Marinette Boat Forum

Dave is right. It's a funny thing about us BigM owners. We can't help pushing that button all the time to see what the readings are at the dock, at the entrance to the creek, at anchor, in different water temperatures, etc. With the good advice on this thread and elsewhere, preventing electrolysis ...

Well I figured out the starboard isolation while on a conference call today. After putting in a couple bolts I knew were perfectly isolated and removing the others I was still getting continuity. The flange has about 2 cm of gap between it and the cv joint. I ran a piece of paper through the gap and...

Well replacing what I had On the factory mounts

12 feet on each side of keel.
6 feet on each side under the rear of the boat
total of 4 feet on each trim tab
1 foot on each rudder.

I can't believe the amount they have on it.

Ok, I had a low capac reading all last year. It was .75. I cleaned up the anodes and replaced the keel anodes. The Capac is reading .95. I have the reference electrode from boat zincs and did a few tests. I tested at the front of the boat and it was .925. Near the Capac it was .95. At the rear of th...

coupler passes the bolts through but they screw into the flange. Makes the heat shrink impossible.

Do your bolts thread into the flange on the transmission?

And we are in. Still lots to do.

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Here is a bit of an update on this. I have pretty much exhausted my options of an aftermarket solution to fit under my Vdrive. I was able to find the center fiber disk for the other vdrive. This left me with determining just how I would isolate the top of the bolt. I purchased a few packs of flange ...

Getting close.

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I know I am in a much different boat than the rest of you but I was curious what kind of price I would be looking at for a full repaint of a large aluminum boat. This would be a spray job and not rolled and tipped.