Well after 13 years of very happy times in my X I have decided to hang up the gloves as it were. I have just sold Entropy and she has gone to a happy new owner. I will miss sailing her very much but my arthritis is nagging me and it's just too much hard work and hurt these days. Thank you all for yo...

You don't have a shower problem you have a bimini problem. Lengthen the bows on your bimini so you can get your seat open with it up, it is definitely possible, see photo. Once you can do this then you have many options, I simply use a 12V camp shower in a 20 litre drum of warm water and sit on the ...

March 2013 and no sign of slowing up........yet.........ouch........my back........and everything else...............still not selling.........

This stops swinging and rolling, it doesn't help with anchor storage though.

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Have a look at my post from December, they worked perfectly by the way.
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Hi Sunshinecoasting! If you don’t already know A Nissan 50 hp outboard motor service manual can be found on Amazon or eBay. Tohatsu also offers owner's manuals for their models, which are also Nissan branded in the US and Canada, as they are a rebadged Tohatsu product. so one nameplate manual can h...

Is it important to totally remove the assembly to paint? Can you tilt it out and clean/paint it? Here's a guy who is replacing the motor on the tilt unit without totally removing it. Are you sure there is no weight on that pin? Maybe apply some heat? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-LL_vWae9I Hi R...

Has anyone ever tried to remove the bottom pivot pin from a Nissan/Tohatsu 50HP tilt before? I need to remove my lift motor to remove rust and repaint but have to get this pin (marked in red) out to reach it. I have the nuts undone, used gallons of CRC and tried moving it with a 7 pound mash hammer ...

Four stroke.....probably shouldn't
Two stroke?........YESSSSSSssssssssss go for it.

Dang, I didnt know I had winches on my X, I thought they were bollards.

Actually, this post has got me wondering....... Do you not have to HAVE an EPIRB in USA waters? By law in Australia all vessels greater than 7.5 meters MUST carry a registered and in date EPIRB when travelling more than 2nm from land, so everyone here has one. https://www.amsa.gov.au/safety-navigati...

Timer on an EPIRB? Sounds expensive if you forget you set it. Do you have any idea what the cost of recovery is if an EPIRB is activated? Especially a false activation. Besides, if you are three days from your EPIRB how would they know where to look? If you were two minutes from your EPIRB but too s...

Thanks Overeasy, that may very well be it, I'm not sure how they would smell it as Lake Eyre is in the middle of a desert 400 klm's from the nearest sea water but maybe they do? I recently studied microbiology at uni and learned a lot about microbial odour, I even discovered that the smell of the ea...

The darker green patch just right of centre is known as the Lake ayre basin, much of it is 15 meters below sea level so that would flood I presume, the rest is above sea level. It is normally a dry salt pan but does flood occasionally. 2 days after it floods it has pelicans sitting on it by the thou...

Thanks anyway Kevin, I have been given the answer to my question and no longer need to be concerned about IP.

Cheers.