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    SC offshore question

    Hey Yall: I have fished with Strikezone a few times offshore out of Charlestion and we have headed to the 226 hole area and it is a 40 to 50 mile day. I have read a little about Georgetown Hole and some have said it is closer to run from Charleston than Georgetown. I have been trying to find it...
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    Fuel Additive Over-kill? Question...

    Docstressor, As a recovering biologist myself I have often wondered what secret enzymes there are in Star Tron...kind of like the same enzymes that are put in high end shampoos I imagine :wink: As you know enzymes which are made of amino acid chains are used by cells to either put stuff...
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    what was your worst thunderstorm experience?

    I grew up in Central Florida where we had more lightning storms than anwywhere else in the western hemisphere. So I have a healthy respect for thunderstorms. In my high school class we had some classmates in our senior year killed when they were on a boat in Lake Monroe on the St. Johns River...
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    Towables...

    Fishtales, Part of the reason we look at bigger towables is because Kyle, my disabled son, needs another rider on the tube. He loves the tube. He can swim with his PFD but should he fall off, my other kids and or riders know to fall off with him as he is partially blind too. We also like stable...
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    Towables...

    I think this may be blasphemous here (lol)...but I am wondering how many folks here have towables and looking for a reccomendation or two. I have a Connelly Mega Wing and it is a nice 3 person tube you sit in, but it rides rough on the backside. We also have an HO Atom, perhaps the funnest...
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    Fishing in Fla

    Got my first offshore trip in this spring season down off of Port Canaveral in Fla. We were in Florida for the kids spring break last week. Went out twice and got a 1 blackfin tuna. Due to the economy and so forth I have been holding off on buying those outriggers. I did by these outrover bird...
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    Finally got my Grady

    Congrats on your boat... I like the 265...GW needs to bring back this boat or the Islander....
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    Another new GW owner with a simple query...

    Congrats on your new GW barretkatz. Seasick, I run the pink antifreeze through the system meaning turn the faucet on in the cabin and run the shower until I see pink. before doing this to winterize it, I run all the freshwater out of it and then fill the tank with antifreeze so it is 100% or as...
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    Massachusetts to Vote on Mandatory PFD's.

    First it was corn growers giving us ethanol fuels and now it is the neoprene lobby pushing pfds....I think they should a law sending legislatures to the land of oz to find a brain before passing more laws. As an aside when ever we kayak flat water or white water we wear a pfd. I don't need the...
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    S.C. trailer trouble in VA DMV

    When we moved from Fla to NC, we had this same problem. Our DMV would not issue a tag without not only a certificate of orgin, but also the original bill of sale. I have a multisport type kayak trailer. I bought it like 10 years ago and we just moved to NC at about the same our Fla tags expired...
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    pumpguard replacement cap?

    Yesterday my son and I made last minute plans to go fishing. We went down to Lake Hartwell and fished, spent the night on the boat and came home today. I went to go use the raw water washdown and while the pump was willing, the cap on the pumpguard was cracked. The boat has the low profile clear...
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    rust on the ivory screws

    Seasick, Would 4200 be the best sealant to use in this application?
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    rust on the ivory screws

    Hey Yall: Was spring cleaning the boat today and I noticed at various locations there is a hint of rust outlining the heads of the ivory screws. While I like the look of the screws, it makes me wonder why Grady just doesn't stick to a high grade stainless screw? Are these painted screws...
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    Grady? Capsized on 2/27. Off Hatteras

    Ocnsir: This is a really dumb question. So you got livies in the livewell, do you close the seacocks and stop the pump while you are running? Then when you troll or bottom fish, open up the sc and turn the livewell on? I also wonder if sealed and agm batteries buy a margin of safety if they...
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    Ethanol....a way to stop it...maybe?

    Hey Yall: I figured I would test this idea here because many of you are just great folks and treat people with goofy ideas nice. I spent about 15 years in the evironmental planning arena in Florida. I have had environmental law as grad student at FSU and studied environmental policy there as...
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    Yammaha Engine Fuel filter housing

    So what is a guy to do that has very little access to ethanol free fuels? I am at a loss here and to think they want e15 fuels....yippeee :bang
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    live well pump on 09 seafarer

    Just curious...why are you replacing the pump on a boat that is just 2 years old? We dont use our livewell as a livewell all that often and maybe you do. I am curious as to why it is being replaced?
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    Yammaha Engine Fuel filter housing

    Guys, I am with you on this. I am just happy the service folks worked this through a warranty claim for us. They said the new design housing is $130!!! I was happy they fixed it, but had a hard time believing it was ethanol...I was thinking I use stabil and or star tron and Ring Free and are...
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    Yammaha Engine Fuel filter housing

    Hey Yall: I took my boat in today to get the spring 100 hour service done and the 5 Star Yammaha service center discovered my fuel filter housing was damaged....from ethanol! I use Stabil and Ring Free for ethanol and still the problem occurred. It seems even with religious use of these...
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    Profits on new Gradys

    We need not blame China. We need to blame the Federal Government and Unions. American companies like Mattel Toys for instance use to make stuff in North America, but they don't any more. Why? Our corporate taxing policies are insane. We tax corporations higher than any other nation from actual...