross over two draw bridges to get there, well the bridge operater open the bridge for a boat, then went to close it, and it didnt close all the way so two big rigs got stuck on then bridge, took about 4hrs to...
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    omc engine problems

    ok guys, had my cabin cruiser out for another two days on the water, everything was going good, just tinkering fixing wires and fishing, on the way back to my slip, one of my 1978 omc 185hp started to tick, and then seem to drop a cyilnder, it still ran but seemed like it was only firing on 7...
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