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Come up to the Great Lakes and see how fast your entire bottom gets covered with mussels. And they do not scrub off.

Puzzling. It cranked and started. You believe the alternator is working. You shut it down. And immediately the battery was 12.06 volts when you went to crank again. It is possible the battery shorted a cell the instant you went to restart - but sure seems unlikely. Get a temporary battery and...

Ummm, so how do you switch tanks when you are half way to the next port instead of just leaving your mooring?

Lots of variables in the dry start equation. The engines I am most familiar with where there is detailed documentation (as opposed to 'I know a guy who' ) is aircraft engines. The typical light airplane engine with a private owner, that often sits for weeks, or even months, between starts will...

The more frequently you run them, the longer they last. It is dry starts that cause the majority of wear. A dry start happens when the motor has set long enough that the oil film clinging to the moving surfaces drips off and dries out. Motors that are run essentially daily never encounter that...

Ummm, these products started out a few hundred million years old. Not sure that an extra year or two really means much.

And there are those of us who just putz along monitoring 16, but otherwise keeping our personal business to ourselves.

I am currently using the Promariner's, ProTech-i series of chargers that Ranger put into the R25's. I see West Marine is now handling them. I upgraded from the 1215i (15 amp, 3 bank) to teh 1240i (40 amp, 3 bank) The 1215i resides in our farm shop where it keeps a rack of batteries on trickle...

First disconnect the positive cable clamp and move it aside. Next put a charge on the battery - use a charger with an automatic trickle mode and let it charge and then go into trickle - overnight, or longer. Unhook the charger and leave the battery disconnected. Measure the voltage (it will be...

I met Mark in February at a Ranger Tug gathering. My impression after spending a few hours around him is that he is absolutely honest and wears his heart on his sleeve. You can believe that what he says to you is a fact, as best he knows. I am not in the market for a new boat at the moment. But...

Ummm, too bad this has not come to the attention of the pimple faced hacker crowd. If it had, there would be an app for your phone that would allow reprogramming your MMSi at will. :mrgreen:

Well, as a young man I always preferred an Earl Scheib paint job - $29.95

As a farmer I am need to sell my corn for the highest price available. If Ethanol helps me get a higher price, wonderful. The university studies indicate that ethanol raises the price of a bushel of corn from 15 cents to 25 cents (depending on whose study) and that ending ethanol would drop it...

Bring on the poll dancers!

Grazer, go to Tugnuts, to the factory technical bulletins section and look up the R27 owners manual and go to the power distribution schematic. here: http://www.tugnuts.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1550 Using a single Blue Seas charge relay you can accomplish what you want. This is what I would...

For nav lights, Marinebeam's LED nav lights have the appropriate colored LED - red/green - so that all the light energy passes through the colored lens. You will find that white incandescent bulbs have very little green energy in their spectrum so that by the time the light output is filtered...

The Glaciers started melting 15,000 years ago. They continue to melt to this day.

Out dated does not mean out of service. The outdated locks will continue for more generations. I'm out dated, but still serviceable. As far as silted in waterways - you can expect those waterways which carry commercial goods to be dredged and maintained because there is a political and...

We are dependent on propane for heat and for our back up generator. I pray for natural gas. And I would replace diesel for natural gas in a heartbeat.

Only three and a half hours. Jeez, that guy is a piker. In my prime I could keep people waiting for days. They would have siblings and cousins come in on a rotating basis to hold their seat in the waiting room. The local Jimmy Johns parked a food trailer on the road by my driveway and were...