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Completely squeezing every crevice with sealant to fight salty crevice corrosion.

Letting the butyl settle between the deck, flange, washer, bolt head, and threads before final tightening and cleaning. No one wants drips in the berth or storage lockers.

Tighten, squeeze some out, then tighten a little more. Excess sealant is your best friend in the fight against crevice corrosion.

Checking the placement from the imaginary sandbar in the driveway before drilling.

Final placement ideas.

Final placement ideas.

Can confirm, that's a deal. Paid more than twice that per motor for the 100 hour service on our Suzuki DF150AP's. Decided to buy the service manual from Browns Point Marine for $100, and will do the next 100 hour myself. The parts kit alone is about $130 per motor, then add on top of that...

Thanks for the heads-up. I'd originally bought several sets of heat-shrink connectors and terminals to use with the Anchor crimping tool, but I started finding these spade terminals already in use in more than one location around the boat. Either factory or dealer, depending on whoever was...

Installed a generic winch remote to the windlass. Works like a charm, even from 50' away and through a door. No more walking back and forth to reach in the window. No real instructions, so it was just dumb luck that I got the up and down wires correct the first time. Snipped off the small ring...

Ouch. All that wasted copper with an extra dollop of hassle to boot. I still have to run cables to move and add to the house battery. Not looking forward to it, or the price of massive wires.

That's a nice deal. The one I bought for the tomcat was 3x the price and didn't come with rocket launchers.

Placement ideas.

Placement ideas.

Currently the C-Brats site is limiting the max photo size to 800x600 pixels. Crop and resize all of your photos to fit those dimensions before uploading to retain the best details and save bandwidth.

The combustion of an average candle produces about 80 watts of energy. 37 kilojoules (kJ) per gram. Consuming about 2 thousandths of a gram each second, producing more heat energy than light. From there the conversion is: 80 watts = ~0.107282 mechanical hp This is what quarantine bored looks...

Apparently all 8-inch stainless steel boat deck cleats are not equal. The factory cleats on a 2018 Tomcat are Sea-Dog brand, Heavy Duty open base cleats rated for multiple lines. For comparison, here is a photo with a standard Perko SS cleat, and a generic Amazon/Ebay SS cleat. After trying...