Recent content by D.B.

I am about to have this done right after the first of the month We are order the panel from FP Marine as well.

Had a first happen to me this past Sunday. We had been in the Trump Boat Parade and got back into the slip and got everything cleaned up and battened down. We had to go home Sunday night because yours truly had to work Labor Day. I get a call that night about 10:30 from one of the lucky one that...

Just like ours. Ours is the wide body and had plenty of room.

Well, we were able to slide it right out and it went through the cabin door. But we have the older 280 with the 10.5 beam. It was the height that didn’t fit going back. We lined it up a used a Dewalt jig saw against a two inch piece of flat bar to make a straight cut. Then put a piece of brass...

Yes, we have it's the Norcold np751. It says that it's a direct hook up, but we had to make a 1/4 inch cut to make it fit. We also got a piece of copper grate to place alone the bottom.

In the plumbing dept.

I went to home depot and got that reinforced clear tubing and ran it from the seacock to the strainer and then from the strainer to the pump. double clamped it and its been doing fine.

A few years back we chartered a 48' Sea Ray with a single diesel in Grand Cayman. It did fine with a single, I would have never guessed they would have built one like that. But that got me fired up to get another boat.

I got counter rotating drives in March. It's not bad a low speed 1500 rpms get me 8.8 mph. But I still struggle backing it in the slip.

The tricky part is getting down between those engines. But that is going to be my next project.

It never stops does it? We need to check our bilge pumps too. Got one working, but not sure about the direct wired one.

Thank you. We went down yesterday and played with the boat. The shift unit is a mercruiser quicksilver 3000 and it looks like it has a removable cover on the front. I am definitely gonna have to fool with it as I had one helluva time getting it back into the slip.

My sterndrives were replaced in March 2018 and the shift box was also replaced. I bought the boat like 15 days later and I find that they are stiff to the point of having to really work to accelerate. I have several Sea Rays on my dock and two of the guys have made comments about the shift box...