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  1. The fitting on the unit will have to be tightened inside. You can probably shorten the antenna cable with no ill effect. What kind of connector is it? A BNC? I believe it's a BNC. My Raymarine uses a TNC (which is a threaded NC connector) and I had to replace it this year, but I DO own a coaxial cable crimping set with all the proper dies. Do some research to see exactly what connector is used. Any marine electronics shop can professionally crimp on a new connector for about $10 or 15. Crimp connectors are available on eBay. You can buy a crappy BNC connector at Radio Shack. BNCs are wide open along the sides, and salt water can get inside to corrode everything. When you get it all fixed, seal it up good. If you remove the unit from the boat, like I do, corrosion will be a bigger problem. Be prepared.
  2. Really? Boat thefts have "causes?" It was stolen 'cause someone wanted something that wasn't his. End of story. Feed him to the gators.
  3. I had read an article about Luxottica a few weeks ago, and bought 300 shares. It's up 8% since then, which is not too shabby. It really was an eye-opening thing to see how this firm has the entire market to itself. Just because one company makes a lot of things doesn't mean that they're all equal, though. Manufacturers often produce lines of varying quality, and of course, design. Personally, I go to my local optometrist and buy polarized lenses in an aviator-style frame.
  4. Were they even within sight of another boat? Did they fire flares? Were the flares seen? You only need three on board, after all, and useless to fire them off if there's nobody who might even see them. Would a handheld VHF even been able to make the haul to the nearest CG tower? Not enough info for me to get sarcastic, but I'm glad they're all OK.
  5. Thanks. Mine is an EFI, and, yes -- it's the onboard reservoir and not the 2 gallon tank below deck. I tried again today, after the boat sat a week or so after the shop reprimed it, and it was halfway down,. beep beep beep. Mechanic says there are a couple of check valves than can be troublesome, and one of them is supposed to keep the oil from flowing back to the big tank. This is the one he suspects is causing the problem. It's not going into the cylinders - there's no big white exhaust when I start up. Next week they'll pull the boat and try to figure it out. Damn engine still has less than 200 hours, and none this year! It's a 165 mile one-way drive to get to the boat, and this is starting to get annoying.He said "check valve" but maybe he's talking about the "relief valve" you mention.
  6. My 2000 Merc 200 EFI (less than 200 hours) is doing a strange thing. After launching, it sat at the slip for 6 weeks (I just couldn't get out on the boat). When I finally tried to go out, the oil beeper sounded (beep-beep-beep). When my mechanic (a Merc dealer) checked it out, he found the on-engine oil reservoir was dry. He primed and filled it and said I was OK to go. So, where did the oil go? No visible leak, so I'm guessing that it gravity-fed into the cylinders. (Hmmm -- is that why I get so much white smoke right after I start the engine?) I don't use the boat that often, and expect that I'll be removing the cowl to check it before I try to start it again. How does one "prime" that reservoir? Just fill it with oil?
  7. why do you call your boat a "walkaround?" I'd call it a hard top express cruiser.
  8. A man was killed and two others were injured in New York Harbor on Friday evening when their pleasure boat was rammed by another boat apparently being driven by a man who was intoxicated, the police said. The three victims, all 30 years old, were on a 19-foot Bayliner near the Statue of Liberty when it was struck about 6:30 p.m. by a 30-foot Pro-Line, the police said. The force of the crash split the smaller boat in two, severely injuring one of the men and trapping him in the wreckage. Rescuers struggled to extract him and took him to Liberty Landing Marina in Liberty State Park; he and the other two men from the boat were then taken to Jersey City Medical Center. The man who had been extricated was pronounced dead at the hospital. The other men were each treated for minor injuries, including cuts and scrapes, and remained at the hospital in stable condition late Friday night, the police said. Their names were not immediately released. Shortly after the crash, the authorities arrested the 39-year-old operator of the larger boat, who they said had failed a sobriety test. His name was not released. They authorities said he had been on the boat with a 35-year-old woman and three toddlers. The relationship of the women and children to the operator was unclear. All of them escaped the crash unharmed, the authorities said, and were taken to a New York Police Department harbor base. See article
  9. There's a lot of illegal stuff going on in your neck of the woods and a huge amount of uneducated, unsafe boat and PWC operators who don't give a damn about other peoples' safety or rights, plus you also seem to own the lion's share of boat and motor theft. I say, hurrah for increased enforcement. Now, what's bringing "socialism" into the discussion got to do with it except suit your own personal agenda and try to stir the pot? Wrong forum for that, my friend.
  10. I missed that. He would have to have a left-hand screw for that to happen. Perhaps he has to try backing again in a dead calm, with the rudder dead center. In fact he should try backing with the rudder hard left and hard right just to see how it works. I used to fuel up my single-engine RH prop cruiser at a pull-in gas dock starboard side to. To leave, I would have to do a 180 to exit back to the Norwalk River and there wasn't much room in front of this dock. For some reason, the gas monkeys would always want to push my bow out, which would, of course make my stern hit the dock. "No," I'd tell them, "just give my midship a little shove" after which I'd set the rudder hard left, kick it into reverse, nice and slow, where it would, very nicely, just back to port all the way round, and then I could put it in forward gear and be on my way. Always flabbergasted people on the dock.
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