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Boat/rv/truck portable solar setup Could use a little help! Safety check. I have 2 x 100ah AGM batteries to be charged exclusively by a 130watt suitcase style solar panel. I’ve wired a 10 amp inline fuse on the positive side of the cables from the panel and this cable will connect to the...

Well 4 nights of cooking over a fire resulted in great trout tacos on Lake Chelan, but when you live in a wildfire area you sometimes want hot coffee in the morning and dinner at night without smelling like death and destruction. Our enjoyable campfire days are over until the snow falls! Day...

Whaddaya got? Currently using hunting glass, and its just not the best tool for the job. I’ve seen past recommendations but theres bound to be new kids in town when it comes to marine optics. I use vortex hd 10x42, and maven 18x56 for hunting. Spotting scopes make my brain hurt…. Looking...

Any brats ordered up gel coat lately? I found it for our 2006 22’ for a mere 450$ a gallon. Dont need a gallon I think, but do need enough to fix some stress cracks, a couple of chips, and spider cracks. Some of it just wear and tear on a 15 year old boat, others marks of amateur shame. Had...

So I love to fish, but hate crowded ramps and fleets of boats and combat casting. I love salmon, but since moving back to Washington again have been blown away by the hordes of angry river anglers all competing for one or two productive holes on big rivers and lakes. Well i’ve scoped out a few...

So I pulled my lower unit to swap out an impeller and decided to pull the prop and inspect the seals. The outer seal looked terrible. I am a long way from any marine mechanic and do not have the proper tool to remove the prop shaft so I did the 5th or 6th best thing: i picked the worn seal out...

Well it happened again. It seems once every decade I am destined to sleep in a USFS pit toilet building. A potty shack. A latrine of divine engineering and exquisite execution. These venerable bastions of civility have more than twice saved my bacon, and last Friday was another such bacon...

Looking for advice from other crazy cold loving adventurers. Alaskans and Canadians please chime in! Giving serious consideration to wintering in fresh water with air temperatures well below freezing. Water is freshwater but unlikely to freeze beyond a shallow surface coat near shore (very...

Maybe this is a long shot but i’m a Total Rookie looking for someone to walk me through their boat. Absolute basic operating and quirks, general maintenance discussion, short hop out on water somewhere. Willing to pay for time and expenses. Past boat experience limited to work skiffs in...