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I've spent plenty of time on a CC28 with Volvos, that boat is heavy, I'm not sure 15k but close, 300hp a side is much better power for them. one part I would have in reserve if I owned them is the damn idler pulley, it is not terrible to swap out a belt but if that sucker goes (and it will) you are ...

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The project is looking great, sometime in my life I will have the funds and the intelligence to hand a project over to the professionals.

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Mike,

They are full flow - nice looking and very heavy
https://photos.app.goo.gl/PJ3expwc1EdrXSMY6

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I took advantage of the warm weather after work last night, I put in the windows to the dog house then opened a tube of 4200 and moved on to final install of a bunch of parts: the chain pipe in front deck, pvc pipes that I ran my wires through the deck inside the console, my bilge pump thru-hulls, e...

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Cam your idea of the logbook is a good one, figure out what conditions you can run in and be comfortable and look for those days. To me it is all about the wind / direction, I look to go out when the wind is steady or dying down. Pick your poison too, While it is not ideal running out into a head-se...

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I have no luck, NONE!!!!!!! I couldn't find 316 stainless bolts locally to bolt my bracket to the boat so I ordered from Ebay from a seller who states that they are in CT, aka normally 1-2 days shipping time, this was Wednesday last week. Still no bolts today, I tracked the package, last tagged as i...

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to follow on https://marine.weather.gov/MapClick.php?zoneid=amz250#.YnKC4yjMKUk NOAA says building wind today SW winds 10 to 15 kt, increasing to 15 to 20 kt in the afternoon. Isolated gusts up to 25 kt late. Seas 3 to 4 ft. A slight chance of showers and tstms in the afternoon. I use windy.com and ...

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the 5 second period would have me questioning.....

wave height isn't a big deal, period is, long duration is your friend

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here are the items in question, all state NPT thru-hull - there is quite a bit of play in the nut to threads, it can be slid sided to side and top to bottom, there is no play when screwed into the valve or elbow. https://gemlux.com/collections/forged-thru-hulls/products/2934 elbow https://www.graing...

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Cam I am dumb, really dumb sometimes ................ I do appreciate you double checking me All the threads, thru-hull , nipple, elbow, ordered hose nipple is all NPT - I think National Pipe Tapered Thread. my Dad was a machinist and made high end taps and dies to feed aerospace contractors for a l...

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The big Brown and the White trucks showed up over lunch, the yellow one is scheduled for today too. New hydraulic steering ram in one, 45 degree pipe fittings in the other I think the 45 pipe fitting will solve my thru-hull issue :) Top view https://photos.app.goo.gl/WBQ2UBhkcEmrPNJ46 When tilted do...

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different strokes for different folks.........

I am going to be damn happy with a porta-pottie for with wife and kids or an emergency #2 plus a raw water wash down pump to wash my hands

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good point!!! I may need an offsetting hose barb or excess in loop in hose (I did leave the hose quite long) . Right now I just need to get the boat water tight again so I can get the motor installed, from there as long as I can keep the valve turned off, I will buy myself some time to figure it out...

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another option grainger has a 45 degree elbow with NPT in 316 stainless - I may go with this to reduce custom fabrication
https://www.grainger.com/product/GRAING ... teel-1LTB9

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Hi All, I screwed up pretty bad this weekend, I drilled the holes for the thru-hulls for my macerator and livewell drains on my transom about 2" below my deck. I set them up kind of like dual exhaust on either side of the transom - https://photos.app.goo.gl/2Rj8mXKjNeAhW4PA8 My screw up is that I di...

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It was stupid cold out after work, I spent 15 min to layout cut positions for my bilge pump thru-hulls and my hands got cold so I decided to play with the electronics because I could sit under the console out of the wind and do some wiring. I wired up the power supplies to my 2 displays then setup t...

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it is supposed to be reasonably warm this weekend so I am going to try to get the windows in and figure out how much of the flange I need to cover if I put it under the lip. There is one more option I didn't originally think of and that is to cut out a portion of the lip to fit in the size of the wi...

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Windshield wiper thoughts - cold and raining today over lunch so I did some design thinking. I have a windshield wiper which came off my Bertram when she had a windshield and I have been storing it for years, I pulled it out and have done some testing to prove that it still works. https://photos.app...

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I've done well over 100 trips going to the canyons on boats maintained meticulously by captains and in a few of those trips we have broken down and had to do repairs or come home on one engine, etc. The odds were quite low of breaking down but that is due to the level of maintenance done on the vess...

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I've been getting my house ready to paint and far too much of my time has been going that way, Sunday I got in a few hours of work, it was cold and raw out so I did some wiring / installing of electrical components In response to the other points, I will be in the market for a few different cable se...

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I've always run with them stored in a canvas bag in the cabin, once in the fishing area take them out and extend then put in place.

Preston has the right idea, just that it is going to be something that I do not get to this year.

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I've had the riggers for years and run them top mount, when I search for the part I come up with Lee's Tackle Top Mount Outriggers Model OH277T so I assume (could be wrong) that they are capable of being top mount.

Now for the comment about being a backyard engineer, I resemble those remarks

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Friday night I did get a little time in and installed the vhf antenna mount with some goop and bolted it up, when I went to drill the hole for the antenna cable to go through the roof I encountered something that I wasn't expecting, the end of the antenna had a nice factory end on it which didn't fi...

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most folks don't know what the capabilities are and the right methods to accomplish their goals. I am intrigued by their capacity but it does not seem straight forward to charge them. Speaking of Lithiums, this picture is quite appropriate, I took it last night, who here on this site knew that you c...

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Hi All, I purchased a new thru-hull scoop to feed my livewell / washdown pumps and remember back in the day that I had to trim it to length and don't remember which direction it faced. How tight to filling all the threads on the seacock do I need to go when I trim it to length? https://photos.app.go...

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Nothing picture worthy for last night's work: 1. I cut the hole for the storage compartment hatch in the starboard side of the boat - f'd up not reading the template right and drilled the starter hole outside the cut line but the flange for the hatch covers it so c'est la vie. 2. Made the hole where...

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Lee's Tackle just got back to me with the same answer as you just mentioned. There is no adjustment capability on those rigger mounts. I just re-did my back stairs with Azek treads and have a bunch of scrap but it is brown and it would look ugly on the boat, I do have some high density white cutting...

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other than it being a PIA to replace and the weight penalty is the battery bank meeting your needs? seems like you have more capacity than you need which in my minds eye is not a bad problem to have. with lead acid batteries, I thought you didn't want to deeply discharge them so having excess capaci...

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Hi All, I temp installed the outriggers and due to the curve of my doghouse roof they slope outward in the stowed position and in the operating position are far too low. The riggers have a button on top which locks them in the stowed position and you can press it down and turn the riggers outward to...

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we've been doing projects all around the house and I've been spending quite a bit of time there, this weekend I split working sat on the house and sunday on the boat. I didn't get too much done but I planned out a bunch of stuff and drilled out some holes I temp installed the Radar, VHF Antenna, Hor...

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Rick,

So your thought is that you charge them up at the dock and not recharge underway?

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good one - - I've been abusing mine lately

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a question to the folks considering Lithium, how do you charge them? the reason for my question was that I asked my engine dealer if I could charge lithium batteries and he stated that some of his customers have had issues where it fried regulators and he's dealing with warranty issues and strongly ...

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Cam - what did you use for the posts out of your front rodholders? I was thinking a next year item would be similar to what you setup but would be in the stern of my boat coming off the doghouse roof and going back to a posts inserted in my rodholders. I am also not looking forward to the 140 gallon...

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a couple more to add to the list

in May / June there is Black fly season in Maine - those bugs are persistent and bite

In the saltmarshes around my area are the green-headed horse fly - they can take a chunk out of you

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I'm not sure when you did it but I have a place in Wareham, 10 min away from where you launched from. hopefully you didn't cut hens and chickens reef off too tight off gooseberry point - there's a nasty rock pile with 5-6' depth quite a ways offshore, your plot showed you going quite tight there you...

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after been hit with bad gas a couple of times and ending up with every water and gatorade bottle on board loaded up with bad gas in an attempt to drain the water separator while on the water, you can typically get the water out of the gas, but where to store the junk gas in the process??? I strongly...

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here's a pic of what will get hung off the back - someone else's boat

https://photos.app.goo.gl/nzMDgULqoKj3bbge6

I know the white painted engines are all the rage - would have been months more if I wanted one

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I like it, much better than the plastic covers. it might be a next year project for me as my work lists (yes plural lists) are too long right now.

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Nice setup!!!!! I notice you used multiple layers of tape before cutting out, I wore through in one corner with only one layer, the mark will be covered but multiple layers of tape is a must with a jigsaw. I've got to follow your lead and grind off the markings on the bolts holding down the hydrauli...

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I agree that it looks better with the items more towards the center, ideally it should be shoulder length apart, left hand on outside of the wheel right hand on the throttle neither overly extended. Something in my crazy brain says that it has to be on some type of mathematical number but I may just...

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It was warm tonight so I did some planning and cutting :) I cut out the dash opening for my 2 displays, I then set up a center line on the lower portion and a line on 1/3 and another on 2/3rds. A keen eye can see that the displays are not perfectly even, there is some play in the holes, I will need ...

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Raybo - please discuss the scupper covers and the thought process around them, do you have a pic of how they end up looking like?

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It is nice to see a project move along quickly and cleanly - I have no experience with that on my boating projects

I hope things come together so you can enjoy this season!!!

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I get the aversion down south to the pods, shallow water and lots of marine growth on very expensive parts which hang out under water all add up to a potentially costly TCO.

Running in deeper colder water could be different

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I do have windows Nice Aluminum framed ones with 3/8" glass - just the previous photo was the best one which showed the whole dash. Here's a pic when I was test fitting the windows, they are out now, I am waiting for warm weather to goop them in. https://photos.app.goo.gl/4zJRQvFemBAZJKJT7 The elect...

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Yesterday afternoon I met with the Marina and gave them a check to cover the cost of the motor and discussed options for setting up the engine I came home with the wiring harness and the Suzuki digital shifter and will start to plan out the position of stuff on the dash Here's what I have so far, th...

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Not wanting to miss any time, I am going to get the Suzuki and sell off the Honda motors. I will sell the running motor as is and part out the 2nd motor that I started to take a part. If I do well parting out the 2nd motor I will make a couple bucks on the whole deal.

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Yes - my luck is poor..... I went at tearing down the "siezed" motor and it isn't technically siezed, grenaded is a better description. From the bottom of the intake plenum, when I removed the plenum, there were shavings in the lower cylinder. https://photos.app.goo.gl/EgUfqPhj9jgYuy5C7 I concentrat...

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Go Figure......................... after months of no communication the dealer comes back and says my 300 zuki is ready to go and needs cash by monday or it is gone. I'm going to scramble a bit and see why the 2nd siezed motor went bad, if it is rebuildable with a short block I am going to go with t...

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