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    Real costs/experiences of an outboard repower?

    It has taken me 55 years to understand the term “buy once, cry once”. A few years ago I decided a boat would be in the plans. I searched the adds and saw all kinds of boats that would work. But they had 2 strokes, that are loud and harder to maintain. Trailers that never had their bearings...
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    Yellowjackets With An End Of The Season Vengeance!!!

    I was stung last week, fishing on the St Joe river. I haven’t been stung in years and never had any kind of effects from them before. This one, swelled like a mother and turned my entire arm red. My arm muscles hurt for days. Less than a week and everything is fine now. Might be me getting older...
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    LiFePO4 Batteries

    I have been running 3 separate electrical systems in my boat for 3 years now. Very happy with how it has been performing. My Ulterra is 24 volt and has 2) 100AH Lifepo4 batteries from Amazon. They have worked great. My engine and the electrical of the boat (how the factory wired it) has a lead...
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    How to winterize a bass/lake boat for PNW winters?

    Lithium batteries? Pull them and store them inside at half charge. Disconnect any other batteries so there is no draw. Other than that not much else to do.. I always do my maintenance of oil, plugs, fuel filter, etc in August or September so I can get a few more trips on the fresh stuff. In case...
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