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    LOU-All Cayuga Cup Date

    in Finger Lakes Discussion

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    Has a date been set for the LOU-All Cayuga Cup this year?  These two boys have had this trophy sitting at the house for 2 years and are anxious to try for a three-peat on our new boat!  We would like to see it on a Sunday this year so that we don't have to cut our fishing day 3 hours short for baseball like we had to last year.  July 13, 20, and 27 work for us at this point as do most Sundays in August.

     

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    A question for Lund owners - mounting riggers

    in This Old Boat

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    I think  you may be right Sk8man.  There's probably some wiggle room between the backer and the sides of the gunnels.  I'll look into having a full width aluminum plate made and put that under the backer that we already have in place.  I;m also afraid that mounting the riggers on the tracks like we have them is compounding the problem.  I have some 12 lb weights and will try those to see how much of a difference that makes too.

     

    Tom, the backing extends 5' under the tracks, but doesn't go much more than a few inches beyond each end of the tracks.  We just couldn't get a longer piece in there without taking the side panels off of the boat.  Here's how I have the boat set up now:

     

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    A question for Lund owners - mounting riggers

    in This Old Boat

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    It's not the wood that's flexing. It's the aluminum gunnels. I could put 6" of wood under the tracks and the aluminum would still flex. It's a pretty poor design. The gunnels are shaped like an upside down rain gutter. All Lund did was put wood up inside the top of the gunnel and left the sides of the gunnels as bare aluminum.

    A question for Lund owners - mounting riggers

    in This Old Boat

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    I have a 2002 Lund Baron and mounted tracks on it recently and backed it with 3/4" oak. We're still getting some flexing even with 5' of oak (through bolted with 2" fender washers) under the tracks. I love the boat overall but I'm not very impressed with how Lund built the gunnels on this boat. Theres really no structure under them other than the 3/4" pmywood that they put in when it was built. What are you Lund owners doing to re-inforce the gunnels on your boats so that they don't flex when a rigger is deployed? We typically run 16lb weights and the gunnels flex more than I'm comfortable with when we have them out. Maybe it's just because I'm used to a heavy fiberglass boat and a rock solid platform for my riggers and I just have to get used to aluminum? There's an awful lot of paper thin aluminum in the gunnels and no real structure to tie into. Any suggestions?

    Best Trolling Motor with i-Pilot?

    in Finger Lakes Discussion

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    I just put a Terrova 112 with iPilot Link and a Humminbird 999 on my Lund Baron.  We should have the boat in the water in a week or so and I'll be sure to post how we like it and how we've been using  it.  I'm pretty excited to use it after reading all about how much you guys like your iPilots!

     

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