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    Hull form versus engine power and torque In maintaining a boat on plain

    The turning point I have is ported
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    rec gas and mercruiser

    At the risk of opening up a potentially controversial topic, I'm wondering if rec gas can or should be used with the 4.3 L MPI Mercruiser. I just got this boat, but all my previous boating experience was with two-stroke outboards. In my older outboards, switching to rec gas was a real game...
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    Hull form versus engine power and torque In maintaining a boat on plain

    That is something I'm very careful of. I actually was going to go higher in pitch to make sure that my engine would never over rev. But I could never live with the low-end performance cost.
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    what cleaning agent to use on a 2016 Four Winds H1 90

    I just purchased a 2016 H1 90 in the interior is in fantastic shape. What cleaners can I use to keep it that way without damaging the canvas or the fiberglass? My old boat we bought 25 years ago and foolishly used bleach on the canvas. It did keep the mold away, but we ended up wrecking the...
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    Hull form versus engine power and torque In maintaining a boat on plain

    By reduced pitch? I ran one pitch up (15 to 17,I couldn't find a 16) and it really lugged while townig the kids.
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    Hull form versus engine power and torque In maintaining a boat on plain

    Wow, what a bunch of great answers. I was out for a while but it's really been a pleasure reading these. To just a couple points brought up I wasn't viewing this is a problem. I did just wanted to know more. However, the points made about the Sylvan carrying all of its weight in the rear really...
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    Mercruiser were 4.3 MPI first run of the season question

    Thank you. I appreciate it. As of now I will do this myself. I prefer to have a mechanic look over it, but literally every marina around me has a really crappy reputation.
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    Experience of Turning Point props? Prop failures?

    bought and ran one last year. good prop and amazing customer service
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    Hull form versus engine power and torque In maintaining a boat on plain

    So most of my life experience has been at the 16 foot sylvan aluminum hall. It is 112 hp Johnson. It's been a great boat for me, but now that I have been on some more fiberglass boats it seems like the glass boats with stern drives do a better job planing at low speed. This puzzles me because...
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    Mercruiser were 4.3 MPI first run of the season question

    Just recently purchased a 2016 Four Winds with a 4.3 MPI Mercruiser and alpha-1 Stern drive. It's been stored its whole life in been winterized and brought out of storage this spring. I took a lake test on it and it ran fine. There is a tag on it that says "do not run until summarized" (one free...
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    Boat submarining question

    I believe there is a lot of truth to that. People don't always respect the fact that their boat doesn't have brakes and they're working on an uneven surface. As a kid I went through number of prop strikes with somebody else driving the boat. That always hurt. Made me more careful driver. As I...
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    Boat submarining question

    LOL awesome thank you! I'm not too worried about it, but those pictures did freak me out just the way it seemed to suddenly happen. Of course with some of those images you just don't see what the real conditions are. To answer other people's questions, a lot of them do seem to be jet boats...
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    Buying a used boat anxiety-talk me down.

    Good point. I definitely will stay on top of the maintenance. I'm just not going to be as concerned about it having a huge amount of pre-existing conditions.
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    Buying a used boat anxiety-talk me down.

    I think if you're buying a boat in this market you just going to pay more. It's where the market is right now, if you want the boat let people talk you down. Sometimes you get lucky and you are in a buyers market; sometimes you get unlucky and you're in a sellers market.
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    Boat submarining question

    I came across a video that showed several boats on seemingly smooth water or maybe going over the wake of another boat suddenly nose diving, filling the boat with water and potentially (though not in these videos) causing serious injury and boat damage. What freaks me out is that I cannot see...
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    Buying a used boat anxiety-talk me down.

    Thank you! I love the interior, it’s really well thought out.
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    Buying a used boat anxiety-talk me down.

    Mpi. I’ve read 220hp. It’s not as power dense as my old Johnson outboard but everyone to whom I spoke said it’s reliable and has good parts availability. It’s going to be weird not adding oil to the gas though lol.
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    Owners manual for 4.3 MPI with alpha-1 outdrive?

    amazon?
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    Buying a used boat anxiety-talk me down.

    lol!!
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    Owners manual for 4.3 MPI with alpha-1 outdrive?

    I just bought a 2016 Four Winds with a mercruiser 4.3 L MPI and an alpha out drive. I have an owners manual for the four winds, but it says to check the engine owners manual for the engine. I do not have an engine owners manual north of been able to find one that doesn't look like just a...
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