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I've used fuel flow meters on my 22, 25, and first larger trawler. It's quite revealing in terms of most economical cruise rpm. In my 22 with the first edition of the fuel injected 90 Honda, you could see the steep rise in fuel flow when it exited the lean burn mode. In other words, you...

Pat, The setup of your 25 is about the same as the one I sold. What I did different was moving the C-80 to where it was just to the left of a radio mounted on the underside of the shelf over the helm. That let me put the monitor right where your C-80 is now by using a RAM mount. I used a...

I looked at OpenCPN after I had used CE for a couple of years. I think CE was the best $300 I have spent on boat electronics. The ease of use and tight integration of hardware, charts, and data sources compared to OpenCPN is what made me shy away from OpenCPN. It was kind of like my first...

Greg, Because we do extended cruising from April-August, we always have my wife's laptop on board which is our spare. As far as reliability of CE on a Windows machine, the most common cause of a failure is a USB port "crashing". Before USB my original laptop had a true serial port for a GPS...

Pat, I have run CE since about 2006 and wouldn't go on any boat without it. I started off using a RAM mount for a Dell Tablet PC on a CD-22, moved it over to a CD-25, moved that to a 38 foot CHB and now have it on a Nordic Tug 42. It is an order of magnitude easier to use than a conventional...

Dave I have been fighting the "No Pilot" error for a year. It gets better with each update but it still crops up when you run multiple MFDs on a network. In the beginning it was happening every 20 minutes, now only a couple of times a day. On the update, you have to follow the Raymarine...

I saw several references to a Honda BF90D NMEA 2000 interface. Here is a document published by Lowrance that talks about it. http://www.lowrance.com/Global/Lowrance ... e_3401.pdf I also saw references to Honda NMEA 2000 gauges. It would seem to be plug and play with the hardest part...

Colby, In the P70R listing of N2K devices is there something listed as "Unknown"? I have seen that before when a device sees something but doesn't know what it is. It is always associated with a device ID number. The other test is to turn off the 541 and see if the P70R still gets position...

I went through that drill last year on a EVO autopilot install. Being in Wrangell, AK I finally bought a Raymarine a67 on sale at West Marine just to be able to update the autopilot. I had numerous problems with the EVO last year that were all software related. It would wander off course...

Having had one of the original ETEC 90s on a 22 in 2005, I would think they have corrected many of the problems I encountered. There seem to have been some design changes that will help make maintenance easier, but the key thing with the ETEC seems to be cooling management. I would opt for the...

I haven't been here in a little while, but having just helped purchase a CD25 for a friend with the same motor, maybe I can help. The key here maybe determining what the real WOT performance is of the boat as equipped. From that point you can determine what might be wrong. The BF-150a should...

72 Vega otherwise known as Reynolds Revenge. Burned more oil than gas between St Louis and KC.

The gadwalls I shot in Colorado were generally pretty good. I don't hunt ducks in Alaska any more since for the most part they all eat the same thing. A year ago we had a great hunt in Idaho with a new yellow lab. The first mallard I shot almost landed on him and he didn't quite understand...