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Anyone have a furuno 711c autopilot? I'm trying to decide on a new autopilot, I like the 711c but have reservations about buying one because I think it's discontinued from what I've read. I'd like to know if anyone has one and if they like it, Thanks! Dan

Hello Searay owners, The autopilot quit working on my 390 express and I traced it to the circuit breaker, I flipped the breaker on but it kept tripping, long story short I ended up taking the pump out and opening the end piece that encases the electronics which include a small circuit board, one...

One at a time my electronics are giving out on me, first the pump on the autopilot pump, the radar dome and now the gps antenna, I was wondering if anyone has an antenna that they'd be willing to part with? I'd attach a picture but I'm over my quota on this site and don't see how to free up...

Hi John, I'm really enjoying your thread, thanks.. you know, you probaby wouldn't want a dinasour boat like mine, but ya could pick one up for about 30k or maybe less, they are huge inside and very comfortable, I have a spring loaded futon mattress on top of the regular mattress and I swear...

John, aren't you taking the surveyor with you on the sea trials? when I bought my boat, the surveyor spent a good amount of time in the engine room while we were underway, I think the only device he had was an infrared thermometer to point at the engines. JMHO, if your strapping your budget, you...

I hear ya Doug, let's not let the thread go bad please (all?)

I gotta admit he's doin a fine job of trying to make the right decision, I woke up one day and wanted a new boat, 3 weeks later I had my current boat and it was a great decision in the end, I hope you get a great boat Jcooke01, I'm jealous, get a good mechanic to look at whatever ya get. Diesels...

if I may butt in with my .02, I'd really think hard about your need for diesels, yes the resale is better, but if you plan on keeping the boat and you don't have a need for speed, gasser's ain't that bad. Yea my boat is old and sort of a dinasour, but everybody loves it including me. the way i...

oh yea, Shooners, Skuttlebutts, Pelican, they're all still crankin, although some may be closing up for the season. I'll be in the water untill about November 1. Yes the trip went very well, met a bunch of sailors on the Cape Vincent pier the last night that was pretty memerable, but the whole...

what a great decision to wait until sunday am to cross mexico bay! left Cape Vincent around 7am and got to Rochester at 6pm doing about 8 mph, the lake was perfect with about a six in chop, sunny most of the time, 11 hours of perfection, I got to see one of them like 100 footers that look like a...

actuall i live in Rochester, hope to be there by 4 pm tomorrow, docked in Charlotte, stop in, closing cerimonies start this week, lol, I'll send ya my #

Well I’m stuck here for today, the bouy off Rochester was reading 4.59 ft, that means 9 ft top to bottom and they are talking about waterspouts whatever one of them looks like, couldn’t be stuck in a better place tho, tomorrow at 5 am is best time. Anyways’ I was futsin with the generator this...

Now i know why my fuel consumption is so bad, all this stuff on the boat adds up! I'm getting ready to brave Mexico bay NY in the am, the highest wind Windfinder shows is 10mph at 8pm Saturday and it's northeast so that would be hittin me from the side going from Cape Vincent to Rochester, the...

I got it, i must have said, "oh my god" fifty times by now, ohh, replacing that slave solinoid is now my most un wanted thing to do on the 390, between the gas tank and on top of the fuel/water seperator is the slave solinoid, i'm sure there will be a few small black and blue marks on me, wow...

thanks guys, i did test the switch on the tranny by bypassing it, then when i turned the key, it would click the slave solinoid in forward and reverse, so i don't think it's the switch on the tranny, i do believe it is the slave solinod, I'll try jumpering it tomorrow, or testing with a meter or...