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Yannis,

Great video. Thanks for posting it.

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My gauges read 160 at cruising speed, engines fully warmed up. I’m using 160 degree thermostats. If you are concerned about anything, check the temperature of the manifolds, intake and exhaust, and cylinder heads for hot spots. The risers should be considerably cooler than the exhaust manifolds sinc...

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Carl,

Were you able to get to Sailors Haven? I know that the weather this week has not been the best.

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Carl, That looks like a good way to approach Sailors Haven. There is a serious sand bar just east of the line between the #21 can and # 24 nun. Back when I used to take my sailboat over to Sunken Forest, I had to pull up my centerboard when I hit it. The channel into Sailers Haven is well marked. I ...

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That all being said with the small rudders the boat spins on a dime, if you are drift fishing or around the dock and put one motor in forward the bow turns without the boat moving much at all. With large rudders, bigger props and high torque diesels that turning arc becomes much wider and the boat ...

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Oversized rudders are an essential upgrade for the 31. I got mine from Bobby Soles Propeller in West Palm Beach. I believe that they used Captain Pat's design. (Others please correct me if I am wrong.) Based on the drawing that they sent me the overall length of the blade i6" long, maximum width 10".

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I'm not sure that I was trust a set of gas struts to hold the front windows open when the boat starts to pound. I have trouble with the standard brackets with notches.

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Click on the down-arrow next to your name in the upper right hand corner of the page. Select user control panel and “Edit Account Settings “.

That will take you to the screen to change your password.

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CamB25 wrote: ↑Jun 26th, '24, 14:55 He is on a first name basis with Sea Tow

I understand about that.

My first two seasons with my 31, the guys from Sea Tow knew where my slip was. Five years later, though, I still love my 454s

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On my boat there is enough slack in the wires that I can lift the flying bridge instrument panel up far enough to access the back sides of all of the gauges. Replacing the existing ammeters with voltmeters was a relatively simple task.

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While replacing the raw water hose which goes from the oil cooler to the heat exchanger on my port engine, I discovered that the mounting bracket for the cooler is missing. The one on the starboard engine is bolted to the block with the lower-most of the three bolts which secure a the motor mount to...

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Peter,

Your boat looks awesome.

Well worth the wait.

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I lean toward Sailor’s Haven. The food at the snack bar is pretty simple when I was there several years ago. I have heard that they have expanded their menu a bit.

Let me know when you are going. My marina is just across the bay from Sailor’s Haven.

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Micky I hate when people use a quick fix to make things work, then you inherit their problem. Reminds me of the conversation I had with the mechanic who worked for my boat's previous owner. "I was just trying to keep the old man's dream alive." After six seasons, I think that I have sorted out most...

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As far as I know, my boat is pretty much standard as she came out of the factory (454s with 1 3/8" shafts). When I redid my packing boxes (standard flax packing type) the new ones came with 2.5" id hoses. Buck-Algonquin part number was 00PB138G.

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Related to the spray issue, the instrument panel for my lower helm is a molded fiberglass unit which sits on top of the shelf which run across the forward end of the cabin, under the front windows. The joint between this unit and the shelf is not sealed in any way so that water coming in the front w...

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I replaced my original ammeters with Stewart-Warner volt meters. They fit properly in the holes where the ammeters were and match the other gauges on the panel.

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What engines?

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Rawleigh, You can install gear and throttle levers around the rear deck area instead. You don't need a steering wheel for mooring. You can add an anchor up and down control also, to make it perfect. Be careful where you place controls in the rear deck area. When I was working on the environmental s...

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Tony, I still have the shop manuals. They have been invaluable to me. For points-type ignition, the shop manual says that the wire which feeds the positive side of the coil should have a resistance of 1.8 to 2 ohms. The manual does not give a resistance spec for the Thunderbolt Ignition, but the wir...

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If there is a ballast resistor in your ignition circuit, you should see significantly less than 12 volts at the coil. Check it with the engine running since some ignition systems have a relay which bypasses the ballast resistor to give the coil a full 12 volts for starting.

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I struggled with this issue for most of the first three summers I owned my boat. My port engine had a Prestolite distributor and took an unballasted coil. The starboard engine had a Mallory and took a ballasted coil. Both distributors had electronic ignition conversion kits. I believe that I used a ...

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Not NPT?

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I'm thinking replacing the drain plugs on my 454s with hose bibs to make it easier to drain the coolant. What is the thread size?

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In 1978 we bought a 12 year old Oday Mariner, 19' sailboat, to use on The Great South Bay. My son was a year-and-a-half old and my daughter wasn't born yet. As they were growing up, we used the boat to take them across the bay to the beach, usually twice every weekend from June to September. Now we ...

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I am not certain that the gas struts will do what you think they will do. I have gas struts on the Bilco Doors for my basement entrance and the doors require considerably more effort to open than the old ones which just used a mechanical latch to hold them open. YMMV.

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Advice. Keyboard has a mind of its own.

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Merry Christmas and best wishes for a Happy New Year.

Thanks to everyone on this list who has given me advice encouragement over the past six years.

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I got my oversized rudders from Bobby Soles propeller. The swivel sockets and tiller arms are standard parts from the Buck Algonquin catalog. I had a local propeller shop make a tie bar for me.

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, heating frankfurters on the engine manifold. I'd say Hot dogs, but they never got beyond warmish. In the 50's Popular Science Magazine did an article, with detailed recipes and suggested cooking times/driving distances, about cooking on a car engine. This is the first time I have heard of anyone ...

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Great news!!!

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Carl wrote: ↑Nov 2nd, '23, 06:58 Wow!

Peter, I'd imagine that is a double-edged sword, tough being so far but so proud she followed her path.

We are. She’s an equity partner at KPMG.

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Oops, I read that too fast Peter, for a second I thought you took a quick trip with the boat to Helsinki. How did your daughter and family come to live there? Or were you the transplant to the US? My daughter went to Finland as an exchange student for her junior year in high school. After she gradu...

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I pulled Water-Lou out a week and a half ago, just before a short trip to visit my daughter and her family in Helsinki. Temperatures here the previous week were in the high sixties and low seventies. I didn't put quite as many hours on her as in the previous five seasons. However, this was the first...

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Thanks for all of your advice and suggestions. I understand that the inflatables are more practical as a tender, but I just didn’t like the way they looked. The lines on the Walker go nicely with a 31, looks like they belong together. Something like what Bruce has suggested sounds like it might work...

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It was a rainy day, I had both boats out of the water, and Francey was in Helsinki visiting my daughter and her children so I had a bit of time. I found a used molded polypropylene dinghy, a Walker Bay 8, on Facebook Marketplace. My idea is to use it when I go over to Fire Island so that I don't hav...

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Fuel filter and fuel pump (mechanical) are both mounted on the engine. I don’t believe there is any danger of fuel leakage because that line is not under pressure. Also I have antisiphon fittings at the fuel tank.

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My experience agrees with the comments above. My boat easily planes at 15 knots. My trim tabs are stuck at what I assume to be neutral position.

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Looks great!!

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What kind of fuel line am I supposed to use to connect the fuel filter to the fuel pump? Can I use a flexible house with appropriate fittings in this location? If it makes a difference my engines are 454s with log manifolds and mechanical fuel pumps. My boat came to me with solid lines in this posit...

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I used Azek for the floor panels and steps between my engine boxes. I braced them on the undersides with fiberglass angle iron to minimize flexing.

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Your rudderless are supposed to have a slight toe-in or toe-out. If your boat steers properly leave them alone.

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Great news!!!

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From my recent experience with the leaking raw water hose, another point to check: open the engine boxes after starting the engines. I am guessing that I put about two hours on my starboard engine before I discovered the leak in the hose from the oil cooler to the heat exchanger. The only symptom wa...

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Carl, The old hose still had a label with the part number on it. The part number checked out to a radiator hose for a late 1990s Cadillac. My local auto parts shop found one for me. After I trimmed it to match the old hose it fit perfectly. Given that the old one lasted at least five years I figure ...

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I discovered a pinhole leak in the hose which goes from one of my oil coolers to the heat exchanger. This is 454 with the old-style log manifolds, in case that make a difference. The existing hose was molded with a sharp, right angle bend so that it could run up between the alternator bracket and th...

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Tony Meola wrote: ↑Jun 25th, '23, 00:32
Good luck in your engine search. It is tough finding counter rotating engines. Today that is all handled through the transmissions.

Michiganmotorz lists a counter rotating version of its replacement for the Mercruiser 260.

BTW, it’s usually the starboard engine which counter rotates.

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The first two boat canvas guys I talked to rejected the idea of using cushions. The guy who has been doing our home furniture ended up doing the work. Cushions fit so well that they only needed four 1”x4” industrial grade Velcro strips each to hold them in place.

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Following a suggestion from the guy who cleaned the mold out of my v-berth area two years ago, I asked our upholstery guy to make some cushions for the sides. The pictures below show his solution. They are removable, made with a thin layer of marine foam, covered with vinyl, and attached to the side...

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Interesting video. Thanks for posting.

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