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Hi Brian and Jim, I can not believe the other site is getting as bad as it is? Jay

I just the other day found this option on a leftover airconditioned proline for sale in the building. It had 3 exrta batteries and an inverter on a ob with no generator. It supposedly can run for 7 hrs away from the dock. Over on enougher site I asked the question and got good answers from proline people.

Nice whaler. thats too bad. you only have 4 boats in the yard. I dont count mine? That way I dont have to lie to my wife! One of my friends uses an older outrage to stiper fish the inlets up here and he does test the boats floatation occasionally with the stripers hanging out in the breakers. Its a good safe boat.

No I will take my best shot this way. Fuel tanks go bad mostly two ways. from inside out mostly believe it or not? {from experience of many years and many old boats. That wont happen much nowadays with the alchohol ethanol in gasoline. A bad install is what you are talking about and I am covering all bases there. If you foam a tank in place you better take the pains to first etch the aluminum then and only then epoxy coat it. or atleast coaltar epoxy very thick because one scratch will do it in. Then I set the tank on dedicated tank supports that are glassed to stringers and hull. then the tank has dense neoprene pads that are on the bottom of the tank and isolate it from any non aluminum. No wood or glass touches the tank. next the tank is bolted into dense penske board spacers between the main stringers and the tabs welded on to the tank. using stainless bolts.No wood, fiberglass or FOAM !!!!, like a lot of top name builders still use, will trap water up against my aluminum tank. Then the tank if water does ever get to its surface of condensation from filling the tanks on a warm day from ground cooled storage tank fuel . It will end up in the bilge and pumped overboard not trapped next to the aluminum coroding it like a cancer you cant see. Also aluminum of all the metals does not like to be coated or have anything secondary bonded to it. Except the same type aluminum welded to it. I remember 20÷ years ago when I saw ocean yachts aluminum stringer molds and asked if they ever got the stringers stuck in the mold? They said nothing ever sticks permantly to aluminum. So epoxy all the tanks you want and then foam them in also if you want. This is my way and also a noted surveyor david pascoe also is in this ball park on my thinking? sorry for the more then one word answer but I take my boat work very serious and I take no prisoners when it comes to bad boat building?

Updated pictures Fairing the transom bracket euro transom etc..

Good way to put it gus. I actually like garmin gps and furuno fishfinder. on No. 3 price. raytheon seems like a good deal til 2 years after you buy and you say why did I buy this junk? furuno nomatter how old still seams like a quality unit years and years after? Thats my perspective and I am sticking to it.

Bandit I sent a pm did not hear back?

Nice job.

Dual batteries even with out the electronics going that far.

Good info here,

I have fished off shore with a single a lot but I guess age is catching up finally? I now have a twin for this season. I had a hpdi that went boom and I alays believed the 140 bananas were worth the tow service. I guess the twin bite latched on after the hpdi got really guiet

We can all be your beta testers huh> That makes us feel important instead of confused if that happens?

I am very interested.

Osprey I thanked scott for comming back and answering the many questions I put forward. I also traveled from South jersey to miami and walked the almost empty isles of IBEX. it was pretty sad that someone like myself doing only repairs instead of building boats could command so much time by the powers to be in the booths. I think this economic mess is only going to get worse. Its a shame that many will probably leave the boating community never to return

Thank you scott for coming back and answering the many questions I had.I am going to re read and learn from your answers.Thanks again.