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  1. dingbat

    Delamination on hardtop

    I have a couple of places where the gelcoat has, or is, starting to delaminate on the hardtop. Most of the delamination has taken place around a couple of holes the PO filled with 5200 and water got under the gelcoat. I drilled out the 5200 and cored the hole with wooden dowels and epoxy last...
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    Motion Damping Thrust Vector Control System for Marine Craft

    A friend of a friend helped in the rigging and the inventor is looking to team with an outboard manufacturer. He says that it allows the boat to run flat with no real impact from the waves and in turns the boat stays flat like a rail car. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXGJ38g7ac
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    Replacing lower units and stainless props

    You hear guys all the time saying things like ?if you hit something with aluminum 90% of the time all you will have to replace is the prop!!!! hit it with stainless and most of the time you will be fixing your entire lower end or outdrive.? How many guys running stainless props have needed to...
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    RPM question

    Full throttle operating range 5000 - 6000 RPM Prop for WOT or peak HP? There is a 500 RPM difference between the two.
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    Adding an ACR to dual battery setup

    Currently running a dual battery setup with a 3 way switch. Been working well for quite sometime but getting tired of messing with the switch and will install the Blue seas Add a battery kit. Both batteries are Grp. 27 deep cycles. The switched ?boat? accessories are currently wired to the...
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    97 200HP Ocean Pro - erratic idle RPM

    Ran it yesterday for 10 hours w/o any noticeable problems. Trolled for 8 of those hours w/o any symptoms. Go out this morning to flush it and its acting up on the hose. Start it up, it sits at high idle @ 1500 rpm then drops down to it's normal 1100-1200 RPM. It will sit there for a couple of...
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    92 Mercury Force 40 HP Water pump

    I?m helping a friend with a cooling problem. No surprise, the impeller was pretty well shot, but we did not find any gaskets on the WP assembly either. We checked the factory parts list and it does not list any gaskets for the assembly. I find it hard to believe that they did not seal the pump...
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    Unprecedented White Marlin Action

    Maryland Anglers Seeing Unprecedented Marlin Action Near Ocean City Annapolis, Md. (September 2, 2010) ? Over the past 10 days, fisherman in the waters off Ocean City have experienced a frenzy of white marlin action. ?It appears the ?perfect storm? of conditions came together off the...
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    You might need a little bigger boat if......

    Diamonds Shoals, N.C as of 10:50 am EDT on 09/02/2010: Wind Direction (WDIR): ENE ( 70 deg true ) Wind Speed (WSPD): 21.4 kts Wind Gust (GST): 25.3 kts Wave Height (WVHT): 12.8 ft Dominant Wave Period (DPD): 15 sec Average...
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    Wireless kill switches

    Using a lanyard is impractical in my application so I need some feedback on wireless kill switches. Anyone using one?
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    fish finder arches

    Supposedly, the arch you see on the screen come from the difference in density from a fish?s air bladder and it?s body. But what if the fish doesn't have an air bladder? How do you see them then? Are they invisible? :confused:
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    FLIR system buys Raymarine

    http://www.tradeonlytoday.com/home/504366-flir-systems-acquires-raymarine
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    tach compatability question

    I have an old Kar Check tach/ dwell meter. Can I use this to check the RPM on an outboard with CDI ignition? The motor is a 1997 Ocan Pro
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    looking for a new Visa Rewards card

    I've been a United Mileage Plus customer for years. I used to do 75-100K miles a year of international travel plus another $40 -$50K of personal expenses. Don't do nearly that much international travel anymore and United has pretty much doubled the number of points required for a free flight...
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    Any bets our "its just sad" guy's boat fairs better than these?

    Reports of several other collapses in the area as well.
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    1997 Ocean Pro Regulator/ Rectifier

    Did a lot of trolling today. Motor running perfect 1200 rpm for several hours then just shut off like someone turned the key. The motor fired right back up and trolled another hour or so without further incident. On the way back to the ramp I noticed the tach acting erratically. Last maybe 3-4...
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    How many miles a year do you tow your boat?

    How many miles a day do you tow your boat season 1. 0-100 2. 100- 500 2. 500 -1,000 3. 1,000 -5,000 4. 5,000 - 10,000
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    Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel Complex

    We?re heading down to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel the week before Christmas to jig Striped Bass by boat. The fish average maybe 7-15 lbs. but fish in 25-30 lbs. range are fairly common. Fish running 45-60 lbs. are not common but there is certainly a possibility that you might tangle with...
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    Faulty Equiptment and Operator inexperience take top spots

    Here is the 2008 report on boating accidents in Maryland published by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Faulty equipment (13%) and Operator inexperience (12%) are citied as the leading causes of accidents accounting for 25% of all accidents. Accidents caused by wakes (10%), weather...
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    Brake caliper bleed screws

    My brake calipers came with the bleed screws mounted in 1/8? NPT brass adaptors. The problem is that the bleed screws leak so bad around the threads that I can't get the brakes bled completely. If I used the tubing method you can see air being drawn into the tube from around the threads. If I...
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