Every boat I ve been on has a parallel switch or solenoid... nothing new... been that way since the 60s
Not making much sense If each motor has its own battery how is it not set up for each motor to start and charge the battery it is connected...
The dealer shouldn’t have to fix the builders mistake... neither should the buyer. Each engine and gen should have its own battery. Anything else...
Water ingress is always an issue whenever a drive is in the water whether a stern drive or pod, Volvo or mercury or Zeus. after 60 years of...
Problem is that most boat buyers don’t know anything about boat systems. This is why most brokers and salesman focus on drink holders, TVs and...
Each engine should charge its own battery then the house bank can be charged with a combiner. I would now accept a set up where only one engine...
Someone I know is looking at some 100/110 MYs and pretty much all of the candidates have 16V2000s 2002-2009 vintage and some are in the 3000 hours...
problem is that the insurance companies let owners sell their boats to them every time a hurricane strikes. They just pay, and often total boat...
Being in the Exumas I will adapt the old saying about mud wrestling pigs to.... don’t swim with pigs, they crap in the water :)
Well you don’t have to run the 55 at 32 kts... slow down to 20/22 and it will be more comfortable and even more economical. 75% cruise on the 84...
What is whisper wall? Never heard that name. Are you talking about the glued foam backed Veltex and then panels velcroed on it ? I hate that stuff
Replace the cord once you re sure it is the problem or at the very least the connector causing the issue. This this must be arcing inside and...
Come on... you know better that trust the numbers in a listing, don’t you?
I ve seen a welded ring fail at 25% of its safe working load. Luckily the tender was only 3’ off the water!
It s probably been lasso’ed in already !
14 kts is the worst cruising speed possible. You re not on plane and are just loading up the engines and burning a ton of fuel. Probably why the...
I think 12 kts is going to be above hull speed. 11kts is more like it... that extra knot is going to cost you 10gph.
Hull speed is probably around 11kts on that 90 footer and you should burn about 22/25 GPH. Hard to tell without knowing what kind of boat it is....
A few seconds. The chain hooks I ve used before took just as long and I still don’t like having a welded ring and a carabiner under heavy load....
I don’t know a short piece of line is a lot more simple than a chain hook, and what looks like a welded ring and a carabiner. having seen both...
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