GOOD TIP, THANKS
All good advice. Thanks, What about cooling system side?
I have cut a lot of aluminum and found that $9.95 regular wood circular saw works great. I go for 40 to even 24 tpi, and I don't have any problem...
Great idea, I will treat them like engines that got flooded. On DD's I can take out side plates and spray light oil into cylinders. Now have to...
Cool tip.
Fuel should not be an issue since they were run dry. And tanks are new. Thanks
I have all my bilges painted and treated except this one. I think what happened is some rust from something on the engine fell there and was...
They are DD's - My worries are more about corrosion in cooling system than anything else. Should have mentioned that.
After cleaning my blige I found a couple of blisters on the aluminum hull floor under engines. When I removed the blister about half of the depth...
I have a couple 671 NA in my boat that I haven't run in like 8 years. They were in good shape before I ignored them. There is some surface...
I have built things using polyester and epoxy mix together. The polyester gives it rigidity and is the center core material, it is then covered on...
If you paint or otherwise cover SS it will corrode. It needs exposure to oxygen. When SS corrodes it does by going brittle, not a good thing.
I have also done this before. Be careful over time most foam will absorb water, shrink and it will get heavier. Believe it or not, very light...
May be it is a place to stand on when cleaning the transom.
Tom depending on your boat, prop size and speed, the prop has to be a certain distance from hull to avoid all kindness of problems. With my props...
Oh my Angelique, those boats made from corrugated sheets are amazing. Would never have thought of that. Don't think they would last long in salt...
I don't see the picture/drawing. Are you sure you mean 20 mm? That is pretty thick. But I would replace it with a thinner aluminum plate, actual...
Not sure about Boston whaler but most boat builders that are not using wood anymore are using fiberglass to make the stringet. There may be a foam...
Bags will work in some cases, and fail miserably in others. Youtube is full of failed launches. Even shipyards that do launches every day fail....
I have also be using Linux for many years. Blender is very powerful, but hard to learn and use. I use Sketchup under Wine, under Linux to make...