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    Where to find quarts of bottom paint

    I use the same quart size for my RIB each year.
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    Cost to install Koehler/Westerbeke Generator on Sea Ray 280/290

    Citi Marine offers a Phasir generator kit to do exactly this. Includes a Racor filter and 10 gallon fuel tank with a 4.5kW diesel generator for about $9.8k. $11.5k if you want a sound shield. Uses a Kubota motor. Probably don’t need more than that on a 28 footer...
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    Ship hits the Fan and evidence wind farms attract more than birds

    You're likely right. US ACE got huge pushback for a plan to dump Connecticut River dredge spoils in designated dredge spoil locations. And that's stuff that was already in the water.
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    Take me out to the ball game.........

    I like those kind of seats. When I was dating my wife we had season tickets to Yankee Stadium (the old one). They were great seats in Sections 2 and 4 in the upper deck. You could see every play unobstructed and had a great view of how the ball was travelling. It didn't matter if someone...
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    Buying and selling private

    Sometimes a boat just falls on you and upsets your plans. I had that happen with mine. Was thinking about moving up from a 34 to a 37. A guy that liked my model and wanted to check one out contacted me and I gave him a tour. We worked out a deal and sold it in September. We planned to take...
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    Ship hits the Fan and evidence wind farms attract more than birds

    We haven't buried raw garbage in our landfill in years. It get hauled to a waste to energy incinerator, then the ash is hauled back and landfilled. I wonder if that ash could be safely dumped at sea? Its going to have to go somewhere.
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    Ship hits the Fan and evidence wind farms attract more than birds

    There are a couple of wind projects in the waters off of Long Island, NY. Two are active, with the state having created a a bunch of lease areas. My neighbor's son went to SUNY Maritime, and is now working on the service ships going out to the wind turbines. He's making BANK on these boats...
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    Battery hookup during storage

    I used to plug in to shore power from time to time and let the on-board battery charger take care of things. If you can do this it's a great way to go. This year the new marina owner is strictly prohibiting ANY use of their 110AC outlets. So I'm doing 2 things. I got a small-ish solar...
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    Deodorant......all over

    The USC campus was very nice. My son really liked it. He said it was perfect except for the distance from home in NY. Also not sure about strength of the engineering program compared to other schools where he's been accepted such as RIT, WPI, RPI, and Binghamton. USC gave him in-state tuition...
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    Deodorant......all over

    Shoot, I'm like paper white compared to you. I got pink just walking around on a tour of University of South Carolina last weekend, and it was only March.
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    EV Highfield….. we are doomed

    Oh, come on now. A Duffy is truly a wine cruiser for just floating along. Tops out at 6 mph. At least the Highfield has potential for some actual fun and to be used as a tender. Tops at 25 mph which feels really fast that low to the water. I could see someone with a dock on a lake using...
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    When did Sea Ray drop the fishing boat line

    It's not a huge boat. 8.5' beam. It's based on the hull of the 260 Sundancer. The lower cabin layout is the same as the 260 DA. The difference is the deck layout. There were complaints that the hull was very tippy. If you didn't use your trim tabs properly (or they failed) it would tend to...
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    When did Sea Ray drop the fishing boat line

    THT guys have a very different take. They seem to hate Sea Ray just on principle. Most of them seem to want to get away from family to go fishing, not bring them along. The SR Amberjack models were a nice way to combine both for someone not a hard-core fisherman. I can tell you bringing a...
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    When did Sea Ray drop the fishing boat line

    The 270 and 290 Amberjacks had those features. Or at least could be spec'd with them. The default for the 270 was the single captain's chair, then added the optional fishing package: tubular arch, rocket launchers, 26-gallon live baitwell, prep station, cockpit toe rail, seawater washdown, and...
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    When did Sea Ray drop the fishing boat line

    Sea Ray's most recent "fishing" boats used the Amberjack nameplate. They were not true fishing boats, but more existing Sundancer or EC models that were adapted to have some fishing features. Kind of like a hybrid cruiser/utility boat. The 340 Amberjack was made from 2001-2003. It had much...
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