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Q8: is there another battery charger that is connected to the boat battery?

Q9: is the other battery charger being operated at the same time as the engine is running?

Since replacement of multiple components in the charging system did not cure the problem, the cause of the problem may be external to the engine, in the form of a load on the charging system that is demanding excessive current from the charging system. To test for this, use a Hall-Effect Clamp-On DC...

... while [Boston Whaler boats] are supposed to be foam filled, I've discovered that the foam, on mine anyway, has pretty much given up the ghost. A Boston Whaler Unibond hull has high density foam that was injected and expanded against a closed mold, with only a few small vents to permit excess fo...

Q5: when you replaced the magnets into the flywheel, did you test the magnets for their N-pole S-pole field orientation? Q6: when you replaced the magnet into the flywheel, did you orient them so the N-pole and S-pole orientation alternated from one position to the next? Let's go back to the origina...

The easy method: ⋅ remove whatever was added ⋅ preserve electrical conductors ⋅ abrade deck to smooth surface ⋅ fabricate escutcheon to cover all the damage, possibly using a material like KING StarBoard ⋅ purchase OEM replacement, not a replica &sdo...

You could save about two-feet if you left the engine in the operating position for the "official measurement." I just measured the distance from the transom to the tip of a propeller blade on my 25-inch-shaft E-TEC 225-HP: it's 47-inches. But I measured with the engine in the trailer-lock ...

The overall length of the boat remains the same, as the boat length does not include the engine.

Are your neighbors really going to measure down to the inch?

Perhaps the navigation lamp was left illuminated for a long period of time. If the lightbulb was an incandescent lightbulb, there could have been significant heat generated. Perhaps the heat caused the plastic lens to fail.

The six coats of existing bottom paint may have hidden some flaws which might have been revealing of the hull's true condition.

There really has not been any change in the method of construction of Boston Whaler boats over the years, other than generally better process controls, more precise control over the amount of foam infused, and perhaps stricter hull weight variation limits. It is common for the deck area to have plyw...

The search argument used to find the images was “Attwood Marine Trol-Lock Motor Mount.” It seems the manufacturer name and model were already known. :-)

A trolling motor is generally mounted on the deck or gunwales at the bow. Mounting off-centerline is very common because many boats have a navigation lamp mounted at the bow as well as a Sampson post or cleats or chocks. Usually an electric trolling motor is used. Usually the trolling motor is mount...

ASIDE: For help with using the forum software use a different forum. THE GAM is a boating forum.

Use the forun whose topic is the forum software:

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You need to experience the ride characteristics of an OUTRAGE 22 Whaler Drive boat before you decide it must have trim tabs in order for the boat to meet your own criteria for ride stability. Trim Tabs are most often employed to limit the bow rise. For that purpose they are unnecessary on a Whaler D...

Contact Sue at Twin Cities Marine in Wisconsin to get advice on what replacement parts are available for the combined sidelights lamp at the bow of your 2003 190 NANTUCKET.

The Sharrow propeller certainly has shown improvements over conventional propellers in several tests. A summary of testing conducted by BOATTEST.COM was published at https://boattest.com/Sharrow-Propeller The principal benefit of the Sharrow propeller over conventional propellers seems to be improve...

Try using an image search to identify the round trolling motor mounting plates seen in Figures 1 and 2.

I would leave the engine mounted as is. I doubt that the 1/2-inch offset is affecting the propulsion of the boat or the static trim. I would leave the helm console where it is now. If you decide to re-do all the engine mounting holes, read the FAQ answers related to that work. Q8: How Does the Engin...

ROTAX was acquired by Bombardier in 1970. Bombardier acquired Evinrude in 2001 from the ashes of the OMC bankruptcy. On that basis, there is a lot more history with ROTAX than there was with Evinrude. Looking at these two subsidiary companies from the perspective of the senior acquiring company, ROT...

ROTAX makes four-stroke engines, too, not just two-stroke engines.

Perhaps the goal for BRP with the Ghost project was to move to four-stroke-power-cycle designs, which would explain the ending of the Evinrude brand, which had a 100-year history of making two-stoke-power-cycle engines.

A Boston Whaler authorized dealer should be able to answer this question. A very helpful dealer is Twin Cities Marine in Wisconsin. ASIDE: Q2: are you trying to buy the Sun Lounge option as an OEM part for installation on your already delivered boat? Q3: is the Sun Lounge option more than just uphol...

Thanks for providing an illustration showing the location of the cooling water inlets on the engine lower unit. That water inlet is unusual. I don't recall mention of a water inlet in that location on other engines, such as the engines shown in several illustrations above depicting raised engine mou...

dtmackey wrote:I do not consider most of the people on CW "average". Seems many of us are over 50, have owned out boats a long period of time and possess many years of experience and know more than what the "pointy end" of the boat is called.

Yes, I agree. And they get older every year.

Q2: is the hose for cooling engine fuel? Generally any engine with a carburetor would never have a fuel cooler. Fuel coolers are only typical in fuel induction systems where the gasoline fuel is pressurized and circulated among multiple fuel injectors. The fuel tends to become warmed by the injecto...

Yamaha Precision Propeller Industries resulted from Yamaha Marine taking over Precision Propellers of Indiana. Precision Propellers was an independent propeller manufacturer, and Yamaha was one of their customers for OEM production of Yamaha-branded propellers. Precision Propellers was also the U.S....

DT--thanks for the very timely notice about this agreement. Here is the press release. June 21, 2022 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time GREENFIELD, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE) Yamaha’s U.S. Marine Business Unit announced today a new manufacturing and limited supply agreement between Yamaha Marine Precision Pr...

Observation of the flow of cooling water from the cooling water confidence stream nozzle is also a reasonably good indicator of proper water pump operation, and it is significantly less complex than some other methods. Corollary: the higher the engine is mounted, the more visible the cooling water c...

Often modern outboard engines are being mounted at a raised engine mounting height compared to the traditional lowest-possible mounting height. As the engine mounting height is raised, the engine cooling water pressure may decrease. Being able to monitor the engine water cooling pressure will give i...

Generally in an outboard engine the water inlets for the water pump in the gear case or lower unit casting would all feed into the centrifugal water pump impeller. Usually the inlets are located on the sides of the bullet near the leading edge of the bullet, and are below the level of the impeller. ...

If there is no way to know the engine cooling water pressure, then clearly there is no concern about it. If you were concerned about engine cooling water pressure, you would already have installed a water pressure gauge to monitor it. Also, if you do not have a value for engine cooling water pressur...

You should not see much water flow from the hose until the boat begins to make forward way, unless there is a siphon effect taking place. Increase in water flow with boat forward way is a sure sign the hose is from a Pitot tube pickup on the engine gear case below the waterline. Often the hose is a ...

...I slathered [TotalBoat] TotalFair fairing compound inside the ends of the tube then sanded smooth. What is the permeability to seawater of the TotalBoat TotalFair fairing compound? I do not expect that a fairing compound would be completely impervious to continual immersion in water. The nature ...

As of of June 20, 2022, the fuel dock at Northport Marina has raised the price of marine gasoline to $6.50-per-gallon for REC-90 pure gasoline, no ethanol dilution from the previously reported price of $6-per-gallon on May 16, 2022. The retail highway price for 87-octane regular unleaded gasoline di...

The thread is seeking the dimensions of the Super Leaning Post / Workstation. If you can supply those dimensions, please supply them here in this thread. The point of the website is to provide information that is available on the web to all, not to provide ways for information to be exchanged privat...

Questions seeking advice about suppliers or venders are FREQUENTLY ASKED. For that reason, a FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS article was created 18-years ago to provide well-researched answers to those questions. For recommended vendors of marine canvas see the REFERENCE section article at https://contin...

MASAMBA--please comment more explicitly on what attracted your interest in the presentation.

Your search for information about chocks mounted on BAYLINER boats may be more fruitful on a website whose focus is on BAYLINER boats. Most participants in this forum are not owners of a BAYLINER boat. The relationship between chocks and lifting davits capable of lifting a 13-foot Boston Whaler is n...

MORE ON PROPELLER VENTILATION Propeller ventilation is often actually induced by the engine. If the engine controller is not designed to maintain a constant engine speed at a constant throttle setting, when a propeller initially begins to ventilate the engine may accelerate due to a load reduction f...

Here are two follow-on questions directed to me, and my replies. are you saying just run the propeller I have? It is not clear to me that you have already run the boat extensively with the current MIRAGE plus 17-pitch propeller. My inference from your earlier narrative was: ⋅ you have not ...

In a "Analysts & Investors Day 2022" gathering held in Orlando, Florida on June 14 and 15, 2022, Bombardier Recreational Products revealed further plans for manufacture of outboard engines. The presentation announced that BRP will be introducing a new outboard engine under the ROTAX br...

Do not be misled by examples of work performed by DT. He seems to be a master of boat renovation. He also seems to have all the necessary facilities and tools--and time.

Your description of "transom hatch" makes no sense. The transom is a vertical structural part of the hull. To have a hatch in the transom would be very unusual. Perhaps you are talking about some sort of small opening in the engine splash well area, a deck access plate or something similar...

Good luck with your project. Before making any changes, you should document the boat performance with the engine mounted as it has always been. When you complete the project, perhaps you can provide some data about boat performance-- before and after the change in engine mounting height and set back...

OLDKENT--Many thanks for the excellent illustrations. You have revealed some great details of the very commonly used red-green combined sidelight lamp often mounted at the bow of Boston Whaler boats. This thread is a good example of the purpose of the website: to collect and organize information on ...

Before the BIA standard transom hole layout and BIA engine mounting hole layout came into use in c.1983 and caused Boston Whaler to sent out Dealer Bulletin 10-84 to advise dealers on how to drill the engine mounting holes in the transom of their boats with shallow engine splash wells, there is a ve...

Regarding the method of calculating capacity values that boatbuilders must use and affix to the hull of their boats, ]I thought that to know and understand the actual methods of calculating the capacities might possibly be interesting. Among the required capacities to be shown on a capacity plate is...

UNIDEN has introduced three new VHF Marine Band DSC radios with model designators UM725, UM725G, and UM725GBT. While all are CLASS-D DSC radios, and some models include an integral GNSS receiver for the Global Positioning System (GPS) and NMEA-2000 network communication, the most unusual and perhaps...

TOM--thank you for jumping in with your first-hand experiences.

6-1/2-inches between third hole and top of slot. Add 2-inches 8-1/2-inches. Why add 2-inches Describing in a narrative a complicated layout of holes with explicit dimensions is not a very good method. Perhaps a sketch of what the narrative was trying to describe might be more useful. In any case, i...

The real answer to the concern about removing the garboard drain plug can only be known by understanding what compartment or sump will be drained--or filled if the plug is removed. If the "garboard" drain only drains a deep sump whose walls will rise well above the waterline, then if the p...

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