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I love to travel and have traveled extensively throughout the United States and the world. Yet somehow in all of these journeys, I had not been to New York City. This past weekend my wife and I went to New York city, meeting friends of ours from Austria who were visiting there as well. Now as...

Saturday I was inside my boat docked in the condo complex marina. My step daughter and friend were fishing on the bow. Suddenly she started screaming "Doc we need you NOW!" I ran out and uptop and she said "that boat just fell in the water " Apparently this catamaran boat forgot to pull one...

Well we entered the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo 7/20-7/22 and held our on and represented SeaRay very well to those big Bertrams and Hatteras's. My team of 6 spent 18 hours on the boat on Friday and 30 hours Sat into Sunday. As of Thursday might te forecast was for 2 ft seas and scattered...

Starting a thread to tell all of you about my planned weekend trip. I will be entering my 390EC in a sure-nuff fishing tournament. The annual Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo will be held from Friday at 5am to Sunday at 5pm and will be based from the Dauphin Island Marina. My boat does have some...

For several months I've had water accumulate around the water tank under the floor in my 1985 390 ec i know the water tanks were problematic on these but this is a replacement tank and should be good. It would accumulate 15-20 gallons in a 2 week period. So I left the tank bone dry empty for a...

My son and friends went out fishing last night to a group of rigs about 75 miles out in the gulf. He said they couldn't pull in the blackfin tuna intact due to sharks eating them on the way in I'm attaching 3 videos. I installed a thru hull camera that shows on the salon tv and the e80. The...

I recently posted about hints on changing impellers on my diesel engines. Got lots of good info. However nobody offered what a complete cluster it was trying to change the port impeller. To start with on both engines the oil cooler is about exactly two inches behind the plate. So to get the...

Within the next week or two I am going to do my first impeller change on these diesel engines. I've done many changes on other smaller engines before so I understand the process, my question is do I need a specific puller tool to get the old one out, or can it be pulled out with pliers etc like...

My son is looking for a 23-27 ft center console to fish with. He sent me some finds on a website www.boatsdepot.org. I think something is fishy here ( no pun intended) as there are hundreds of boats listed with full specs but they are priced at 1/4 to 1/3 of what I think is a realistic price...

Don't want to rub it in or anything but I'm in Gulf Shores, sitting in LuLus, listening to Buffett music, eating a cheeseburger in paradise, and watching boats. How's your Saturday going?

Anybody who has done much reading on this forum knows about the raging debate about which is better- outdrives vs inboards. At risk of starting a new fight, I will summarize what I believe is the consensus: Smaller boats or boats that will be stored out of the water tend to do better with...

Went down to Ft Morgan this weekend for the first time in a couple of weeks. My in-laws were down the road at their place and wanted a cruise. They had several friends down with them and wanted them to come too. Well we all know we look for reasons to ride our boats so I agreed. I decided to...

The Blue Angels will perform their annual home show July the 9th in Pensacola and the best seat in the house is on a boat in the harbor off the Naval Base. Is anyone around this area planning on attending? It would fun to join up for the festivities. Hampton, I know the air show would have no...

I was playing aroung on BoatDiesel.com and saw the shaft size calculator. My engines are 355hp and I have 1.5 inch shafts. According to BD, stainless 1.5 inch shafts can handle a maximum of 196 SAE horsepower while monel shafts handle 393 and aquamet handles 687. Now I'm quite sure my shafts...

I am strongly considering upgrading my 20x25 3 bladed props to a 4 blade. My current props seem to be correct as I can get to the recommended 2800 rpm with them. I understand the recommended change when going to 4 blades would be a one inch drop in pitch so does 20x 24 seem correct to y'all...

Testing uploading picture from my iPhone This is an amberjack my son caught last week on my boat.

Oil down 9%, gas and diesel down 5-6% wholesale!!! http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-05/oil-metals-fall-as-slowing-global-growth-drags-down-stocks-euro-climbs.html:smt038:smt038:smt038 " It’s panic,” said Michael Shaoul, chairman of Marketfield Asset Management, which oversees $1 billion...

I see the other threads about tornados hitting marinas This video shows a tornado that has been estimated to be a mile wide. It is passing behind Denny Stadium where Alabama plays. It is currently heading toward Birmingham. Happened about an hour ago and is about 30 miles from my house...

Just got my Helm and port side pads delivered and they look great! I will install them this weekend and report back I know other have had SeaDek pads installed, mostlyon the swim platform. How did they hold up after a season or two of use?? The larger pad is 48x16 inches and the smaller is...

Once you have your new boat operational and you are comfortable with it, lets have a get-together of the Panhandle CSR crowd. It would be great to meet all these Alabama/Florida panhandle people that we see online and what better excuse than to welcome your new boat. Maybe even Frank would come...