Yes, CAT c-18's will burn a lot less fuel compared to vessel speed at 1,000 rpms and below. At hull speed (displacement) you should net much much...
Yes, you can run your alternator's output directly to a high capacity battery isolator. I would think that you can run both alternators to 2...
The problem is the USCG has young men that are 21 +/- years old running these 60 mph boats. While they may or may not have the proper training....
Maintanence, noise while fishing, nowadays there isn't a large weight savings over using fiberglass, long term maintanence.
Yes, as well as many Cabo hulls and I believe Rybovich. However, aluminum sportfish have really grown out of favor and are disliked by most of...
I would recommend two things with your setup. 1. A Battery switch so that you can connect (parallel) the house batteries with the starting...
I would place a call into CAT with the engine serial numbers and make sure all of the updates have been done, especially with aftercoolers and...
All of the Taxidermists here got away from using the real fish or fish' skin at least ten years ago. Supposedly a fiberglass mount is more...
I have a great amount of respect for the USCG. I think that most of them are very well trained and very skilled. However, I have been boarded...
Here in South Florida they are very popular because they are very versatile for bar hopping, fishing, diving, speed, lots of people.......less to...
I don't know for sure, but it should be the bridge clearance plus the draft. Now, you can probably knock up to a foot off if the props are...
No, but I don't think they'd be worth any more because madoff owned them.
I agree totally. I think *some* of the manatee zones should be lifted as they are not there for the manatees, but there for the houses. However,...
As a Captain that does 20,000 NM in deliveries a year, I would be downright scared of delivering a newish Bertram, after the experiences I have...
I'll bite, one of my favorite boats to run/fish is a 45' Cabo express. I was a FT captain on one and had a full time Mate. Our normal trip to...
The thing with cored boats, and I've run a lot of the various manufacturers models before coring and later ones that were cored. Yes, the cored...
Simple swap, but there may be a different setting for your battery charger for AGM. (Usually a dip switch or something similar). ALSO, most...
Yeah, have my terminology messed up.......or distance.......
Judging by those pictures of the transom shots, it doesn't look to me like the core absorbed the resin. It's a much lighter color then the resin...
I've always painted the chain with distances of a shot (10 meters) with red, white, then blue. then white/red, white/white, white/blue, then...
