Recent content by AKDAVE

I am starting my 4th season with my 85, flawless so far. It fired up on the 1st try last month after sitting for 6 months in the cols Alaska winter. Just hit start and off it went.

Jack, Polar Wire in Anchorage also stock some Blue Seas items.

I had a bracket on my King trailer break in the same place when I had my 25.

I am planning on being there. Heading out tonight for the weekend. My son is in town for a few days so we are taking him out. I have to work a few days next week but hope to launch again next Thursday evening and hang out for a few days. Maybe until early Monday morning to miss the Sunday...

I'm also planning on be out in the Sound the 6th-8th. I was planning on meeting up at Billy's Hole, but now no particular destination in mind. Let me know if the group will be getting together somewhere.

I have the Suzuki 175 on my 25. I really like it so far, with about 30 hours. I'm still working on the prop. I have a 21" SS Suzuki prop, it seems just a little big, can only get 5300 - 5400 rpm on the motor. I tried a 17" but it was way to small. I'm thinking a 19" might work. Marc, what...

I just picked up my boat this afternoon after having the new motors installed. I asked the installer about his recomendation for my Suzuki. He recomended down as far as possible, all the way if road conditions allow. His reasoning was there would be less stress on the motor as it wouldn't...

I heard some rumers about early July, but I don't have any specific info.

I may be able to get to Seattle this weekend to go to the boat show. Would not arrive until either late Friday night or mid day Saturday. I wuld like to attend the factory dinner. Is it to late for this? Is there a signup? The details are likely somewhere in this thread, but did not want to...

Sea Angel, your switch location is what I was considering also. Do you find this location impedes access to the bilge hatch? I have a rear helm with a enclosed compartment below. I am considering mounting the switchs inside this compartment with big cables (1/0) going to the batteries under...

I am installing a 1000 watt inverter in my 2003 CD 25 and am not sure how to ground the unit. How have others grounded these? This DC stuff is more complicated than what I've done before. Dave

I have a 2003 CD25 with the area under the splash well and gunnels open, ie no compartments, shelves, ect. I am in the process of replacing the batterys and wiring using 2 battery banks with a new switch with a charging relay, along with new busbars to cleanup the distribution wiring. The old...

I'm putting a Suzuki 150 on my new used CD 25, and am wondering if anyone else runs this combination. I see a lot of discussion regarding Honda 135-150, but with the lower gearing on the Suzuki, I should be able to run a bigger prop, but don't know for sure. Any insights would be appreciated...

I have another power consideration. The boat has a rear steering station on it already. I would like to have duplicate motor controls. I understand to go Yamaha the duplicate controls are pretty pricey(dealer indicated 3-4K). The Suzuki dealer gave a price for the duplicate controls which...

Well I did it, the boat is ours. We well use the boating for general cruising, shrimping (a lot of fun) and fishing. Hope to spend a lot of time on the water. For the last few years we had a smaller boat and were only able to overnight by camping on the beaches (few and far between in Prince...