Forum: General
12-04-2006, 02:41 PM
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Replies: 55
Views: 1,394
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Forum: General
12-04-2006, 02:39 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 220
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Forum: General
12-03-2006, 01:54 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 127
Re: Happy Thanksgiving
Outstanding!
Seems to me your Happy holidays are assured.
We learned of the SeaCraft legend and this site from a chance meeting at the Annapolis boat show, and purchase a nice SF20 inboard shortly...
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Forum: Performance
12-02-2006, 12:03 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 235
Re: Trim Tabs - a MUST ( my .02 )
Meant no offense, but it does seem to me to have the potential to spoil the flow.
So you have them! How long? What do you think of them and have you run with other trim units to compare.
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Forum: General
12-02-2006, 11:53 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 127
Re: Happy Thanksgiving
I'm sure I'm not the only one enjoyed your good wishes and returned them silently.
Do you really own one the SeaCraft ocernighters? Understand them to be very rare.
Hope your Thanksgiving great and...
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Forum: General
12-01-2006, 07:29 PM
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Replies: 55
Views: 1,394
Re: Rest in Peace - A Sad, Sad Night
Peter:
Hope I'm not too late with this reply.
There are several sources for how to minimize the damage to a sunken craft by preparing for her BEFORE raising her (the air adds tremendously to the...
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Forum: Performance
11-28-2006, 05:13 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 235
Re: Trim Tabs - a MUST ( my .02 )
THAT seems a really good point.
On trim tabs, initial research revealed a bit of weirdness of trim tabs combined with trolling motors.
My thought was excess drag and dirty wake, do these things...
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Forum: Performance
11-27-2006, 03:43 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 235
Re: Trim Tabs - a MUST ( my .02 )
Do any of you use and/or recommend Trim Position Indicators?
Based on the excellent input here, Bennett seems the way to go, the 120's?, we have a 1975 20SF w/ I-6 165 HP I/O, and - possibly...
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Forum: Performance
11-26-2006, 07:44 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 235
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Forum: Performance
11-26-2006, 01:03 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 235
Re: Trim Tabs - a MUST ( my .02 )
This has me convinced - was leaning toward them, but uncertain till now.
Recently; one the most knowledgeable men in the group "spareparts" mentioned locating the tabs can be critical, and if done...
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Forum: Performance
11-26-2006, 12:54 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 222
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Forum: Performance
11-24-2006, 01:50 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 222
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Forum: Performance
11-24-2006, 01:45 PM
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Replies: 51
Views: 819
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Forum: Performance
11-24-2006, 01:42 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 388
Re: Proper Performance Engineering
Sounds like we'd get along just fine. Had to form my own company cause the only time people would put up with me is when I paid them to!-)
Guess with tyme we'll git over the speling thing?
Hope...
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Forum: General
11-24-2006, 01:33 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 190
Re: Best prices on Mercruiser
That has the solid ring of truth to it!-)
Hope you had a good Thanksgiving Spares - guys.
Spareparts, how far are you from the Coast Guard Facility. Will be going down there this spring to upgrade...
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Forum: Performance
11-21-2006, 12:27 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 222
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Forum: Performance
11-21-2006, 12:22 PM
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Replies: 51
Views: 819
Re: WOT speed on a '83 20' SF w/200
OOps forgot no cams. You get the idea though.
What do modern 2-strokes have for mechanical timing? Are they still just ports and reed valves or what? Trying to remember what my Mach One was like...
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Forum: Performance
11-21-2006, 12:13 PM
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Replies: 51
Views: 819
Re: WOT speed on a '83 20' SF w/200
Blue Heron;
Ours is an SF20 but till we've repropped we're out of the water, anyway, at this point it would be the blind leading the blind - in fact you sound like you know a hell of a lot more than...
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Forum: Performance
11-21-2006, 11:59 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 388
Re: Proper Performance Engineering
Thanks Rusty:
The getting away from weather is an important benefit of speed.
Listening to a skilled sport fisherman and boat builder, Paul Mann, talk about running in heavy weather - he was the...
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Forum: Performance
11-21-2006, 11:31 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 229
Re: Propeller options
The 1.98 still gives a 21% slip, on the high side of reasonable.
Kahuna, next time you're out try a proper speed trial, run the reciprocal: first run at whatever bearing convenient, second at 180...
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Forum: Performance
11-20-2006, 08:03 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 388
Re: Proper Performance Engineering
Man wonderful!
Nothing better than learning - never stops as long you're alive!-)
What is/are:
.. "semi surfacing prop "
.. "cleavers"
Never to coddle superficial friendship:
.. "simular"...
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Forum: Performance
11-20-2006, 05:01 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 229
Re: Propeller options
Kahuna:
Thinking of moving up from 19" to 21" prop but your figures bother me. What is your drive ratio? If the 1.65 that translates to over 30% slip! Than again is your plotter reading from a...
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Forum: Performance
11-20-2006, 04:38 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 388
Re: Proper Performance Engineering
Have set much store by your info, has the `ring' of knowledge and veracity to it. Wasn't it you recommended the Hill 5-blade which I find very interesting.
Another thing mentioned that has our...
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Forum: Off Topic / Fishing
11-20-2006, 01:45 PM
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Replies: 51
Views: 670
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Forum: Performance
11-20-2006, 01:37 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 388
Re: Proper Performance Engineering
I've heard the horror stories!-) Truth is in over ten years of living aboard and cruising the Atlantic and The Mediterranean all I needed was the usual spare impellers, a consumable anyway.
Props...
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