Totally unexpected
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Yeah I'm going camping for 15 days I'll pull it out next month and see what happened....
What Did You Do To Your Boat This Week?
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Aquaholic
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New prop installed and tested last night. Mercury Spitfire 4 blade 13.4 x 15. I was running a Turning Point Hustler 13.5 x 15. Spitfire is smoother, quicker to plane, slightly faster, holds on plane at lower rpm. Felt great.
Spare prop will be a Spitfire 17 which is just a bit too big for three people and climbing high swells, but the cruising speed is sweet.
Mercury props for the win.
Spare prop will be a Spitfire 17 which is just a bit too big for three people and climbing high swells, but the cruising speed is sweet.
Mercury props for the win.
yanked the bennet trim tabs off my livingston and put a SE Sport 200 hydrofoil on the tohatsu 9.8 today. the tabs were messing with the transducer and flexing/cracking the transom on the livingston. happy with the hydrofoil except the crap stainless hardware, the nylock nuts only have half the thread of a standard nylock and stripped one but had some spares kicking around.
Stizzla
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Giddy up!
Thunder21
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Last year when I did the tanks I wasn’t happy with the fibreglass job that I had done on the floor. I could feel a slight hump in one area and it bothered me so I pulled up the carpet and sanded it down, re -glassed it myself and then installed this flooring. I also changed the bathroom around. I didn’t see the point in having a huge teak sink in the bathroom so I removed it . Just waiting on some rod holders and all of my salmon rods will be stored in the bathroom when not in use. I’m plumbing a vent from my heater into the bathroom so it’ll basically be a toilet/dry room/rod storage spot.
Sharphooks
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I Just got done installing the new stand-alone Furuno FCV 800 fish Finder. It will fire both a CW transducer like the P66 but it also has a 10 pin plug for a CHIRP transducer
I had the TM165HW hooked up to my TzT3 chartplotter but because it was a transom mount, I’d lose the picture after 3500 RPM
So I decided to just use it for trolling which pushed the idea of selling the FCV 588 (non chirp) and picking up the FCV 800
It’ll be really nice to have both the P66 and the TM165HW visible on the same screen for the summer trip up north. it’s a slab of a unit, though
.I had to beef up the mount to hold it steady on the gunnel
I had the TM165HW hooked up to my TzT3 chartplotter but because it was a transom mount, I’d lose the picture after 3500 RPM
So I decided to just use it for trolling which pushed the idea of selling the FCV 588 (non chirp) and picking up the FCV 800
It’ll be really nice to have both the P66 and the TM165HW visible on the same screen for the summer trip up north. it’s a slab of a unit, though
.I had to beef up the mount to hold it steady on the gunnel
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Stizzla
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Please beef it up again with something other than nasty a$$ plywood….
Sharphooks
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Ha ha… that “nasty arse plywood “ you refer to is near and dear to my heart…I’ve installed it and removed it from 5 separate boats now so it’s got sentimental value, especially those beat up fish that have prolly had 30 coats of varnish put on them over the last two decades….
the more burly beefing up I did was to bolt on a spiffy new Johnny Ray that could prolly support a 16” chartplotter if you wanted something like that out on your dance floor…
the more burly beefing up I did was to bolt on a spiffy new Johnny Ray that could prolly support a 16” chartplotter if you wanted something like that out on your dance floor…
Buckethead905
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I highly doubt if this guy owns his own dock and a 400k boat that he would skimp on his mount without some pretty good reason.. lol
Sharphooks
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Thanks for having my back, Bucket….that nasty a$$ plywood comment gored me and had me licking my wounds ….. so for grins (and to get my self-esteem back ) I went into the picture library and was able to find that same plywood mount on some of the earlier boats I owned …memory lane for sure…there it is mounted on the starboard gunnel of a couple of them
And a shameless opportunity to sneak in a big fish picture with that mount that just happens to be in the background…..
And a shameless opportunity to sneak in a big fish picture with that mount that just happens to be in the background…..
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Maxpri
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I like it, making your own stuff is cooler.
brutus
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Great little unit, ran one for 5-6 year and sold it was still doing its job
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.
Ended up with a fully functional touch screen unit.
MikePA
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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
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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
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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
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Did it’s job no problem, probably better then the new llowrance anyway, I see a lot of those crap out early in life
