Recent content by Smashpjp

Was going to head over to PIB Saturday for Mad Dogs show/evening since its looking to be in the mid 70's. But that breeze has the marine forecast in the 3-5 range... So its a game time decision with boat show/ Twin Oast as a fallback..

Well in ohio if you want to sell new or used cars, you have to be bonded, take a class, get fingerprinted, oh and you cant be a felon... What happens to all the used car sales men that get a felony? They become boat brokers... Pay your $50 annual and make sure Ohio gets its sales tax and you...

340 with 8.1s and vdrives. I can hop on plane at 1800-1900 RPM. My rpm sweet spot is 3200 rpm for the engines. That does 27-28 on flat lake. Can push it up higher to 3800 to go 33-35. Previous owner made these tweaks Oversized Tabs (Id have to measure but they are almost double surface area...

I just pulled my fusion radio off the Garmin Wifi and put it on the boat Wifi pep 12v router I have on the boat. Radio connected via nmea 2000 is good enough. I explored tweaking the networking and isolating networks and vlans to merge the networks with some layer 2 tricks, but eventually...

Structural issues, mechanical issues, and for safety issues - The seller should be on the hook. If everything else is functional, but the surveyor had to find something to call out and flag as future maintenance priority, that should be on the buyer... Cosmetic and other items should be baked...

Do you need to purchase Vision+ for each chartplotter or do they all get the update if its active for you.

There is an old saying: "Hardware eventually fails. Software eventually works" I had a new transponder installed over Winter, so was planning on removing the remaining ray marine components I think I am going to tackle the auto pilot here to integrate with my GPSmap 8610 . Turns out the Old...

Ive been looking at boats all winter and actually looked at 2 other 420s. Both were "Current owner - Open checkbook maintenance". Both were disasters in the engine room and had the 480CE engines. 1 had both rebuilt. I knew Blueone's was a gem, its just a month before I was ready to jump. I...

Portside can be rough if that wind picks up. Was there last year for the derby in May and was all calm until 3 AM when we got rocked awake. Only nice thing is its a 15 minute cruise from my marina on the bay and can call over and get a slip most days or we just get a group from the marina and...

hybrid power train / tiny diesel genset.. Works on Sail. We all need to much torque and speed for electric power train to work on a cruiser or speedboat. I had a dock neighbor that made the switch last year. Got a steal on a Beneteau 40. Some serious room on that thing

I think that is mostly the use case I see with these. My air is 16000btu/15A btu as well on the cabin and normal draw is just about 900w. I have the 8.1s in my 340 and the previous owner removed the genset when he did the manifolds and dripless 2 years prior to me purchasing the boat. Ive had...

Been Watching the last couple episodes of Sailing Doodles and it has been interesting watching them cruise around the keys and the Bahamas in a Sundancer 340. They transported one of those 2kw lipo battery banks and some solar panels and have shown pro/cons of them effectively. Maybe we are...

Go NVDA, FB and a bunch of others. Stock market All time high. Hell savings accounts offer 5% these days

Oversized large tabs and 4 blade prop makes the 340 with 8.1 a completely different boat. hops on plane at 1900 rpm, amazing grip at dock and at the optimal RPM/torque curve of 3200RPM for those GM engines, gives you a solid 26-28 MPH. 3 prop was around 23-24MPH and ran the engine at much...

All my left over BBQ, taco meats, and can even prep other proteins in a vacuum bag and freeze. Sous vide it back to life. No bulky appliance to carry.