But outdoors folk who spend most of their time in wetlands (that's us) are becoming familiar with another one: Ethanol can pose a deadly, yet hard to stop, threat to your outboard. "It's not an ...

Because hope springs eternal for outdoorsmen as well as for anyone, it makes sense to wish for a few things that would make the outdoor world a much better place in the New Year. While getting the ...

Own a boat long enough and you can't avoid at least some common mechanical pitfalls. Most are simple outdoor headaches easily and quickly dealt with. Others are more involved, and in the extreme can ...

Something was wrong with Sally Ann. ¶ For months, she sputtered and choked, and Barry Treahy’s remedies weren’t working. He kept changing her fuel filters. Then he rebuilt her carburetor. Finally, he ...

A fisherman in Australia made a costly blunder when he went to fill up the gas tank of his boat at a 7-Eleven in West Pennant Hills, New South Wales. He mistook a rod holder for the gas tank, and the ...

A man has been critically injured after a fuel tank inside a recreational boat he was working on exploded at an Illawarra home. A neighbour 300 metres from the scene said his house shook, with videos ...

Aluminum fuel tanks can corrode in a marine environment, though much depends on how well they are protected belowdecks from salt water. Shielded from briny water, tanks can last forever, but on some ...