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    BELIEVE IT OR NOT !

    This happened within the last week.<br />30 foot sailboat motoring heading west from orient point new york,capt. below fixing head. crew on watch dozing, boat on autopilot.<br />34 ft. trawler heading east towards orient point, on autopilot with long distance cruisers aboard. trawler people...
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    outboards on sail boats

    I have been watching a fellow on the dock next to mine using his o'day 25 and his routine leaving the slip. I am very much impressed with the short time it takes him from getting on the boat to leaving the slip, he usually does it in about 10 minutes or less.<br />I have had sail boats up to 43...
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    PORT JEFFERSON L.I. FISHING STINKS

    Hi Guys and gals,<br /><br />whats up with the fishing around the port jeff and mount sinai area of long island, I have gone out to the same spots we always fished and can not even get a bight lately when drifting for fluke. Its pretty bad when you can not even catch a sea robin no less a fluke...
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    SEA RAY DASHBOARD MYSTERY

    I have a 1987 sea ray weekender.<br />The instruement panel is a flat plate with 6 screws holding the bottom.<br />Over the panel is a roof of fiberglass with foam over it and covered with maroon vinyl.<br />The vinyl on the corner is worn off and looks crummy.<br />I would love to take this...
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    BAD LEAK

    This is a 1986 Mazda b2000 pick up with a 4 cylinder engine. It has just sprung a cooling water leak that is coming from the area hidden by the starter motor. The leak is a stream of anti freeze that shoots down from the engine on to the ground. Even with a mirror and a light I can not see where...
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    no heat at all

    Hi guys,<br />I have a 1986 mazda pick up that has decided not to put out any heat at all. Seems like both hoses that go to the heater core are not warm to the touch and also the guage shows warm up to take a very long time.My first thought is maybe the thermostat is stuck open or there is a...
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    anti freeze question

    Hi guys<br />I have a general question on anti freeze in a closed fresh water system. I have read my owners manual for a ford recently and they state do not use any other anti freeze but ford no.x-xxxx or you may damage your engine. The engine has a cast iron block and aluminum heads and is a...
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    replaceing water pump bolts

    I have a pair of 350 mercruisers 260 h.p. fresh water cooled 1987 vintage in a sea ray weekender with straight inboard shaft drives.<br />Having once replaced the starboard engine water pump and dealing with trying to get the 3/8 bolts back into the tapped holes I found it a tough job to say the...
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    oil leak mystery

    I have a 1987 30 sea ray with twin fresh water cooled 350's and straight shaft drives.The engines have about 1000 hours and run perfectly.<br />Both engines require only about a pint of oil after a 75 mile trip at cruising speed of about 18 mph.<br />The starboard engine has a sump under it that...
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    spark plugs and threads

    Last fall when winterizing my two mercruiser engines (350 chevys) after running antifreeze thru the salt water circuit and fogging the engine with west marine spray can I pulled the plugs to spray some in each cylinder. On the starboard engine 2 of the plugs were extremely hard to unscrew, after...
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    drifting for fluke

    I bought a 1987 30 ft. sea ray weekender in 2003 and love the way the boat handles in most conditions.This is the best riding boat I have owned in my 35 years boating, and can handle our long island sound conditions very well. The boat goes thru chop and wakes softly and without pounding,this is...
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    diesel conversion?

    I have a 30 ft. weekender with 350 mercs straight inboards with prop pockets.<br />I would like to know if anyone has had experience with diesel conversions for this or similar boats.I am not interested in going 30 knots but more like cruising at about 14 knots.I was wondering if a pair of 120...
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    reading a fishfinder

    This winter I installed a furuno 6100 fishfinder and have since launched the boat and tried out the new fishfinder.I found it very interesting to run the boat slow and study the contours of the bottom . I could see various shaped sizes of depresions in the bottom, and assume they might be good...
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    transducer paint?

    I have installed a bronze airmar transducer in my 30 ft. sea ray and have the following question:<br />There is a sticker on the bottom of the transducer that says " do not paint" I wanted to protect the transducer from fouling so I bought pettits transducer paint # 1793. This paint has a zinc...
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    favorite i.c.w. port between n.y.&florida

    Hi guys,<br />I really enjoyed the east coast i.c.w.<br />My two favorite stops in the past have been whittiker creek marina in north carolina and vero beach municipal marina in florida.Both these marinas have employees that are outstanding and make you feel totally welcome and could not be more...
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    shafts, props, rudders, tabs

    I bought a 30 ft. sea ray weekender last spring and all the underwater metal was painted with interlux product called tri-lux.After a full season of use in salt water when the boat was taken out of the water the shafts props and all the other metal parts were in very good shape with almost no...
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    T.V. ANTENNA RECOMMENDATION

    I have a power boat with a radar arch and a small t.v. antenna mounted on top next to the radar antenna.I have recently bought this boat so do not know if this antenna worked o.k. in the past but it hardly gets a decent picture now of any channel.<br /><br />We boat about 40 miles from the...
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    fairing block

    Just bought a standard fairing block by airmar and have a couple of questions regarding the block.<br /><br />My transducer is a 525st-msd triducer and there is a depression on the top of it for about a 5/8 dia male that is on the fairing, except on the transducer counterbore there is a 1/4 dia...
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    Sea Ray Wiring

    I have a 1987 sea ray weekender and would like to know if anyone has experience running wiring from the steering consol to the bilge.The consol is typical of many that were used back then. It has a door that when unlatched slides down and exposes a shelf that the vhf radio and the radar are...
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    steering consol mystery

    To start with I have a 1987 sea ray weekender that has a large steering consol complete with gauges ,steering, controls etc.The consol has a sliding door that drops down when the latch is released. Inside the consol in the lower half is mounted a radar, a stero and amp, a vhf,all three are...
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