this is a great thread. The last fellow that provides the math is right on of course, but most people didn't take that "course" lol.....I have the beamy sea strake from 66 at 33 feet, bottom line here is that we love the boats no matter what the speed and fuel consumption....I can trawl/crawl and I ...

That's a cool posting about the Big Sea Skiff, being lapstrake to the keel helps her for sure.

Random comments on this thread which is progressing nicely with good input and info: With those 283's you are underpowered today, ok when she was new and dry, and fine for your purposes it seems. You can get a replacement ANYTHINGS for that GM small block, and new 350's (5.7 l.) will generally fit i...

Last response has bigger boat but 427's and big 4 blade props...still with all these numbers will likely all fall in the same range...opec does love us.

That is not bad really, pretty average for her length/ weight (a lot of water weight too). I have a 33 Cavalier seastrake and I have never had the 4 barrells come in...run at a comfortable 2600 (clean and new annual paint) @ 10 to 11 knots, at approaching 3k doing approaching 14 (15 clean) Figure 1 ...

that is beyond me, I did not figure on that. I would be certain that that hitech electron. ig. used the modern interal coil resistor??

yep, the car guys use those all the time.

you don't say what boat or what engine, but in general: I'll bet you have an external coil resistor that is bad, or a coil with a bad interal one. If you have the external it is a coil of wire, likely burned out or up, or a small ceramic deal with the coil of wire in it. In either case it is hard to...

Ok folks: today I found the WoodenBoat article which I referenced and you all replied about in the posting under Nautolex (mispelled in the post). In that lengthy discussion I posted that the cancas available today is different and problematical. I recalled reading this in WoodenBoat but could not t...

also try www.marine-sales.com.......call them. they have warehouse full of old stuff nos and used...they had one once when I was in desperate need. Used, it was pricey but cherry.....careful that used ones are not worn paperthin on the bottom lip. Some wear there is inevitable, but no thinner than a...

Al,

You are right on about the relative fuel cost.
Another thing is the learning curve, once we have done everything on a certain boat, we are aging and ill disposed to learn about another one. Also, we must honor our old cruisers by preserving them.
John

Al, Thanks for the reply. Wishing you luck...hey...this is fun right??? Hang in there. Considered the two strips, not the worse compromise. Mine only has one,3/4", but then it did not have nautolex either, it had the paint soaked canvas. I did the cockpit top (I have the optional hardtop) and since ...

Ok folks, I have posted on this subject before, but added post are always helpful I find. Let's hear from the group>>>> I posted the caution about the "new" canvas that appeared in the article in WoodenBoat. That seems to me to be important. It seems some of you can not find that article but I know ...

I like timing as culprit. But: what is the state of the carb? Cyls could be filled with gas as easy as water, yielding similar symptoms.

yep, you are in for some agony removing those. But the visual and strength impact will be good. I just did the this job, though on a small boat/scale, I had but three on each side of the cockpit (taffrail only) (6 total) If you have a fifty footer she must have the quality bronze bases, I had replac...

well since your screename is "without care", fear not. Those alum tanks will be the best thing you ever did for that boat. In fact, if you don't replace the tanks, all else is just bandaid stuff, doomed to glog its way into your very soul. New tanks are what I consider THE NUMBER ONE thing to do in ...

Jack,

Those Sea Skiffs were very stong boats, she will celebrate the saltwater as far as that lapstrake plywood hull is concerned, be prepared for all the metal to corrode and break your heart, but the hull, which I am sure leaks some, will like the salt.

Need advice and usual experienced info: I have posted about this before and received conflicting advice. Last advice received led me to cancel the project and consider the awful awful: glassing. At the ACBS event last weekend at St. Michaels Md. I saw a crusier of my vintage on which the owner had s...

Many thanks to Terry Feist and all the Sunnyland Chapter folks for another great Mt. Dora show.
Truely antique boaters Disneyland!

several of you mention parts search methods for EBAY.
I go daily through all the 10 or more pages of CC stuff, one of you suggested going to ebay motors and then "boat parts chris craft", this did not work well.
What does? Helpful hints from ebay gurus appreciated.

get PB Blaster, forget WD 40 etc. spray it three times a day for a week and it will FALL off.

Maybe the decade!
whoa.

Thanks Terry,

See you in March

can anyone supply local info from Mt. Dora? Saw where tornados hit Lake County hardest?
Hoping for the best and thinking of those less fortunate....

matt,

Since you are crying anyway.....thought I would add insult to injury by relaying that hond. mahog. can make you sick as a dog from breathing the dust, does me and some others I know anyway...have you ever been exposed to it? Vile. John

"Old House Journal" calls that type of work, "remuddling", I would call it what it is, but it's Chrismas....so HO HO HO

reply to Paul and all:

If you google those folks mentioned in Dick's posting, the one's in florida, links will take you to the company the make them.
John in Va.

Group, thanks for the several replies and accompanying insights. Frank, the last respondent, says he has "the exact same unit", but I suspect he means same as the one's pictured in the response that Dick posted??? I continue to learn by all responses, but my units are not internally like those pictu...

Many thanks to Dick for his response. Let me respond here so that all may read and comment. Dick, I recall your sitch where your coupling was stuck on shaft etc etc. Went back and looked at the pix. Yours, and in fact the one's on EBAY are CLOSE to what I have but must be newage versions. I note tha...

Paul, Many thanks for the reply. Did not know about the motor mounts.... My couplings work well, but they are sort of a mystery. I am hoping to hear from somebody that has experience with them. The are brass and appear well made and expensive. They have a zerk lube fitting and make a muted grinding ...