On my trip from Fort Myers to Jacksonville last year, I ran into issues with the engine overheating. The shop in Fort Myers that fixed the transmission also did a temporary fix on the heat exchanger where the cap fits onto the top of the heat exchanger. The cap connection had been welded before me buying the boat, so having a second weld was far from optimum. ...
What a stressful couple of weeks. Both the boat and I pulled through Hurricane Irma without issue, but I used up a whole bottle of Tums. Since I’ve become a boat owner in Florida, I get the NOAA hurricane reports sent to my Facebook feed. I watched Irma, with concern, as it moved from the open Atlantic towards the Caribbean. Unfortunately for me, my hands were...