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  1. dwco5051

    Inherited a custom made wooden replica 1950's runabout WITHOUT an engine

    Beautiful.
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    Inherited a custom made wooden replica 1950's runabout WITHOUT an engine

    Interesting. Some pictures would help to see exactly what you have and how far completed the project is.
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    Wire size for livewell please

    Why not buy a whole cable longer than what is needed, snip one end off, then measure and feed it through. They make a special tool to rebend one end but with a little practice you could do it with a couple of needle nose...
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    Mercury 850 thunderbolt ignition switch wiring

    Don't know if this helps. Your SN indicates distributer ignition. You are still going to have wire through your control box for the neutral safety start switch.
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    looking for advice on chart plotter make/model

    Define ocean a little better. Running 90 miles out to the trenches from New Jersey, fishing wrecks within sight of land off North Carolina, Florida Keys?? 700 bucks is about the starting point for a decent 7" unit with GPS, Sonar, and down scan with preloaded maps for fishing inland lakes...
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    List of contacts of all State boating offices

    This could make a good sticky as it would be a help to both newbes and others. don't know how or where to put it but perhaps one of our supreme master administrators could do it. https://www.nasbla.org/about-nasbla/boating-contacts
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    Which States/Provinces Enforce Registration Numbers Requirements

    It is the law in all 50 states and 6 territories. The priority of enforcement is probably unknown. I can say that if you would search citation records it would not help as a violation of numbering is often used as a probable cause to conduct a boarding that may result in more serious...
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    Which States/Provinces Enforce Registration Numbers Requirements

    Not to long after 9/11 I remember seeing a letter from the USCG to all state boating law administrators to concentrate on enforcing numbering violations. This was when they were upping surveillance of dams, bridges, locks, Naval installations, and other infrastructures that could be subject to...
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    Which States/Provinces Enforce Registration Numbers Requirements

    Without going to deep into weeds simply said for a state to have primacy in enforcing their own boat laws they must be as strict or stricter than USCG regs. 3" solid contrasting color block letters are USCG regs and thus the same in all states.
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    trailer surge

    Over the years I have pulled the same trailers with both my pickup and my Jeep Wrangler and always quite the difference. The Wrangler was like a five dollar hooker with a ten dollar customer. Any pitching of the tow vehicle by simple geometry to pushing the seat back a more pronounced amount...
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    Edmund Fitzgerald… interesting video

    A view from the wheel house of a thousand footer.
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    Edmund Fitzgerald… interesting video

    A few weeks ago I decided I need a new ringtone for my phone. I started searching the internet and using my music editing software made one of nothing but Masters' Salutes of all different boats plus I also stuck in one of the drawbridge at Duluth answering with there horn. My wife hasn't...
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    Edmund Fitzgerald… interesting video

    When I was a young lad my dream was to sail on lakes' boats but like most childhood ambitions it never happened though later on I did end up in Uncle Sam's haze gray fleet. Seventy years later I will still sit at my computer late at night and follow them on Vessel Watch but traffic is very...
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    Serial number means ...?

    Serial # comes back to a Canadian 1975 model if I read my cheat sheet I have tucked in an old factory manual right.
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    New here

    Welcome aboard. Some of us on here still call it the New Raystown Dam since we also boated on the Old Raystown before 1972. Boated on the New Dam the first year it opened for power boats. A real challenge at night before there were any day markers on the points in the pre GPS days. Would...
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    Will you may soon have squirrels now the fishers are gone. Squirrels are the top item on a fishers menu.
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    For those that have rebuilt a 1960's hull that is nothing compared to the "Ultimate Restoration Project(s)" http://www.interlake-steamship.com/our-fleet/m-v-lee-a.-tregurtha/
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    Random

    Took me a little bit to figure out someone forgot an important detail.
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    Winch post on boat trailer

    I noticed that too from the pictures. Use a level on the trailer frame and on the gunnels. You may need a straight edge across the gunnels to do that. If the starboard side was lifted a little the bow eye would align.
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