Recent content by enfish

That part kind of sounds like a spun prop hub. The other part sounds like a shift cable/linkage issue.

It's not really going against the science. It's just moving the radiation point down 2 feet closer to the water. The line of sight to the horizon from that change is probably less than 1 mile, assuming the antenna is mounted on your hard top. There's enough atmospheric variation from day to day...

I'm guessing the frequency bands are so far part they don't really interfere with each other. Radar is in the 2-12 GHz range while VHF is 150-180 MHz range. Now if you were trying to run a Wi-Fi internet router next to a radar, you'd have some major problems... :)

I've been lucky so far with multiple tuna from 130 lbs to my personal best at 207 lbs. Most of the big ones were hooked deep drop vertical jigging at night with 130 lb braid connected to ~100 feet of 100 lb mono to a swivel with a 300 lb bite leader. Though the 207 lber was hooked on a flylined...

Many years ago I was offshore trolling for tuna. I took out a tuna feather from the tackle box, uncoiled the leader, and tossed it overboard before I attached the leader to the main line. I didn't like that feather anyway... :D

Yep, RP knot on the boat because it's quick and easy. FG knot at home because it's stronger and thinner so it doesn't get hung up in the guides, but takes longer and is more difficult to tie.

Congrats on that fish! Fish of a lifetime from your own boat! I have a bunch of buddies in Santa Cruz who come down every year for a 2.5 day trip out of San Diego to catch big bluefin. Of course this year on our trip, the BFT we got were all smaller. They all went home and took their own boats...

Same issue with the seats on my 208. If I want to spin them around to face backwards, they have to be spun with the chair backs inward... i.e port side chair spins CCW, starboard side chair spins clockwise. I cannot sit in the chair and spin it from forward facing to rear facing.

I think 2 to 1 ratio of period to seas is a decent rule of thumb, depending on your comfort level. My anecdotal story for the seaworthiness of these hulls is one time I got stuck making the 30 mile crossing from Catalina Island to Dana Point CA is a small craft advisory that was not forecasted...

A compression check is an easy thing to do before you start tearing things apart. If it's the 175TXRT, I've got the same motor. That's not an OX66. You may want to edit your original post so you don't get a bunch of info on the OX66 if that's not what you have. Normal cold start for me is...

Off topic here, but my company manufactures equipment that is battery powered. Because of shipping regulations via air, shipping batteries installed in something is not a problem, but shipping batteries stand-alone, especially if they are lithium, is very difficult. Lithium batteries need a ton...

Have you installed a new fishfinder recently? I had a FF one time that you could hear the tranducer pulses on the speakers. The head unit was actually putting out EMI over the air that the speaker wires picked up like an antenna. If I wrapped the head unit in aluminum foil, the pulses went...

I'm thinking prop torque too. If the trim tab on the trailing edge of the cavitation plate isn't adjusted properly, the result is usually a list to one side or the other. It's likely that if the motor was truly centered up, your boat would be pulling to the right. But you're putting slight...

It's either/or. There is a mechanical choke on the cowling and an electronic choke that is activated by a momentary toggle switch at the helm. I use the mechanical choke for cold starts. The electronic choke doesn't provide enough choke when the motor is cold. It will eventually start, but it...

Just to note, that motor is NOT an OX66. I have the same model and year motor, 1995 175TXRT... It's the first generation Yamaha Saltwater Series. I knew those photos looked familiar... And, your startup routine sounds about normal. My normal cold start is advance the throttle in neutral, pull...