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	<title>Dickerson Boat Service Log</title>
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	<description>Keeping your boat healthy</description>
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		<title>Fuel Tank Cleaning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bad fuel can come from anywhere  &#8211; you can pick it up at some fuel dock or it can just sit in your tanks long enough to go bad. If dealt with in a timely manner, you can save some expense later. If not, you will need to have your tanks pumped and cleaned.
When bad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oya.com/tips/2010/02/fuel-tank-cleaning/</link>
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		<title>Go with the flow</title>
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We do a lot of raw water pump work here, but evidently not enough because we see bad pumps and impellers all the time.  Changing impellers should be part of your annual maintenance schedule as well as a per trip visual inspection for leaking pumps.

We often get people ask us to change impellers. That won&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oya.com/tips/2010/01/go-with-the-flow/</link>
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		<title>Custom Boat Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 At one time we were the Chesapeake Area Albin dealers because we thought the boat was a good little bay boat. However, the Albin 28 was percieved as a fishing boat by most people. We do like fish, but our clients were more of the pleasure boat ilk. We decided to sell this boat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oya.com/tips/2009/07/custom-boat-work/</link>
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		<title>Exhaust Hose Replacement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every hose on your boat has a predicted life, from air conditioning systems to water systems to exhaust hose. Some hoses have shorter life span than others and some are more important than others. One of the things that cause a shortened lifespan on a hose is exhaust gases. Although the hoses are built for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oya.com/tips/2009/06/exhaust-hose-replacement/</link>
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		<title>Keel Repair Done Right</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the years we have done a lot of keel repairs. Many we do are actually reworks of badly done repairs. Any repairs to the keel must be at least as strong as the surrounding keel. Also using the proper lay up techinques will give you a repair that will not reappear again.
The tell tale [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oya.com/tips/2009/05/keel-repair-done-right/</link>
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		<title>Rust is not your friend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many parts on a boat that are not stainless steel. Most of these would be add ons to a marinized part &#8211; such as an engine, or maybe brackets for mechanical parts. In any case, any non-stainless metal in a boat will eventually rust. Where there is rust, there is a boat that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oya.com/tips/2009/04/rust-is-not-your-friend/</link>
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		<title>Fresher Drinking Water Aboard</title>
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Like most people, your concerns about water quality have probably increased over the past few years. Daily, there are news reports on water contaminations. In addition, you face special challenges: every time you reach a new location and hook-up to the water
supply, you meet a new set of water quality conditions.

The 3M WV-B2 Recreational / [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oya.com/tips/2009/04/fresher-drinking-water-aboard/</link>
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		<title>The right product for the job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We see a lot of problems with boats that come in for service. The photo above shows some corrosion found on a boat. Our best guess scenario is that copper based bottom paint was used on metal, causing the massive corrosion. This sort of problem needs attention before the metal completely corrodes away to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oya.com/tips/2009/02/the-right-product-for-the-job/</link>
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		<title>Boat still for sale?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We often see boats that have been on the market for far too long. There could be multiple reasons for this—the owner may be asking too much, the boat has problems, the boat has no exposure or maybe the owner has chosen the wrong brokerage company to represent him. Our job is to sell your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oya.com/tips/2008/11/boat-still-for-sale/</link>
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		<title>Vacuflush Fresh Water Head System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the best upgrades to make your boat feel like a home is a Vacuflush head system. If you read the post that I put up a while back with excerpts from the original GB Discussion Board, you will see this item showed up on several owner&#8217;s list.  There are many reasons why you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oya.com/tips/2008/11/head-games/</link>
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