I'm personally a fan of overpowering. All my boats have been overpowered. My 20 foot Wellcraft had a 250 on it, and I beefed up the transom to handle it. It's your boat. You can do whatever you want with

A guy wrote in about his 2016 Suzuki 200. Runs fine to 3,000 RPM, try to go wide open and it bogs back down. His mechanic replaced the VST. Same problem. Then replaced the high pressure fuel pump inside the

Your old VHF dies, you order the replacement from the same brand, and the plugs don't match. That's exactly what I ran into on this job. I was pulling a discontinued Garmin VHF 300 AIS and replacing it with a

Anyone who has pushed a wire through a T-top tube knows how it goes. It moves fine for the first few feet, then it hits a bend and stops, and you end up yanking on a pull string while worrying

I've got a dash panel that looks rough. Faded, chipped, a sticker peeling off the old speedometer dial, and somebody's blown-out drill hole staring at me. Replacing a panel like this means fabricating one, and that's a whole project. So

If you own a newer Mercury — a Verado 150, or one of the new V6 or V8 engines — you've got a Fuel Supply Module sitting on it, and sooner or later it's going to give you trouble. These

Boats sit for long stretches between trips, and anything that sits becomes a target. I spend a lot of time scrolling boat listings, and I keep running into stolen boat posts — a Predator Copperhead that got gutted and sold

If you've got more than one battery on your boat — engine, house, trolling motor, whatever — you already know the pain of not knowing which one is dying until it's too late. You go to fire up the trolling

Today was the first bath my boat's gotten all year, and it's the most important wash I'll give it all season. Not because it's the dirtiest it'll ever be — it's actually not that bad — but because how well

I had one of those days where everything on the docket needed attention at once — a pressurized lower unit that blew rocks and grease all over me, a Vessel View calibration check, a cowling latch cable swap, and a