Thanks for the memories. We used to go to all the beaches between Sydney and the Hawksbury. We used to camp and fish and catch yabbies on the upper reaches of the Hawksbury and watched the Opera house be built when we lived there.
What a great site, good, accurate descriptions and clear, concise direction. Although I did have to turn the boat upside down to work on it since I live in Ontario, Canada! Thank you for helping me get the boat back in the water.
What an adventure Stu didn't realise the green machine would go that far, have done a similar trip with the inlaws but in a much larger boat. Sydney harbour and out through the heads is rough all the time. Look forward to your next adventure well done!
Now that's a good use of boat... just going for a run because. Its funny to see a boat same as my son got a few weeks ago ( only he has a windshield and less "modifications")
Looks like a great day on the water Stu! It's been raining here non stop in NJ USA. My boat has been just sitting in the slip. I hope my bilge pump and batteries can keep up with all the rain!
Any fuel or small piers at Sidney Harbor? It's sad how there are no facilities for small boats at Chicago's big Navy Pier. Really enjoyed your tour and Eddie.
Amazing trip in a small boat. The fuel economy was very good, try doing that trip with an old two stroke. Good video keep up the good work. Regards Dale
Always nice to have a poke around. We had planned to go to Darling Harbour for lunch but ran out of time unfortunately. Should have left earlier in the day.
I like it!! We were supposed to visit Australia on our US Navy cruise returning from Japan but I got out before that trip. They got a lot of nice girls down there!
Well..it is a Dehavilland "offshore" after all. Fantastic effort mate.... great fuel consumption as expected . Can't say I have ever seen it that flat outside. Love your research :)
Hey Mark, it certainly was a very calm day out there. The Green Machine is actually due for another antifoul so it would have actually used even less fuel if it was clean.
Great job in a small boat. Could not have considered it without the first mate along. Was it 110k round trip? Was also wondering how long each way it took in the Green Machine.
Thanks for documenting! How many kilometers was it to get down there? I take my open bow 18 footer to Catalina off the coast of southern California and it is about 26 miles (42 K). Only in the am when it’s calm.
Nice video mate. Very interesting for us South Africans as we have a lot of requirements to be able to go to sea. A different skippers license, wet deck boat, twin engines if you going more than 1nm offshore, loads of safety gear, etc etc. Looks a bit easier there. Oh we also not allowed to drink and boat :(
Interesting to hear. We need extra safety equipment to go offshore (for example you don't need the flares in enclosed waters) but the license is the same (unless you are a commercial operator) Our drink driving limits are the same as on the road so 0.05 for the skipper.
There are recommendations to have buoyancy chambers but it is the choice of the consumer. it is very different as a commercial vessel though, that requires consideration of design and what-not. As a side note in West Australia our drink/drug boating limit is based on whether or not your boat ran into something
Mate..recreational boating all is needed is mandatory safety gear for offshore...flares, lifejackets, water, x amount of anchor rode, also boat size = any, and having a license is not needed offshore (been awhile)?.....Commercial different ball game.... Used to fish out of a 'offshore' back in the 80's...Port Hacking.
Hi Stu, really nice down there. A day on the water is a day of bliss. 25 liters to get there is 6.6 us gals. How many miles in US round trip?Got a tech question for you. Will put on you FB page which seems the appropriate forum.
Did you have to sign on to marine rescue? I’ve wanted to go from lion island to Sydney harbour in my boat but don’t have a marine radio Anyway loved the vid
Nice I’ve been missing the sea sadly my ships out of commission for now sucked a bolt off the front of the starter into the air intake washer came off the bolt and went in the engine I immediately shut the engine off so there’s not much damage.The engines a 1978 evinrude 55 best motor in terms of reliability I’ve had any way I cleaned it up and put a new gasket on torqued it up everything was good the head is strait some minor washer indents in the piston and head but when I go to start it it fires right up and runs but it’s popping like a lean pop won’t go once you put the warm up lever under half and when I spin the fly wheel feels like the damaged pistons got no compression in it haven’t done a compression check as of yet
Wow, that's a very unlucky thing to have happen but you did well to shut it down fast. As well as the compression check I would make sure the reed valves didn't get damaged.
Dangar Marine reeds are in good shape 160 to 170 psi on top cylinder keeps about 60 psi on the bottom damaged cylinder looks like I’m going to have to change the bottom cylinder. I got my bigger boat things hard on the wallet though lol (Edit) got the head off looks like the washer indent has split open on the cylinder
This video shows how I tie it to a pontoon and to the public wharf. I'm in the middle of a new video on running lines which are very common around here too ruclips.net/video/nzuhiepU-bk/видео.html
"...offshore safety equipment...we didn't really take any..." Poodles are widely known as "water dogs" - with a poodle onboard (and adequate beer), there's no need for stupid safety equipment.
That’s alright been watching your channel for a while when I can. I’m on HMAS Adelaide at the moment so that’s how I knew. I’ve just introduced my little brother to your build channel. Coming along nicely.
Hi Stu,just thought I'd ask ,I'll bet its alive with bull shark in the river at Dangar and Sydney and lots of other species of sharks.PS.really enjoying running thru all your Vids ,although I'm a retired engineer,I never fail to learn something.As the saying goes' a man that knows it all ,knows F/all !!!regards from an old pommy b.
There definitely are a few bull sharks around, and people have been bitten by them in the harbour. Although they are around the island I've never heard of anyone getting bitten here which is good. :)
Hey Stu, Currently looking at a small runabout similar to the Green Machine. I was just wondering what type of boat I should be looking at, such as length, HP rating, etc. cheers champ
just wondering, but when heading out to sea, should we cut waves head on at 90 degree or should we go at them at an angle like 45 degree? i am so confused since i have been told both ways...
I prefer 45 as it gives you a gentler angle over the waves and prevents you burying the bow into the wave and having water coming over the front deck. The reason people say straight on is so the boat doesn't get rolled over by a breaking way so maybe aim for something slightly closer to the 90, maybe 75.
Hiya mate, just a quicky, I've got a Tohatsu 9.8 2 stroke which I recently did some work on to sort out a over revving problem, whilst I got that running nicely I think it needs fine tuning and to be honest, I'm not sure how to do it. Can you do a vid about tuning single carb 2 strokes please or, if you have time, give a 'how to' to help sort out this problem. When I rebuilt the carb I set the adjustment screw to 2 complete turns from full in, it does run ok, but it ticks over erratically. Cheers, George, UK.
two strokes do miss fire at idle revs, but that initial setting will be on the rich side. So wind the screw in until the engine splutters, then wind the screw out until it does the same spluttering thing, counting the turns between the two. then wind the screw in about half the turns you counted. That should be very close. You can get better by fiddling but as the air pressure changes that 'perfect' tune will go away a bit. That is just the nature of carburettors. Give me fuel injection any day because they constantly adjust themselves as the air pressure changes.
Ron is on the money with the procedure. You may also be able to adjust the idle timing with that outboard, but there isn't much more you can do with the carburettor itself, they are pretty simple.
I await Stu's answer to this, but I would say that it depends on how often the outboard gets used. If you use it infrequently, with no known recall-to-service date, then running it out of fuel each time you are finished with it isn't bad practice. If you'll be using it for certain in a week's time, it just means that you have to run the thing until it's dry, and then re-prime it next week, so if the extra time spent doing those tasks isn't too demanding, it's time well spent. Certainly, for long periods (a month or more), doing this is good practice, in my opinion at least. If it were used on a daily basis, I'd say it would be just extra work going through the exercise of running it dry and then priming it again next day, but I don't see how it could hurt anything. In North America, our regular grade gasoline is 10% ethanol, which, when left unused in a tank over a long period of time, can have very undesired results. It tends to be very hard on surfaces where it remains in contact for long periods, and as it dries (especially if it's mixed with 2-stroke oil), it leaves one heckuvva mess behind that tends to be like a gluey residue that inhibits free movement of floats and moving parts. Ethanol in fuel does have one advantage, that being that you won't need to use gas line anti freeze when the temperature plummets to below -25, but of course nobody will be running an outboard at those temperatures.
Stan Patterson Thanks, I usually run it several times a month. I run 93 octane non ethanol always. But I have been told even with that it was good to run dry. But I haven't had a running issue with it just leaving fuel hooked up. I keep up my own maintenance on it. So I'm always looking for better ways to do it.
Just to add to what's already been said: With 2 stroke outboards you also need to keep in mind that it's the fuel/oil mixture that lubricates the engine. So running it dry means starving the engine of lubrication for the next startup. That said, I used to run my 30 year old 2 stroke Evinrude 90 out of fuel all the time because that's what I had been taught, and had no issues at all. Now I've switched to what Stan has suggested: During the season, when I know I'll be using the boat again within a week or two, I just shut it off and leave the fuel sitting in there. It means that I don't have to prime the carbs and filter next time, which can be a hassle especially with an aftermarket add-on water separating fuel filter. When the engine will be sitting for a longer period of time, I run it out of fuel and use some fogging oil.
I certainly wouldn't run it dry if I was in the middle of the boating season, that's for sure. I would consider that more of a winterisation thing. There are two main issues with leaving the fuel: having it evaporate and leave a residue, and having the fuel go stale (but that will happen to the tank in the fuel too, something Stabil will help with)
I'm so jealous. I haven't been able to get out in my boat for over 2 months. I have had plenty of time and we have had some good weather but we're having the worst red tide bloom in a decade. Lots of death including 300 lb goliath grouper, dolphins, manatee, and a 21 foot whale shark. As of now 270 tons of dead fish have been cleaned off of our local beaches. If you even get close to the water your lungs and sinuses will let you know. I can't wait for some cooler weather to clear it up so we can get out on the water.
Hi, I have recently got myself a 420 renegade, with a 40 hp tiller steer, do you think I could do that trip, from brisbane waters to syd and back, how safe is it for a beginer?
It really call comes down to weather and good navigation. On this day we had a forecast of winds gusting up to 1 kt so we knew it was going to be very calm. You do need to be careful of heading out wide enough to avoid Long Reef and the swell you get closer to the shore. I would make sure you have a bit of experience with how the boat handles in waves before making the trip though.
Thanks for the reply, and I think you are right, I need to get more experience with handling the boat in the water, I have only been out for 3 times, twice at brisbane waters and once at summerland point. Thanks again and keep up the good work.
I recently did a trip with my boat- 14.5 ft. Starcraft, 2017 Honda 40 EFI. I did 80 kilometers on 20L of fuel. that included a mix of driving speeds. Top speed is aprox. 52 kph.
Totally off topic - I'm about to dive in on a carb rebuild on my Evinrude 130. I'd like to order parts thru MarineEngine.com but I don't see where I can give you the credit. Ideas?
Hey Scott. I think there might be a comments or special instructions section somewhere in the order where you can mention that their sponsorship of the channel made you choose them. If not I think some people just drop them a line by emailing them. THanks for your support! :)
Because I'm such a lefty turd I wanted so bad to make some comment about animal cruelty - forcing poor little Eddie to do things so foreign and scary for a dog......but I'm finding it really hard to find something to whinge about because the little bludger just seems to be having such a good time!!! You can almost see the smile on his face.
Eddie loves being in the boat, he's always the first one to jump in. If you leave him behind he stares from the pontoon with a look that says, "But I thought we were friends?" :)
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Eddie makes me smile.
Me too. :)
Thanks for the memories. We used to go to all the beaches between Sydney and the Hawksbury. We used to camp and fish and catch yabbies on the upper reaches of the Hawksbury and watched the Opera house be built when we lived there.
Excellent vid Stu. One great day on the water makes up for three crappy ones on shore.
Thanks Paul, you're dead right about that!
What a great site, good, accurate descriptions and clear, concise direction. Although I did have to turn the boat upside down to work on it since I live in Ontario, Canada! Thank you for helping me get the boat back in the water.
What a great 'run'. Cool to see Sydney Harbour in such good company.
Never thought I’d see the Green Machine against the backdrop of Sydney harbor. Haha! Loved it!
Out of its natural environment, that's for sure! ;)
Stu, fabtastic video, great trip to Sydney, niece to be out of the workshop for a change, keep em coming Stu. Thanks.
Thanks mate, it is nice to get out of the workshop from time to time. :)
Thanks for sharing Stu. Beautiful views and camera work!!!
Thanks mate, glad you liked it. :)
love these type of vids every now and then being from the states your part of the world is super interesting to me
Thanks mate, glad you liked it. :)
Very nice country you live in Stu. Looked like a fun getaway. God Bless !!.
Thanks mate, it was nice to get out and about. Got to take the chances when you can because they never seem as frequent as you'd like.
What an adventure Stu didn't realise the green machine would go that far, have done a similar trip with the inlaws but in a much larger boat. Sydney harbour and out through the heads is rough all the time. Look forward to your next adventure well done!
Yes, just around the heads is rough from the reflected waves but once you get a bit further out things settle down a bit.
Enjoyed the video. Y'all had good weather. Thanks for the video.
Thanks Mark. It certainly was a nice day to be out there for the middle of winter.
Great to see Eddie again! :-) 🐶
Great! I enjoyed seeing Sydney harbor. Better than the tourist vids and more like what I do in my boat.
Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it. :)
Nice to see Eddie again.
He loves to be seen. :)
Love it...Road trip with Coopers !!
Now that's a good use of boat... just going for a run because.
Its funny to see a boat same as my son got a few weeks ago ( only he has a windshield and less "modifications")
This is actually the second Dehavilland Offshore I've owned. The first had a windscreen and was much more standard. They are great hulls.
I really like your mechanical videos but it is also great to see your enjoying your boat
Thanks mate!
Thanks for taking us along Stu. Leaving us in the harbour was a little tough, had to watch google maps to get back :)
I love exploring places on Google Earth. Cheapest holiday you can ever have! :)
Very true.
Looks like a great day on the water Stu! It's been raining here non stop in NJ USA. My boat has been just sitting in the slip. I hope my bilge pump and batteries can keep up with all the rain!
Bummer about the rain Jack, fingers crossed it will clear up soon!
The green machine off-shore ! Great stuff and thanks for Beautiful views!
I like to stretch its legs every now and then. ;)
Any fuel or small piers at Sidney Harbor? It's sad how there are no facilities for small boats at Chicago's big Navy Pier. Really enjoyed your tour and Eddie.
Yes, there are a few places you can tie up and buy fuel.
Another classic example of the "fun first code of practice" it's a thumbs up from me
So cool how you can boat to such an amazing place! Life goal trip
Thanks Kyle!
Got to love a Pittwater to Sydney trip. Cool vid Stu
Thanks Ray!
Beeautiful, just beautifull!
Amazing trip in a small boat. The fuel economy was very good, try doing that trip with an old two stroke. Good video keep up the good work. Regards Dale
Thanks Dale, it would have been even better fuel wise if the hull wasn't starting to grow barnacles on it. Time for another antifoul!
Love going in the harbour myself Stu just to look around to.
Always nice to have a poke around. We had planned to go to Darling Harbour for lunch but ran out of time unfortunately. Should have left earlier in the day.
my elderly farther loves these videos he grew up in the area
I like it!! We were supposed to visit Australia on our US Navy cruise returning from Japan but I got out before that trip. They got a lot of nice girls down there!
Shame you missed the trip, it is a great harbour to visit.
Nice video, done subscribing good luck to your channel👍👍👍😊
Thanks mate, glad you liked it. :)
Well..it is a Dehavilland "offshore" after all. Fantastic effort mate.... great fuel consumption as expected . Can't say I have ever seen it that flat outside. Love your research :)
Hey Mark, it certainly was a very calm day out there. The Green Machine is actually due for another antifoul so it would have actually used even less fuel if it was clean.
Will you have to remove the Honda and flip her over again or have you built a "dry'dock" fit for purpose ? :)
We like your music. Is that yukalelay music. My wife and I love to go down to Dauphin Island Alabama for holidays.
Thanks mate, glad you like it. :)
pretty epic "backyard" you have there. Nice
It was a nice day out. :)
I always enjoy these type of videos that you do.did you run out of Coopers before running out of fuel?😎👍🥃
Fortunately we made it back with both to spare. ;)
Great job in a small boat. Could not have considered it without the first mate along. Was it 110k round trip? Was also wondering how long each way it took in the Green Machine.
I enjoy all your videos and thanks for sharing. Could you tell me what's the music at 3:00 ?
Thanks mate. It is called "Chill and Sun" or something like that. It is just song I bought from a royalty free site.
Proper boating good friends good beer and proper Australian weather
Sadly I’m missing some proper weather in Perth
It was a good day out. I hope your weather improves soon!
Good beer ? It was Cooper's.
Such a gorgeous day for a cruise bud! Jealous!
We were lucky that day.
Thanks for documenting! How many kilometers was it to get down there? I take my open bow 18 footer to Catalina off the coast of southern California and it is about 26 miles (42 K). Only in the am when it’s calm.
It was 55kms down there, 110 all up.
@@DangarMarine geez that's some k's in a boat
Nice video mate. Very interesting for us South Africans as we have a lot of requirements to be able to go to sea. A different skippers license, wet deck boat, twin engines if you going more than 1nm offshore, loads of safety gear, etc etc. Looks a bit easier there. Oh we also not allowed to drink and boat :(
Interesting to hear. We need extra safety equipment to go offshore (for example you don't need the flares in enclosed waters) but the license is the same (unless you are a commercial operator) Our drink driving limits are the same as on the road so 0.05 for the skipper.
@@DangarMarine cool stuff. And any regulations on boat design? Ours also need 60% buoyancy with foam filled hulls for offshore.
There are recommendations to have buoyancy chambers but it is the choice of the consumer. it is very different as a commercial vessel though, that requires consideration of design and what-not. As a side note in West Australia our drink/drug boating limit is based on whether or not your boat ran into something
Mate..recreational boating all is needed is mandatory safety gear for offshore...flares, lifejackets, water, x amount of anchor rode, also boat size = any, and having a license is not needed offshore (been awhile)?.....Commercial different ball game....
Used to fish out of a 'offshore' back in the 80's...Port Hacking.
Hi Stu, really nice down there. A day on the water is a day of bliss. 25 liters to get there is 6.6 us gals. How many miles in US round trip?Got a tech question for you. Will put on you FB page which seems the appropriate forum.
Thank Tim, I'll check out the FB tonight.
Oh, and it was 110 kms all up.
68 miles then. Long ways on the water round trip but nice day for it with a few stops along the way😎
Did you have to sign on to marine rescue? I’ve wanted to go from lion island to Sydney harbour in my boat but don’t have a marine radio
Anyway loved the vid
Fucking awesome trip. Thanx for sharing.
Fucking awesome comment. Thanks for watching! :)
We will visit our daughter in a couple of months, she lives in central coast. Will be looking out for green machine! ;-)
Enjoy your visit! :)
Nice I’ve been missing the sea sadly my ships out of commission for now sucked a bolt off the front of the starter into the air intake washer came off the bolt and went in the engine I immediately shut the engine off so there’s not much damage.The engines a 1978 evinrude 55 best motor in terms of reliability I’ve had any way I cleaned it up and put a new gasket on torqued it up everything was good the head is strait some minor washer indents in the piston and head but when I go to start it it fires right up and runs but it’s popping like a lean pop won’t go once you put the warm up lever under half and when I spin the fly wheel feels like the damaged pistons got no compression in it haven’t done a compression check as of yet
Wow, that's a very unlucky thing to have happen but you did well to shut it down fast. As well as the compression check I would make sure the reed valves didn't get damaged.
Dangar Marine reeds are in good shape 160 to 170 psi on top cylinder keeps about 60 psi on the bottom damaged cylinder looks like I’m going to have to change the bottom cylinder. I got my bigger boat things hard on the wallet though lol (Edit) got the head off looks like the washer indent has split open on the cylinder
Can you do a video on how green machine is moored
This video shows how I tie it to a pontoon and to the public wharf. I'm in the middle of a new video on running lines which are very common around here too ruclips.net/video/nzuhiepU-bk/видео.html
"...offshore safety equipment...we didn't really take any..." Poodles are widely known as "water dogs" - with a poodle onboard (and adequate beer), there's no need for stupid safety equipment.
We just need a poodle with a barrel of rum around his neck. ;)
Hey Stu. When did you do this run?? We haven’t had both HMAS Adelaide and Canberra in together for a while now.
I can’t recall exactly but I would say some time in June.
That’s alright been watching your channel for a while when I can. I’m on HMAS Adelaide at the moment so that’s how I knew. I’ve just introduced my little brother to your build channel. Coming along nicely.
Hi Stu,just thought I'd ask ,I'll bet its alive with bull shark in the river at Dangar and Sydney and lots of other species of sharks.PS.really enjoying running thru all your Vids ,although I'm a retired engineer,I never fail to learn something.As the saying goes' a man that knows it all ,knows F/all !!!regards from an old pommy b.
There definitely are a few bull sharks around, and people have been bitten by them in the harbour. Although they are around the island I've never heard of anyone getting bitten here which is good. :)
Hey Stu,
Currently looking at a small runabout similar to the Green Machine. I was just wondering what type of boat I should be looking at, such as length, HP rating, etc. cheers champ
The Green Machine is 4.6 meters long and about 1.8 wide. I'd say it is rather up to about a 60HP motor.
Dangar Marine what make is the hull?
It's a DeHavilland
What a fantastic video. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Thanks Stuart!
Sydney 2000 deckhand.. that must of been sometime ago :)
It was a while ago. :)
Great video Stu
What is the length of the green machine? 14ft? 16ft?
-jack
It's 4.6 metres I think.
just wondering, but when heading out to sea, should we cut waves head on at 90 degree or should we go at them at an angle like 45 degree? i am so confused since i have been told both ways...
I prefer 45 as it gives you a gentler angle over the waves and prevents you burying the bow into the wave and having water coming over the front deck. The reason people say straight on is so the boat doesn't get rolled over by a breaking way so maybe aim for something slightly closer to the 90, maybe 75.
gonna try practice this with small waves before i attempt to go out deep sea... Thanks Heaps!
Nice vid
Hiya mate, just a quicky, I've got a Tohatsu 9.8 2 stroke which I recently did some work on to sort out a over revving problem, whilst I got that running nicely I think it needs fine tuning and to be honest, I'm not sure how to do it. Can you do a vid about tuning single carb 2 strokes please or, if you have time, give a 'how to' to help sort out this problem. When I rebuilt the carb I set the adjustment screw to 2 complete turns from full in, it does run ok, but it ticks over erratically. Cheers, George, UK.
two strokes do miss fire at idle revs, but that initial setting will be on the rich side. So wind the screw in until the engine splutters, then wind the screw out until it does the same spluttering thing, counting the turns between the two. then wind the screw in about half the turns you counted. That should be very close. You can get better by fiddling but as the air pressure changes that 'perfect' tune will go away a bit. That is just the nature of carburettors. Give me fuel injection any day because they constantly adjust themselves as the air pressure changes.
Ron is on the money with the procedure. You may also be able to adjust the idle timing with that outboard, but there isn't much more you can do with the carburettor itself, they are pretty simple.
I got sea sick watching that!
How long did it take each way, couldn't quite hear in the vid and what speed roughly
Took a couple of hours each way travelling at about 10 knots.
Hey I was wondering if u know if a mariner 115 2 stroke runs on 2 cylinders at idle
Yes, I believe that to be the case.
Nice how long did it take you guys? About how far away is it from where you are?
It's about 55kms and took maybe 2.5 hours.
Show!!!
How long is the trip there and back?
110kms all up.
Is it better to run a outboard out of fuel after every use, or better to keep it hooked up? I have heard to do both. Johnson 70 . Thanks
I await Stu's answer to this, but I would say that it depends on how often the outboard gets used. If you use it infrequently, with no known recall-to-service date, then running it out of fuel each time you are finished with it isn't bad practice. If you'll be using it for certain in a week's time, it just means that you have to run the thing until it's dry, and then re-prime it next week, so if the extra time spent doing those tasks isn't too demanding, it's time well spent. Certainly, for long periods (a month or more), doing this is good practice, in my opinion at least. If it were used on a daily basis, I'd say it would be just extra work going through the exercise of running it dry and then priming it again next day, but I don't see how it could hurt anything.
In North America, our regular grade gasoline is 10% ethanol, which, when left unused in a tank over a long period of time, can have very undesired results. It tends to be very hard on surfaces where it remains in contact for long periods, and as it dries (especially if it's mixed with 2-stroke oil), it leaves one heckuvva mess behind that tends to be like a gluey residue that inhibits free movement of floats and moving parts. Ethanol in fuel does have one advantage, that being that you won't need to use gas line anti freeze when the temperature plummets to below -25, but of course nobody will be running an outboard at those temperatures.
Stan Patterson Thanks, I usually run it several times a month. I run 93 octane non ethanol always. But I have been told even with that it was good to run dry. But I haven't had a running issue with it just leaving fuel hooked up. I keep up my own maintenance on it. So I'm always looking for better ways to do it.
Just to add to what's already been said: With 2 stroke outboards you also need to keep in mind that it's the fuel/oil mixture that lubricates the engine. So running it dry means starving the engine of lubrication for the next startup. That said, I used to run my 30 year old 2 stroke Evinrude 90 out of fuel all the time because that's what I had been taught, and had no issues at all. Now I've switched to what Stan has suggested: During the season, when I know I'll be using the boat again within a week or two, I just shut it off and leave the fuel sitting in there. It means that I don't have to prime the carbs and filter next time, which can be a hassle especially with an aftermarket add-on water separating fuel filter. When the engine will be sitting for a longer period of time, I run it out of fuel and use some fogging oil.
I certainly wouldn't run it dry if I was in the middle of the boating season, that's for sure. I would consider that more of a winterisation thing. There are two main issues with leaving the fuel: having it evaporate and leave a residue, and having the fuel go stale (but that will happen to the tank in the fuel too, something Stabil will help with)
Dangar Marine ok thanks! Really enjoy your videos
I'm so jealous. I haven't been able to get out in my boat for over 2 months. I have had plenty of time and we have had some good weather but we're having the worst red tide bloom in a decade. Lots of death including 300 lb goliath grouper, dolphins, manatee, and a 21 foot whale shark. As of now 270 tons of dead fish have been cleaned off of our local beaches. If you even get close to the water your lungs and sinuses will let you know. I can't wait for some cooler weather to clear it up so we can get out on the water.
Wow, I've never heard of a problem like that, shame to have so much sea life dies. Hope it clears up soon.
Is that an aluminium boat?
Yes, it's a DeHavilland Offshore.
Hi, I have recently got myself a 420 renegade, with a 40 hp tiller steer, do you think I could do that trip, from brisbane waters to syd and back, how safe is it for a beginer?
It really call comes down to weather and good navigation. On this day we had a forecast of winds gusting up to 1 kt so we knew it was going to be very calm. You do need to be careful of heading out wide enough to avoid Long Reef and the swell you get closer to the shore. I would make sure you have a bit of experience with how the boat handles in waves before making the trip though.
Thanks for the reply, and I think you are right, I need to get more experience with handling the boat in the water, I have only been out for 3 times, twice at brisbane waters and once at summerland point. Thanks again and keep up the good work.
Hay Stu, What was the distance travelled oneway aprox to use your 25L ?
cheers Brett
I recently did a trip with my boat- 14.5 ft. Starcraft, 2017 Honda 40 EFI. I did 80 kilometers on 20L of fuel. that included a mix of driving speeds. Top speed is aprox. 52 kph.
It was 55 kms. The Green Machine is long overdue for an antifoul so has barnacles on the hull that really slow it down and chew the fuel.
Totally off topic - I'm about to dive in on a carb rebuild on my Evinrude 130. I'd like to order parts thru MarineEngine.com but I don't see where I can give you the credit. Ideas?
Hey Scott. I think there might be a comments or special instructions section somewhere in the order where you can mention that their sponsorship of the channel made you choose them. If not I think some people just drop them a line by emailing them. THanks for your support! :)
Where did you start?
Dangar Island.
60ltrs of what stu ? Fuel or the amber nectar 😁
Only 55 litres was beer, we also took spare fuel. ;)
What's the price per liter by you?
We pay about $1.60 at the moment.
@@DangarMarine In NYC we pay 1.29 at the dock and .99 at the pump with the exchange rate it's about the same. Love the channel, thanks.
Roughly how many miles in total Stu?
It's not too far, about 55kms all up.
about 15 from head to head
What's the top speed of the green machune
Probably about 25kts on smooth water, much less offshore.
Dangar Marine not bad really
Why would anyone dislike this video :-/ ppl can be odd at times !!
Meh. You can't please all the people all the time!
That's the flattest I have ever seen that stretch of water.
Hey Jason, yeah, that was our main reason for heading down. The weather forecast was just perfect.
i call bs it was a beer run lol great view tho
Several other friends who knew were heading down said it seemed like a very suspicious delivery or pickup. ;)
Would have been quicker in the boat then driving wouldn't it?
Probably slower, unless the traffic was very bad. You really have to back off with the swell offshore.
Hi can you fix my boat
Unfortunately not. We do cars though!
Dangar Marine oh that’s a shame
Nice mate but drink driving on video probly not the best idea tho 😂😂
It's not illegal in NSW to have a couple of beers in a boat.
Dude youll never catch fish like that or are them rods there to attract chicks. PEACE.
Just for attracting chicks. ;)
Because I'm such a lefty turd I wanted so bad to make some comment about animal cruelty - forcing poor little Eddie to do things so foreign and scary for a dog......but I'm finding it really hard to find something to whinge about because the little bludger just seems to be having such a good time!!! You can almost see the smile on his face.
Eddie loves being in the boat, he's always the first one to jump in. If you leave him behind he stares from the pontoon with a look that says, "But I thought we were friends?" :)