My Slipmate wrecked both his I/O drives on a rocky bottom and they need to be replaced.
His boat is a 2004 Four Winn’s 328 Vista. New, the drives are $15k a piece. His boat isn’t worth $30k so new drives are problematic.
I’m looking for two used or rebuilt ones for his boat. Any suggestions?
This is a strange one. Early reports had them leaving The Yards Marina where I keep my boat and heading across the river. Three young guys from Afghanistan who probably did not know how to swim and not wearing life jackets. Why they fell into the water is being investigated...
Few details:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/people-killed-boat-fire-california-santa-cruz-island
Update:
Reported to be a dive boat. Strange it is out at 3 am. I'm guessing there had to be an explosion to kill that many...
Stuart Brown published a series of photos on Fox today he took that captured the tragedy allegedly last year. What's crazy when you see the photos is the boat did a 360 by itself. I can't tell if the people in the water were on the boat. Allegedly, there were 6 people on board the Waterdog...
I know we have had this discussion on occasion but I thought I would share a video which captures why buying the right filter can make a difference with the life of your engine. Keep in mind that your engine can have upwards of 60 psi of oil pressure in the filter which means that if you go...
Many of you have contacted Restoration Marine about laminates used by Sea Ray on cabinets from 2004 models on. For most of these boats, Sea Ray used Leeuwenburgh Fineer BV out of Norway. Their manufacturing process creates a real wood veneer on a polycarbonate substrate. We do not stock these...
I can't recall a season where so many first time boaters appeared on CSR. I think it's great but it seems to run counter intuitive to the theory of people losing interest in boating. Perhaps Jim can weigh in with numbers of new users.
It was painful to read this report.
-In the case of the USS Fitzgerald the Bridge crew lost situational awareness and could not follow orders.
-In the case of the USS McCain, the CO gave an order to his Helmsman to transfer Propulsion to an adjacent station. The Helmsman unknowingly...
I have restated the question that has been commented on for the past few days. After 10 unsuccessful tries, the Iphone will delete/scramble the encryption key rendering data stored on the phone useless. The FBI seeks to turn this feature off, enabling them with a properly issued subpoena to...
Yikes!!! This one sounds really odd. Went down in 1000' of water.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-sinking-yacht-rescue-follo-20160126-story.html
This one has me stumped to the point where I may have to drill holes to find out what is really going on.
Four days ago I pulled the hatches in the Salon on my boat and found 1.5" of water in the bottom of the forward bilge which is not supposed to have any water in it. My first suspect was...