Finally got my boat from troutt and sons! Drove from south of Houston to st. James Missouri that was a trip. The boat is 20' long 70" wide center console with extended deck and I had a custom leaning post installed. I have a 30 gallon gas tank in the back. The boat is flat with no tunnel and has...
After breaking a lower unit on my outboard and missing days on the water due to low river flow I decided to build a jet boat. At the time not having the money for a commercially built one I decided to make my own. I took a 16' 48" wide alumacraft and had it cut and welded into the beast it is...
Id like to get a new outboard jet boat but I'm having trouble finding one that I like. Most of the manufactured boats are either to small or big enough but have low max horse power ratings I don't like. Id like a 20-22' boat at least 70" wide on the bottom. Tunnel and pods with a 250 merc. Id be...
In the middle of replacing a 40 year old transom. I already drilled out the old rivets removed the transom and primed the inside of the boat. I have a 1" marine plywood I cut two identical pieces and glued together for a beefier transom. My main concern is I'd like to do stainless bolts but...
Kicking around the idea of a getting the 50/35 tohatsu it would go on a 1451 riveted boat it's flat so my concerns would be air ingestion would it work. I would beef up the transom. I currently have a 20hp yam 4 stroke outboard it's about 80 lbs lighter but I figure if I move fuel and battery up...
I looked around and all I could find were 1/2 inch strainers from jabsco. So what I did was just have a reducer to hook from the 3/8 to the half inch hose about 6 inches to the strainer then another 6 inches of 1/2 inch hose on the outlet to another reducer back to the 3/8" then into the motor...
I've been looking to get some solid rivets the ones on east wood say for 1000 series aluminum. Boats are typically 5000 I haven't been able to find any of this material does it matter or will the 1000 series work just fine?
I would like to hook up an engine temperature guage and either a pressure guage to the outlet side of my cooling line or a flow guage to the inlet side of my cooling line. My engine is mounted below deck and I run shallow sandy areas. I haven't had an issue in the past but I always worry about...
Anyone got a stick stear unit for sale or have recommendations on what I should do. I want to ditch the console. Plan to completely remove console and sit on that cooler seat and put a stick steer console on the right I drew it on left but imagine it on the other side and pardon the crude depiction.
I picked up this 1974 polar craft 14' long 51" wide with a 96 mclain trailer came with spare tire and two nice anchors for $300. I have a couple of jet jons but I needed a boat to put my 20 hp outboard tiller on and one wide enough two people maybe three could gig flounder from comfortably...
I just got 5 hps floodlights ordered now I gota figure out how to wire them. Cant I just get a 120 plug base from a hardware store match the colors and plug it into a surge protector like from a computer and run it to a generator for simplicity or is that not going to work?
Im sure it is not hard to figure out but is there a good place to get a zinc sacrificial anode and does anyone have any pictures of how they have theirs rigged up?
anyone got any tips on how to quiet the noise from these jet ski engines were putting in. My 760 is loud enough I now need to wear ear plugs if I'm going to run wot for a hour. Im seriously considering spray foaming my resonator box and exhaust lines. Any other ideas?
Just sharing some recent upgrades. I upgraded motor from a 650 to 760 so basically went from 50 hp to 90 hp. Now I can run 38 mph empty 35 loaded where as before it was 30 empty 26 loaded.
Started to instal hydroturf just ordered a 46x86 sheet it wasn't enough but it's a start. The 3m glue...
My steering is becoming a problem the extra horsepower has caused several issues with my steering I need to upgrade. Does the Teleflex work in place of the old pwc steering cable? Im thinking of getting the Teleflex and doing a stick steer instead of a wheel. If anyone has pictures of there...
ordered a tiny tach for my Yamaha 64x 760 in my jet boat for a few reasons... diagnostics, hour timing, and just to see what rpm im turning. Has anyone put this on a jet ski before? Just coil the wire around the plug, ground it, and your good to go?