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    Adding texture / coloring gel coat

    I'm going to be rolling on textured gel coat for my deck surface and I want it to be roughly "fighting lady yellow". Does anyone have any ideas on which pigments to use and whether or not they will be relatively UV stable? I have used some liquid pigments from Fiberglass Hawaii in the past, but...
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    El Nino fishing?

    Just curious, are people seeing a big change in the fishing so far this year? I heard that a lot of the boats going out of Newport and San Diego are already bringing in good counts of yellow tail. Water still seems cold, but people are crediting El Nino. My boat is under the knife for the next...
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    Gill/ OB transom brackets... Yes or No?

    I'm in the process of re-building my transom, and I have this crazy idea that I can't get out of my head. I want to either make or purchase an 18 inch outboard setback bracket so that I can raise the height of my transom and increase speed/ fuel economy. The boat is just over 19 feet long, so I...
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    19' CC Rebuild/Refresh

    I bought this 19' trophy center console a few months back in pretty good condition. It has an oil injected 100 HP merc on it. The wiring was all completely shot and it needed a few tweaks here and there to get it out in the ocean, but it is finally to the point where I can take it out for a day...
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    Night fishing

    Its getting dark pretty early these days and its getting hard to stake out some daylight and get out fishing. I have zero experience night fishing, but I can't seem to think of any reason why it wouldn't be some fun. Does anyone have any experience night fishing off of southern California? I'd...
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    EPIRB- Recommendations?

    I'm in the market for an EPIRB. I really hope that I don't run into anything too serious out there, but winter weather is just starting to set in here in SoCal and I have been spending some time 25+ miles out. Does anyone have any recommendations for an EPIRB that won't cost more than my boat...
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    Chum tips?

    I'm heading up to Point Conception this weekend and I want to try laying down a chum slick while I'm up there (maybe drag in a thresher or mako) Does anyone have any recipes that seem to work? I think that with the water temps where they are, I would mostly be gunning for thresher, and mako...
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    Voltage Regulator- please help me solve this mystery!

    After having a bunch of electrical issues, I think that I might have fried the the volatage regulator in my merc outboard. Its 1997 100 hp oil injected. I searched the parts fiche by model number and year, and it shows a 5 wire model ( 1 red wire).... The one that I just fried is a 6 wire model...
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    wires are melting!!!!

    Hopefully someone can help me here because I am stumped! The background is that I just had to do a complete re-wire of the whole boat... literally every single wire with the exception of the motor harness. The PO used house wire and duct tape :mad: I moved my batteries (1 starter, and 1 deep...
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    Good way of testing a Solenoid?

    Hey guys, this could be a really dumb question, but does anyone have a quick and dirty way of testing a solenoid? Ordinarily I would get my brother to use the multimeter while I tried to crank the motor, but he can't come help me out until tomorrow and I really want to get the part ordered...
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    Rebuilding a splashwell

    Sorry for the lengthy post here, but I'm really in over my head. I recently bought an 1984 Trophy center console to fix up and make into a (somewhat) seaworthy fishing boat. I had it out a few times last weekend and overall I was pretty pleased with how it handled, especially after hearing...
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