Recent content by JediJD

Depends on your time frame...oil samples are $20/ea in bulk from Blackstone. Take oil samples of the engines, trannies and genny. Take about a week to ten days. Then sea trial. Watch for temperature changes at cruise and WOT, make sure you are hitting expected speeds at expected RPM...if you...

Captain Captain! How the heck are you! Thanks so much for the post. Miss seeing you about. Mi barco su barco. Thanks for the advice...gives me some direction. Fortunately, its a Vdrive, with relatively lots of access room. I say this before trying to pull it out, but I'm thinking it will...

Have been through several sets of fender covers over the years, and have to give a shout out to Andrew at North Star Products (www.northstarproductsinc.com) custom made out of black Sunbrella (I have big fenders and thought $25/ea for them was dirt cheap. I didn't check on embroidery, but I...

+1 to Mike above. Fairly quick turn around. Easy to deal with.

I've been going through a long checklist of items on my Carver (I know...but I was a Sea Ray guy a long time and will be back shortly), and have something I can't quite get my arms around. At idle, the port transmission has a high pitched whine. Its almost like a squeal...sounds metal to...

Deeply appreciate the collective wisdom...thank you, gentlemen, for your time and attention. Off to find spider monkeys!

I'm about to start replacing all three of the AC units in my cruiser. The are 10 year old 115v reverse cycle 7k, 12k and 16k units by MarineAir (which has been purchased by Dometic, apparently). All started because the base of the 7k unit in the front berth has rusted (former salt water boat)...

On the '03, the only amps were behind the top right hand sofa back. You pull the seating surface out, the top comes straight up. Behind it, on the wall, are all the amps. There wasn't an amp in either the engine bay or the rear area.

OK...in anticipation of closing the thread...I called Garmin this morning. Got a very pleasant, US based tech support woman who was a bit perplexed by the problem and researched it fairly thoroughly, ultimately gently leading me to the conclusion that there was user error. It seems that...

Used boat, bought from Florida. During sea trials, the electronics were awesome (rest of the boat needed help, but that's another story). My goal is to have the chartplotter actually give me information about the lake it is on, Lake Allatoona, GA, like it was in Ft. Lauderdale and so far, I'm...

Artfully done.

A group of protesters in front of a physics lab: “What do we want?” “Time travel” “When do we want it?” “Irrelevant.

<chuckle> One of the quandaries that has consumed my attention is the propriety of using the current humidor on the new boat. Tossing, turning, sleepless nights...would it be a treasured piece of memorabilia carried forward as a connection to great cigars past or simply the first of perhaps a...

True that. I'm already envisioning some rerouting of one of the AC's to give cockpit air and redoing the bridge canvas to more intelligently maximize available square footage. Not sure where the theater room and pool table will go, though.

Crushing horrible awful stuff and nothing that can help. My kids have never known grandparents and I hope yours got to know her during better times.