KacksterK5
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Hogggg ass cam!!!!But wut if it had a tree-quota race cam?
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the rule mate series bilge pump has an integrated float switch inside of the white & blue housing.So here’s a pic of the pump.
You can see the disc to the right. The wires go from it directly to the pump. The pump power comes from under the motor where you can’t see.
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does your boat have a digital depth gauge in the dash? Or some other depth finder? because that little black puck looks like a transducer for a depth sounder. (if it doesn't penetrate thru the hull to the bottom they made some 'in hull' transducer that you just glued tot he bottom of the bilge and they shoot sonar through the bottom) And my money is on they just routed the wires together
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the rule mate series bilge pump has an integrated float switch inside of the white & blue housing.
1100 GPH Rule-Mate Automatic Bilge Pump, 12 Volt | West Marine
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does your boat have a digital depth gauge in the dash? Or some other depth finder? because that little black puck looks like a transducer for a depth sounder. (if it doesn't penetrate thru the hull to the bottom they made some 'in hull' transducer that you just glued tot he bottom of the bilge and they shoot sonar through the bottom) And my money is on they just routed the wires together
That's my bet too. Really looks like a transducer.
According to the pics I'm seeing, that wire on top of the pump is the power and the discharge line would be going toward the motor.
I'm betting that power wires for the pump and the wires coming from that transducer(?) are bundled together and tucked under that fiberglass ledge and just looks like one leads directly to the other from the angle you could see.
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Boat needs camo paint and a mini gun.
WaterH
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the rule mate series bilge pump has an integrated float switch inside of the white & blue housing.
1100 GPH Rule-Mate Automatic Bilge Pump, 12 Volt | West Marine
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does your boat have a digital depth gauge in the dash? Or some other depth finder? because that little black puck looks like a transducer for a depth sounder. (if it doesn't penetrate thru the hull to the bottom they made some 'in hull' transducer that you just glued tot he bottom of the bilge and they shoot sonar through the bottom) And my money is on they just routed the wires together
You are right. I do have a death gage in the dash. I guess the wires all go forward. I still don’t know why the pump won’t go on automatically.
We took it out today. It was a long day and didn’t exactly go right. Got the boat back home to work on it. There were some fun times, but a lot of agrvation to. The trim on the motor was acting up and we had take it all apart to get it up for the trailer ride home.
Most of my agravation was in my poor driving skills. Going fast is great. This boat is so hard to control when going slow. It’s not like you put it in gear and then rev the motor. The minute you put it in gear, it has f*cking thrust. If you put it in reverse, same shit. I have to keep shifting in and out of gear so I don’t go too fast. After a lot of practice, I could get it next to a dock decently, but putting it on the trailer was a whole nother problem. Just about had a Utube moment. On my fifth attemp to get it on the trailer, I got scared and decided to hit reverse. But my brain didn’t work right and I reved it in forward. Nearly ran over the trailer.
Finally get it on and can’t tilt the lower unit up. Had to drag it on the skeg up the ramp to get so we could work on it.
I’m ready for a drink.
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Congrats , you just finally got a taste of boat ownership . Talk to me when Water Patrol has towed you back to the dock a couple times and waited 3 hours for them to get there and forgot the Bimini top and sunscreen oh and drinks 🤣
ThePanzerFuhrer
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lol you need to drive a ski boat once. You get little to no steering when you are going slow. In reverse you get none no matter the speed 
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You’ll get it figured out just takes some time behind the wheel.
. You’ll get it figured out just takes some time behind the wheel.
ThePanzerFuhrer
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Haha I’m glad we are on a small lake. When the neighbors see you jump out of the boat and start swimming it back to shore they will point laugh and watch you struggle for 5 mins before comming out and give you a tug
I ran out of gas twice and lost a coil relay once
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degenerate at large
check for a 3 way switch- Auto-off-on/override
that sounds about like par for the course with boat ownership
if the gear selector/ throttle isn't in neutral a mercruiser outdrive wont go all the way up. ( with your boat ramp drama- i'd bet heavy you turned the key off without the throttle lever dead center in neutral. I learned this because I helped dad take apart trim at a busy unfamiliar boat ramp once as a kid which then functioned flawlessly once the throttle lever was returned to neutral.
that's all standard rookie boat affairs. the learning curve is fast with a bit of practice and learning to remain calm/patient. i'm sure you'll figure it out with the shit you figure out how to drive/ heli pilot coaching experience.
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I would be fortunate if they were neighbors it seems the regular folks at our lake know exactly who to avoid when a boats broke down 😂Haha I’m glad we are on a small lake. When the neighbors see you jump out of the boat and start swimming it back to shore they will point laugh and watch you struggle for 5 mins before comming out and give you a tug
So your saying it needs a 1350?
WaterH
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if the gear selector/ throttle isn't in neutral a mercruiser outdrive wont go all the way up. ( with your boat ramp drama- i'd bet gheavy you turned the key off without thwe throttle lever dead center in neutral. I learned this because I helped dad take apart trim at a boat ramp once as a kid which then functioned flawlessly once the throttle lever was returned to neutral.
Holly shit, I bet this is it. I was so frustrated with that f*cking thottle. I’m about ready to rip off the lock thing to keep you out of reverse. G-dam, all that screwing around we did taking apart the trim sensor and the trim limit. Of course, I have to put it all back because after we got it up, we just hauled ass.
We drove over to my dock and there was fifty gazillion birds on it. Shit all over. My friend said I wouldn’t park my pretty boat here unless you have a water hose at the end of the dock. (Planning on it doesn’t count) I think I need some kind of scarecrow there. So we decided to take it home.
My wife was pissed when I brought the boat home because she wanted to go out on Thursday. (From the dock)
I just glad she wasn’t with us. She thinks we were playing all day. Hell we had to drive all over to find a decent boat ramp. The first place we went, this old guy said they put 40’ boats in there. The concrete was all busted up and didn’t look good this guy just pulled his shit boat out and my friend asked him if the concrete continues or if it drops off. He said it only drops off on one side. Next.
Never got the boat to sixty, but we had it close. You have to play with the trim to get it over fifty. It still was plenty fast. We hit a big boat wake at about 40. Note to self, dont be doing that with my wife onboard. Lost the speedometer. Found a little tube on the out drive unplugged. The death gage was neat, but I would be cruising with 24’ under the keel and it would start winding down fast as shit. We could see mud in the water at just over 3’. We went slow at one section and we could see it was shallow and M F er, it stopped us. Had to tilt the motor up to get out. Good thing the trim worked then.
Vodka never tasted so good.
All and all, I had better luck then this guy.
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fuawking up at the dock and boat ramp is very common. learning to read the water and stay in the channel is also common.
I'll say it again- you should absolutely join Sea-Tow or Towboat US ( AAA for the water) you will get stuck or break down eventually, and their hourly retail rate for a single hour is more than a year's membership with free towing, fuel drop etc.
And they charge from the time they leave the dock to come get you til they get you to the dock and finish writing their bill, so if you need them its gonna cost you close to 4 digits to the left of the decimal.
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1. Relax. 90% of all the screw ups on boats are stress induced. Just take the boat out and play with it at a dock, go slow. Don't go faster than you're willing to hit anything. It's fine to bump the boat in and out of gear. If you can land a helicopter, you can dock a boat..
2. friction is drag, drag = reduced speed. Trim raises the boat out of the water and reduces drag, that = more speed. There comes a point where leverage kicks in and the prop and planer plate don't have enough lift to hold the boat. Blows out the prop and cavitates. The lack of drag and amount of hull in the water reduces the amount of control surfaces you have to work with. so. More speed, less control. Haul ass in the calm stuff for now, find a solid cruise speed where the hull is happy in the chop. If you're truckini and see a big wake or something coming at you, trim down and back off a bit. Let the hull do the work, not your body.
3. Relax
4. Go toss a beach ball in the water and try to pick it up. Be smooth and always keep it on the driver's side of the boat. Treat it like a person in the water. Always keep the person in the water on the driver's side of the boat. Stay calm and circle around it. Use it as practice.
5. If you have people in the water skiing or tubing, keep them on the driver's side of the boat and know that you have to guard them against other idiots with the boat. I think this goes without saying but. No watersports without a life jacket. Don't care how good a swimmer the person is. Water is hard. Also, Cut the engine every time somebody is climbing in and out.
2. friction is drag, drag = reduced speed. Trim raises the boat out of the water and reduces drag, that = more speed. There comes a point where leverage kicks in and the prop and planer plate don't have enough lift to hold the boat. Blows out the prop and cavitates. The lack of drag and amount of hull in the water reduces the amount of control surfaces you have to work with. so. More speed, less control. Haul ass in the calm stuff for now, find a solid cruise speed where the hull is happy in the chop. If you're truckini and see a big wake or something coming at you, trim down and back off a bit. Let the hull do the work, not your body.
3. Relax
4. Go toss a beach ball in the water and try to pick it up. Be smooth and always keep it on the driver's side of the boat. Treat it like a person in the water. Always keep the person in the water on the driver's side of the boat. Stay calm and circle around it. Use it as practice.
5. If you have people in the water skiing or tubing, keep them on the driver's side of the boat and know that you have to guard them against other idiots with the boat. I think this goes without saying but. No watersports without a life jacket. Don't care how good a swimmer the person is. Water is hard. Also, Cut the engine every time somebody is climbing in and out.
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I get the logic, but wouldn't this point the nose down and dig in the wake vs going over it?
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This thing isn't fast enough to go "over it"
Every wave is different but just starting out, slow down some, trim off the pad and let the hull go through. Straight on 90 degree wake, sure it will go through at speed, a little bit of angle and an inexperienced driver, shit gets weird really quick.
This. Visited the wife's grandparents in New Smyna a few years ago, and they took us down the intercoastal on his pontoon to watch the SpaceX launch. On the way back the coil died in the boat, we were dead in the middle of the intercoastal. Some dude with a sailboat saw us, hopped on his dingy and towed us over to a dock. Fuckin high end yacht club
we felt like schmucks but they were awesome and understanding. We sent the girls home via taxi and me and her grandfather stayed with the boat until sea tow showed up. He just hooked on and pulled us back to the boat launch, loaded the boat onto the trailer like a pro. Dude was smooth, spent a lot of time on a boat. The best thing we did was stay calm. Her grandfather would get a little anxious and I would talk him back calm and all was fine. He was embarrassed but I still think it made a fun memory
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I’ll be checking them out.
I love your posts.
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My iPad did that.
That’s a neat idea. Not planning on towing stuff right now. But good for the future and may help with slow speed control issue.
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the landing is less hard/impactful when the keel slices through the top 1/2 of the wake trimmed down versus ramping off the peak trimmed up.
also when trimmed up youre on the flatter section of a modified v hull versus the sharper bow entry. ( think belly flop versus swimmer dive.)
redneckengineered
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New boat owner takes pristine boat, uses the prop for a tiller, runs aground, and drags the skeg up the ramp. Sounds like a solid first day
In all seriousness, were you just running around without any attention paid to channels or navigable water? Most new boaters assume if you can see water it has to be deep enough, right? Get yourself some charts and a plotter and learn the tides.
WaterH
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New boat owner takes pristine boat, uses the prop for a tiller, runs aground, and drags the skeg up the ramp. Sounds like a solid first day
In all seriousness, were you just running around without any attention paid to channels or navigable water? Most new boaters assume if you can see water it has to be deep enough, right? Get yourself some charts and a plotter and learn the tides.
Yea, we were paying some attention. But the markers were all over the place. Apparently, you keep the green on the right if you’re returning to the harbor. The problem with that is we are driving down the inter coastal waterway, so you can be leaving one harbor and heading to another. My friend said the ones we really need to pay attention to are the red triangles. The problem is when you see a triangle, you have to guess which shore the shallow comes out from. (Not always the closest one) I’m going to get some kind of gps that shows shallow water.
WaterH
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Yea, sounds good. We found that we could go on either side of the square signs (red or green) and still had enough depth, but the red triangles were bad on one side. I think the markers are set up for bigger boats.
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JFC.
Channel markers are labeled with numbers. The numbers start at the entrance to the channel and go upstream. if you are going upstream, and numbers are increasing, red on right. If you're going downstream and numbers are decreasing, green on right.
Please take a boaters safety course online, look at some charts and get a chart plotter on the boat. An ipad or your phone with Navionics or Argo Nav will get you started. but holy hell bro. Think of running outside the channels as flying through the trees, you'll miss a bunch of them until you hit one.
Bacho
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How can a Florida man be so bad on the water.
Second the motion for boaters safety course. The state has their own, wont take but an hour.
Assuming this is St Andrews bay? I have a lot of time on that water. You need to reference a chart, again should be free online.
Second the motion for boaters safety course. The state has their own, wont take but an hour.
Assuming this is St Andrews bay? I have a lot of time on that water. You need to reference a chart, again should be free online.
WaterH
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Yes, I will be checking out a boaters course. You guys are being a little mellow dramatic here. What could happen? I get stuck in shallow water? How about damage the boat? Nothing that money won’t fix. All of my boating experiences are in 20 foot (or less) boat in lakes and we didn’t have no sand bars. Let’s face it, if I get stuck, I can walk ashore. I’m in a bay, not the ocean. I do have stuff to learn for sure.
The point I was making about the markers being for a bigger boat. Example, at my land the far shore is about a mile and a half. The red and green channel markers are about a 100 yards apart in the middle. My depth gage was reading 40-50 feet there. If I drove a 100 yards outside the channel marker sign, it was like 9-12 feet. So obviously it was not a big issue for my boat. When I go out in the boat I want to look at stuff on the shore whether it be other boats, houses or Sun bathing women. I’m not going to stay 3/4 mile from the shore.
The point I was making about the markers being for a bigger boat. Example, at my land the far shore is about a mile and a half. The red and green channel markers are about a 100 yards apart in the middle. My depth gage was reading 40-50 feet there. If I drove a 100 yards outside the channel marker sign, it was like 9-12 feet. So obviously it was not a big issue for my boat. When I go out in the boat I want to look at stuff on the shore whether it be other boats, houses or Sun bathing women. I’m not going to stay 3/4 mile from the shore.
Bacho
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Sure, it’s just a bay. Over the years, a handful of people have died on that water on the random weekends that I’ve been there. Those events were all in good weather too. I’ve had my own fair share of pretty bad situations out there.
Not all channel markers are that forgiving. But luckily, there’s no hard bottom in the bay that I am aware of.
Rules of the road to include right of way are important anywhere. There are a handful of forbidden areas again assuming we’re talking about Saint Andrews Bay.
By all means, have a good time. And this isn’t that big of a deal once you’re familiar. But please have a good understanding of etiquette so you’re acting predictably for other people.
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Ok yeah, I mean there's a deep channel in the middle and shallower stuff around it. Yep just know what thee marks mean so you have a point of reference. get a plotter, just makes life easier