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  1. dingbat

    UUUUGGGHHH

    104F at the office Only 91F at home........pays to live on a ridge in the woods sometime :) It's something new every Spring. Last year it was the pump seal and a leaking filter "key". This Spring, filter key "repair was leaking again. Bought new...all good now It's called a "Brown...
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    Water tank heating

    How would one calculate State of charge w/o considering voltage? This is the one I use to charge my two batteries with a common source https://www.bluesea.com/products/7610/SI-ACR_Automatic_Charging_Relay_-_12_24V_DC_120A
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    UUUUGGGHHH

    It’s all relative… We’ve had air temps right around 100F with high dew points for the past 4 days. Had a “feels like” temp of 108F yesterday. Mrs. Dingbat and I had a very enjoyable evening at the pool last night after being held up in the house most of the day with the AC on. The air temp...
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    Summer Night Fishing

    With us, you better have a good easterly breeze or the no-see-ums will eat you alive.
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    Takes on water over the transom while loading and unloading

    Scuppers are there to allow water to drain out of the splash well should the need arise. Plugging them is never a good idea. Are the scupper flaps in place? The steepness of the ramp should have no bearing on how the boat sits in the water. How far above the water line is the top of the transom...
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    Summer Night Fishing

    My favorite is a black Smack-it at night. Deadly in the inlet at night with a moving ride https://stillwaterlures.com/classic-painted/
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    What is this connector and bracket? Fishfinder/GPS/etc.?

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    helm wiring, should be simple, i'm not too bright.

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    Boat stalling when toggling between Forward and Reverse (Docking)

    Shift/Safety switch out of adjustment or on it's way out
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    helm wiring, should be simple, i'm not too bright.

    Occurs when a motor shorts thru the windings. I went to the boat one night to the red light on the bilge pump switch just barely glowing. Pump armature locked up. Ultimately the culprit was water in the bilge that froze, actuating the float switch. With no water to cool it, the motor burned...
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    What is this connector and bracket? Fishfinder/GPS/etc.?

    Spent my entire career manufacturing, designing and supporting industrial measurement instrumentation. Have this conversation with customers almost on a daily basis with the wide scale implementation of ISO/IEC 17025 Quality System related to measurements. Your confusing accuracy with...
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    Insurance

    Asked my agent about the boat when I renewed our homeowners and upped our umbrella last fall. Told me it would be a waste of time and effort… My policy has a $20k agreed hull value, $7k rider for equipment, $500 in towing, $75k spill coverage along with the same $30k/$60k/$15k liability as my...
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    Takes on water over the transom while loading and unloading

    Having a hard time envisioning a scenario where the rear of the boat, untethered from the trailer, would sink below the water line while backing a bunk trailer in the water. Boat should float as soon as you clear draft depth. Is the winch cable taunt while backing into the water
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    Insurance

    Some insurance companies will add a boat to your homeowners as a rider, but an umbrella policy is primarily setup to protect your Net Worth from excess insurance liabilities should something happen. It’s been my experience that a 3rd party stand alone insurer’s policy is considerable less...
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    What is this connector and bracket? Fishfinder/GPS/etc.?

    There is no difference in the “accuracy” between a $150 unit and a $4,000 unit. Your Striker will give the same depth as either one of my high end units. The difference is the sensitivity, and it’s a combination of the quality of the transducer, the signal processing and the resolution of the...
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    Insurance

    Are you sure about that? Our umbrella is only an extension to our primary insurance policy coverage. It does not provide stand alone coverage.
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    200 Mercury EFI - Interesting Situation

    Simply could have replaced a piston or rod. If your truly interested, pull the heads and take a look. It’s water under the bridge at this point. it’s yours now. You bought it, run it.
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    What is this connector and bracket? Fishfinder/GPS/etc.?

    Well, here is your cable…..it’s a Lowrance power only cable. Now you need is a transducer. Guessing it was removed with the unit since you can’t find one Compatible with Lowrance HDS, Elite Ti, Elite, and Hook displays...
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    helm wiring, should be simple, i'm not too bright.

    Nothing wrong per se, just be aware that electricity takes the route of least resistance. That’s what ohm’s law explains in the triangle I posted above. If a wire increases in resistance, electricity can/will find a different path to close the circuit, possibly overloading another circuit...
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    What do you Recommend for Beautifying a Teak Swimstep?

    Teak went out of vogue back around the turn of the century. Too much work to maintain coupled with conservation concerns pretty much sealed its fate. Replaced by starboard (HDPE) for the most part that requires little to no maintenance at all.
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