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    Towing guidelines?

    I got the pleasure of being towed back to the dock yesterday after running out of gas on the river and while sitting in my boat I came up with a few questions. When being towed should you have your drive or O/B up or down? If down should you turn it with the towing vessel or leave it amidships?
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    Anyone every use aAbu Garcia Drag Master 3?

    I picked one up at a yard sale today on a ugly stick lite and a large plano tackle box for $10. I tried looking it up online and can't find any info about it. It seems to cast and reel just as well as my Cardinal 304i but I haven't got to actually fish with it yet. Anyone have any opinions/info...
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    SC fishing problems

    I've been out numerous times on the boat and from the dock areas and I have yet to manage to catch anything except for 2 turtles and a 3 foot gator. I've tried worms (real and fake), spoons, baby shad, etc and have yet to get anything to bite that was big enough to keep (2 8" stripe bass and 1...
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    Trim pump problems 1987 Yamaha ProV 150

    Picked up the boat about a month ago and it runs great but on the last few outings the trim has been acting up. It will work fine sometimes but other times it will trim up or down very slowly, stop while trimming, or just not work at all. When it trims slowly or not at all I can mechanically...
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    Is this trailer big enough for this boat?

    Looking at a boat in the area and wanted to get some other opinions on something. The boat is a 23' sea ray CC with a 5.7 I/O. The boat hangs off the trailer a fair bit and I think it should be on a dual axle vice a single axle. Am I right?
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    Grr. Black smoke from the exhaust

    Well after my third attempt to take the boat out and having it die (again) after starting to drive it to the dock from the trailer I took the boat home. It had fouled the plugs again (same thing it did the last 2 times). I leaned the carb out a half turn and had it running on the muffs in the...
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    Picked up a boat with a VP230 have ?'s

    I just picked up a 1993 Excel 18?? today for $300. The boat interior and floor is completely shot/rotten but the trailer was in excellent shape (going to use it for my boat). Well the guy I bought it from called me about a hour later saying someone had just called him about it and they wanted to...
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    Starting problems. Bad head gasket?

    Well I came back from deployment and tried to start my boat. It wouldn't even turn over but the starter was trying. I pulled the plugs out and found that the rearmost cylinder and the one forward of it had some in it as well. I remembered that I hadn't drained the motor but since it was over...
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    Yay it runs! But...

    Got my 3.0 OMC running (beautifully) today and after getting the idle set to ~700 like it's supposed to be I wanted to test that the trans was good and would spin the prop. I was planning to just get forward and reverse motion to verify proper operation but the motor would start bogging down...
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    Tilt/Trim motor/reservoir interchangeability

    Greetings all. I recently picked up a 1992 Sunbird Corsair with a 3.0 OMC Cobra I/O. I know the Sunbirds are considered a low end boat but it's a start to see if I really want to get into boating seriously. Well my issue is that the PO had removed the Tilt/Trim motor/reservoir assembly. I've...
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