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The best solution would be to find a way to make harvesting these fish profitable. Whenever a profit is to be had, we are really good at eradicating a species. Unfortunately, this is not a new idea and I'm sure some ideas were tried and failed. From what I understand efforts were made to...

Permanently closing off the Mississippi is just a slowing down process, it is not even close to a permanent fix. Eggs stick to birds legs, how do we stop that. Also what about eggs sticking to small skiffs that are trailered all over the place and as RT mentioned - bilges. This is a serious...

One very important thing with removable plywood floor hatches. Plywood chips and breaks out very easily on the corners and when you remove and insert the floor boards often enough, there wont be much of a corner left. very easy remedy though. put a 1/4" or thicker solid teak or white oak edging...

I think you will like the samples. It cost me about $1000 to do an 8' X 8' area using teak plywood. I remember pricing the Lonseal and it would have come out to about the same. Since I used to have a woodworking business, I still had access to my old shop through the new owner. If a person...

I remember in Biloxi many years ago when some guy got divorced and she got the house and he got the boat. He had originally named the boat after her name "Ruth". It was a simple fix. The new name became "Ruthless"

They make a non-skid additive that can be mixed in with varnish or poly. Some products are a silica base like in sand which is hard on the bare foot and some products are more of a mica base and there are others. These products can be either mixed in with a clear finish or broadcast on the wet...

The plywood is probably rotted from the bottom up from previous water penetration. here is one possible fix with a 50/50 chance of working. Items needed are a drill, an epoxy injector needle, epoxy and some kind of dye for the epoxy whether it be powdered or alcohol based but not oil or water...

"Morning Wood". Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm Yup, I get it. LOL

Wood Flooring I made my own flooring when I removed the carpeting. I used plywood Teak and Holly. For insulation, I used standard ceiling tiles cut to size for heat and sound insulation. Since they can crumble and get really messy in the engine room, I covered them with this thin foil...

WE have Teak and Holly flooring inside. We have the typical canvas/Isenglass enclosure on the outside and are very careful of any kind of liquid spill. Hard floors can get very slippey. They have a product made of some kind of vinyl that looks real close to Teak and Holly and had I believe a...

I have several different adapters on my boat, both commercially made and home made. My boat is wired for two 30A Lines. Last fall while in a boat yard on the hard in Texas City, Tx they had these 4 prong 220V outlets. I had never seen them before and my neighbor told me that the welders use...

Would something like this work for you..... 50F/30M Amp RV Adapter - RVWholesalers.com RV Parts and Accessories

There are a lot od superstitions that go with boat names. I once looked up some info on it. For example: should have a certain amount of letters and the use of certain letters. I cant remember the details. Also I remember to not anger the gods by using a challenging name like 'Sea Conquerer'...

Thanks for the simple explanation. Tony B

So, this smart part with the solid state circuitry is inside the cord itself? I can run my boat entirely off one 30A cord ( as long as I don't go over 30A) or two 30A cords to a 50A "Y". My boat has worked with and without the smart cords. How did my model year 1986 work without the smart cords?

OK, I'm really not understanding this ..... What is a smart cord? Brand name?

My older 1986 model is low tech All I could contribute is what I have. Never know if they have the same set-up or not.

With 50A 220V you have two hot leads and one neutral. With 30A service you have 110V - 0ne hot, one neutral and 1 ground. If you think you know what you are doing you can make it work on 110V but wont have a ground wire. Not good. So you really don't know what you are doing. If you really...

I have a Mainship 36. I have two 30A cords to a 50A "Y" which is normal. Inside my boat on my power board with all the circuit breakers, I have a 3 position switch at the top. Line 1 - Line 1&2 - Gen Pos. Line 1 is for when you only have one 30A receptacle. It will run the entire boat on that...

Thanks PM and RT After about the 10th time of in and out of the anchor locker, the locker won. So I had to hire a young man with a small body frame to fit into the anchor locker to do some cutting and tighten up the nuts. Someone mentioned earlier that the windlass is not supposed to hold the...

The gypsy and roller should align as much as possible. Lewmar recommends no more than 6 degrees out of alignment. I was too lazy to look up my old math stuff so I got some graph paper and scaled down the distance and the offset and had a small protractor and mine measured 5 degrees out of...

I sent you a PM with my cell number. Hope to meet up with you along the way. We will be staying in Gulfport till late March/early April. If we have to leave we will only go 3 miles away to Long Beach Harbor

Yes, the one I had shipped to me cost under $150 with shipping included. it is way way more robust than what came off my boat.

Blue I have some friends in Kemah picking me up at Hobby Airport and I will be staying with them. I really do appreciate the offer though. Let me take the time to say that between here and other forums, I have made friends for life. I have not been hurting for rides to get around and for...