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The top-mounting remote throttle and shift controls on my 1990 Boston Whaler REVENGE 22 Walk-Through Whaler Drive were mounted to the laminate of the helm console with simple wood screws. No sealant was used. There was no backing plate. The fasteners were not through-bolted. However, in c.1990 a boa...

Many years ago, long before the internet, the web browser, and discussion forums, and back when, if you wanted to get together with other boaters, you attended a meeting of an organization like the U.S. Power Squadron or the Coast Guard Auxiliary, I recall attending a lecture given by a fellow from ...

Auto pilots with their own hydraulic actuator do not communicate with other steering devices. They just create their own hydraulic fluid pressure and flow which is introduced into the hydraulic steering system in parallel with the hydraulic pressure created by the helm pump. I have not heard of any ...

For some very good pictures of boating on Lake Michigan in the Fall with some high winds and waves, see

http://continuouswave.com/whaler/cetace ... age27.html

Like a lot of weather events forecasted these days, this storm seemed to not deliver the strength that was forecasted. In SE Michigan we were warned of 50-MPH winds. I suppose it blew 50-MPH at someplace for a few moments, but in my area we just had a breezy fall day. The wind in the storm that sank...

Software Radio Technology in the United Kingdom (SRT) have announced several new products for the automatic identification system (AIS) market. HF-AIS SRT has coined a new acronym: HF-AIS, which means high-fidelity automatic identification system. HF-AIS is described as new technology in reception a...

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Why does shifting into Reverse cause the engine to hydro-lock? The engine should still be running, there should still be pressure on the exhaust passages. The boat should not be making sternway if the shift into reverse occurred while you were on plane at "three-quarter speed." I'd assume ...

Usually you want the full-throttle engine speed to be in the upper half of the suggested range for normal boat operating conditions. If you normally operate with lots of fuel, a crew of two, and plenty of gear aboard, and the Johnson 150-HP OceanRunner only hits 4,500-RPM at full throttle with that ...

You can send other participants a private message. If you want to test that function, you can send me one. I will reply. Also, I sent you a private message to let you know this thread moved out of THE GAM. Send the participant a private message and ask for his email. I would suspect that anyone list...

...my US boat is registered with the CBP by name, registration number, owner, etc. (cheap $50 for 5 years)

By "CBP" do you mean a U.S. Custom and Border Patrol? Or some Canadian agency?

Please tell us more about the registration of your boat and what advantage it affords.

In many years of boating in the North Channel of Lake Huron and in Lake Huron's Georgian Bay, we have carried beer in the cooler of our small cuddy cabin boat. We have never been stopped or interdicted by any on-the-water agent of the Canadian government in any fashion. Only twice in 25 years have w...

If DON'S DAUNTLESS can hit 44.7-MPH then she'd be passing my boat. That is very fast for that 17-footer.

Wet sand with WD40. Also try hydraulic steering fluid. Whenever I've seen hydraulic steering fluid spill on black vinyl, it seems to be very good at restoring the color.

Painting the sump with anti-fouling paint--great idea!

I would like to see Mercury produce a more potent version of their 2.1L in-line 4-cylinder 4-stroke engine. You should contact them and let them know. Did they mention anything about this engine in the presentation? I suspect that if there were any plans for immediate introduction of products that ...

Brunswick needs to build on the hugely successful FourStroke 150 HP model ... It is great you have some ideas for Brunswick to improve their corporate profits, but I am more interested in what Brunswick has to say in their presentation. Was there anything in there about this engine? I am sure if th...

A 90-mile ocean passage in a boat with a 40-HP engine--how much fuel was it carrying? Usually a 13-footer wouldn't have more than 12-gallons of fuel aboard. To make 90-miles on 12-gallons you'd need 7.5-MPG. I wonder if the thief worked out the fuel economy and how much fuel he'd need before he stol...

I have tested over a dozen propellers on my boat. The propeller I have been running for the past five years is a Mercury MIRAGE plus 17-pitch. In all my testing I found one propeller that was marginally better, but I did not feel like spending $600 to get it. The difference was so slight, I did not ...

Yesterday Brunswick gave Wall Street a three-hour presentation to show their businesses to investors. The presentation was webcast. I don't think a replay is available right now, but a comprehensive PDF of 150 slides that were shown can be downloaded from: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?t...

Here is some advice from the old forum: http://continuouswave.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/008234.html I also have to observe that BLUEWATERPIRATE ran a MIRAGE propeller for more than 5,000-hours on his OptiMax 225 and VENTURA 210 combination, and, when he got a new engine, he kept the MIRAGE propeller. See ...

Generally you don't get much of an option about selecting the diameter of a propeller in a particular line of standard propellers. The manufacturer selects the diameter that works well with the pitch in his various lines of propellers. Diameter becomes a factor in propeller selection when the propel...

The most impressive example of open source is the hyper-text mark-up language or HTML, which is the basis for the modern world wide web and graphical web browsers. When HTML was developed, it was completely open. And all browsers provided an option to see the source code that created the HTML page b...

The Garmin echoMAP CHIRP products with model numbers ending in 4 are also bundled with the most expensive transducer, making them attractive, too. I just noticed that with the echoMAP CHIRP series, Garmin appears to have included NMEA-2000 support. The earlier lower-tier echoMAP products did not hav...

Why not give us a link or a URL to a webpage that shows the pump? That will help readers to understand the pump being discussed. Maybe the pump we are discussing looks like this: http://newcontent.westmarine.com/content/images/catalog/large/10947414.jpg If it does, it looks quite clear that you snap...

Describing an AIS ATON as a waypoint is a good analogy. The Coast Guard is putting important navigation waypoints onto everyone's chart plotter--well, everyone with an AIS receiver and a chart plotter that can display the AIS ATON markers properly. I am awaiting the operation of several AIS ATONs in...

Lowrance apparently has a new product line coming that will be called "Hook." Information on it is embargoed until December 2015.

I have not tried them, but I was told that BOUNCE-brand dryer sheets were effective in repelling small animals from taking up habitat in a boat stored for the winter.

Good data from manufacturers about outboard engine horsepower, torque, and fuel consumption is hard to obtain. We only have the data used in this discussion because someone in the audience at the dealer reveal snapped a picture of it. I don't think these graphs have been published elsewhere by the m...

Most surprising to me is the modest improvement in fuel consumption at full-throttle in the modern engines compared to the traditional engines. Many people think that modern engines are achieving a miracle in reduced fuel consumption, but they are not doing it at full throttle. The big improvement i...

Many small centrifugal sump pumps are mounted by affixing a circular base plate to the hull. The pump assembly is then snapped into the base plate. A close visual inspection of the pump mounting should reveal if the pump you are trying to remove is using a separate mounting base. Give more details a...

For supercharged engines, maybe divide by 9 is closer.

There is an old standard for a rule of thumb for estimating outboard engine fuel consumption, dating back to the days of the conventional two-cycle outboard engine with carburetors, that says the fuel consumption at full throttle in gallons-per-hour will be the horsepower divided by ten. For example...

The kickstarter project is to create a piece of hardware that can connect legally to NMEA-2000. The SIGNAL K guys probably already know how to translate the NMEA-2000 parameters to the SIGNAL K parameters. They need a legitimate device that can connect to NMEA-2000 only for the moment, that is, for ...

The latest in marine electronic data communication protocols is SIGNAL K . SIGNAL K is a very interesting development. It is an initiative undertaken by a group of people who want to develop a marine data communication protocol for shipboard electronic devices that is an OPEN SOURCE project. This is...

I notice that in Lake Michigan there is a new AIS synthetic ATON signal from the PORTS DES MORTS Entrance lighted bell buoy, located east of the Door Peninsula in Wisconsin. This AIS ATON is MMSI 993672158 and is probably being transmitted by AIS Base Station 3669779 north of Sister Bay, Wisconsin.

I am not familiar with the Mercury SPITFIRE line of aluminum four-blade propellers, but since they are available in a very wide range of low pitches, 10-11-12-13-14-15, there should be one that is just right for your 60-HP application. Compare at: https://www.mercurymarine.com/en/us/propellers/elite...

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Based on the pricing GARMIN shows at this moment, it looks like the best value is in the models ending in numeral 3. You get a transducer and enhanced cartography for less than in any other bundle or option. It sounds like Garmin is really going after the inland lakes anglers with this pricing struc...

GARMIN has pre-announced a new product line of chart plotter, GNSS receiver, SONAR, and multi-function display devices they are calling their echoMap CHIRP series. As far as I can tell, Garmin is using the acronym CHIRP to mean a frequency-modulated pulse-compression SONAR method. These products wil...

No matter what opinion you obtain, either from a representative of the government of Canada or from other readers, it will be prudent to check with the authorities of the park where you plan to anchor your boat and sleep on it overnight inside the park jurisdiction. If the local park authorities thi...

It is also interesting to note that the Evinrude E-TEC G2 or 74-degree V6 engine delivers its best fuel economy at ICOMIA mode 2. That is at an engine speed of 0.4 of maximum. If we figure maximum is roughly 5,500-RPM, then mode 2 speed is around 5500 x 0.4 = 2,200-RPM. This suggests that when runni...

During the dealer meeting in 2014 when Evinrude revealed their new E-TEC V6 74-degree engine, a slide was presented that showed the brake specific fuel consumption of the new engine at various loads. The slide looked like this: EtecFuelEffChart805x686.jpg In this bar graph presentation, a lower bar ...

Here is an excerpt from the press release from GARMIN that introduces their new software QUICKDRAW CONTOURS: Garmin International Inc...today announced Quickdraw Contours, a free, easy-to-use software feature that lets mariners instantly create personalized [high definition] fishing maps with one-fo...

Oil System for E-TEC G2 In the E-TEC GEN 2 200-HP and larger engines, the oil system is significantly changed. The new engines provide for an under-cowling oil reservoir. In most cases this will eliminate the use of a remote oil tank. A remote tank, however, can still be used, and connections are p...

The gear case used with the E-TEC 74-degree V6 (G2) engine is quite unusual. It is called the SLX Gear Case. Let's look at in in this annotated cutaway view: annotatedGearCaseCutaway.jpeg The SLX gear case contains an electric motor actuator that operates the shift linkage. The electric motor is con...

At the dealer rollout meeting in 2014 when Evinrude revealed the new E-TEC 74-degree V6 engine, they put on a very good and very technical slide show presentation. Some slides from that presentation have been captured in photographs and explanatory captions provided in a short summary of a portion o...

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