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SHOW BOAT! Plans were to run to the Bahamas for the regatta in Georgetown. With no weather window in sight, to cross to Nassau, we chose plan two, to run from Key West, across Florida Bay, to Thousand Islands area, through the Okeechobee Waterway, down the east coast, keys, and back to KW.

This is the marina at Flamingo. This is the southern end of the "Wilderness Trail", a boat trek that meanders 100 miles through the Everglades.

This is the infamous "Cross the Bridge" zero K marathon. Crazy. Course was about 50 yards long with a cooldown/water station half way. What fun.

Boot Harbor Marina on Marathon Key. Really great mooring field. Community building had every amenity. Tomorrow, back to Key West.

The Lookout

Sunrise Marina on Stock Island

Small Manatee joined us in the marina on Stock Island

I took the advice of a previous blog and checked out the IPB on my 2.5hp and 6hp Suzukis. I could not find an anode in the 6hp, but the 2.5hp has an internal in the head. Who knew!!! Pretty irresponsible not to mention this in the Owner's Manual. Still, I love these motors.

I have a 90hp Suzuki. If it wasn't for this forum I would never know that it has internal, on the power head, anodes. They are not mentioned in the owner's manual. Good luck.

Take the boat with you. Great cruising area. Few in the South have ever seen one of these boats. You will be approached at gas stations. Swarmed at ramps. I once had someone on I10 wave my window down just to ask, "What kind of boat is that, and where did you get it?" This, at 65 MPH. You...

I never had cat troubles, but living in the country, I once had a field mouse use the insulation on my wiring as a snack bar. We keep a feral cat around as repellent.

When I was a liveaboard and cranked chain daily, my experience was that re- galvanizing was the only solution to rusted chain problems. If you only anchor occasionally, or don't have a windlass, then the solution can be postponed by cold galvanizing spray or other stopgap methods, but...

If you look close at the picture you can plainly see that the choke has not been engaged.

I assume you tried using motor muffs. These should push water into the pump and be pumped through the motor. If no piss stream, and you said you were getting a "Motor Hot" alarm, you have probably melted the vanes of the impeller in your water pump. You will probably need to change out the...

I know this has been addressed before, but my life experience is that if you disconnect the gas hose and run the engines until they die, running them completely out of gas, you will eliminate carb problems. With my 6hp kicker and 2.5hp dinghy motors, I also use the drain screws in the bottom...

I removed a search light from the front if my CD22. No core.

Depending on wind and conditions, why not go one way and return the other. They both have plus and minuses, and if you don't like one side, there are channels between the keys that lead to the other. As for Hawk Channel, it's a wide open channel between the outer reefs and the keys. First...

Looks black but is same green as others.

Got tired of breaking finger nails while opening screen, so made this SS knob.