Hi all looking at purchasing a walk around in the 20 to25ft range but can only go for a hull that is no wider than 8.2 ft looking at the bay liner trophy ,gradywhite 228/6,Wellcraft walk around , does anyone know of any other models that are under the 8.2. Cheers

Boat is a 1993 Four Winns, carb’d 5.0 Ford, OMC I/O Cobra drive.

The boat had been running a little hot according to the gauge (~180-200, maybe a little more at idle/low speeds), but everything had seemed fine, and whenever it creeped up to near 200 while idling it usually came down to the 180 range once on plane. Impeller looked great. Suspected thermostat. Planned on figuring it out eventually but didn’t seem to be pressing, and thought it may just be an inaccurate gauge.

Today (90 degree weather), I had it idling after I launched it and was parking the car, and it crept up to around 200. I got underway, thinking it would come down once I got on plane, and it crept up to the top of the gauge (240). I was worried, but again, was not entirely convinced that the gauge was accurate; I proceeded to throttle up and plane the boat for about a minute, but the temp did not come down, and I noticed a burning smell. I quickly took it down to neutral and shut the boat off. Lifted the engine cover and white smoke came out (not tons; a decent amount, but not billowing by any means).

Drifted in the channel for a bit with the engine cover up and blower on, allowing it to cool. We started to drift into a dock, so I tried to fire it up for a quick maneuver, and the engine wouldn’t turn over. Just a quick chug then nothing. Thought maybe it was vapor locked or something; so I tied up the the dock and waited for about 20 minutes and tried again; still wouldn’t turn over. Just a quick chug, then nothing.
Waited about 45 more minutes, tried it, same thing, except I got a second chug out of it. Waited a bit more and tried it, and got a few more chugs out of it, but the condition never improved past this point even after several hours. Ended up getting towed back to the launch ramp and bringing the boat home.

So that’s where I’m at. The engine seems at least partially seized, though the starter can turn it a little. Oil looks fine on the dipstick.
I plan on pulling the spark plugs, seeing if there’s any water in the cylinders(hydrock), spraying PB in them and seeing if I can crank the engine by hand.
Any ideas/opinions on what else I can do or check? Does this sound like hydrolock or seized due to overheating?
How likely do you think it is that my engine is toast?
Is it possible that the heat just caused expansion and therefore friction, without doing any serious damage?

Any opinions are appreciated,
Thanks.

P.S. After doing some googling, I realize that I’m an idiot for trying to run the boat with the gauge showing the temp that high, and probably stupid for trying to crank it after it overheated, but I’m a bit of a newbie and didn’t know that overheating could cause such serious issues.

P.P.S. While waiting for the boat to cool off, I pulled the thermostat housing, and it looked pretty old/corroded, so I’m thinking that was probably the cause of the overheating.

Ok do you think I over reacted?.. Was out all Sunday and having a blast but harassed many times by a jet ski/pwc you know the type jumping your wake, driving in your direction then quick turning away spraying water in your direction and on you and many other disregards for safety just being a punk ….:mad: so to make a long storey short this pwc jerk ran out of gas and the jerk bumped into me at anchor (no wake zone)….then this jerk had the nerve to ask if I could tow him back to the ramp or marina…so knowing this guy and his never-ending harassment every time he sees a wake or a family out I told him I would help him and all it would cost was his spark plugs and gas cap for a tow back to the ramp…anyway he after many profane words he agreed so before I took him in tow I took payment of 4 spark plugs and a gas cap….kept the cap dropped the plugs and pulled him back….now fast forward to Monday I hear the jerk was unable to get new plugs or cap due to the holiday and I became the hero of the lake…..;cool;

Note wildlife game warden has been called many times but does not have a presence on this lake….and this jerk is a repeat harasser who has been ask many times to stop spraying boats at anchor….

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I am pretty new to boating, have a 58′ Sonship and thinking about moving up to 70′ nordlund. Going to gut the pilot house and start fresh. I like the look of the big yatchs and want to do 3 or 4 large LCD’s and run most my info from them. I have new Nobeltec software and wanted to see if anyone had advice to to what to connect and what interface should i be using. Prefer everything to run off of marine computers.

Any advice or picutres of clean pilot houses with this goal in mind would be helpful
`NautiBeaver

After talking about getting a T-top put on the boat and getting shot down by the wife for months, all it took was one trip with the wife and kids on a sunny day for her to say, “I think we’ll have to put a T-top on the boat for Father’s Day.” No surprise there.

Anyone know much about 2000 model maycrafts 23′? I searched here but turned up very little on may craft. where are or were they built? dead rise???any help would be great!

I have twin F250′s with twin tanks on my 2008 Scarab 27 Tournament. There are digital indicator bars for the fuel gauge readout. Last year it worked fine. At the end of the season I filled up both tanks (246 gallons) and had it hauled out for the winter. This year I’ve noticed that the indicator bars are still at the top. I estimate that I’ve used about 27 gallons so far this season. Do I need to wait for the fuel level to go down a bit more, before the sensor picks it up, or could there possibly be a sending unit issue?

Hey guys,
I was wondering if ya’ll could point me to some models, as i am fairly new to the boating world and really don’t know much. So my family wants to buy a boat and as we were deciding, it seemed to be a disagreement between what everyone wanted. I wanted a center console as its great for fishing, my son wants a wakeboard boat for wakeboarding and my wife wants a pontoon to relax on. After a little time looking on the internet, i came across the mastercraft csx, but costing over 50+ is not what we were looking for, even though it matched what we wanted perfectly. So my question is this, is there other boats out there similar to the csx for less than 10 grand or can I get a center console and make it into a csx but without the inboard. we need tons of seats too as my family and friends are sure to join us on the lake.
Thanks,
Diilon

Again, sorry for all the questions but I’m excited to get started on my project.

The boat I’m getting has a lot of teak compartment doors and trim as well as on top of the gunnels.

I’m not sure if I should attempt to restore the teak or replace it all with new maintenance free starboard.

I like the look of teak but the maintenance is non stop.

Any thoughts?

Anyone having problems with a Garmin 2600 chart plotter i seem to have a problem connecting to GPS satellite :banghead::banghead::banghead: