I really like that nasty A$$ plywood.
Especially nasty A$$ plywood that is well laminated into a family's aquatic history.
What Did You Do To Your Boat This Week?
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I really like that nasty A$$ plywood.
Especially nasty A$$ plywood that is well laminated into a family's aquatic history.
tubber
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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..
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..
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
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
salmonkiller01
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Fisher_dude
Crew Member
I poured some balls as I dreamt about loosing some of the same ones I just poured off my boat. Haha.
zurk
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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.
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.
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InterMechanico
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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.
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
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Wow!! If you ever decide to sell her , I’d be interested! Kudos on a very cool build
noluck
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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
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ab1752
Crew Member
I like seeing sparks fly too.
I did put new hardware on, also. The old stuff will just serve as emergency spares.
InterMechanico
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I would add that my normal one way fuel burn from Reed Point to South Thormanby OR return is 70-78 litres, and very consistent.
With the Enertia 15x15p I used 60L (at the fuel pump) on my return trip yesterday. Sea state was relatively poor as well.
My previous prop was a Turning Point 14.75 X 17p express 4 blade stainless.
Naturally, this is not conclusive, so if it continues to be the case that I see reduced fuel consumption, I’ll update this post
kaelc
Crew Member
Nice. What engine are you running her on?
kaelc
Crew Member
Nice. Using them for salmon on the 15th? Just wondering what you usually target and what brand of jigs? Thanks
