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This is a young friend of mine whose family has been commercial fishing in the St Johns's here in Florida for generations. Thought some of you PNW guys might like to see how it's done on the right coast. Most traps around here are set in less than 10' of water in and around the ICW...

I've got a ski type mirror mounted on some 3/8 hardwood with velcro underneath and velcro above my entrance to the V-Berth in front of the center window it's easily removable. It's pretty useless about all I use it for is to shave. As usual I think Bob is right it's actually dangerous to try to...

This thread reminds me of the old story of the guy who bought the VW bug and his neighbor kept adding gas to the guys gas tank for a month and the guy was raving about his gas mileage. Then the next month he started syphoning gas off so the guy thought something was wrong with his car. I kept...

I think Steve has a 90 Johnson which is the same as a Suzuki (I think). The Suzuki should spin more prop than the Honda as it's geared lower but I think 19" would be to much unless the boat is really light. Mine came with a 17" aluminum which was pretty good.

On my 16 with one 6 gallon and a 12 gallon tank plus two batteries in the rear plus a cooler I found on the rare occcasions I had four aboard it wouldn't get on plane. I had a 50 HP Honda. I had to get the passengers to move forward to get on plane. I did move my batteries forward under the...

Steve I really only use the trim tabs for side to side trim. I probably could squeak a little better preformance out of it by using them for fore and aft trim but I use the permatrim for that. It's a long story about my prop but it started out life as a 14 X 18 SS Suzuki prop but it was to much...

Wow something must definately be wrong seems like I've read some pretty good fuel burn numbers on the new Hondas. Shorty after getting my boat I added a permatrim and stainless prop and my mileage wasn't good at all. With the motor at what I call neutral trim the permatrim was about 3/4"" below...

With my Suzuki 90 and a permatrim I average 3.8 miles per gallon. My boat is loaded for cruising all the time and I've got a fuel flow meter. I do as Bob suggested run the boat up to desired RPM usually around 4800 and trim the motor for best RPM. Watching the fuel flow I've found 4800 to be the...

I had trouble with my anchor light not maintaining contact so I cleaned the contacts as best I could applied contact paste and still it was a problem. The crowning blow was when I was anchored out 4th of July watching the fireworks. I was well out of the channel when I heard a boat engine...

I had a 16 with a 12 gallon and six gallon and while I liked the boat I really felt like it was two much weight right on the stern for the 16. For your intended use I'd go with the 19'.

Congrats Pete from a displaced tarheel!

Along the lines of this discussion a while back there was a discussion on the single burner Kenyon butane Stove the factory was installing for a while. I like mine a lot but and it's a big but, about half the butane canisters I have used leak. I'm not sure if I have inferior butane canister's...

Don West Marine has the non skid tape. As far as the swim step for me it's pretty hard to use.

I've got a Magna 2 Kettle grill that uses the one pound propane bottles and to tell the thru other than boiling water which it does well it's useless. It burns so hot that to me it's dangerous to cook meat on. Even though it has a thermostat you can't turn it down low enough. For grilling I...

Larry thats really a neat and creative idea. I'm curious what the clips that hold it to the boat look like. I'm surprised the hatch will still close. I really like the idea of no holes to drill and I see and aluminum boarding ladder made the same way as a neat idea. I find the swim step boarding...

Thanks Marvin. This is good information. Totally out of character for me, I think I actually read my Suzuki owers manual when I got the boat. I don't remember ever reading about this in the manual. I just lucked onto a cure when I had the problem. Maybe I didn't let mine sit long enough but...

Strange my 07 22 has seperate switches for the navigation light and anchor light with the diode.

This is such a railroad job it makes you want to contribute to the captains legal defense. It appears he may be screwed anyway in that his BIA was 1.2 but everything else is so obviously misrepresented the BIA may have been altered as well. It's bad enough he lost his fiance now has to deal with...

To late to edit my post above but I see from your original post that your engine didn't go into limp mode (fail safe mode). So it sounds like a fuel delivery problem to me. Either way I'd let the dealer read the codes probably something very simple or as someone said just a gremlin.

I suspect you have a defective CO monitor or for some reason your engine is running rich. I run with my backdoor open 99% of the time and haven't experienced what you have in over 400 hours of operation. My CO monitor does have a low voltage alarm and went off when I had a battery problem but...