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It would not be unusual for your charger to charge just the house battery leaving the engine alternators to charge the start batteries. However, there is no way to know how your boat operates without you tracing the wires to see the paths the electricity can take. If I were you, I would draw a...

I'm in the diesel, forced air, ducted heater camp. I am also in the $20 butane, movable cook stove camp. Which together gives you back a lot of useable counter space. However, I would add a wrinkle. The cheap butane stoves do a great job of cooking IMO; but if you have to boil a lot of water...

Tom, And here I thought for sure that you'd be against open borders :lol: :lol:

You also might consider replacing the steering wheel's hub with one of the gorgeous, hand-made beauties that C-Brat David McKibben makes in his wood shop (assuming he still offers those). Here's a link to see his handy work: http://www.c-brats.com/modules.php?set_ ... _album.php

Hahahahahahahaha..... You are absolutely correct! :wink: I was thinking "water" and "ground".....didn't think about "air"....which is, of course, also part of the system too. :D :D .....I love it!

With the exception of turbulent waters (such as the many "narrows" in the islands of BC, Canada), currents affect all objects in the water exactly the same. A huge freighter and a small stick floating the the water both have their progress over the ground changed by the exact same distance and...

I feel spoiled here in the Pacific NW :wink: :) . It can get cold here....even down into the low teens occasionally, but never for more than a few days (with some notable exceptions). All I do is put a 1500 watt green house heater (with an integral blower) on the sole inside the boat, open...

As NORO LIM indicated, you may be misleading yourself. Indeed the boat is going to follow a different course over the ground depending on what the currents might be doing; however, the boat itself knows nothing of this. All it knows is the water it is travelling thru. The boat will operate...

You're right! Sorry about that. You prefaced the part I quoted with: The thought "...I get a week of ice..." just popped into my head. I replied without thinking :oops:. Mea Culpa.

The OP lives in the PNW.....so the comments apply to him.

My $600 120 quart Yeti does.....if properly managed. It transformed how we cruise. There are Chinese knock-offs for the Yeti too, at half the price, and I'd bet they do pretty well too. BTW, these heavy duty coolers make a great seat in the cockpit since they are virtually indestructible. P.S...

Totally agree. Here's my experience with the 200 Yamaha on my CD25 cruiser moderately loaded on flat-ish or light chop water: I'm well on plane at 3600 RPM and achieve a speed of 20 MPH getting my best on-plane gas mileage of ~3.3 MPG. My favorite position is at 4200 RPM achieving a speed of...

When I replaced my 2005 vintage Honda 150 with the 2014 Yamaha 200, the new engine only weighed 5 pounds more than the old one. P.S. Earlier I stated that 4 adults on board is a heavily loaded boat by definition. Having thought about it some more, I retract that statement. Since most boats...

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I agree with VanIslander; you may be putting stress on that 135. It's all going to depend on your prop pitch. If the pitch is high (perhaps 16", 17", more?), then, yes, the boat may hit 29 MPH, but the engine is straining (as evidenced by 5000 RPM at WOT). Frankly, I can't believe your CD25...

The thought of this magnificent trip (and, yes, so much thanks for sharing it with us as you have), and St Louis made me smile! Clearly, there are folks in this world who know how to dream.

A data point....... I leave my boat on a mooring ball for weeks at a time here in the cooler climate of the Pacific NW. I do not have bottom paint. I find that if I pull the boat every 3 weeks and pressure wash the bottom (as well as trim tabs, engine, etc) all is well. I can push that to 4...

OK, great. Now we're getting somewhere :). So allow me to take your definition and substitute it for the phrase "free-flowing" in the sentence you have claimed is fact. So do you maintain as fact that: Mark, do you really believe as fact that the migration across our southern border is best...

How would you define the meaning in the English language of the phrase "free flow"?

BIG thanks, Pat, for posting that link of the story pole in Deception Pass State Park. I was very touched by the "spirit" of the video. We ALL love this land/sea, do we not! I was particularly taken when the lovely lady said that the Samish language was like the wind in the trees given the...