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Bruce, Welcome to the club. Glad to hear you will have an album. Sure is a source of good ideas. I had hull # 6 . The new one is on order. I have some improvements in our album, Island Ranger has some good ones. I will build another storage rack for the cave like the one I had in the Mis Dee...

Terraplane, Cheez, I have had two of those Lewmars so far and knew friends with that winch as well. Never had that happen. Question: When you pick up with the winch, it comes up fine, is that correct? Sound like the gypsy needs to be tightened up. I had a fishing buddy in Mexico who had a Tom...

On the Hunky Dory I had twin 40's. I ordered a small brass fitting that screws onto the lower unit when in the water or on land. The engines must be up in the water untill hooked up. You don't run the engines, just wait for the water to pee out of the upper unit. I never actualy done it when on...

Have any of you Brat checked the voltage output of the 1000 Honda? At one time I used it to power a Norcold #100 freeze. ( 12 V. or 110 V.ac) I decided to check the voltage. Without a load it was putting out 150 volts. It made me a little nervous so I stopped. My 1000 is 10 to 15 years old...

Henry, Hell of an idea. I'm going to do it. Beats taking the intake hose off every time. captd

If I remember correctly my Honda 1000 puts out a charge of 8 amps max. It will take more than an hour in the morning to top off your batteries. Deep cycle batteries can not handle the hot charge so plan on running your gen set for hours. The wind bugger will put out up to 10 amps. Florida and...

Thanks, The listed price is $50 less plus I will call for the sale price. They sure sound good for house batteries. Freight will add a bunch. captd

Tug thugs, Anyone have any of these kind of batteries? They look like the answer to all my prayers and dreams. They are big and expensive , like $529.99 for one. I need two at $1060,00 plus $85.00 times two for freight. Eight year minimum life expectancy. You can put as much charge power into...

Patrick, They say there is a silver lining in every cloud. A small stroke is telling you take your meds so you don't have the big one. A small leak in the tire is much better than a blow out. Take care now. Darrel

Kudo for Marine Tex, I used it under the bow pull-ring on my C-Dory. The gouge was into the fiberglass well past the gel coat right below the ring. Wear from towing. The marine Tex matched the color quite well and it never wore through. Hard as a rock. It is harder than the rest of the boat. I...

With all this hype about hybrids, why is it in 1957 I had a big plymouth that would get 25 miles to a gal. Now we have an old 2000 Lincoln ( Town car) that gets 28 miles per gal. ( at 60 mile per hour) Both big cars , very comfy ride. In between it seems like it took 50 years to screw up fuel...

Tom, I don't believe it will clear. Tuggin wiped out his anchor lite on a bridge. He had the mast cut down to clear the bridges around Boca Raton. It would be so close it would not pay to risk it. Waves or wake make it tighter. Captd

Casey, If you want to do the IP again with the Manana, just let me know. I will sell it back to you. No worst for wear. I think I have put twenty hours on her. Are you shoppimg for another boat? Bigger ? smaller? captd

Thanks Larry, been a C-Brat for years and still don't know my way around. Checked profile on all. Not to many pictures. The twelve albums are mostly 21 ft tug, are they not? I was really looking for a pic of the Maroon one. Found the owner but no pictures. Captd

:roll: Peter, I guess it isn't what you know , it is what you remember. I have looked at the Island Ranger's album many times. But through his posts. I have never posted pictures of the Mrs Dee's on that Ranger site. All my photos are in the "Hunky Dory" album. I have been looking for...

How come Ranger Tug people don't have photo albums. :sad I would sure like to see what you have done to the inside and outside of your boats. One of the big pluses of this site is to share ideas. The C-Dorys are well documented. but info on the Ranger is in short supply. How many different...

Greg, It was a minor problem that created a very inconvienent situation. Yanmar fixed the problem and found another, fixed that too. Wefing and the factory stepped up to the plate. Us Ranger owners can feel good about the support we get from some dealers ( maybe all) and the factory. I have...

Keith fairly common problem.......airlock occurs because the water running by the intake thruhull underway creates vacuum and sucks all the water out of the intake line. easiest solution........turn your intake thruhull off before you leave the dock unless you are running the ac unit on...

Maptech, Has it all, Gps puck, offshore Navigator, Pocket Navigator to work with palm computers with Noaa charts. Tide info. They will even tell you how to make it work on Garmin Hardware. It gives you a redundant nav system. It surprises me that it is not widely used. Captd

Tom, The table is a pain in the butt. I found the best way to get the top off was to get under the table push up with your back while pushing the button one post at a time. Some times it takes two people to do it. Once the top is off, a quarter turn on the posts will turn them loose. It is so...