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Q4: Is my guess [about how to best wire navigation lamps] correct? I don't like the approach you have guessed might be best, and I have NEVER seen the method you propose actually used in a boat. Typically navigation lamps are controlled by a single switch that has multiple positions that denote the...

Q3: same question for the pole lamps used for Masthead and Sternlight navigation lighting. The same answer as given in Q2. In the instance of two lamps that are quite far apart, I would use separate wiring from each lamp to the distribution center. Nota bene: in many instances of small boats with a...

Q2: [between daisy-chain wiring of lamps and individual home-run wiring of lamps] is there a best practice? Generally if each load on a circuit has its own power distribution wiring instead of being added on to another load's wiring, then circuit analysis when there is a problem will be easier. In ...

Q1: What wire insulation color is appropriate to run to the [navigation lighting circuits]? The circuits for the navigation lighting should be identified by having gray insulation for positive and black or yellow insulation for the negative. I don't know if there is a readily available paired duple...

Although I am not sure you are soliciting advice on installation, you might find my narrative of the installation of a temperature sender to the power head of a c.1992 Evinrude 225-HP V6 3.3-liter two-stroke-power-cycle engine that I wrote several years ago to be useful. You can find the narrative a...

morningLaunchRamp.jpg sport15atFuelDock.jpg Below is a link to a GoPro camera view of a three-minute thirty-second high speed run in the Crooked River, starting downstream from Alanson and heading toward Burt Lake. The sound is quite good, too. The rattle noise at low speed is not from the engine b...

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I waited for the sun to appear before taking pictures. The sun's appearance was rather brief and unpredictable. Thus my pictures were very limited.

: Fig. 3. The classic 1966 Sakonnet 16 EMMARIE JEAN and its captain John R were nicely illuminated by the spotty sunlight in the Crooked River. The Mustang jacket or float coat was almost sufficient to keep the pilot warm.; EMMARIE_JEANinSunlight.jpg (88.66 KiB) Viewed 15233 times

: Fig. 4. Three classic hulls: Outrage 18, Sakonnet 16, Outrage 20. Here are BW1, EMMARIE JEAN, and PAU HANA (left to right).; BW1_EMMERIEJEAN_PAUHANA.jpg (63.73 KiB) Viewed 15229 times

: Fig. 5. In late afternoon the fleet returns from Burt Lake and enters the Indian River. Seen here are DON'S DAUNTLESS, PAU HANA, 11-footer ANNA C, and CONTINUOUSWAVE. Photo credit John R.; lateInDayEnterIndianRiverFromBurtLake.jpg (67.64 KiB) Viewed 15210 times

The Mullet Lake Fall Color Cruise has been an annual event since 2005 . The 2018 gathering was this past weekend, September 28, 29, and 30th. Early arriving boats were launched on Friday and moored at the dock at Bybrook. Others arriving late on Friday were launched Saturday. BOATS AND PEOPLE There ...

Would you be willing to take a repaired hull or would you insist on a new one? The warranty specifies that the remedy is at Boston Whaler's discretion, so I don't think it matters what I think. I would post a picture but it would just be of a perfect hull. I completely understand. Any good repair i...

JBIL'--when you added the anti-ventilation plate foil appendage, did you then remove the 240-lbs of weight added to the bow?

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Use the resources of the website SHOP2.EVINRUDE.COM to look up your engine or similar engines and accessories. You may be able to locate the information you seek on that website.

Contact a local Evinrude or Johnson dealer that has been selling those engines for at least 25 years. A dealer like that will know the proper part number to order to get a sender that will match the gauge you have on hand.

Part 4: the Spare Tire Mount I loaded the boat on the trailer on Saturday, as the weather looked like it would not be particularly encouraging for boating on Sunday. On Sunday I was working on the boat, getting it ready for the 265-mile highway haul to the South. I checked the spare tire mounted on...

Reassessing your target to a 15-footer from an Outrage 18 or a Montauk 17 is a good change in course. As I have mentioned many times, a 15-footer is the best small boat ever made, and also it is the biggest boat I would let a youngster operate alone. But I think a 15-foot classic Boston Whaler skiff...

If Garmin’s advice to buy more Garmin accessories in order to use features of their multi-function display is true, then there won’t be an alternative. The inference is their product’s FUEL MANAGER function demands their accessory device in order to work.

Install the engine mounted one-hole-up from lowest. Conduct tests by recording engine speed, boat speed, and fuel flow rate. Observe the position of the anti-ventilation plate while running on plane in the upper range of boat speed. Assess these observation to infer if a higher mounting might be ben...

For classic era hulls the published weight for the hull does not include any engine weight nor any weight for engine rigging, other than what would have been on the boat, such as the steering wheel, the helm system (as mechanical or hydraulic) and the steering cables. Also no battery weight would be...

My best inference into your boat instrumentation: the I-Command gauge uses an unusual method for handling its FUEL MANAGER function; it depends of a device called an EP-85R DATA STORAGE MODULE if Lowrance branded or if Evinrude branded a MEMORY MODULE. I believe this is the device you have referred ...

On September 28, 2018 I added 35-gallons of 91-octane pure gasoline (at $3.97 per gallon) to bring the fuel tank level to about 7/8-FULl. I also added about 14-ounces of fuel stabilizer. The fueling was preparatory to the planned last use of the boat this season on September 29 and 30. After those t...

Re the Boston Whaler website: I noticed recently that the website explicitly denotes that actual retail prices are set by the authorized selling dealer. I don’t think demand for the 2018 170 Montauk will automatically increase, that is become greater than demand was for the 2017 170 Montauk, if prod...

With my boat and trailer, once the boat is loaded onto the trailer with the pulling winch, that winch and its strap remain in tension. A safety chain is then attached to the boat bow eye. A second strap is attached to the bow eye, passed around and under the trailer tongue beam, and the other end at...

I have added a temperature sensor to an Evinrude 3.3-liter V6 engine, which is likely the same as a Johnson model.

I don’t think of a 17-foot open skiff as a boat that will be or should be or was designed to be used with seven adults aboard that each weigh 200-lbs, and I would never worry than the bare minimum engine horsepower must be chosen so that the 17-foot open skiff boat can be nimbly accelerated onto pla...

I don't know if you can be certain the old model will have a lower price. Often new models carry a very attractive price in the first year of their production. I think this is an incentive to launch the new model and encourage sales. When the original 170 MONTAUK was introduced, its price was many t...

Jack—I agree with your view that a Montauk 17 boat is too much boat and has too much speed and power for a 10-year-old to operate alone. Because the choice was between a Montauk 17 or an Outrage 18, the Outrage 18 is thus even more inappropriate for a 10-year-old to use alone. Your concern about fue...

To test, disconnect the hose from the gauge. Engine cooling water should flow from the hose in a considerable volume. If no water flows, there is an obstruction upstream.

The engine under discussion has zero hydraulic power trim and tilt actuators. Not withstanding the quality of the product, if the product has no application with the engine under discussion, the suggestion to use the product is not likely to be helpful for the engine being discussed.

ASIDE: Dutch—does your ten-year-old take that out 32-footer with twin engine by himself? To sand bars?

The offer of extended warranty explicitly excludes use of the product in commercial service. I have seen several anecdotal accounts of certain engines, usually Honda Marine engines, having been run for 5,000-hours without failure, but these accounts are never first-hand reports. They are always nebu...

The concept or notion or claim that an E-TEC will have an unrepairable failure to the power head is not my idea and was not introduced by me into the discussion, and, accordingly, I cannot and will not try to explain the basis for that claim. Do not ask me about how absurd or wrong this claim must b...

I don’t believe the engine under discussion has three hydraulic power trim and tilt actuators.

For the stated use get a Montauk 17.

Just to clarify:

Boston Whaler calls their gel coat color Desert Tan.
Awlgrip calls their paint color Desert Sand.
An individual says a custom color was mixed specifically for him by a local paint shop and was also called Desert Sand.

Regarding your specific question on sanding and polishing the finish top coat layer: if you choose to use a paint as the top coat layer, you cannot sand the paint. The thickness of a layer of paint is too small to permit imperfections to be removed by sanding. For advice on making repairs to a Bosto...

For more advice on how to wire a boat for grounding of the fuel system, I suggest following the advice from the American Boat and Yacht Council Recommendations, Section E-01, Bonding of Direct Current Systems. If you don't have a copy of that document you can get a copy from the federal regulations ...

...Any thoughts on if my existing setup is OEM designed or altered by a prior owner? The manner of routing the bonding circuit as shown does not look like an original installation by Boston Whaler. The several images I included above show the OEM installation of the bonding conductor on the transom...

Many small boats install a Bimini Top with fixed supports for the frame. Having the frame of the top have fixed supports permits the top to be folded and be stowed with the frame still erected. I use this method on my boat. The only time the frame is lowered is for trailering long distances on the h...

...Where can [a Bimini top on a frame that stows forward and has the hinge bases mounted on moveable tracks, as] shown in the attached image be found? A generic Bimini Top can be found at many vendors or sold directly by some manufacturers to the customer via on-line sales. These off-the-shelf prod...

A long-running television show, "Nuts and Bolts of Fishing," has an archive of old programs available for streaming. Among them I found a show from several years ago in which the show visited the EVERGLADES boat plant, and the episode contained an interview on camera with Bob Dougherty. Th...

In my Outrage 22, the bonding circuit connects to a bolt in the stern splash well... I don't have any experience with the bonding circuit being connected to a bolt in the splashwell. It is very strange electrical practice to use a mechanical fastener to carry the bonding current. Usually mechanical...

I do not have an OUTRAGE 22 boat. I have a REVENGE 22 Whaler Drive. The bonding electrode is difficult to photograph on my boat because it is entirely hidden by the Whaler Drive. I will emend my earlier description of the routing of the bonding conductor. After checking some images of the transom of...

Re the cited example of an E-TEC engine having "blown" at 1,100-hours: my engine presently has accumulated about 550-hours of operation in ten seasons of use, or 55-hours-per-season. Extrapolating that the engine service life will end at 1,100-hours as cited, this means I will have 1100-ho...

Regarding the future, the VERADO four-cylinder in-line engine, and the possibility that Brunswick will halt sales of that engine: Based on the website from Brunswick for their VERADO engines as it appears today (September 23, 2018), I do not see any engines under the VERADO branding except engines i...

I would like to understand the actual mechanisms for the assessing the length of an engine warranty on how long the engine is anticipated to last. As presented here, the theory is a 7-year-warranty means the engine will fail before its tenth year. If the notion implied here that a 7-year warranty is...

I would be interested to see actual verified statistical data that demonstrates that an Evinrude E-TEC engine cannot last ten years, or any sort of survey data that shows that all boaters now have an expectation that Evinrude E-TEC engines will "blow" before they are ten years old. My Evin...

The value of a 210 DAUNTLESS boat that has no T-top and has a 150-HP relative to a similar boat with 200-HP and with a T-top will be the same in the future as in the present. If the present value of a 210 DAUNTLESS boat with 150-HP and no T-top is presumed to be less than a similar boat with 200-HP ...

The term "performance" generally is understood to mean maximum speed and the ability to acceleration. The acceleration and top speed of a boat are affected by the ratio of horsepower to total weight. As horsepower-to-weight ratio decreases, top speed decreases. If a boat of a particular we...

The purpose of the bonding circuit is to tie all the elements of the fuel system together so that there cannot be any voltage difference between them, and then tie that circuit to the sea to establish the potential of the circuit. And outboard engine boat's 12-Volt power system negative circuit is a...

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