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I live/boat on a smallish lake, the water level is easily affected by large amounts of rain fall. I tie up to a non floating pier. We had very heavy rain all day today. I came home and checked on my pontoon and the water level rose about 2 feet. Usually my deck is about the height of the pier...
By new I mean built in 1968. 24 foot Harris Floate Boat. The guy across the street from me a retired mechanic and I would eat dinner off of that OB. Never saw a motor so clean when he took the cover off. Deck was replaced 6 years ago along with the furniture. He bought a new unused 2014 and...
My wife noticed that some people down the road from us have two basically jetski sized boats that seat either one to two people. They have a closed bow an a smallish outboard on the back. They are pretty much the size of a bumper car that you would slip your legs into the bow and cruise around...
As you can tell from my join date, I have been around for a bit but have not posted in a while. I previously had a 1988 19' WellCraft I/O bow rider with a mercruiser 165. I used it for two seasons (NW Indiana) but sadly had to sell it to help with a down payment on my new house. Said house is...
Hello all, here is a bit of back story about the trouble I have had with my local marina service and a question about what to do next. This is long but the history to the problem is important to the current state of it and I could really use some help. Thank you.
I have a 1988 Wellcraft...
I had to have my marina replace my shift cable because it was tripping the shift interrupt switch when going from neutral into gear and was killing the engine, I guess it was just old and rusty and was dragging and tripping the switch. They replaced it and I took it out yesterday and found that...
I have what is probably a dumb question. You hit something with your prop, it put sa ding in it, maybe a dent or possibly even shave some metal off the outer edge of one of the blades. I know is should then be replaced but.....Why? Why not just leave it on there as long as it's not something...
I have a 1988 165hp Mercruiser I/O with an Alpha 1 Outdrive. When splitting the lower unit from the upper unit (to change the impeller), I notice that there was no gasket between the two its just metal bolted to metal, is there supposed to be?
I purchased a 1987-88 (at work right now can't remember) Wellcraft Classic 190 from my brother-in-law last season. He stepped up to a 28foot SeaRay and give me a pretty good deal on the Wellcraft. It has a 6 cylinder I/O merc. 160hp if I recall correctly. Any way last season when I bought...
First let me say that I am not very mechanically inclined so if this is a mechnical problem, please respond in layman's terms :)
I own an older Wellcraft 190 Classic. I love the boat but ever since I bought it about 2 years ago the steering wheel always pulls hard to the right. The faster the...
Hello all, I am new to boating and just purchased my first boat. It is a 19 foot Wellcraft 190 Classic bowrider. It has a Mercruiser 3.0 135HP. After getting used to the boat for a little bit I went WOT and found that this equates to about 40mph. While this is perfectly fine with me, I found...
