| Title: | Powerboats |
| Notice: | Introductions 2 /Classifieds 3 / '97 Ski Season 1267 |
| Moderator: | KWLITY::SUTER |
| Created: | Thu May 12 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 04 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1275 |
| Total number of notes: | 18109 |
Hello fellow boaters,
Well, I finally bought a boat. It's a metalic blue and white
Glastron GT160 with a 85 Hp Mercury engine. I fell in love with
it as soon as I saw it. It is the bigger brother of the boat that
James Bond used to jump over the road in "Live and Let Die" (it was
a GT150).
Mike Smith and I took the boat out yesterday on lake
Quinsigamond. It as much fun as I imagined, though I doubt I'll
be jumping over any roads in the near future. I can't wait to
go out again.
I've decided I like boating enough to fix up some of the
rough spots on the boat. A few questions: Is marine carpeting
the same as indoor/outdoor carpeting? If not, can anyone tell me
where I can buy "real" marine carpeting? Has anyone ever installed
Teleflex "Red International" series tachometer and/or speedometers?
Are they any good? How easy are they to install?
Thanks,
- Davis
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| 340.1 | THE ISLAND JUMPERS... | FROST::TOUTANT | Tue Apr 18 1989 14:39 | 4 | |
INDOOR/OUTDOOR CARPET IS THE SAME AS MARINE CARPET,MAKE SURE YOU USE
A GOOD OUT DOOR GLUE TO HOLD IT DOWN.. NICE BOAT, I HAVE A FRIEND
HERE ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN WITH THE EXACT SAME BOAT HIS IS ORANGE/
WHITE WITH A 100 EVINRUIDE.
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| 340.2 | Small Corrision bubbles on Lower Unit | FSBMS::BSERVEY | Bill Servey | Wed Apr 19 1989 12:40 | 12 |
I brought the boat home from storage last weekend, and now I'm getting
set to do the usual spring tune up stuff... wax, clean the canvas, new
plugs, check the lower unit EP fluid level, etc...
When I looked at my lower unit, there are a few little corrosion
bubbles starting to show around the "keel" (aka fin?). It looks like
these are being caused by the little bit of paint I've lost on the keel
edges. (My doo-hicky plate is fine, thank you.)
Should I spend the effort to brillo these bubbles out? (There are so
few and they are so small.) And if so, is there a spray paint that is
reccomended for the touch-up afterward?
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| 340.3 | Speedo's ! | USRCV1::FRASCH | Wed Apr 19 1989 17:31 | 11 | |
RE.0
Suggest yoy stay away from the water pressure type speedometers.
They simply are not accurate. Get one with a small impeller that
turns as the boat goes through the water. They usually have a digital
LCD readout and are accurate to a tenth of a MPH. Any of the better
marine supply catalogues will have them.
Goooooo Fast!
Don
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| 340.4 | Boat Maintenance Questions | MSCSSE::BERENS | Alan Berens | Wed Apr 19 1989 17:51 | 12 |
re .3: Ah, the old confusion between accuracy and precision. Digital speedometers/knotmeters do precisely display speed to the nearest 0.1 mph/knot. They are not that accurate, however. The waterflow past the impeller depends on the shape of the hull and the location of the impeller. The speedometer/knotmeter must be calibrated for each boat. Without calibration they're probably accurate to plus/minus a few mph/knots. Even with calibration the accuracy will probably not be 0.1 mph/knot due to variations in waterflow with speed, tidal and wind currents, grass and slime on the impeller, etc. | |||||