Last night I did some spring cleaning/maintenance with a couple of 5 hp kicker outboards. They had been sitting up a while, I drained the syrupy stuff out of the carb bowls, emptied the remote tanks contents into a storage can and put fresh gas and Seafoam in the engine tank and got both engines...

I do not watch that much TV, but having this really nice KVH satellite antenna and 30+ inch plasma TV that came with the boat, I felt compelled to purchase Direct TV (primarily for college football. Signed up for the middle package, 200 channes plus the sports package. I have tried to use it...

I just received the new port gaskets I purchased from Sam's Marine. I hope to install them this evening, as it has been raining quite regularly here. Are there any tricks to the removal of the old gaskets or installation of the new ones which I should know? Thanks

It took a bottle jack to raise the deck enough to slide it out and once out the amount of scale inside was impressive. As always there are still a few snags. The 6 gal Whirlpool from Lowes is a 1/2" or so taller and I will have to cut out and lower the support floor; however the side...

While crawling around the transom in order to re-bolt the swim platform brackets I managed to break the rather dainty white nylon rod which connects the rudder arm to an arm on a sensor. It is a linkage about 18" long and 1/8 diameter. It is threaded to allow a small amount of adjustment. ...

Something went wrong when I tried to upgrade the software on my Garmin 4212/4012 Network. I downloaded the upgrade onto an SD card, took it down to the boat, turned on the plotter, inserted the SD card and pressed the button telling it to upgrade. The indicator got to 58% and stopped. I waited...

While turning back the rotary dial temp knob for the salon AC (Cruisair) I apparently turned the knob too far and the breaker tripped. I turned the knob back to full cold, reset the breaker and everything worked fine. When it came time to leave the dock, I changed over to the generator and...

Lilly Marie is docked about 150 feet from the house where there is cable internet access. I connected a CISCO/Linksys wireless router thinking I could then use a notebook computer on the boat. The house is elevated and the router about 20 feet above sea level. No signal shows up when the...

The compressor went out on my icemaker uline ss-98 located in in the aft deck wet bar 43DC. My appliance repair man is having difficulty finding a replacement. I looked on line and found a compressor for $695, which is close to the cost of the entire unit. It amazes me that an "ice machine"...

This may be of some value to you. Before re-attaching the swim platform brackets, I ran a test yesterday. See photos below. 7 of the attachmet bolts had pulled out. The transom is has two layers of <.6 cm fiberglass with an 1.8 cm foam core between them. There are 6 ss brackets each secured by...