Recent content by mbullen

For what it's worth, HP Capacity and Weight Capacity are two different calculations. HP capacity is based on boat dimensions and construction. I have 14ft boats that are rated everywhere between 12hp and 40hp. Weight capacity is based on displacement. It includes your motor, fuel, gear...

You're not alone for a short M series HIN. I've yet to stumble upon a reasonable explanation, but there seems to be quite a few out there. For what it's worth, you're going to be between 1980 and 1984. (your '8' in the tenth position indicates the 1980s and the M Format ended in 1984) The...

White Oak, Mahogany, and/or Marine Ply are the usual suspects for transom construction. One can step up or down from that set with the more expensive Coosa Blueboard or the less expensive Exterior Ply. For what it's worth, Red Oak is not recommended for boat building as it has a cellular...

A HIN with "Z" in the third position is indicative of a state-issued HIN. "WN" indicates Washington state. The federal HIN program didn't begin until 1972. Boats made after 1972 will have a federal HIN plate on the outside transom. Boats made prior to 1972 had only a model/serial number, in...

lolol. Maybe use the search phrase "Manual Hydraulic Patient Lift with 6-point Cradle"

Cherry pickers and gantries have their place, and I have them both, but I almost always go to a MedLift I found on Craigslist for $40. 450lb capacity. Pretty mobile. Extremely useful with a Harbor Freight lifting strap.

I suspect the definition has drifted over time to accommodate colloquial speak as well as hybrid constructions... ..but.. In my world, It's either a jon or a v-hull based solely on construction. (both being "utility" boats - which speaks more to function than construction) The v-hull being...

Your 12th digit would be a letter. [possibly an I? (April)] From 1972 to 1984, two formats were used: Straight Year Format - model year is the last two digits, month is a letter in position 9 (A-L) Model Year Format - The letter M appears in position 9. This drops the model year to...

Do you actually know more having the Daily Mail event in your quiver? Or do you now hold more outrage about the subject as a whole after having read their framing about an inconsequential exchange of words. How does a conversational exchange out of context further your knowledge? You guys are...

...and one more just for giggles. It is in fact *very* difficult to identify the sex of a skeleton. Especially pre-pubescent skeletons. I'm not a anthropologist with a PhD, but I do have an Bachelors in Biology and have spent some quality time at Dr. Bass' Body Farm. And ultimately, identifying...

This is the last post I'll speak to this matter. I knew better than to engage in non-boat material. I did not intend to weigh in on any of the controversy, in fact, I stepped in without even knowing the content of the controversy. I didn't even read the article until much later in the...

What I think is irrelevant and the ideas you present are not conveyed in that Daily Mail link. You are extrapolating beyond the information given. This is point I have been underlining. If you want actual news and information about any of that stuff, it is available from legitimate sources...

Its a tabloid gossip piece contextuized to illicit emotion. The swimmer was on a talk circuit of universities. A talk circuit. Not a class. Not a press conference. A circuit. The audience - who obviously lean conservative or they wouldn't be there - laughed at a response from a professor...

Well, if it was all over the news, zero of the AI aggregators can find it. This made me curious, so I actually read the DM article... This is not a story at all. Nor an article. It is a retelling of an response given to a conservative speaker on a university campus. There is no primary...

You will not find a news outlet without bias. You *will* find many outlets with extreme bias. First step is to eliminate those wholly. Even the most centrist outlets are subject to the bias of the reporters now as the traditional newsroom with editors does not exist. All outlets are...