PS Technical Editor Drew Frye dives into bottom
scrubbing project with a home-made scraper.
Say the prop suddenly begins vibrating. First you checked the shaft coupling; they’ve been known to work loose, allowing the shaft to come clean out and leaving a good sized hole in the boat. The shaft appears straight and you didn’t feel an impact. Remote inspection reveals a rope around the prop, and you know […]
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The advantage of a home-built boot dryer is that you can make it fit any number of boots and gloves, and add extensions for drying foul weather gear, options that are not available on the retail market
