When it rains it pours (Transom Assembly leak)

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  • Handymans342Handymans342 Member Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Member Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like and island i could call home
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  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 9,004 ✭✭✭✭✭
    So how do you go from the plane to the island, did you crash?  
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  • randy56randy56 Member Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭✭✭
    sweet, spot, 
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  • J3ffJ3ff Member Posts: 4,244 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2020
    rasbury said:
    So how do you go from the plane to the island, did you crash?  
    Uber of course!

    Took a quick flight to the West Coast of FL early this morning to visit a friend and do some boating! Saw a couple pods of dolphin right up close! Couldn't believe it!!

    Stopped by this place (no, not on that boat)...never have seen a McD's with a dock!


    Then swung by this island (not sure the name)... looked like a post card, had to snap a photo. 



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  • J3ffJ3ff Member Posts: 4,244 ✭✭✭✭✭
    rasbury said:
    Hey, FL ain't to bad, your on keys time...might as well be in the Bahamas...on the plus side, just motored to a little marina, taking a little cruise up to another marina to spend the night...
    Cool - it's pretty chilly up where I am right now, I think you're North of here, perfect time to sleep on the boat!
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  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 9,004 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm a little north of Orlando...little chilly...must be about 65 right now...brrr
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  • IanIan Member Posts: 3,075 ✭✭✭✭✭
    shawnmjr said:
    If I had a boat like that I would have to eat McDonald’s too. 
    I’d have to be homeless and have it given to me out of pity to eat McDonalds....

    Regards,

    Ian

    The Third “B”

    Ravena Coeymans Yacht Club

    https://www.rcyachtclub.com/

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  • MarkBMarkB Member Posts: 4,009 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Is that near Clearwater? There's a McD's with a doc just north of John's Pass in Madiera Beach I think.

    Boat Name: King Kong

    "Boat + Water = Fun"

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  • StodgeStodge Member Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭✭
    MarkB said:
    Is that near Clearwater? There's a McD's with a doc just north of John's Pass in Madiera Beach I think.
    Love John's Pass and the Friendly Fisherman.  Also love Dockside Daves, just up Gulf Blvd from John's Pass.

    2002 FV 342 on Lake St. Clair - Past Commodore SHC - Vessel Examiner USCGAUX

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  • J3ffJ3ff Member Posts: 4,244 ✭✭✭✭✭
    MarkB said:
    Is that near Clearwater? There's a McD's with a doc just north of John's Pass in Madiera Beach I think.
    Yup, that's the place. Did 88 miles on a 14 ft boat.. was a good time, glad to be back home though, was cold up there!!
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  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 9,004 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Your boat done yet @J3ff? Hey, I have a really dumb question for you on your cabin leak...happened to me this past weekend and I'm sure you know about it but....so underneath the helm there is a drain so when the area around the door/step area starts to fill will water it has a place to go...very small drain and takes nothing to block it...I had a couple of oak tree leafs there and flooded the cabin, this is something you have checked right?? 
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  • J3ffJ3ff Member Posts: 4,244 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yup, that wasn't it. I have a 5 or so screws that were very suspect. The biggest suspect was the one on the left side of the windshield closest to the center window that swings open. 

    The others were on the side rail, 3 to 4 of them just spun in place when I tried to back them out.

    Since resealing all of them on the port side the carpet has been completely dry and we have had some MASSIVE rain storms. 

    It pains me to think about it, but I have wondered if the STBD side is doing the same thing and that I just haven't found it yet. 
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  • Handymans342Handymans342 Member Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Guess boat is not fixed Ras
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 10,019 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think I remember @J3ff saying the tech was going away for 15 days.
    2008 330EC
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  • J3ffJ3ff Member Posts: 4,244 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ya, he's gone for another week or so. Going to make the best of it and super clean (and maybe paint) the "engine room", change out the water heater and swap the rusty trim bracket for SS one. Will have to see what the weather is going to be. All of that could end up not happening if it's a great jetski weather weekend.. ;) really embracing this Key's lifestyle (ie. "it can be done tomorrow, have fun today")  :D
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  • J3ffJ3ff Member Posts: 4,244 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wave forecast is 5 to 7 feet this weekend. 50% chance of rain, looks like last weekend was all about having fun, this weekend is work work work (on the boat).
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Member Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2020
    The best bumper sticker i have see was in the keys, it read "my life is better than your vacation"

    If i ever win the lotto a property on big pine or little torch will be first on my list.  


    I want rural enough where i can rebuild cabs on old motors and replace a few impellers in the yard when im not just a jerk hanging onto a pole waiting on a jerk from the other end.


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  • J3ffJ3ff Member Posts: 4,244 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ha ha, that's great. Yeah it has def. been weird adjusting to a life of "gotta go on the boat every weekend" (because it's only in the water for 6/7 months out of the year) to "meh, maybe next weekend"

    currently it's 62 and super windy outside. Up north when Fall hit we used to get what I thought was crazy wind... down here we get crazier wind on random days like today.. 
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Member Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I thought everything in the keys closed at 4 so no one missed happy hour
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  • J3ffJ3ff Member Posts: 4,244 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well the DMV in the keys closes at 4 and is only open Monday - Friday. had to take a 1/2 day from work just to get a license! 
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  • WillhoundWillhound Member Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭✭✭
    PickleRick said:
    I thought everything in the keys closed at 4 so no one missed happy hour
    In that case wouldn't it be 10 AM?
    "Knot Quite Shore" - 2000 FV270 (Sold)
    2018 Cherokee 39RL Land Yacht (Sorry...)
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  • J3ffJ3ff Member Posts: 4,244 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2020
    aero3113 said:
    Yes, go stainless. See this link, decent price but shop around.

    https://www.defender.com/product.jsp?path=-1%7C51%7C2234308%7C2234311&id=2092214


    Appears to be too good of a price for stainless steel.. thinking about ordering it just to find out. 
    https://www.amazon.com/Kuuma-11811-Gallon-120V-Front/dp/B07GD38SCB/ref=pd_di_sccai_5/147-4088422-2262430?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07GD38SCB&pd_rd_r=0fb74d0f-859a-4c9d-9678-48854f919b00&pd_rd_w=5h6jC&pd_rd_wg=Ndoet&pf_rd_p=e532f109-986a-4c2d-85fc-16555146f6b4&pf_rd_r=4R3GRKNDKG3XT9ZQYPD8&psc=1&refRID=4R3GRKNDKG3XT9ZQYPD8

    Ps. this weekend looks like another non-boating weekend here in the keys. Will spend it doing some work on the boat that I said I'd do last weekend, but never did  :D
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  • J3ffJ3ff Member Posts: 4,244 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Found it here for under 300.. def not SS https://www.discountmarinesupplies.com/Water_Heaters-Kuuma_120V_Electric_Water_Heaters.html 
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 10,019 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You should do it quick, says they only have one left.
    2008 330EC
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  • reneechris14reneechris14 Member Posts: 3,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    https://www.defender.com/product.jsp?id=1110826
    289.00 at defender same one I posted before.
    Good luck with everything coming together 
    2005 Rinker FV342  Pawcatuck river,Ct
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  • rinker270nbrinker270nb Member Posts: 207 ✭✭✭
    Do you use your hot water heater that much?  The ambient temp in the keys and comfortable water temp is not that far apart.  Just asking to see how it's utilized in the south.  
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Member Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Someoene from north of Florida wouldnt use a hot water heater in the keys outside a few weeks of cool weather in the winter.  

    The southern Florida indigenous folks consider anyting below 82 degrees cold and need a heated pool 6 plus months of the year.


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  • rinker270nbrinker270nb Member Posts: 207 ✭✭✭
    I'm in lake michigan, we swim in 73 degree water and rinse with 80-90 degree ambient water.  It works for us northerners...
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Member Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Im 16 hrs from the keys, i dont swim until water hits 80!

    We are spoiled with water temps in the 80 to mid 80s from June until October every summer.

    Over night temps from June until October are also usually 70 plus.
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