Trojan Boat Forum

Garmin (chart plotert/FF) is absolutely the easiest to use. Someone who has never been on a boat before could very quickly navigate home in an emergency!! Lowrence is great but you still need the manual until your used to it. Furano is the only radar I've used since it was so easy to tune it to find...

I use Weaver mounts and a St. Croix crane. You'll notice in the crane pic a block of wood on the rail next to the crane for the engine. My 4'11" wife can hoist the engine up, attach it to the block, then hoist the dingy to the upright position in under 5 mins by herself. The crane is light weig...

I have a similar problem with CO while trolling for rock in the winter.... can't have my front window open because of the salt spray but have the rear isinglass panel open to quickly get to the rods. If the salon door is even slightly open my CO detectors will go off down below because of the statio...

Love to hear it Aaron !! You're exactly right!
And as a side note.....we might be across from you in Pasadena very soon

Ron

I spoke with the (master) electrician today and gave him suggestions. He slipped and admitted that they know some of the elec boxes were bad and have plans to replace some of them in '13 or '14 :roll: :roll: We also found that one of the 4 major power lines running under the dock gangway does touch ...

WTH happened to all the posts???

Ron

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This is a floating pier with 50 slips and the problem is spread out along the entire pier randomly on both sides

Ron

Big +++ on the NO-NO from Jamie!!!! Example : My bud across from me a few weeks ago had his boat working for the weekend, went out to dinner. While he was gone the dock power shut down for a few minutes...don't know if his AC was running at that time. That night he noticed the AC was not running. Th...

In some cases it's the ground, others not

Ron

Has anybody noticed this at their marinas? At least 7 boats, in different positions and including mine, have experienced at least one of their female plug holes being burned-blackened. And one male prong pitted. This has happened over the past year. A few of the cords are fairly new and YES..... we ...

Has anybody noticed this at their marinas? At least 7 boats, in different positions and including mine, have experienced at least one of their female plug holes being burned-blackened. And one male prong pitted. This has happened over the past year. A few of the cords are fairly new and YES..... we ...

Mine comes out right below the Bow Pulpit..... can probably see it in the rope locker

Ron

You sure the old ones are done??

Ron

I'll look through the mountain of paperwork and email you what I can. Somewhere I saw a spec sheet. The fuel and water tanks are stamped
I don't think the stove was available in '87

Ron

Looking good so far. My '87 : Twin 270 Crusaders Dry wt. is 19k and change Water - 100 gal Fuel - 300 gal, single tank under aft bed Aft bed is true queen @ 60" wide Fwd of aft bed is huge closet, there was an option to put a washer/dryer there Lets not forget the Bar/Entertainmert option (whic...