What Did You Do To Your Boat This Week?

[MikePA]

Needed a sounder Plotter for my rear deck so instead of spending $3k and wiring in a new unit I got a free IPad from my brother and bluetoothed it to the Garmin in my cabin via Active Captain. Total cost just over $100. Waterproof case and suction mount.
Ended up with a fully functional touch screen unit.

Have you tried looking at it in full sunlight? I even on max brightness setting I find it hard to look at compared to a MFD.

 

[Samnjoe]

Have you tried looking at it in full sunlight? I even on max brightness setting I find it hard to look at compared to a MFD.

It's in the shade under my Bimini. No problem.

 

[Rain City]

Needed a sounder Plotter for my rear deck so instead of spending $3k and wiring in a new unit I got a free IPad from my brother and bluetoothed it to the Garmin in my cabin via Active Captain. Total cost just over $100. Waterproof case and suction mount.
Ended up with a fully functional touch screen unit.

If you don't have a charge port nearby you should install one. They tend to die quickly at full bright and on constantly.

 

[Samnjoe]

If you don't have a charge port nearby you should install one. They tend to die quickly at full bright and on constantly.

Got it covered

 

[Fishin]

Great little unit, ran one for 5-6 year and sold it was still doing its job

That's good to hear! I know some guys might laugh but it seems to work pretty good so far I just couldn’t spend the money on a new simrad/lowrance unit right now I’ll run this as long as possible haha.

 

[brutus]

That's good to hear! I know some guys might laugh but it seems to work pretty good so far I just couldn’t spend the money on a new simrad/lowrance unit right now I’ll run this as long as possible haha.

Did it’s job no problem, probably better then the new llowrance anyway, I see a lot of those crap out early in life

 

[Bill 310]

Please beef it up again with something other than nasty a$$ plywood….

I really like that nasty A$$ plywood.

Especially nasty A$$ plywood that is well laminated into a family's aquatic history.

 

[tubber]

I keep my boat in the garage beside my wife's car. So yesterday I unloaded 9 months worth of her treating the boat like a 17 foot wheel barrow for recycling, shoe boxes, unsold garage sale items, plants that came in for the winter and never got back out in the spring.
Pushed it out, put the fly boat in. Changed 2 oils and 2 gear lubes, cleaned the kicker carb, swapped in a new deep cycle battery, charged the starting battery, blew out a bit of leaf debris from the fall, ran the motors in the barrel. Repacked trailer bearings. Remembered to switch trailer balls.

Today was a quick test drive on the lake. Trailer lights, VHF, lights, both bilge pumps, sounder/GPS, motors all checked out. Gassed up (164.9) truck, boat and some Jerry cans.
On the road tomorrow..

 

[goatman]

the tohatsu had a 7.5x7.5 3 blade prop on it, got a 8.5x9 3 blade off amazon, copkingco brand. worked good, less vibration than the old prop. good deal.
bought a Pactrade tiller extension handle, 18.5 inches to 24.5 inches
absolute garbage out of the box, put 8 rivets in it to make it usable and will probably give it a wrap of fiberglass to strengthen and lengthen the collar
i wouldnt buy another one of their products, shouldve just made one out of pvc pipe

 

[buzzbomb]

Cut and polished, new tome motor, new sounder/gps! Ready for battle!!

 

[salmonkiller01]

Did nothing to the boat but went to PNT and could not resist the islander, been staring at this one for a year

 

[Fisher_dude]

I poured some balls as I dreamt about loosing some of the same ones I just poured off my boat. Haha.

 

[Aquaholic]

Nice! I only deal in kilos though.

 

[zurk]

sea trial / lake testing of the new electric kicker setup.
did 4.8kph steadily for 4 hours without needing to fire up the DC generator.
boat works amazingly well on lifepo4. outboard started up fine after 4 hours on the brushless electric setup. good enough to go thru the lake and back to the dock 16 km as a get home even with 2-3 footers rolling in randomly. only issue was the clamp on bracket worked its way loose due to the thrust so i need to fasten it down with bolts. also need to fix the outboard steering system but the outboard as rudder did fairly well. bit weird hearing practically no noise other than waves hitting the hull for 4 hours and moving steadily. had a few boats cruise by wondering how the boat was moving.

 

[goatman]

Thought you might like this one, I modified my cherry picker

 

[ClintR]

Removed the Alaskan bulkhead and door today. It’s about a million degrees in there with it on. It took me about 40 years to build this beer belly and I was in danger of sweating it off if i didn’t.

 

[InterMechanico]

Finally installed the perfect prop.
Enertia 15 X 15p courtesy of a mid-straight of Georgia exchange w/ @salmonkiller01

RPMs are perfect now, holeshot and throttle response are fantastic.

 

[lemmy]

this has been my boat for the last 7 months

Wow!! If you ever decide to sell her , I’d be interested! Kudos on a very cool build

 

[noluck]

Wow!! If you ever decide to sell her , I’d be interested! Kudos on a very cool build

just finished a Zurk job on her with 2 solar panels and lithium batteries. i must say it has opened my eyes to new technology

 

[spring fever]

Tired of searching for the right jig so I came up with this