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My Alpha One has given me a few scary moments. Usually when entering the slip. My Alpha One does not like in any way continuous rapid shifter movement from any position when trying to enter a slip thus rendering it useless. Sometimes it gets locked up going forward or reverse. Never seems to get...

Getting old really sucks as everything is slowly falling apart. My boat is running better than me. Maybe 10 years ago, I had some knee surgery but it was a nodule growing within the knee, not the knee itself. The problem was if he trimmed it from the ligament, it would eventually grow back...

I Is this who you're speaking of? After checking locations, there are none in NY, Pa or OH. But there are several in Canada that are close to me. My boat is in storage for the winter so maybe I'll get in contact with them in early Spring. https://www.newcreations.com/what-we-restore/

That turned out nice. I have a spot on mine that could use a nice repair like that instead of reupholstery.

How do you warm the engine first and then open the drains without cooking your hands? Assuming you're going to add AF.

To me the easiest way to tackle this is get a new impeller [you might need it anyways] and a new muff. I just used the West Marine 5 gal container and pumped in 5 gallons of antifreeze. The container sits above the drive so the antifreeze pushes down rather than the engine trying to pull it up...

I guess I've decided to keep the boat for now. We'll see how things go next season. Getting the boat prepped for winter kinda brought back that "Zen thing" and reattached me to having it. So we'll see.

Here are a couple of pictures in my last run. It was on the west end of the Erie Canal. It was a bit cold but worth the run. Lots of boats along the canal at Tonawanda/N Tonawanda. Several Canadian boats there as well. The biggest boat on the far right is mine. The Maple tree is for the...

Here is my boat with a partially complete acid bath. The 721 bottom treatment did a good job of protecting my hull. No extreme slime or zebra muscles. The bath is easy to do, it just takes time.

I was fortunate enough to find a storage barn about 25 miles away. The low cost of storage undercuts the cost to drive out there and back. Most of the storage areas that are near me are outrageously expensive. If I had to pay that, I'd sell the boat. While I'm not an environmental radical I am...

Thanks for the reply. I'll look it over.

Due to some incidents at the marina, it has really worn me down. Some shit never ends. I love my boat especially this year as it is humming right along even on Lake Erie. But the responsibility to maintain it among many other things associated with it.......its starting to really get at me. I...

Up here in Buffalo it is definitely not 90! hahaha. We are lucky if we are seeing upper 60's. Due to the upcoming forecast along with the marina closing early next week, tomorrow and Friday will be my last days of operation in Lake Erie. If the weather improves between now and Nov. 1st, I may...

Years ago, when I cooked my engine that flapper had been destroyed and I randomly found pieces of it falling into the outdrive and had to pull the pieces out through the prop. To keep that from happening again, I watch the temp gauge like a hawk. Especially now as sea weed is floating all over...

I also ran out of gas in my second year. The gauge was always fairly accurate but the sending unit was not. The gauge was down to 1/8th [which I learned was empty] and I was headed home. I was going to take a different route but decided to take the shortest route with a low tank of gas. I made...

I just topped my tank off today, still holding at 7gal/hour. I looked at the gas gauge at dead rise and predicted 55 gallons. I put in 50.1. Not bad for accuracy. 75% of my running time is at cruise settings of 3200rpm @30mph. In the beginning, I wasn't cruising so much as now. More idling as...

When I used to fly, the Cessna fuel gauges were all over the place. We always had to refer to the manual to check fuel burn rate to determine the length of the flight. I do the same thing with my boat. Fortunately my sending unit is pretty accurate. But I still keep an eye on fuel burn in case...

As for cleaning the bottom at the end of the season, I give it an acid bath the same way I put treatment on it. Raise and lower the boat and trailer. I take a paint pad and apply it. This minimizes drip. Then flush it like hell including the trailer.

My boat sits on bunks. The previous owner clearly didn’t treat or clean the boat where it sat on the bunks. The way my trailer is designed, I cannot remove the boat and put it on stands. The only way to get at these areas is to raise the boat and then lower the trailer. I learned this from a...

Unfortunately, I can't answer your question but it does remind me of a second incident of hitting weeds [first incident cracked the exhaust manifolds]. I was cruising up the Niagara River and as I scanned my instruments, I saw my temp gauge climbing rapidly. I'm flipping out and saying, "Oh no...