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    Cockpit depth measurement?

    By raising the deck on the larger boats, they can eliminate some of the backflow scupper issues which plague the smaller ones. For fishermen, there is such a thing as too much cockpit depth, so they have to find a happy medium.
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    265 X water intrusion

    Wire a light, and/or an alarm to that float switch circuit, so that you will know how often, and for how long the events are happening. It's a good thing to have, even if you don't have a problem.
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    Deck Drain Hose

    Not sure what brand they carry, but I used the inch and a half white VAC from my local Ace Hardware, when I replaced my deck drains. The fit was so loose that I could not stop a steady drip when it was in the water, although it was heated and double clamped on both ends. I replaced it with their...
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    Bow light replacement

    FLW, check your PM.
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    Removing Thru Hulls for resealing

    Probably comes in a T model as well.
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    Removing Thru Hulls for resealing

    I was removing the original GW white plastic through hulls, which broke apart, and had to be removed in pieces. The socket was mostly for tightening the replacement bronze through hulls.
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    Removing Thru Hulls for resealing

    I used an old socket that fit inside the opening, notched it with an angle grinder, worked like a charm.
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    Wire from console to port side of 306

    I'm guessing you re putting it on the stern. You have to have a pretty large cable chase on a 306, a 2-3 inch pvc pipe from the battery area to the helm area.
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    Windless on a 180 sportsman?

    Picture of your pulpit area? Or bow, if no pulpit.
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    Yamaha 300 HP not full going down

    "Seems grease needs to happen every other time we go out." Does it happen every time, or occasionally? My first thought was also trim limit sender. Put them down as far as they will go, and then loosen the manual pressure release screw on the side of the bracket, and see if they go further.
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    Dash panel removal to get to Gages on a 2008 226 Seafarer

    Those must be some old pictures! Everyone better grab a copy, as no one has ever seen dirt on KY’s boat before?;) Better known for his sparkling bilges.
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    Updating 1988 242G

    Do you have fluid in the reservoir up to the full line. Bennetts are pretty simple. If you did not know Tabman, from Bennett marine, he was one of boatings’ real assets. Unfortunately, he passed away a few years ago, but you can still find his forum by searching “Tabman forum” on Google. I don’t...
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    Dash panel removal to get to Gages on a 2008 226 Seafarer

    Did GW eliminate the drop down box in the cabin, mentioned above? My 2000 has it, and I changed a tach last week-end with no problem. Your spinning screws may be going into something like the silver thing you see above and below the gauges. You are looking out the lower E-box at the steering...
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    Transom Failure Incidents

    Having an independent glass guy look at it is a good idea, but don’t give me any credit, I think I may have been completely wrong in assuming that it was a glass to glass joint in that corner. After looking at some more Biminis online, particularly photo number seven in the ad link below, there...
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    Transom Failure Incidents

    The acceleration test is too hard to eyeball, it might mean something if you held a straight edge across the inside during the test, to see if there was any deflection. Tilt the motors out, and each of you stand on a lower unit. That will test the construction, and your confidence. How long have...
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    Transom Failure Incidents

    You may not have a transom problem, but I would have zero confidence. You will have a serious problem, if you ever decide to sell the boat.
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    1996 Grady Islander Stringer rot repair

    Grady‘s problems are not as much poor design as they are terrible quality control. How many people had eyes on all these problems, and never took the initiative to say anything, or do anything.
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    Fitting a used hardtop

    Not a top, but I put a full width arch/rocket launcher on a Tournament 22, and loved it. Added an over sized bimini, and had great shade, and 8 rod holders. What are we seeing in your pic? The front, where the person in the brown shirt is holding, looks like it angles down, like a windscreen.
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    Seacock Remote Operation Arm

    IBV Stands for in-line ball valve, and I don’t think it applies to scoops and through hulls. It is intended to be used on top of their IBVF(in-line ball valve flange), which has straight NPS female threads on the bottom, and male NPT on the top Previous Next IBVF-750 Bronze NPS to NPT...
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    2003, 228 hard top looking for isinglass enclosure

    Not even close. Seafarer hard top frame is inside of the walk around, and the Tournament has a full width helm, with the HT frame out to the gunnels.