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We anchored at the usual place today. Plenty of sun and calm seas. After a while we noticed this boat across the sandbar. Appeared to be a man and a woman on the boat. I guess they didn't know about tides :noidea: At 5 O'clock, it looked like they had about 4 hours of tide until they...

Since our summer house is starting to look more like a boatyard, we decided to get some big (100 gallon) 'tubs' (actually farm troughs) to run the engines during prep work, etc. Sort of a necessity with my brothers Yammy F-350's as they have 2 water pickup areas on the lower unit, so the...

Not the kind that you would see on YouTube, but . . . Yesterday was 'boat launch day' for my 33 ft. Formula. After dozens of hours of maintenance and prep work the boat was ready for its seasonal launch. The boat hauler was scheduled to arrive at 3:00 to haul the boat down to the boat ramp a...

You can never have too many anodes on a Bravo 3 outdrive, it seems, particularly when using/keeping the boat in salt water. I have been getting a bit of corrosion each season on the Starboard side outdrive gimbal ring. I probably need to do a rebuilding on the transom assembly and make sure...

I have the combo fuel pump and sea water pump on my Mercruiser 7.4's. (yes, wonderful) . . . I was changing out the impellers and was having trouble getting the impeller off of the shaft. So, I decided to take out the whole pump assembly. In the process I disassembled the fuel pump from...

Usually I buy things as I go through the couple of months leading up to boating season. This year I decided to at least try to get it all done at once, so I am not hampered by not having the stuff when I need it. Today was the day, I ordered some stuff on line . . . including iBoats . . . and...

A bit of a story about our primary towing vehicle . . . The Admiral uses our 2004 Cadillac Escalade as her daily car. Last Friday morning the water pump crapped out, spewed AF all over the place in the engine compartment and shorted things out in the electrical system, trashing the battery, all...

After over 8 years of use, my 'mid-2009' Macbook Pro is reaching 'end of life'. So, the Admiral said "you should get a new computer" . . . say no more. :D I did a bit of armchair shopping and then ordered a custom configured MacBook Pro 13 i7 Processor 16 GB RAM 512 GD SSD Thunderbolt 3...