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    Why a basement garage is best

    Our first house had a basement. Half was finished and half was used as a garage. I had kept my boat in the garage and it stayed around 50 degrees all winter. We sold the house and bought a new one. The new house had a nice garage on the side of the house but if it was 20 degrees outside it was...
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    Anti freeze vs draining

    I keep my boat in our basement garage. I have not seen it below 52 degrees before except once when the garage door hit something and went back up. It was 28 that morning and scared me a little so I started running antifreeze through it. I have a tub I put under the drive. I also have a 110...
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    does low pitch prop on sterndrive = skiboat

    OK here is a complicated question I keep going round and round with. A friend has a wakeboard boat. It has a 400hp v drive. It pulls hard but pushes alot of water and tops out at around 40. It takes 400hp to push his boat to 40mph. I have a 23' Caravelle interceptor with a 300hp 350mag that tops...
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    Overloaded

    I see in the trailer towing section people speak of the dangers of overloading a tow vehicle. I never see people complain about overloading the boat. I saw a Yamaha 240 at the lake this weekend that looked like it would sink. He had several thousand pounds of ballast added to surf. This seems to...
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    Fog in gauge

    My depth gauge has fog on the inside glass. After a full day in the sun it is still there. Any way to remove it?
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    Low Pitch prop vs direct drive.

    My boat is a Caravelle Interceptor with a 350 mpi. A friend has a wakeboard boat with a 400hp vdrive. His boat will pull strong but is slow. My boat will hit 60 but won't stay on plane below 20. My prop is a 21p but I had an old 13p 4 blade laying around from a previous boat. I decided to try it...
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    Constant alarm at 5000rpm.

    I have an 08 Caravelle Interceptor 232 with a 350 mag. When I run down the river I get a constant alarm when I hit 5000rpm. I thought it may be the drive fluid level since I was trimming up at this speed. That is not it. I thought maybe the rev limiter but I have to slow all the way down to idle...
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    Interceptor alarm

    I have a Caravelle Interceptor with a 350 mag. When I run at wot I get an alarm. It sounds like the depth finder alarm. I start to loose power also. If I throttle back to idle the alarm continues until I shift to neutral. The boat is an 08. Is 5000 rpm over the rev limit. The tack goes to...
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    Bottom of hulll waxing Myth

    I frequently hear people say not to wax a hull bottom since it will wash off as soon as you run it. Weather it makes a difference or not performance wise I don't think it washes off. I put wax on the bottom of my boat and didn't polish it off. I didn't get a chance and thought since we were...
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    Overloaded vs Manufacturers recomendation.

    Another post got me thinking, we see people on here all the time getting blasted for towing 3550# with a vehicle rated to tow 3500# but never see people blasted for towing over 5000# without a WD hitch. All the manufacturers recomend a WD hitch for 5000+ but hardly anyone here uses one. What is...
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    Dogs gone

    We have a couple of outside dogs. A male and a female. The male is about 4 and the female about 2. Both about 75# and the male is the best dog we have ever had. His name is Gilligan. Both dogs have always had a wireless collar and they would not venture outside of the collars range. Even when...
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    Been removing bottom paint

    I have spent the last 2 days under my boat wet sanding the bottom paint off. Everything I have read about how bad a job it is was understated. I am using a air sander and water hose. I tried a 4000psi pressure washer and it wouldn't touch it. I am probably 1/3 of the way finished and man it...
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    How far away is too far to own a boat.

    We are really lucky where we live. I have 3 nice lakes within 10 min of my house and a couple more an hour away. We have Ft loudon, Tellico and Melton Hill. Watts Bar and Norris also. I think it must be a pain to drive several hours to get to a lake and wonder how far I would traver to have a...
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    Pulling Sea Ray 210 with Jetta TDI

    I saw a Jetta pulling a 210 Sea Ray yesterday. I recently bought a truck to pull my boat and I went by my insurance agent (State Farm) to give him the Vin. I asked him about the jetta and he said there are lots of idiots out there but it was perfectly legal. He said if that was one of his...
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    Does new engine turn you off.

    I noticed when looking at boats I tend to skip the adds with "New Engine" in them. Should this be a selling point, do owners think this is a selling point. I would be more interested in a boat with 400 hours on it than the same boat with a " New Engine" Do you guys tend to feel the same way.
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    What an IO is best at

    So I looked at a lot of boats lasts fall until we bought my boat and here is what I decided. Nothing beats an IO for tubing. We float for a wihle then tube for a while then float/ swim then tube then lunch then tube then float/ swim etc. We tried a friends Yamaha Jet boat but the kids hated the...
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    short exhaust bellow

    I bought a boat a couple months ago and it has a small rubber exhaust pipe. It doesn't connect to the outdrive so the exhaust comes out the prop, it makes it come out in front of the leg. This is designed this way. Any one have one of these and how does the sound compare to a prop exhaust?
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    Anyone buy saltwater boat. fo lake

    I bought a boat that was only used in saltwater. It is only a 2008 model but man did it look a lot older. I have been working on it for 3 months. Interior was faded and shot. All the snaps were coroded as well as the swim platform braces. I had a new interior put in and replaced the snaps. I...
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    Really bugs me, don't know why.

    There is a house I pass on my way to work. The guy there lives about 5 miles from me. Towards the end of summer I guess he bought a new or newer boat. It is a larger Sea Doo. One that looks like a real boat. The boat is red and he had it hooked to his truck which is also red. They are a perfect...
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    swim platform adhesive

    I have a Caravelle Interceptor 232. The swim platform was loose so I removed to repair. There was a thick bead of adhesive between the boat and platform that had pulled loose on the boat in places and on the platform in places. It was about 3/8" thick. I am ready to reinstall the platform but...
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