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| Boat Fishing & Boating A new forum at Striped-Bass.com for those fishing from boats and for boating in general |
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02-08-2023, 07:17 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,391
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Flo Scan?
Is it worth adding? Anyone know which one I should be looking at?
Project boat is 1993 Grady Escape 209 with 1992 200hp Yamaha 2 stroke carbed six cylinder. Garmin Echomap 94 SV UHD 2020
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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02-08-2023, 08:41 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Marshfield, MA
Posts: 1,733
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So after 30 years you don’t know the the cruise sweet spot for fuel economy??
Save ya money. Buy another fishing rod and reel.
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02-08-2023, 08:52 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
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I totally get your point, but I was thinking more along the lines of another way to see how much fuel is left.... A fuel sender in a boat's fuel tank, even with multiple baffles, is hardly accurate underway. Backing up information, the same way electronics are a back up to DR. You get that, right? It will all come down to the $$$. It might well be the easy decision. Just want to make it an educated decision.
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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02-09-2023, 07:14 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Marshfield, MA
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I get it. Gadgets are cool. Don’t allot of newer not that new either Yamahas have that built into the fancy gauge computed from the engine ??? Maybe you can upgrade to that but that may be more $$. I only had 1 experience with floscan on a buddies boat. It stopped working a few years after he got the boat.
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02-09-2023, 05:37 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Cape Cod
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When it starts to look low… fill it…..
How’s it coming by the way? Tank sounds like it’s in….
Good luck Ross
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02-09-2023, 07:21 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
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It looks like we are going to put her back together with her original console and no fuel scanning. i may add some LED under gunnel lighting and a new dash with new switches. Even my very experienced, boat builder/glass guru said it wasn't worth doing a major modification to the console... I may put a door in the front of the console for better access, but that may not happen this year. The three of us working on it have had about a month away from it. Well.... I have been doing some research and coming up with dead ends. It has been a solid boat so as long as she gets put back together with everything working, I shall be totally satisfied. The tank had to be replaced. The rest of the list is of the "while we are here..." nature.
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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02-09-2023, 07:27 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
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Quote:
Originally Posted by beamie
So after 30 years you don’t know the the cruise sweet spot for fuel economy??
Save ya money. Buy another fishing rod and reel.
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Honestly, as long as it purrs at minimum throttle/idle, that is where I spend most of my hours trolling for bait or fishing live bait in close to the bricks. I rarely ever go WOT. |
“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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02-10-2023, 08:33 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Marshfield, MA
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You never get back what you put into a boat. If I put a newer 20k engine in my 10k boat I can’t sell it for 30k. Unfortunately.
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02-11-2023, 08:36 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Somerset MA
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I have a few extra led strips and courtesy lights. you want to test them see if you even like them.. a lot of people like blue but their to bright for me . Just pm me and I’ll send them out
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device also have to round white round led courtesy lights your welcome to those also
Last edited by wdmso; 02-11-2023 at 12:32 PM..
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02-11-2023, 10:39 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,530
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nightfighter
I totally get your point, but I was thinking more along the lines of another way to see how much fuel is left.... A fuel sender in a boat's fuel tank, even with multiple baffles, is hardly accurate underway. Backing up information, the same way electronics are a back up to DR. You get that, right? It will all come down to the $$$. It might well be the easy decision. Just want to make it an educated decision.
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Ross, not on a Sea Hunt. My Sea Hunt gauge was dead on. If I was down to half a tank it would take 30 gallons. It was a 60 gallon tank. I owned that boat 7 years and it was always dead on. |
No boat, back in the suds.  
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02-11-2023, 06:20 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
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Very nice offer, Wayne! Love to see if they might fit the bill here!
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