Marinette Boat Forum

Looked at that one on Boat Trader, looks nice, interesting color scheme.

And they're Aluminum !!

I pulled mine apart when I first purchased my boat, and I don't think they were ever serviced. Both were half full of water and the bronze mesh was plugged completely shut with rust, varnish & goo. I don't see how the engines ever ran. I took the mesh filters home and dropped them into a gallon ...

I had always thought the singles were all reverse rotators but I may be wrong. The firing order is a dead give-away. If you switch, I would thin you have to change the trans & prop as well or you will have to drive around backwards.

The idea of using the round tank from a semi sounds interesting, as long as it...1) fits down the hatch hole, and 2) you can obtain the crescent shaped mounts from the semi to go with it. You would also have to fabricate the plumbing to the existing filler cap.

Well, took the pumps out this winter and installed the Run-Dry's. We'll see how long they last. The rubber ones dry up & get brittle in a couple years, these should outlast them based on seeing how long the blue synthetic coolant hoses work.

The number of models depends on year and whether you are talking about Lake vessels or houseboats. The 32' Sedan Flybridge of the late seventies-early eighties was, I believe, Marinette's best selling model. See a lot of them up here in western Lake Erie. Always see a lot of 37/39's Aft Cabins on th...

Some may remember this, another of Carl's projects

More after Carl finished it.

Here's a picture before Carl modified her.