Splashdown!

[awthacker]

Ran the V down to St Augustine on Sunday (50 miles round trip, maybe) with the wife... it was 75* and sunny and the boat ran great. Topped it out at 40.1 knots. Tach still didn't work, though. We ran under 30 knots most of the day.

Took it in to a trusted shop on Monday and got some bad but bearable news... the regulator rectifier was bad. The brand new tach was also bad. Had both replaced as well as some general maintenance and minor repairs and ended up with a pretty good bill (hopefully West Marine will return the faulty Teleflex tach, but is it possible the regulator caused it go bad?).

Oh well, at least now everything's in good operating condition. We'll be heading offshore Sunday and the conditions are lining up perfect. My next post should be my first in the Fishing section!

 

[reelapeelin]

Ran the V down to St Augustine on Sunday (50 miles round trip, maybe) with the wife... it was 75* and sunny and the boat ran great. Topped it out at 40.1 knots. Tach still didn't work, though. We ran under 30 knots most of the day.

Took it in to a trusted shop on Monday and got some bad but bearable news... the regulator rectifier was bad. The brand new tach was also bad. Had both replaced as well as some general maintenance and minor repairs and ended up with a pretty good bill (hopefully West Marine will return the faulty Teleflex tach, but is it possible the regulator caused it go bad?).

Oh well, at least now everything's in good operating condition. We'll be heading offshore Sunday and the conditions are lining up perfect. My next post should be my first in the Fishing section!

"Bad but bearable news"...you may have just coined a phrase...man you got a great boat goin' there...the 175 sounds like it's pushin' it pretty good...40 kts bookin' pretty good...good luck fishin' Sunday...and don't forget the camera...

Wish you had time to bring her up to Charleston for Spare's Get-Together this weekend!...

 

[fishingwithblue]

Ran the V down to St Augustine on Sunday (50 miles round trip, maybe) with the wife... it was 75* and sunny and the boat ran great. Topped it out at 40.1 knots. Tach still didn't work, though. We ran under 30 knots most of the day.

Took it in to a trusted shop on Monday and got some bad but bearable news... the regulator rectifier was bad. The brand new tach was also bad. Had both replaced as well as some general maintenance and minor repairs and ended up with a pretty good bill (hopefully West Marine will return the faulty Teleflex tach, but is it possible the regulator caused it go bad?).

Oh well, at least now everything's in good operating condition. We'll be heading offshore Sunday and the conditions are lining up perfect. My next post should be my first in the Fishing section!

Where are you fishing?

 

[awthacker]

Wish you had time to bring her up to Charleston for Spare's Get-Together this weekend!...

I was thinkin' the same thing but I've spent so much money on this thing I can't even think about a vacation right now. If you guys do it again next year, I'll try and jump in. I'd love to meet everyone and check out all the different setups. Here's another catch phrase "Maybe next year".

 

[awthacker]

Where are you fishing?

Gonna head out of Mayport and try and get on the flounder. They lay thick around the wrecks this time of year. We'll start around 9 mile and go further if need be. The only problem should be getting bait through the thickets of red snapper, which is why I'll bring a couple tanks along.

 

[Destroyer]

Thanks for the lesson. I practiced twice on some dock line for my fenders. A big improvement from my old dock lines in pic 1. The eye splice at the end of the anchor line worked out great and was very easy. Just took some time to get around to doing it.

Aaron

GREAT job... looks really good. I like the taper that you did on the ends. Gives it a good look and makes it easy to slide through the hawse pipe. One final, not necessary, but neat little touch that you might want to try is to take the splice you just made, put it on the floor, put your foot on it and roll it back and forth several times under pressure. It forms the splice into a nice round cylinder an gives it a "finished", professional look. Arrrr...ye be having the makins of a seadawg now...