Recent content by Nautical

As someone already mentioned, it's not supposed to be waterproof, unless you want a giant petri dish.

My mechanic ... not a dealer, just a stand alone, always busy, always angry, independent boat mechanic. I broker boats now and then and have two I call "my mechanic" as we use them a lot.

I was under the impression that above a certain HP you pretty much had to use a stainless prop. However, the boat I just bought, which has a 225 HP Honda, is equipped with an aluminum prop. When I told one of our mechanics I wanted to put an SS on it he strongly recommended against it. His...

I don't want to be a spoil sport but the world is in a giant bubble right now and there are a lot of pins around and more coming. I would be careful betting too much on the market staying hot. It might be very localized or it might be "coasting" from the busy selling season that was most of...

Yeah, I can't help the Gilligan's Island image when I hear that word. "Round these parts" some of the locals call dinner "supper." I always chuckle when I hear that because we fed our dog supper but we ate dinner. It might be because most of the dog food cans back then had the word "supper"...

You think repeating an 8% increase every year is even possible? At that rate it only takes 9 years to double the price. I've bought and sold two R classes so far. It wasn't long ago a 2017 R with a decent set of options had an MSRP between $90K and $98K and could be bought in the mid to high...

Those aluminum increases are VERY recent as in this year. Bennington has been raising their prices around 8% per year for many years now and besides that small an increase should have little to no effect on the retail price anyway.

Wow, you shouldn't have trouble in Michigan. I'm in NC and nearly bought a Benny from two different MI dealers who were MUCH more aggressive with the discounts than anywhere else I found. The only reason I didn't was because a somewhat local dealer came through with a decent price on a...

I'm not at all a fan of the electric bimini. The main reason is somewhat related to what the OP is referring to. I just hate how it suddenly crashes down on everything (and everybody) when being lowered. Then it's much more difficult to cover than the conventional bimini. Adding 29" to 30"...

Oh, I get it . . . the dog in the front pushes the bow down enough to fit under that bridge! Good thinking!! :);)

Too bad that separate chamber technique didn't help the Titanic! Renegade, it's a 2018? Are you not going to take it to the dealer for this?

I had to turn mine in WAY more turns than I thought I would need before it would hold. As long as you don't feel any massive resistance, keep turning the screw in.

It was a 23RCW so a foot longer than your model.

I owned two 250 hp Yamahas. The first was the grey "Offshore" model and the second was the VF250 SHO. The grey one had a 3.3L block for which 250hp was the upper limit and the SHO had the 4.2L block. These two had different gear ratios so the grey one had a 19P prop and the SHO started with a...

The age of the battery will matter too. Their lifespan seems to be somewhere between 3 and 7 years (size of course dictates as well). If it's a brand new battery, you could probably go all day and be fine. A 3 year old one, maybe half that. A 6 year old one, maybe don't shut the engine off...