I don't have an iphone yet, but am tempted by the beautiful touchscreen. Are there any nautical chart iphone apps that work to make the iphone a...
I have two batteries and two engines, currently with one battery directly connected to each engine. Certain pumps and accessories are tasked with...
A 6,000 lb boat currently has twin small block GM 350 cubic inch 5.7 liter engines / 260 hp each. It cruises at 3,500 rpm around 35 knots. If...
As you can tell from my other posts recently, I haven't bought electronics in over 5 years now and am hopelessly out of date. What is the...
My current garmin gps is now ancient (monochrome small screen, takes forever to acquire a lock, etc.) What do I need to know when starting to...
I'll be crusing at 30 to 45 knots this summer and don't see towing a dinghy even at 30... I'm thinking of getting a small inflatable that I can...
What are the smoothest operating nicest throttles / shifters for a recreational sportboat?
Anybody run and maintain OMC sea drive outboards before? How are they?
Anyone have any info on why wellcraft stopped building scarabs around the year 2000? In the 90's they seemed to have a large market share in the...
I thought about trying to use a notebook computer connected to gps for this, but if I go the safe way and go with a traditional chart plotter,...
I know this question is highly dependent on maintenance, how hard and often the boat is run, etc. but is there a ballpark average for how many...
I see a lot of boat ads advertise "freshwater only." What's so bad about saltwater on a fiberglass powerboat?
Does anyone here use a notebook computer and software as a gps chartplotter on a small recreational boat? The nice big screen chartplotters are...
Does anyone know the history / changes of the actual hull design Wellcraft built between the 1970s Nova, the 80s Nova II, the later Nova Spyder,...
I'm looking at a couple boats, one with outboard and the other stern drive. I can't help shaking the fear that cutting two big holes in the...
How well built were the mid-1980s Wellcraft Nova II s ? Am looking at a 26' 1984 Nova II with twin 350 chevy engines and alpha 1 sterndrives....