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Special Notice & Offer: We've done our very best to keep the price of the Marinuat 215 where it is. It only increased recently due to adding the Mascoat Delta-DTM thermal coating in the cabin and v-berth as standard equipment (and wow! does it work). However, costs keep creeping up on us with...

About $10,000 for the new Honda 90 (on a good deal). About $3,200 for the BF9.9 Power Tilt (on a good deal). Just about 45% of the asking price and both engines ought to easily last 20+ years. Makes me want to buy it so it's not out there competing with my new boats! :wink: Beautiful boat...

Y'all know I've espoused on this in the past (sometimes at great length!)! :mrgreen: The problem I have with compasses on small boats is that they're not usually swung and they're often not very far from things that affect their accuracy. From a boat provider's standpoint I'd rather deliver...

JD, That's correct! :thup Les

Hi JD, You have a 24' run for your battery cable (it's a round trip). In order to handle 35 amps (that's the typical main breaker) you should use #6 if you want to keep the circuit down to about a 3% voltage drop. You can go as small as #12 from a pure ampacity standpoint but you'll have up...

Jim, You have a Honda BF135, no? You don't even need a primer bulb; it's just sort of a vestige of a lost era at this point. Unless you're draining the fuel/vapor separator box there's always so much fuel in there that the engine will always start. Also the BF135 has a mechanical fuel pump...

Hi Ron, Actually, at least with the Marinaut, the cost of the hull shell (9 pieces) is about 1/3 of the total cost of the finished hull; not the finished boat but just the boat itself as delivered at the same level as a new C-Dory or Arima would be. All the materials together (interior...

Hi, It is the Explorer model and as Rich said we can't really go any larger. There's enough room on the base but the front window protrudes into the window opening and makes anything larger a non-starter. Les

I, for one, do worry that boating seems to be returning to the days of yachting when it was a rich man's activity. I've done the math every way I can think of and looked at many alternatives and no matter how I try to work the numbers new boats are just expensive. And that bothers me. I know...

Thanks Jim :)

Hi Stefan, I'm with Matt on this one. The easiest way if you want two stations is with dual lever single function controllers (one lever for shift the other for throttle). However you may have a side mount controller in there now (standard Yamaha item) and that would have to come out and room...

:lol: Well said Charlie...now let me quit laughing! :mrgreen:

Tom, Part of the problem with using John's as an example is that he sells a product that has limited sales appeal to specific people and buys his products from companies that are themselves relatively small. I think it's great and I'm happy to hear someone is doing well these days. However...

Amen!

Hi Tug, Yes...and no. :) Actually it's the other way round. The long exterior cabin top hand rails have (four) 5/16" studs on them that protrude down through the cabin top. The interior hand rails have tabs with slots that fit over the two center studs and are then secured with lock washers...

Hi Bob, Thanks for the info on the Jabsco pumps. The one I used is a small 1 gpm model that threads directly into the water tank and has a 3/8" output. This model pump has been used for many many years on all Arima boats with water tanks and we've rarely had to change them (maybe two or three...

Hi Bob, As Rich says it was the Matrix GX2150. It interfaces to the C90W via standard NMEA 0183. One of the available ports on the C90W is set (via a menu option) to 38,400 buad rate to accommodate AIS. Really it's just the same as connecting any other NMEA piece of equipment and is very...

Hi Greg, Good question, it's not actually really apparent by looking at the drawings without a bit of explanation. The v-berth on the M215 is about 6' 4" wide just forward of the helm bulkhead. It's almost 6' long if you're measuring along the top of the berth cushion (without the berth...

That's the information I was referring to! Thanks for finding and posting that. Hank told me it worked out very well for him and I was quite concerned with it since we had mounted the batteries below the deck. Les

Jim, Did you ever see Hank Brooks' solution for the aft cockpit hatches (he had Sea Skipper)? If not the photo album may still be here. If that's not the case I can try and recreate the fix. Les