Marinette Boat Forum

A cleaning alone will improve the situation. I'd also clean the wire contacts on the meter itself. Did that once and got a slightly better reading. I was in brackish (Chesapeake Bay) water and sometimes got low readings, too- 6 or 7. We had no galvanic problems discernible. But this is always fascin...

Thanks for posting! Are your velvet drives 1:1 of do you have reductions? If that was directed to me, I no longer own the vessel but loved it and love to keep up with you guys (and offer bad advice). As I recall it did have velvet drives at, if I recall properly 1:52-1 (I have I stated that correct...

If it were me and I got a quote of $81 for "handling" on top of shipping.. and the place had a bad BBB rating (they're fairly objective while online reviews are suspect), I would have bestowed my bucks on another vendor. But that;s just me.

Just a warning to my friends out there. Bought two starters from Basic Power Industries ( also on the web as eBasic Power) They are in Harkers Island NC .Phone (252) 728-5566. I paid $67 for postage and $81 for "handling" for the package. Talked to customer service, and their attitude was...

Just a thought: letting out more line gives greater holding power.

I am also a fan of Boat US insurance. They paid out my (only) claim - a very large one - with little static and pushback. I am guessing that today, they'd want a survey on an older boat. But surveys are cheap, relatively, and provide very good feedback on things you may overlook.

The placement logistics aside, I once posted an article from a boating how-to magazine which urged that the electric winch be powered from a separate battery placed forward to save running very heavy duty wires up to your main batteries. These winches draw heavily. A very small, separate charger wou...

do you mean powered winch?

Here's what brought the drop-in slat to mind. A few nights before I saw the transom gate post, I watched the Robt Redford movie, Lost At Sea in which his sailboat is rammed by a huge shipping container far out at sea. The radio fails and the guy is stuck to make it as best he can by his own wits. Sa...

You will all chuckle when I tell you how the idea for a drop in slat popped into my head. Then you will rent the movie.