My local marina / boat mechanics do not seem to want to take on the job of a 350 chevy / OMC cobra shift cable. Any ideas? I honestly read the manual and cannot comprehend how to do the adjustment.
Great idea. It's really nuts, I have a 2008 Volvo SX drive, two years ago going on three (coming out of Covid) the lower unit gear case went on it. I decided to go for a OEM factory new lower gearcase.OMC should be identical to Volvo-Penta. Look for a Volvo-Penta service center.
I was only around 2 hours from there. Lake Murray in South Carolina. Incredible H-U-G-E lake that most do not know about, then again like everything the population there is exploding. Many good times over the last 15 years, will miss it. But loving the return to the coast in this case coast of NC.Lake Norman Marina sold a lot of boats OMC and Volvo-Penta equipped. I bought a Four Winns from them with the OMC 5.8 before it was bought by V-P.
OMG, small world!. Well we did the opposite 16 years ago having moved from Long Island NY to SC, now onto the coast again but in NC.I’ve done the opposite… Moved my boat from Little River SC to an inland lake here in NC. Kerr/Buggs Island lake on the NC - Virginia border. It’s nice not having the salt issues but then I miss some of the coastal fishing and beautiful scenery. Leaving the Little River inlet when the tide and wind was “right” did create some interesting boating. Have fun out there.
There's a few places in the Buffalo NY area that you could probably schedule something with. I hear you though. It seems like no one wants to work on boats or RVs these days, which seems crazy given the amount of boats and RVs that have been purchased in the past 4yrs or so. There's money to be made.My local marina / boat mechanics do not seem to want to take on the job of a 350 chevy / OMC cobra shift cable. Any ideas? I honestly read the manual and cannot comprehend how to do the adjustment.
Nothing corny about wanting your dog with you. This may sound like I’m crazy but I like my dog better than most people. You are ensuring your best friend gets to experience something beautiful. It’s special when you can get close to a pod of dolphins or porpoises.@PontiacHO
Absolutely, the early windless mornings on the ocean are awesome.
This was our last run on the boat for the year in our new home area. This may sound corny, but I wanted to get my dog to experience the ocean for the first and most likely one time in his life as he may not be on this earth next year when the weather is warm enough to go boating again. he absolutely loves going on the boat but we were informed a couple months ago. His heart valves are starting to fail, and the doctor had to guess he probably has now less than a year to live.
With that said, yes, I do enjoy the calm mornings immensely.
There are many creatures out there, and any stir of the water can turn into something interesting.
To me, it’s a blast fishing when the water at times is almost as flat as a mirror.
Fishing off Long Island for decades, we would be heading out as the sun was coming up and preparing to start going back in somewhere around noon or 1 o’clock as the Seabreeze would start picking up.
It would be typical to be 20 miles offshore in boats as small as 18 feet when we were young and as we got older up to 28 feet.
No GPS, rarely would see land out there and most times morning fog would kill visiblity we used compasses and would be anywhere from 20 miles off the coast of Jones Beach in Wantagh NY (jones inlet was our waterway back to the marina), to New York Harbor or the Jersey Highlands.
(I loved the time that I grew up in my early adult years on the water there)
Cool, that is what I am hoping for with my wife next year I want to see the porpoises.Nothing corny about wanting your dog with you. This may sound like I’m crazy but I like my dog better than most people. You are ensuring your best friend gets to experience something beautiful. It’s special when you can get close to a pod of dolphins or porpoises.