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    What is the year, make, and model of this boat?!

    The pulpit looks very similar to what's used on a bayliner.
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    Boat slow after cleaning

    Doubt it has anything to do with the finish used. Check the motor trim (or trim tabs if you have). They probably threw something out of adjustment while applying finish to the transom. Not sure of Yamaha, but most outboards adjust trim with an adjustable pin. If they removed the pin to finish...
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    Blue Sea Add a Battery

    That is an interesting point on the lamp cord and I once asked an electrical inspector about that. Interestingly enough he was in the process of giving us a pile of mouth for running a flat screen tv cord inside a wall after hanging the tv :( Lamp cord can handle 15 amps, but it can get quite...
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    Blue Sea Add a Battery

    That's the big point... and probably the most common mistake. Branching a smaller guage wire off of a larger already fused wire and thinking that because the larger wire is fused, then the smaller wire has been safely protected. Ya see a lot of that stuff in cars and aftermarket stuff added... a...
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    Blue Sea Add a Battery

    Yeah... exactly... the wild west. I got into this topic years ago when I found some winches came with circuit protection and others didn't. It's the same thing with cars, some come with fusible links in the starter circuit, and some don't have anything at all. Winches can pull anywhere from 300...
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    Blue Sea Add a Battery

    Correct. There is some (low voltage) wire which is not fused/breakered, and that is a highly debated topic... and it's exactly what I mean when I say low voltage is the wild west of wiring. I have a 10,500 lb winch on my jeep and the winch came with its own circuit breaker included in the box...
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    Blue Sea Add a Battery

    More info on the subject for the nay sayers. If you still have problem wrapping your head around this then there is nothing more I can do for ya. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-purpose-of-fuses-and-circuit-breakers
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    Blue Sea Add a Battery

    They are double acting bimetallic switches. They can be triggered by BOTH too much current or heat generated by the coil. So yes... they are both a fuse and thermal protector. Some are self resetting and some are one time beasts which must be replaced when they go. You are now taking what I...
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    Blue Sea Add a Battery

    Most if not all motors you will find in your house, including hair dryers, heating pumps, sump pumps, a/c compressors... etc, are already thermally protected. They shut down in case of overheating. There is thermal protection woven right into the coils Of the motors that don't (mostly the...
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    Blue Sea Add a Battery

    Well, small and mid sized motors have their own internal thermal overload protection. With larger motors you are SUPPOSED to wire in a combo motor contactor/breaker. Of course a lot of people don't include those in their circuits and instead rely on the (false idea) of a breaker as a form of...
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    what is make and model?

    Some older boats.... particularly smaller ones are just plain unidentifiable. I had the same issue with a 14 foot aluminum that I had. Best you can do is guesstimate the year by the style and hardware and choose a known boat of the same size and weight to guesstimate maximum persons and...
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    Live well

    I have a below water line sea-c*ock to service the head on my boat, and it makes me nervous. I will probably be plugging that off in favor of a small self priming pump so the water intake can be mounted above the water line
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    Pitting/corrosion on jon boat bottom

    I think that will work great!
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    Need towing advice

    It depends on weight distribution. You can have some boat sticking off the trailer.... that's not a big deal. The weight distribution is the biggie though. You NEED roughly 10-15% of the gross weight on the tongue to keep you out of harms way on the road. Any more and you risk overloading the...
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    Pitting/corrosion on jon boat bottom

    Honestly, I think you're kind of psyching yourself out and overthinking this. I *THINK* someone at some point used some pressure treated ply in there at one point and done some (minor) damage. Now you can throw some JBweld (or whatever) into the pitting if you want, but more than likely you will...
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    Pitting/corrosion on jon boat bottom

    Agree with others. As far as I know, if you get rid of what ever acid or chemical is or was causing the corrosion (sand blast or soda wash... etc) then that's as far as you need to go. People of course paint their aluminum boats to beautify, but I haven't heard of people treating aluminum to...
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    Pitting/corrosion on jon boat bottom

    Could be. Typically though, it's only one side of the boat affected if it's a battery acid issue (the immediate vicinity of the battery)
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    Pitting/corrosion on jon boat bottom

    That looks like pressure treated wood was used in there at some point. I would give that a light sand blast to clean it up and I'm not sure I would do anything more to it other than fine sand and a polish. There is always standing water at the stern, and if it's fresh water then it isn't really...
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    Engine smell in cabin when boat is tarped for the week (350 i/o)

    Yeah, this boat has spent its life in fresh water so that makes a big difference. It's in really top condition for a 34 year old boat, and clearly someone has given it a (mechanical) refresh once before too. In fact I think that's why it sat for a number of years. When I opened up the motor I...
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    Engine smell in cabin when boat is tarped for the week (350 i/o)

    Sorry, I missed this. Yes, OMC cobra 5.7 4barrel. It's an '87 Ciera 2755
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