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2500 hours is a red flag under any circumstances. Base your buy price on the condition of the boat disregarding the engines. Then look up the value of used Honda motor of that year and with high hours. My guess is that the engines are worth one or two thousand each. so, add 2 to 4 grand to...

dry weight 3500 lb's. I don't think so!

What it all comes down to is differential of expansion in non similar materials. Rapid changes in temperature can cause some materials to expand faster under shock warming (turning the equipment on) than other materials, even at the microscopic level of todays microcircuits. But, how real the...

A cold, windy and miserable place to be during peak aurora season which is the time you want to launch suborbital rockets to sense the chemistry and physics of aurora.

I would highly encourage anyone to NOT fire up their electronics when you are in the sub freezing, say, below 25 degrees. The quick warm up from those temps to normal operating temps can damage plastics, glass, and some components. Yes, 90% of the time you will get away with it okay. But...

Just curious. Biggest mistake I ever made was selling my c-dory. I love my little Ranger R21 classic diesel, but my cancer docs keep telling me that I'll die of old age or drowning before the cancer kills me. So I'm on the hunt for another nice 22 cruiser or possibly 25.. But, that isn't the...

Just bought one.

There is a fallacy in general about home appreciation. Yes, they do appreciate. Mine went from 100 grand in 1989 to 330 grand this year. Uh oh! Guess what. modest 3 bedroom homes here costs 350 or so grand. So, for home appreciation to do me any good, I've got to sell it but then I'll...

My best friend is a CPA and is tied into the latest info on the tax bill. He looked at my 2016 taxes and says that if the bill is left alone and not modified that I could be saving about 2 to 4 grand next year after I file for 2019. Much higher pay back than the second home deduction I have on...

I don't know what the poster is getting at, but if it is buying a used boat with an old 2 stroke, then that is one thing. You run it until you can't. However, if the poster is wondering about buying a used 2 stroke, it is a waste of money because, as we've seen, the creeping bureaucracy and...

My only bad experience with "modern" mercs has been my 90 hp carbed merc engine. It was a gas guzzler, and the carbs did get dirty even with good maintenance practices. Somewhere along the line, Merc went injection I think. However, many old mercs have thousands of hours even carbed. How...

16 foot riveted smoker craft 1975 model used 5 months out of the year every year since. Has a 25 hp e-tech and steering console. No leaks after being used as a boat, moving trailer for furniture, sitting in the open, filled with ice one winter due to plugged drain hole. So, while I agree...

Did I hear him actually say, "When I got hit by a ferry.? I'm pretty sure the video shows that he hit the ferry.

I didn't see Yamaha picking it up. Yanmar is the brand. Maybe I missed something.

There will be some yachty who will jump all over that so's he can point them out while never leaving the dock. I have a friend who buys every gadget and would jump at getting this one. On the boat in the video I think they need about 6 of the things, 3 on each side. I give any inventor...

I wish the America's cup would go back to the original class of sail boats. The cats are too much about raw technology. Or an americas cup for displacement hulls only. Now, that would be great. Nothing matches the beauty of the J and related class of boats turning the the markers.

20 years of fighting cancer forces me to follow Doc orders and get a flue shot. Also, at age 73, my immune system is marginally compromised anyway. So, I drink the Koolaid every year. The biggest difference I can tell with the shot is that my immunity to the common cold has been upped...

An important part of the tow equation is that new, and newer, low miles trucks will get the job done...for awhile... . Heavier truck, better braking and less affects of wind and trailer wagging. Heavier truck, longer lasting drive train. I consider any truck that can't go 200,000 miles on...

Beautiful boat. However, I'm a locked-in life-time trailerable boat guy. I just have to roam to new waters. So, I've never been happy with a slipped non trailerable boat. I had a Gulf 32 Motor sailer in Marina Del Rey in Los Angeles. Loved the boat, but hated the fact I was stuck there. To...

My father worked and worked and worked to make himself a truck beg camper on his Toyota pickup. He called me and told me it was done and to come and look. What I saw was a "Humphrey Pennyworth" (Look it up) kind of thing that worked, but looked hideous. Industrial designers and boat designers...