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I write this only to possibly help someone that might be a dumb as me and not make the same mistake I did. During the last sale a few months ago I bought a pair of the above. The vest each had a tag on one of the side of the vest that said "Not Armed". Of course I thought, if it was armed it...

gauge does self test. pulled cowling and checked what i could see, have to admit hard to tell what is what. nothing looked amiss. same at back of gauge. did run the boat on the lift for 20 min and all seemed good. which did not instill much confidence as a come and go problem is worse...

digital gauges, 2 tachs, one speed, one fuel mgmt. oem yamaha gauges. speed is pitot tube pic below with port(problem engine) ignition on but not running. starboard only uses top left tach and supplies info to fuel mgmt gauge

Had the engines tuned up recently when boat was up on blocks. New plugs, filters, O2 sensor, thermostat, etc. Boat ran fine on the way home from the boat yard, no issues at all. Sat for a few weeks and we went out fishing yesterday. Noticed right off the bat Port tach reading was all over...

got this guy at autozone, simple modification to mount to helm. original design is to mount to vent in car. holds my iphone nicely. put a usb charging port just inside the door going to the cabin. so far so good

when sizing the inverter be sure to use surge current draw as your basis, not running. some items really pull at the start, ie fridge compressor

i agree house power should be isolated. if there is room leave parallel batteries in place and make them house then add another start battery. it is a good idea to keep batteries same age and capacity for longevity and charging. not hard to add aux wire if needed

i pulled all ac appliances from my boat. left the wire and outlets in place just in case i add an inverter later. all the ac i need is a 15 amp circuit to power battery charger. i am very happy with my pronautic 3 bank distributive charger. galvanic isolater is a must. not sure how your...

i just did all the decals on my 92 28 Marlin and what a difference. I did take the easy way out and hired someone to do the job. she took pictures of the boat and got some images from the net and scanned the images into her computer and using a vinyl printer/cutter device custom made the...

power is there but data cable needs to be snaked using an abandoned coax cable left in place. i have failed miserably making ethernet cables not an option here. i will ponder the situation, but agree wireless is the future

whoops, does anyone have any opinion or experience with wifi radar?

looking at raymarine quantum q24c wireless radar to go with my raymarine axiom mfd which is wifi capable.

day 2 on the blocks is over. grating noise and resistance was a worn spot on the prop shaft which damaged bearing and seal. only new shafts per mechanic are in japan and who knows when they will be here. fortunately a suitable used one was located locally and will be in hand soon. pulled...

props were serviced, new hubs, balance and recupped. that made the vibration go away. i would say the metal was more on the chunk side but some fine too. matter of fact that motor has become very hard to shift!

Ran to the travel lift to pull boat. Vibration is much better, seems normal now. Bad news is metal shavings in the gear lube of port engine. Thats the one that spun less and made a faint noise. Mechanic brought the lower units home to check them out.

got the props yesterday. starboard prop went on no problems. port prop a different story. prop went on fine but spacer just would not drop in. fussed with it for quite a bit and got it to sit on the splines but not slide in, so put on the nut and slowly pressed it on. before i did that, to...

no vibration in neutral port much worse than starboard so bad vibrated of trim skeg on lower unit followup next week when props back

brought the the props in for tune up. shop took one look and said yup you need it. guy thought the vibration was from loss of cupping and cavitation secondarily from running props in sand at bars and shallow spots. one hub was shot from dry rot. question how often do you check the hubs?

raymarine ev150, mouted acu and compass on cabin side of bulkhead just to right of door, no issues so far

I have a vibration in the 1300-1400 rpm range. Have ruled out other causes and feel it is the props