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Used .. 225hp or 250hp wanted... 30" shaft...let me know what you have. I'd like an ox66 or ..a 4stroke by any brand. thanks, Chris 908*962*2289 or email.... christiangmele@yahoo.com

I've got the procedure down but just looking for the best product. I've used "marine silicon but it does not stick well to plastic hatches. 5200 will be to hard to remove on those types of items. Any other sugestions?

What's the best "stuff" for the job...? I'm replacing a few plates on my 91 parker so far no rott found I'll use 5200 on the swim ladder but not for the other items.

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adding some benadryl to my kit

I saw an older Robalo 20' cc that needs a new transom and new motor - I was thinking of picking it up as a project boat. Anyone know how these boats ride?

I had a 60hp tiller on a 16' wood/glass garvey (local new jersey boat)- no issues with controlling her. I think a 15- 25 on a lighter boat would be fine for kids

how about a few whistles

time and tide wait for no man

This is the most recent new on this, very sad. I have a friend that works on a scallop boat out of Barnegat Light. http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_updat...earch_ends.html Two killed off Cape May are identified; search ends By Jacqueline L. Urgo Inquirer Staff Writer CAPE MAY - Their family had clung to hope like a life preserver, but yesterday their fears were confirmed. Brothers Royal "Bobo" Smith Jr. and Timothy "Timba" Smith, who split their time between homes in Cape May County and North Carolina, were identified as the rescued fishermen who died Tuesday after their 71-foot scallop boat, the Lady Mary, sank in rough seas 75 miles southeast of this Jersey Shore resort. Their uncle Tarzan "Bernie" Smith, 59, is one of four crew members still missing and presumed dead. The Coast Guard called off an air search yesterday for Smith, Frank Reyes, Frankie Credle, and William Torres, who worked aboard the commercial fishing boat. Two Coast Guard cutters continued to comb 225 square miles in the Atlantic Ocean where the trawler sank shortly before dawn Tuesday. Shortly before 8 p.m., the search was suspended. The other men's ages and hometowns were not available. "We had all hoped beyond hope and prayed that it wasn't them, but it was just not meant to be," Ray Jones, a longtime fisherman and Smith family friend, said yesterday on the dock area at the Cold Spring Fish & Supply Co. in Cape May. Jones said Royal and Timothy Smith's father, Royal Sr., of Bayboro, N.C., was in seclusion at a home the family keeps in Cape May. He and relatives were making funeral arrangements, Jones said. "He lost two sons and maybe a brother," Jones said of the patriarch, who owned the Lady Mary. "He doesn't really want to talk to anybody right now." Smith Sr.'s brother Jack said kin from throughout the East Coast were gathering at the small home. "We have a strong family. We're all pulling together to get through this," he said in a brief phone interview yesterday. A dramatic account of the tragedy aboard the Lady Mary, captained by Royal Smith Jr., was provided yesterday by the only man found conscious when Coast Guard rescuers arrived about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. Jose Luis Arias, 57, was discovered clinging to a piece of driftwood. The native of Chiapas, Mexico, recalled details of his experience in an interview in Spanish with the Associated Press. The boat began to take on water in the pitch darkness about 5 a.m. in an area known as the Elephant's Trunk, a prime scalloping spot. The Lady Mary had left Cape May last week and was due back shortly, relatives have said. Arias was asleep in a cabin when he was awakened by Tim Smith's yelling that the boat was sinking, he said. On the floor next to Arias, he said, lay his red Neoprene cold-water survival suit - which may have been the key to his survival in the 40-degree water. Water was flooding the cockpit and galley, he recalled. Waves were four to seven feet, the Coast Guard said, and Arias said the Lady Mary had been hauling about 10,000 pounds of scallops. Smith shouted, "The boat's going down! The boat's going down!" said Arias, who lives in Wildwood during the spring and summer and winters in Raleigh, N.C. "Water in the kitchen, in the bottom. Then it sank. Five minutes, no more," Arias said. He and Tim Smith jumped off the deck and were near each other in the water, both wearing the protective suits. They called back and forth in the darkness, he told the Associated Press. "Tim, it's me, Jose! I'm here!" But Arias said he soon had found that his was the only voice in darkness. At first he thought he couldn't hear because of the howling wind and the waves crashing around him. Neither he nor Smith could hoist himself into a nearby life raft because the water had numbed them immediately, he said. Arias said he had tried to grab on to anything he could find and eventually found the wood he desperately clung to for almost 31/2 hours. "The only thing one is thinking in that moment is to try and survive and not to panic or become too desperate," he told the news service. "It's not possible to say I was staying calm, but I tried to control myself and tell myself I would wait for rescue, but also started to resign myself to the fact that I couldn't fight nature. "You start to think of your family," he said. "I thought of my parents, who are still alive, who are elderly, but still alive. I thought, 'I need to see them again,' and that thought kept me going." The widower, who has five children and four grandchildren, said he never saw any other crew members. Rescuers found Arias, Tim Smith, and Roy Smith Jr. floating near the raft. Arias "practically jumped into the rescue basket," said Coast Guard swimmer Lake Downham, who flew the rescue mission. "He was very anxious to get into that basket." When he asked about his fellow crew members, Arias said, he was told, "They're dead." Arias said he had barely slept Tuesday after returning to his Wildwood home. "Bad dreams," he explained. He still plans to return to the sea, however. "It's my job." Rescuers had clung to the hope that all of the men were wearing protective suits, as they thought Arias had told them. "The only way they could still be alive is if they got up out of the water onto something. But if they had done that, the Coast Guard probably would have seen them," said Paul Thompson, who runs a charter fishing service from the dock where the Lady Mary was based. Sean McKeon, executive director of the North Carolina Fisheries Association, said he had spoken to other scallop-boat captains from his state who were in the same waters when the weather suddenly turned foul. A small-craft advisory was in effect when the boat sank, according to the National Weather Service. "I was told the weather got real bad real fast," McKeon said. Explaining the decision to scale back the search yesterday afternoon, Rear Adm. Fred M. Rosa Jr., Coast Guard district commander, said that "time and environmental conditions are against us" finding more survivors.

I have an older (1991) yamaha 150 2 stroke - I'm running a new fuel line and wanted to replace the orginal spin on in line filter system mounted in the bilge. Here are my questions : 1. How do detrim the rate of flow required? 2. Should I go with a metal or see-thru bowl ( i perfer metal) 3. Whats the best brand? (racor) Thanks in advance. Chris

I have the Makita you speak of and have been using it for several years without causing any burns. I will tell you this is not a toy and you can get hurt if you get it cought on a cleat, boweye, swimladder, etc. or drop it with the trigger lock on. With that being said you can master this thing after a few tries - to start just slow the speed down and keep the head moving at all times. On the model I have the center of the pad will not scratch the gel coat.

Best of luck...