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If it were me, I'd just add the oil to the tank before filling at the gas station and let the road agitation do the rest. Modern 2-cycle oils seem much easier to mix than in olden days.

Not really a Halloween song, but Alice Cooper’s Black Widow is pretty good, especially with the spoken intro by Vincent Price/

Make sure you thread is UV-resistant. We had some upholstery repairs done and the shop didn’t use UV-safe thread and now our seams are splitting.

When I had my engine out of the boat, the stupidest thing I did was listen to people who advised against putting a drain hose on the oil pan. Every year when I'm fiddling around with sucking the oil out via the dipstick, I think of how much easier it would be to just pull a hose out of the...

Winterized the boat this weekend. As I get older, it’s getting harder and harder to do this myself. Even after adding draining plugs to the PS cooler and the large water pump hose, draining the block- and getting the plugs back in - is getting harder and harder. I don’t like the looks of an...

How much is he paying you to haul it away? That boat looks really rough...

I turn on the NOCO about now and leave it on until Spring.

NOCO Genius chargers are great. Turn it on and forget it until Spring when it's time to go boating again.

I didn’t see any restoration threads of that boat here at iboats, but here’s one from fiberglass.com. Not sure what year it is, but it might be helpful. https://www.fiberglassics.com/forum/member-projects/116752-larson-lapline-all-american.html

I heated my garage with propane heaters when I was glassing my boat. Unless you’re running a chopper gun and are putting extreme amounts of vapors in the air, you’re not going to have a problem with a propane heater. The MEKP is the really flammable stuff, so I just make sure that I opened it...

Yeah, the bout of COVID I had pre-vaccine was WAY worse than the two bouts I had after the vaccine.

Composite decking does not have much strength. I'd use plywood and just make sure it's treated well with epoxy or paint or something similar.

Dino oil is fine. Synthetic oil is fine. Just make sure the oil has sufficient zinc and is of the proper viscosity and all will be fine. Synth oil will not cause your seals to leak, etc.

That debonder looks pretty nifty, but for less than $10 (2/3 the cost of the debonding agent), you could just replace the whole flange and plug.

When I reassembled and tested my boat after restoration, I found a leak and it was exactly as you describe. It was tricky because the water ran down the Y-pipe. It took a bit of searching to find it was leaking from the rubber boots on the elbows.

Exterior grade plywood is fine. If you need something thicker than what your local store carries, you can laminate sheets together using Titebond III any kind of exterior-rated construction adhesive (e.g., PL Premium).

I’ve had it three times, and it’s never been much fun. First was before the vaccine was available and it was the sickest I’ve been (except maybe for pneumonia). I’ll be happy if I never have COVID again.

Good luck, all you Florida folks. We're pulling for you!

I'd think the swim platform would be your best bet, but you would probably need to fiberglass in some kind of large backing plate underneath to distribute the load. I'm no engineer, but it would probably be good to find someone who could calculate the load exerted by the base when you have a 200...

I thought I read recently that solid PVC was prone to substantial changes in dimensions with temperatures. In fact, folks who installed solid PVC trim on their houses were having all sorts of problems because the PVC would swell and shrink in BOTH length and width as it cycled through hot and...