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Was at my brothers house in Bremerton, visiting him and his wife. I mentioned I was in the market for a dingy and maybe small engine for the upcoming San Juan trip. My brothers wife, Dr. Kay, and I are fiddling around with guitars, she had just gotten a new Martin 000-15S. She lets me know I...

OK, struggled with the topic name. I will show photos of how to disassemble the helm toggle switches of the vintage I have, and replace the lamp if need be. First up, a photo of a typical switch after it has been removed from the switch panel. This switch is lighted, and a couple of mine...

The last time out on the boat the steering was very difficult, could turn the wheel only with a great deal of effort. A few weeks prior, in much warmer weather, I did not notice any steering problem. I have been checking to see what the problem is, and it is the steering cable itself. I have...

Someone on the San Juan rendezvous asked about the boating conditions in the northwest during our trip. I think they will be better than what you see in these photos taken about mid-October. Maybe a smaller boat will handle the long swells better than something a bit larger like this ferry...

Well, the new skin just popped up when I was looking at the recent posts. What a surprise! So far I like what I see. The icons for quoting and posting are readable on my monitor now. Interesting colors, and the text is very readable. Thanks Jim for all the effort you have put into making...

I have been troubleshooting a problem with the rear-facing half of the anchor light not working when the Nav Light switch is in the anchor position. I finally found that two wires on my Nav switch were swapped. I have no idea how long they have been that way, as I normally never use that...

My examples in the Best in the West post of many months ago are now broken on this new site. Here is an example that works from the site directions. This is of an image that is itself a link to another image.

I returned Sunday from a weekend getaway to Lake Pend O'Reille in Idaho. Met up there with Sundancer and his family, and got a ride in his 'new' boat. We had a very nice time, and what a great boat he has. Wish mine would get up and go like his 300 DA! Had a few little problems with my boat...

With the San Juan trip coming up next year, people who normally don't boat where they can get shore power from a marina may want to insure that the shore power cord on their boat really has a proper shore power connector. On my last trip, I thought mine did, but it turned out it did not. I...

There is something fishy about my previous post in the Server Downtime thread with implementing DNS caching on my local mahine. It did in fact make a lot of difference in the response of this site. I have been trying to figure out why it did. The web browser itself I believe does implement...

I also mentioned in a previous post that I had attempted to move my 270 DA sideways, but had not been successful. I was also asked about that: I assume moving sideways is similar to turning in place, except you move forward a little bit to the right, and then back up with the stern to the...

I just discovered that I have a PM about a comment I made about practicing turning in place. My PM box is overfull, so I can't respond there till I get that cleaned up. So thought I would just throw it out as a topic. The question was: How exactly do you turn in place? Is it a little bit...

Below is a picture I took of the water on the Columbia a couple of hours before a lightning storm. I recognize the appearance of the water surface, nearly flat like on a beautiful day, but with a large number of very tiny waves. The water is otherwise very calm, and there is little wind. But...

I have read various posts about people operating their boat with the drive tucked under, or the trim tabs down, while on plane in normal weather. I was curious what effect it would have on my boat, so a month or so ago I gave it a try. With the outdrive trimmed fully down, and the tabs fully...

I have had the swim platform for over a month, and have bee too busy with things to get it installed. But that has changed over the last week. I finally got to it. I moved the swim platform into the SW corner of my shop, in front of a window where I have nice afternoon light. Then I backed...

Several months ago I was asking for the creation of this section. At that time I went through and edited a bunch of my posts that I thought belonged in the electrical section if it got created. So, Mr Moderator, Sir, if you would do a search for the phrase 'This belongs in the electrical...

I did a little testing of my Delta anchor in sand a few days ago. Basically, I took the anchor and threw it up on the beach, then used the boat to try and "set" it. So maybe the first issue I have is that I don't know what "set" means. Is the anchor in the following pictures set or not...

I will make a post about this. I did a quick search on the internet for engine alignment, and saw a comment that mentioned reading the grease. Since I had no better idea of how to judge which way to adjust me engine alignment problem, I decided to give it a try. So, I took my new Merc...

A body in free space has six degrees of freedom. I have been wondering about, and checking actually, engine alignment in my 270 DA. I have the following conjecture, comments are welcome, especially in pointing out any errors. While I have never pulled the engine, it is my understanding the...

I was asked what I am using for an outdrive stand, or dolly. The one that I have comes from Bims . It looks like what you see here. You can put the outdrive on it, and roll it around the shop. Makes removing an outdrive easy for one person. There is an issue using this stand with some...