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[SPIDERMAN]

Big B...install a boat lift and tell us to KYA

really if you do install a battery charger...which you should if you keep the boat in the water.....get a marine grade one.
the first post Duane posted with a charger and bulkhead connector from Boat US or West marine is all you need for your boat.

Would love to Brian, but since I left Maine 11 years ago the rules have changed. In my section of the lake I can only install a dock "large enough to dock a boat "  Now I haven't as yet found out what that means and fortunately this falls under the town code enforcement officere whom I met this summer and is a really good guy. At anyrate, whatever you put in the water has to come out every fall, so a fixed dock with a canopy like they build on the Halifax river down in Daytona is out of the question. Most likely a bunch of  4ft x 12ft floating sections with three of them fixed together for a dock. I figure 8 sections total. That puts me 60 ft out into the water from the beach with a 12 x 12 dock on the end. The drop off in the bottom of the lake is shallow so at 60 ft, I'll only have 6 feet of water under the dock. Fine for my little puddle jumper. 

As to the charger, the Voc High School has already wired me up with a battery switch and two battery boxes sized to the Interstates you mentioned in your post. I will buy the batteries next spring when I go to Maine vice now so as to get the extra 6 or 7 months on the warranty. Thanks for the good advice.

B B

[porthole]

thought since we were talking options for this type of thing I'd toss out this latest idea for discussion.

You hijacked your own thread 

Also, there is an inverter in the boat the instructor says isn't wired correctly. They are checking the navigation lights ............

I did say it wasn't right in my post didn't I ? Yup, I did.

Yup ya did - only that it wasn't wired right though - nothing as to whether it was marine grade or not.

As such I am well aware of what's what when it comes to corrosion resistance.

Point taken - I'll keep my ideas suppressed

As regards the boat I started this BATTERY thread on,

This was supposed to be about batteries?

OK - I'm with Brian "Donzi" on this. If I didn't get a steep discount on batteries at West Marine I would use standard heavy duty batteries, either the Interstate Brian mentioned or for your boat you should be able to get deep cycles at Costco as Tim suggested.

The high end batteries do a better job of emptying your wallet then anything else. Maybe if you were going to be sailing across the pond or spending 6 months or more away from land then it may pay to have higher end batteries. But if you don't maintain them it won't matter anyway

which brings us back to the charger suggestion.

[porthole]

Duane,  They are  Nautican, 88-in-dia X 65-in pitch propellers on 8-in-dia stainless steel tail shafts. They are called "skewed" propellers

By skewed, do you mean the pitch varies across the blade?

[SPIDERMAN]

Porthole
             How do you do the multiple quote thing ?  I've always wondered about that

B B

[hogasm]

Porthole
             How do you do the multiple quote thing ?  I've always wondered about that

B B

I've wondered that also

And how do you answer each quote

thanks

[porthole]

How do you do the multiple quote thing ?  I've always wondered about that

You mean like this

I've wondered that also

And how do you answer each quote

thanks

Or like this?

[Fired00d]

Porthole
             How do you do the multiple quote thing ?  I've always wondered about that

B B

I've wondered that also

And how do you answer each quote

thanks

You mean like that?? It'a all about copy/paste and multiple windows open.

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

[porthole]

Pretty simple actually

Right click on the "quote", select open in new tab (I.E. 7) or new window.
Do that for each post you want in your reply.

Then just do a "cut & paste" into one post.

So, right click - open in new window or tab, answer the quote then copy & paste the next quote form the "open in new window" screen into your first reply and answer.

Did I say that so you followed?

[porthole]

You can get lost sometimes replying like I did in #46  End up not making much sense if you paste in the wrong order.

[hogasm]

Not working for me

[hogasm]

Pretty simple actually

Right click on the "quote", select open in new tab (I.E. 7) or new window.
Do that for each post you want in your reply.

Then just do a "cut & paste" into one post.

So, right click - open in new window or tab, answer the quote then copy & paste the next quote form the "open in new window" screen into your first reply and answer.

Did I say that so you followed?

11

You can get lost sometimes replying like I did in #46  End up not making much sense if you paste in the wrong order.

22

You mean like that?? It'a all about copy/paste and multiple windows open.

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

33

Ok my experiment worked

[hogasm]

Gonna kill my post count doing it this way

[porthole]

Gonna kill my post count doing it this way

Yeah - but you'll look more cleverererrerer 

[Fired00d]

Gonna kill my post count doing it this way

When did post count ever concern you.

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

[SPIDERMAN]

When did post count ever concern you.

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

Of all the chit that's come out of your mouth d00d, this has got to be the biggest of the big ones 

Give me a break