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    Installing bellows without Adhesive.. Mercruiser 3.0 Alpha1

    This last month I finally gathered all the parts needed to do a 'BELLOWS' job in my Stingray bow rider. After deciding to Cheap Out and not get the bellows tool nor the Adhesive, I went ahead and proceded to install the bellows for the drive and exhaust along with the hose for the water pump...
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    Opinions on the Uniden UM425 VHF

    I'm about to take the plunge and get a VHF radio. I have a Hummingbird 595C so that end is nicely taken care of, but looking through the Cobra's It looked to be inferior slightly, of course 3 and 4 hundred dollar units were nice, but staying in the 2-3 hundred dollar range I looked at the...
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    Square sail for a bowrider, has it been done before?

    I guess some of us are always thinking up some crazy and different thing for their boats. I was wondering about the feasability of mounting an aluminum mast of about 15' and along with guide wires of some sort, making a square sail of about 8 high and 10-12 wide. I see these kind of sails in...
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    Can you identify this part ?!! FOUND Transom Plate

    I was power washing my motor and bilge area on my Stingray bow rider and of course when you do all kinds of leaves and junk clogs the stern drain, so I reached down and grabbed all the junk I could feel and tossed it over the side to the ground. It started draining pretty good, and a couple...
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    Is my exhaust bellows leaking? Alpha 1

    I just did the seal, gimbal bearing, and bellows, all in all it went well enough, and that was without the bellows tool....or so I think??? What I did is fill a fiftyfive gallon barrel that was cut in half with water. Now it had to be cocked slightly, but with a trim set low..ish, the barrel...
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    Kicker motor or not?

    Here in North Carolina we have the Pee Dee river, and while theres a good bit of it here in North Carolina with fairly good size damed lakes, ultimatly it flows through South Carolina in a sometimes very serpentine manner. I'v discovered through casual conversation, that a couple times a year...
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