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[The Federal Communications Commissions] needs to allow handheld radios with DSC and GPS to have more than one MMSI number. I have two boats and take mine on the boat I'm using.

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Porthole: check this report [on a similar cruise made eight years ago] and see how many of the boats were soft-tops:

http://continuouswave.com/sail-logs/nc2008/

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The stripe on my 1978 Outrage V-20 is 7/8".

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Look up Chene Anchors. I've been using them for [more than] 20-years and they work almost all the time. The times they don't work either I shouldn't have been out on the water or the bottom was muck and nothing would've held.

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In some ways this is "much ado about nothing". If NOAA forces us recreational boaters into the metric world that we don't like the equipment vendors already provide a "Units" selection to have depths in: meters, fathoms, feet, inches, degrees F, degrees C, Km, NM, SM, or skeg len...

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I have BW Options and regular catalogs from the CML era but I have no idea what date they are.

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On my 23 WA there are fittings for GAS, on the Port side gunnel, WATER, on the port console pillar, and WASTE, on the starboard gunnel. As Jim mentions, they are all the same size so a careless owner,( we don't have any any of those here), but there are many, could "accidentally" switch th...

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However I also use my smartphone (iPhone 6) when I'm away from my iMac, which is about 30% of the time. The poll should have #1, #2, #3..as choices.

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I would too.

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True, but we still don't have many (or any) reports from the field about how the stuff works. The cockpit floor on my 23 WA was glued down with 5200 by a previous owner and I am quite interested in knowing whether the stuff works.

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From a thread started in 2010 on the OLD FORUM at http://continuouswave.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/017729.html I found these remarks: Has anyone tried this new product yet? http://www.un-hesive.com/ From the website: "Un-Hesive is a patented product specifically designed for the removal of cured polyu...

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This adventure has been cancelled due to the weather forecast that calls for rain and thunderstorms over the weekend.

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I'm planning on it and Friday is preferred.

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You have to call in to CBSA when you cross the border in a boat: "If you are visiting Canada, you can report to the TRC from your cellphone from the location at which you enter Canadian waters when you: do not intend to land on Canadian soil, and will not be leaving any people or goods in Canad...

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Is the plan to leave Frankfort AM Saturday and to fret urn Sunday? Are there any plans/recommendations for a place to overnight on Saturday?

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Mercury makes jet drive lower units for some of their outboards, and Brunswick has lots of experience with working with aluminum through their Harris Pontoon boat division.

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These look like they are in the same class as the Stanley boats we see up in Canada.

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She's making 3 knots toward Sturgeon Bay.

http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-87/centery:46/zoom:9

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The game continues: 6/12 - Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. – The U.S. Coast Guard captain of the port gave the motor vessel Roger Blough permission Saturday to transit down the St. Marys River to anchorage in Potagannissing Bay in the vicinity of DeTour Village, Michigan. The Blough had been anchored in Wai...

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Here's some pure, unadulterated speculation: 1. Reports are that the Blough's hull has been breached, so her seaworthiness has to be questioned. It's one thing to have to go to the other side of the harbor for repairs; the Blough has to transit several hundred miles of open lake to get to a yard cap...

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We just spent five weeks down on Weeks Bay in the Mobile Bay area and covered the water from the mouth of the bay at Fort Morgan through the Atlantic Intracoastal Water Way (AIWW) to Perdido Pass. The only boat style we saw in the under 25' class were center console Whaler copies. That was a lot of ...

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[Lowrance] finally have a replacement [for the EP-85]: Fuel Data Manager The Fuel Data Manager stores data for fuel used, trip fuel used and seasonal fuel used from a compatible engine or engine interface connected to your NMEA 2000® network. A single Fuel Data Manager can support up to three engine...

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I stand corrected, my DF-115 is an 2002, so things can change a lot in 14 years.

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I'll try to answer your question but it'll be a little generic since you didn't give us enough specific data. I have a DF 115 on my Outrage V-20, that's a 1500 lbs hull with a pretty flat "V". Check the V-20 reference article. Anyway, it'll troll all day at 2 to 4 mph at idle, 600 rpm, som...

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I refilled mine with mineral oil from the drug store. It's worked fine for the past ten years.

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[The BioSolar SuperCathode Lithium Ion battery if ever made] could be great for trolling motor and house batteries. It'd be nice to be able to anchor out for a couple of days without having to run a generator.

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Hey Phil,
I do believe that that's us, right there in the middle of the frame....

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YES! Especially for handheld portable radios that can be used on more than one boat.

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Bump.
So, who's going?
We're starting to give this some serious thought. Hell, who cares about a 650 mile drive if it's for a four hour boat ride AROUND MANHATTAN, (again)....

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Check your route on Marinas.com, they have a worldwide database of marinas and facilities info.

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There isn't a good reason to not use the float gauge with the dial indicator. I replaced the float assembly on my 1978 Outrage V20 and installed a dash mounted gauge by using a dual site sending unit. It gives you both, a fuel gauge in the dash and the dial indicator in the floor.

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One thing now happening to deal with this problem is several radio manufacturers are building a GPS receiver into the radio. The big problem with interfacing the radio to a chart plotter has been a large number of boaters have no idea how to do it. However the boater still has to be responsible enou...

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Is the plan for everyone going to leave from Frankfort?

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Re comments about Saul Ste Marie: We've been going there, in every season, for 30 years. We are on our second cabin near there in the UP. The Soo is a nice town with a lot of activity and government jobs. There is Lake Superior State University, US Army Corps of Engineers who run the locks, a HUGE d...

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Jim, You couldn't have used the license anyway, Whaler doesn't make a 50 ton boat... ;-)

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Masbama--I have had a 2004 Suzuki DF115 on my Outrage V20 for the past 12 years, and all I can say is it's an-over-the-top wonderful engine. To be fair, my 1978 Outrage V20 only weights 1500 lbs., empty and dry, but I hit 36 mph last year with that engine with 440 hours on it. Since it's our fishing...

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Who was the vendor of that SOS light?

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OK. My rationale for intruding on this thread was I'm talking about LED lights used for navigation,i.e. distress signals. But this really begs the question, how does the recreation boating community get the USCG to relax their "rules" to allow for modern devices, like high power LED flashl...

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This is "kinda" on subject since it has to do with LED lights at sea. I now have three LED lights, one built in my handheld DSC VHF radio, that flash SOS. The USCG has said that a "compliant" SOS light is an acceptable substitute for flares as a required distress signal. I also h...

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If you've never been to Canada by private boat spend some time here:

http://www.cbsa.gc.ca/travel-voyage/pb-pp-eng.html

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I have found that "Works Tub and Tile Cleaner" is very effective. I found an almost identical product under the Zep brand. Both products come in spray bottles and are effective on grunge, rust, and tannin stains. They are non-abrasive and simple to use: spray, scrub, rinse. I think they wo...

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OK, ya got me on that one... Lets hope all the law enforcement officers know this.

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This whole thread is about how your insurance company will view going over the rating on the capacity plate. The USCG goes by the capacity plate, go over it and you could get a citation and be told to get off the water.

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Buried in the product description on the Simrad website is this: "steering systems on inboard and single or double outboard vessels under 10 m (35 ft).". The Lowrance version can only handle single outboards. http://www.simrad-yachting.com/en-US/Products/Autopilots/DrivePilot-Hydraulic-Ste...

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Can I put two device update files on the same SD card? I have to do both the Link-8 radio and this one for the EP-85R.

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I think we're all missing that Whaler has not abandoned the smaller boat market. I just went on the Whaler website to make sure I kinda knew what I was talking about and they have boat families in the "smaller boat" end of the market: Super Sport, Montauk, Outrage,and Vantage. Actually the...

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It is interesting to note how Brunswick classifies Whaler in their family of boat brands: Saltwater Fishing. They do not classify Whaler as a General Recreation boat.

[Compare at: https://www.brunswick.com/brands/marine-boats/print.php]

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The wheel is held in place on the tapered shaft by a Woodruff key, the wheel itself isn't threaded. When I had to remove my wheel to change out my steering system I used the "smack and pull" technique: loosen the shaft nut far enough that all the shaft threads are covered, hold the wheel w...

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Looks like the original version of the GO7 has been replaced. I looked on eBay and you can get [a GO7] with the 83/20/455/800 kHz transducer for $649.

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The fact that the GO7 XSE is chart-source agnostic is nice. Now they need to add the capability to load NOAA vector or raster charts directly. All commercial charts are out of date as soon as the chips are produced, though some can be updated through a subscription service with the vendor. NOAA char...

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