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I'm putting my boat in a slip for the first time next week. Up until this point I've gotten by with carabiners on the cockpit locker and companionway hasps, but my marina is in the heart of California's meth-belt so I'm thinking locks might be a good idea. Right now I'm leaning towards getting a handful of combo locks, maybe a size or two up from TSA luggage locks. I'm thinking those would a) keep the honest people honest, b) be small enough that it looks like I'm not trying to protect anything particularly valuable, and c) be easy enough for tweaker to cut/break without loving up the surrounding boat (lol, yeah right) Any advice from experience? Karma Comedian posted:It's one of those 6 gallon portable tanks so there's just the one line but it seemed fine. I had problems with leaky seals on the fuel connectors for my Johnson OB . If you don't have a visible seep you still might be drawing air. If it happens again, try pressing the line side against the tank firmly and see if it makes a difference.
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May 25, 2020 18:32
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monsterzero posted:I'm putting my boat in a slip for the first time next week. Up until this point I've gotten by with carabiners on the cockpit locker and companionway hasps, but my marina is in the heart of California's meth-belt so I'm thinking locks might be a good idea. It's a little expensive, but an Abus 180/50 brass combination padlock will keep honest people honest and not rust solid if you're near the sea.
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May 26, 2020 16:08
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Kurten posted:If I could offer one suggestion: put a dock in ASAP. If you've got to go up the road 10 minutes to launch your boat and wait in line, wait for idiots who don't know how to back up, people that load their boats on the ramp, etc etc...you will not use your boat nearly as much as you think you will when you buy the boat. You'll be sitting around many evenings going "Hey a sunset cruise sounds good..." pull out the binoculars, see the line over at the boatramp and think "eh gently caress that..." Put a dock in. Have EVERYTHING ready to go before you buy a boat. Then afterwards you're 100 feet or whatever from being in the boat and going when the urge hits you. I wish I had done that before I bought a boat.  Still waiting on the dock delivery though.
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May 26, 2020 16:19
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Even as a non boat person, I'm pretty sure this isn't how boats work. (Is a boat lift like that a common thing?)
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May 26, 2020 17:08
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taqueso posted:Even as a non boat person, I'm pretty sure this isn't how boats work.
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May 26, 2020 17:36
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gvibes posted:Where this is at (michigan), very much so. Just about every boat on my lake over ~1500 pounds or so is on a lift. Minnesota, too. Usually there's a dock leading out to the lift, though...
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May 26, 2020 18:07
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boxen posted:Minnesota, too. Usually there's a dock leading out to the lift, though... Lol ya there is something missing. RE: ethanol, it’s certainly worth the effort to find non-ethanol fuel if it’s at all convenient. Otherwise you want to be diligent about keeping it dry and fresh. The ethanol loves to bond with water and phase out and ruin the fuel. Most boat fuel systems aren’t sealed for evaporation/condensation like a car’s is. Empty space in the tank and large temperature swings can cause a surprising amount of condensation to build up. You want to either keep tanks as full as possible to limit air space, or keep them empty and just bring the fuel you plan to use (easier for smaller boats with portable tanks).
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May 26, 2020 20:16
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taqueso posted:Even as a non boat person, I'm pretty sure this isn't how boats work. Boat lifts are very common on inland areas, especially inland freshwater lakes.  This is a poo poo-garbage quality image but you can plainly see ten J/22 (22' keelboat sailboat) on boat lift/hydro hoists. In this case these are club-owned boats (at fwbc in texas) and they want to minimize total amount of maintenance required as that is a perpetual maintnenance cost. The water there is bathwater warm, at least 85F for 6+ months out of the year, especially in the shallow areas like the marina. As a result alge forms quickly partly due to agricultural run-off. For a $50,000 boat (new) and $3000 hydro-hoist has a ~4-6 year payoff period due to less bottom paint maintenance. A new bottom job on a sailboat ranges from $1200-3500 typically Hydro hoists are powered basically by the blower portion of a vacuum cleaner and then just float up and down so they don't have any moving parts, unless you run into it at high speed it ought to last 15-20 years with little to no maintenance. The privately owned J/24 I sailed on for 7+ years was always "dry sailed" from a hydro hoist. Boat lifts for bigger boats exist but they're rare once you get above ~26'. Most of the J/80s (26') at that club also had hydro hoists or some competing brand of boat lift. edit: not the boat or hoist we used, but yeah if you google "j/80 hydrohoist" lots of results. Ours was a little lower so you still had to brush the bottom 8" of the rudder and keel at the dock, but not having to scrub the bottom every week before a race was ahhhmazzzhing  
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May 26, 2020 20:56
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That's really interesting. I'll have to pay more attention and see if I notice any boats on lifts next time I'm at the reservoir. The water is pretty cold here most of the year, so maybe it's not as much of a problem to keep your boat submerged. Also I would absolutely believe a majority of people around here are too cheap to spend money preventing expensive maintenance.
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May 26, 2020 21:04
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On the Gulf Coast cradle and sling lifts like these are common. If you leave a boat in the water around here it'll quickly start to grow barnacles and other unfriendly things.  I'm going to be installing a sling lift into our boat house for my Scout 172 once we get it repaired to the point of usability.
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May 27, 2020 01:03
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We have lifts here in the Baltic sea as well. Fouling is a pretty minor problem here but a lot of people are trying to get away from using anti-fouling bottom paint entirely, and a lift is useful for that. Anti-fouling regulations are pretty strict and getting stricter, and it's not inconcievable that biocide paint may become illegal to use entirely in the Baltic the foreseeable future. Currently only copper oxide and copper thiocynate are legal to use on the Swedish east coast, and only in pretty low concentrations.
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May 27, 2020 11:43
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A boat lift would rule. Too bad I was born a generation too late to lease a spot on a lake, and a generation too soon for the Sacramento Valley to become an inland sea.
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May 27, 2020 17:15
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TheFluff posted:We have lifts here in the Baltic sea as well. Fouling is a pretty minor problem here but a lot of people are trying to get away from using anti-fouling bottom paint entirely, and a lift is useful for that. Anti-fouling regulations are pretty strict and getting stricter, and it's not inconcievable that biocide paint may become illegal to use entirely in the Baltic the foreseeable future. Currently only copper oxide and copper thiocynate are legal to use on the Swedish east coast, and only in pretty low concentrations. A lot of people here are switching to non-copper paint, stuff with ECONEA instead of copper. Works pretty well, not like the old TBT, but nothing does.
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May 28, 2020 01:27
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So I think we are going with the Regal. I am super pumped and a bit nervous. Is there a good site to learn about boat ownership? I am taking a safety course, but it’s all online, it feels more like getting your temps. I am looking for 3 kind of things: general advice (don’t forget to put the drain plug), what I should own (we have all the stuff to make it Coast Guard ready, but I am also buying a marine radio), tips and tricks (I was planning to take them through a local Power Squadron, but Covid). Any advice or places to look? For reference I read tons on the Steven in sales site before getting our Sea Doo.
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May 28, 2020 04:11
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CA is phasing in a boating license and I’ve been told that the online course is actually quite good and comprehensive. Learn good radio etiquette and what channels are useful to monitor in your area. 16 is a given, but I also listen to 14 (vessel traffic) and 13 (bridge to bridge) because dodging the big ships is important in SF Bay.
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May 28, 2020 19:54
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I will never get a boat license in protest, it's an abhorrence designed to keep tourists from killing themselves on houseboats, but are conveniently does not apply to them. Boating is/was one of the last major unregulated hobbies. Still is unregulated in most states, just not CA. The fine for not having one is $100 and I'm happy to pay that in perpetuity. That's $0 in boat dollars Yeah, though, knowing how to use your radio and to keep an eye out for shipping traffic is important on SF bay or any other major port. We learned very quickly to keep an eye out for commercial traffic our first time in the Houston Ship Channel.
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May 28, 2020 21:01
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I'm a whore for training/licensing/certifications so I don't care. Was just talking it with my wife on our way back from signing a lease on our slip, and thought it would be a good idea for us to do it together since we're both pretty green (though I've read the CA manual cover to cover already...) ETA: the rental exception is pretty dumb, but I don't think houseboats have been a problem even lakes with lots of them. It's almost always a PWC or wakeboard loving up around here. monsterzero fucked around with this message at 21:08 on May 28, 2020 |
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May 28, 2020 21:05
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Dupe- I'm as poo poo at posting as I am at sailing
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May 28, 2020 21:08
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Hadlock posted:I will never get a boat license in protest, it's an abhorrence designed to keep tourists from killing themselves on houseboats, but are conveniently does not apply to them. Lol ok. Licensing was put in place in my state because a bunch of idiots kept killing themselves and others because they knew fuckall about boating.
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May 28, 2020 22:13
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You don't need a boat licence as a sovereign citizen, just assert your right to travel across the seas in a conveyance.
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May 28, 2020 23:20
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I’ve captained 30-120ft boats in Maine and in Oregon. Oregon requires boaters to get licensed and they are 1000% worse than the unlicensed Maine boaters. I must have witnessed at least one collision a month in Oregon.
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ili posted:You don't need a boat licence as a sovereign citizen, just assert your right to travel across the seas in a conveyance. What happens when a sovereign citizen ends up in an Admiralty court? "Aw gently caress, ya got me!"
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skinner posted:I’ve captained 30-120ft boats in Maine and in Oregon. Oregon requires boaters to get licensed and they are 1000% worse than the unlicensed Maine boaters. I must have witnessed at least one collision a month in Oregon. Maine is unforgiving. And full of lobstermen who know how to run a boat. If you think Oregon is bad, go to any lake in the summer. Doesn't matter the location, it's something about being enclosed that makes people compete loving idiots. The Great Lakes get a pass in my limited experience.
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May 29, 2020 02:26
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Our J24 sits on a hoist. It allows us to only have to maintain ablative paint on the bottom 5th or so of the keel and rudder. This is inshore in Georgia, though.
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May 29, 2020 03:18
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There is a dude that dry sails a 1D48 in SF Bay. Keeping your boat out of the water as much as possible is great for it if you can manage. Gets harder when the boat gets bigger. Triply so if it’s got a big keel and mast.
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May 29, 2020 03:39
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monsterzero posted:What happens when a sovereign citizen ends up in an Admiralty court? "Aw gently caress, ya got me!" Yeah but only if the court has gold fringes on their admiralty flag.
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May 29, 2020 04:53
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sharkytm posted:Maine is unforgiving. And full of lobstermen who know how to run a boat. If you think Oregon is bad, go to any lake in the summer. Doesn't matter the location, it's something about being enclosed that makes people compete loving idiots. The Great Lakes get a pass in my limited experience. Yeah I do think there is some ingrained seamanship in Maine, either that or you learn hard and fast. I do still see several boats up on the rocks every summer here in Casco Bay (sailboats and the fire department’s marine rescue...). In news: BRP has discontinued E-TECs. Good riddance, there’s a reason they came with ten year warranties. We have a few work boats using them and they’re constantly broken and basically get repowered every five years.
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May 29, 2020 11:42
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No licensing requirements for leisure craft here, unless they're longer than 12 meters over all and greater than 4 meter beam. There's a volountary leisure craft skipper's examination that you can take though that makes some insurance companies offer a small discount. I bought course material and self-studied it together with my co-owners and then we went and took the examination. Was not that hard. I think it was good to get a legitimate reason to really sit down and learn visual navigation with compass and paper chart properly, as well as really getting the basic COLREGs down for real (instead of just relying on what people have told me etc). Don't think it made any major differences wrt me being an idiot though. The Stockholm archipelago is a pretty forgiving place though, at least the inner parts. Protected waters, no currents or tides, few large commercial ships, always close to land, houses and other boats, etc. And of course with the Swedish weather almost everyone is a fairweather sailor. Navigation used to be pretty dang challenging outside of the marked routes but these days GPS makes everything easy. The outer parts are a far more interesting place, but it's not that common to see people really get themselves in trouble even out there. TheFluff fucked around with this message at 12:33 on May 29, 2020 |
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Snowmankilla posted:So I think we are going with the Regal. I am super pumped and a bit nervous. Is there a good site to learn about boat ownership? I am taking a safety course, but it’s all online, it feels more like getting your temps. BoatUS has a bunch of articles and training resources on stuff like that. They have some training courses here: http://www.boatus.org/ And their magazine has a ton of articles like this: https://www.boatus.com/magazine/2013/April/spring-checklist.asp https://www.boatus.com/magazine/trailering/2013/June/10-step-prelaunch-checklist.asp
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skinner posted:Yeah I do think there is some ingrained seamanship in Maine, either that or you learn hard and fast. I do still see several boats up on the rocks every summer here in Casco Bay (sailboats and the fire department’s marine rescue...). Agreed. The learners all come down here to the Cape and provide SeaTow/TowBoatUS with plenty of fodder. And thank god about the ETecs. There's no place for a 2-stroke today. We called them E-tic-tic-tic-tics. I'm a Suzuki guy on bigger outboards. Honda if you're made of money and don't mind the weight. Yamaha if you need the dealer support. Mercury... dunno why anyone buys Verados. On smaller OBs, however, I've been impressed with the new Mercury (made by Tohatsu) EFI models. We've got a 20 on my wife's skiff, and it's a solid motor. Light enough to still R&R single handed, and the EFI does a nice job without the need for a battery.
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Big Taint posted:There is a dude that dry sails a 1D48 in SF Bay. Keeping your boat out of the water as much as possible is great for it if you can manage. Gets harder when the boat gets bigger. Triply so if it’s got a big keel and mast. 
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May 31, 2020 07:36
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n0tqu1tesane posted:BoatUS has a bunch of articles and training resources on stuff like that. That’s where I’m taking my class through! And here she is! We took possession yesterday at 8. Went out 4 time, and have docked 5! So far so good. 
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May 31, 2020 13:47
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Congrats! I like the cantilevered arch, and am deeply jealous if the shade it grants.
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May 31, 2020 18:44
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I know dude but it’s true. Think about all the different poo poo boats have to prevent being in the water all the time from ruining them.
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I was intending to agree with you by default because of course keeping stuff out of the water is good for it.
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Crunchy Black posted:... of course keeping stuff out of the water is good for it. uhh gently caress why didn't anyone tell me that 
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The caveat is it’s easier said than done, especially if you want to use the boat regularly. Pulling onto a hydro hoist or float dock is easy, but you can only get a boat that’s so big on those. Small sailboats <25’ can pretty easily be drysailed and craned in and out every time and live on a cradle or trailer at the yacht club or whatever but that ain’t cheap. The guy with the 1D48 kept his boat in Alameda at a funky old boat yard so he probably had a relatively cheap arrangement, but they closed a few years ago and I don’t know where the boat lives now. That’s one of the big downsides to I/O boats, they are often too big for hydrohoists or easy trailering, but the outdrives hate being in the water and are easily ruined by deferred maintenance.
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Just shift all your tinned food and spanners to the front when you leave it parked and lift the back out that way. Signed not a boat knower.
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I installed a Pertronix Ignitor II electronic ignition with 45kV coil on my 3.0L MerCruiser 140. When I pulled the points base plate up, I discovered that both ignition advance springs were just rattling around in there. This might have been a cause of the stumble while applying throttle. I also replaced the plug wires and spark plugs. I checked the gap on the old plugs--anywhere from .037 to .050 on a points ignition. Friggin' PO's. The maximum should have been .035. I gapped the new plugs (NGK Iridium) conservatively at .035 but will probably change it to .045 with the new coil. This engine needs an Italian tune-up pretty badly; I had to sand quite a bit of rust from the distributor shaft, and the exhaust was burning carbon pretty well.
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gvibes posted:Speaking of, got my lift in and canopy on. That's a pretty boat! I've got a 2005 X7 currently and I really like (almost) everything about it. Except for how low in the water it sits, now that everyone on my lake's got 200,000+ dollar wakesurfing boats that throw some pretty huge rollers. Do you pull skiers? If so, how do you find the wake with the motor farther back at ski speeds? I still waterski because I'm old, but I kinda want to find a taller boat so it doesn't feel like a wakesurfer is going to swamp me when they drive by, and your boat looks like it probably wouldn't have this problem. Obviously this would help with wakeboarding and wakesurfing, but I'd really like to hear how it is when you pull a skier if possible..
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