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I have also used Poli-Glo for a few years now and will also stick with it. My issue is that I love to boat and hate to wax, and the older gelcoat gets, the more porous it gets, and the shorter the wax lasts before the dreaded brow fade begins. With the Poli, the boat stays shiny all season. As...

My homeowners insurance paid for a new boathouse, which I have already bought, but I'm having serious thoughts about putting it back in the same location. (meaning anywhere on my property) I agree that a stronger structure would be better, but the "instant garage" has been there since 1997 with...

During Superstorm Sandy, the Minnow was taking refuge in a friends' field because our mature Norway Spruce trees have a tendency to fall over. We lost about 40 trees with one of them catching the aft end of the boathouse causing minor damage. I brought the boat home after the clean-up. The...

Here is trick I use to extend the life of paints and varnishes that tend to skim-over. If you happen to have a MIG or TIG welder, shoot a few seconds worth of the shielding gas into the semi-covered can, then shut the lid quickly. It will displace the air and help storage considerably.

I would agree on the table saw safety concerns. The Saw Stop is a real advance in table saw safety, and it fares very well in table saw showdowns. As an aside, the rest of the table saw industry is having concerns with injury litigation. It seems that because a technology exists to prevent an...

How much space do you have to work with? There is no such thing as "too large of a shop"-- most of us have limited shop space so, combination machines and machines on wheels can make the most of smaller areas. Table saw is #1. Contractor saw (open stand) or cabinet saw (Unisaw or equiv.) if you...

I'm trying to re-caulk the leaky joint in my shower floor. It had flex in the floor that had caused the factory silicone joint to open up and leak when we used the shower. I scraped/cut-out as much of the old silicone as I could. I plan on fitting supports between the raised floor and the hull...

Here is a quick video of a second generation, semi-floating dog boarding ramp that I tested out this morning. It's a commercial folding plastic pet ramp with C-clamps attached to an axle for grabbing the transom, and fenders for flotation. The dog was pretty tired, and we were pretty wet by...

My vote would be to pull the through-hull and do it right by checking the core sealing, and installing a proper seacock. Even if you don't need the wash-down, you might want to install a toilet or air conditioner at some point and would need it. And it will be much easier to do this than to...

Here's another one that's not quite so politically incorrect. If you suffer from vertigo, it might not be the best choice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE8o4sVL ... zL3SKVcCuE

We are still trying to recover from a horrific accident that resulted from the hurricane. My wife's boss for the last 24 years, and a close friend of ours, was killed while attempting to drain flood waters on his property into a sewer main. With a helper on a backhoe, he opened a manhole...

I have successfully used the Anti-Bond 2015 for 5200 removal, but this stuff is supposed to be better. http://www.marineformula.com/index.html

Getting back on the original topic, those pictures sure look like that roof is cored, but the roof on my 25 is not cored in the middle. Only on the lower sides of the roof and the short flat spot just behind the brow. Was there a change in roof construction, or is it model specific?

It sounds like you have Poli-Glow, or something like it. It's an acrylic coating that seals and shines old porous gelcoat. Kind of like Mop-and-glow for boats. The Poli-Glow comes in a kit with a concentrated cleaner called Poli-Prep that gets diluted 1 to 3 to clean for application, and 1 to 2...

Nice boat, but have they really not changed the oil in the last 2 1/2 years, or has the boat been sitting that long?

Jeff, I agree that a " a well done professional flyer would be an effective tool". But also offer us a pdf file of the same and I'm sure that many of us will print up some copies to have aboard.

This could be quite handy for instant soups or hot chocolate, you wouldn't need to carry any additional water.

I'm only going to speak on the make-up air issue. Heating a house and heating a boat are two different animals from ventilation standpoint. In a house, it's about limiting the air exchanges per hour and increasing the efficiency of the system as a whole. It's also about retaining the moisture in...

I'd like to add a note on "sufficiently high voltage". My boat came from the factory with 10 gauge wiring feeding the helm fuse panel, and a 16 gauge wire feeding the Wallas. That's way too small for the loads connected, and results in excessive voltage drop when the Wallas is started. With...

Mike-- Here's another "why" question. You said you wouldn't put the bilge pump on a breaker. Why wouldn't you want the bilge pump on a slow-blow circuit breaker? As a 30 year licensed electrician, I think it's kinda-sorta like wiring a fire pump-- you don't want the circuit to trip. You want...