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In the same building as Mayers marina on the Irondeqoit Bay outlet there is a guy who has been doing it for many years.Just bring your boat there, he takes the measurements on the spot and makes it.

http://stores.ebay.com/Fogdog/_i.html?s ... =971099255 this is him,but there is a price difference

Merry Christmas to all you Fingerlakers, Heck if the snows stays away I might go down to our cottage on Owasco Lake and chase the mice out of the cupboards. Cornelis.

Merry Christmas to all you good people! Cornelis.

Hmm, I think I have seen that freighter before on Lake Ontario,from about 10 foot away....

There is also the legal aspect and the insurance coverage to think of. Never mind the cost of having to raise the sunken boat from the bottom and having to have it brought to port,which are things that you have to do by law. On another note, if you use a good pourable foam that produces closed cells, you don't have to use plastic to cover the bottom and you will have a much safer boat which is nice if you want to bring your wife and kids on board. for a trip.

Get the net and don't horse it in!! Last year we were in a 19 footer on Stellwagen Bank trying to get some Cod, but we got dogfish at every place we tried, so we decided to hunt for tuna. We saw some action on the surface and caught 2 footballs in the 80 pound range ,but as we were searching for more surfacing tuna,we ended up in a monster pod of Humpbacks feeding on sand eel. Every last whale in that pod was twice the size of our boat. It was a great and humbling experience being about 20 feet away and staring eye to eye with these great creatures. It was also very stupid to be that close. If one of them would have decided to breach he would have sunk our boat.

That is very true

I am not so sure that alewives are a good food for a fish population that is supposed to do its own reproduction. I am not completely sure about this, but I remember reading something about alewives having a thiamine deficiency that inhibits reproduction in lakers when alewives are a main source of food. I wonder if it has the same effect on muskies.

I don't remember the name of the town,but it is near Perry and Castile.The town's claim to fame is the fact that they still have gas light street lamps. The carver guy sells his wares in a shop in that town. I just remembered the place. It is gaslight village in Wyoming,NY

Some things may help you prevent further deteriation. Things like disconnecting the battery while the boat is docked.Another thing is the power cable that goes to your boat while it is docked. That cable connects you with every other boat that is hooked up the the power system and if there is only one boat with a "leaking " power system,every other boat on that grid will have increased electrolysis,which is ionizing the metal that is connected in one way or another to the water. Gluvit stops the leaks ,but not the electric discharge which will go through your engine to the inside of the boat. the safest thing to do is to pull your boat out of the water and make sure that there are no electric currents however small, coursing through your boat. Something just crossed my mind. You mentioned earlier repairs. If the rivets used to do the repair are made of a material that has a different ionic charge compared to aluminum,they may be part of the reason for corrosion

I have never seen it happen in fresh water, but it does not have a Florida measurement sticker on it unless it was in Florida and probably in salt water. The usual way to prevent and stop corrosion is by attaching sacraficial anodes (a block of zinc) to the lower unit. This will pick up the electric charge from between the boat and the water, the anode will corrode to the point where it needs to be replaced. A complete layer of gluvit will stop the leaks,but you should first investigate whether any battery acid has ever been spilled on the inside and make sure to completely clean the inside, or the corrosion will just continue on the inside. If you use Mozilla Firefox,you should google "aluminum boat corrosio" in the google on the left hand top of your screen and you will get a long list of reasons why, how to stop it,and how to repair. or go here: http://yachtpals.com/how-to/electrolysis Good luck. Cornelis.

The scariest one was on Cape Cod,coming back from Race Point to Pamet Harbor at eleven o'clock at night. As we turned south around the race we came out of the lee and into the outgoing tide with 8 footers behind it. My brother in law decided that he was going to take us in on GPS only.He totally ignored the 5 second delay factor. We were tossed about for the better part of an hour until i could not myself in anymore and suggested that he should look out of the window. Then we just started running the edge of the waves in a zig zag pattern which brought us in to the mouth of the Pamet River.

This was not the only earthquake in the neighborhood. There was another one that has been proven to be caused by tests concerning the storage of liquid natural gas (LNG) near Watkins glen. Now did you ever wonder why that was not much in the news and why you no longer hear anything about LNG storage near the Finger Lakes?

Winter time is a time for story telling. Please tell us about the craziest,most dangerous,most exiting,funniest or just plain most stupid thing you did this year. Did you play chicken with an ocean going freighter? I know somebody who did just that, right in the middle of the shipping lanes. You do not have to mention names, if your friends recognize themselves in an adventure you had this summer, they should be able to stay anonymous if they so choose. Just remember,this is for a good laugh and not for scoring points. Cornelis.

Is there enough room in the transom cutout for 2 engines or will you need an outboard bracket?

May she be healthy and happy and live to be a 120 years old. Cornelis

Nice thought,but the water levels change with the seasons while on your GPS they remain the same.

Eh, do they have a biology department at RIT?

I have separate units,both have a 4.5 inch screen. The fishfinder is a humminbird and the gps a garmin. The garmin gps gives me the convenience of planning a trip at home on my computer and then downloading it into the unit.I am very happy with this setup. The only way I would change this to a single unit would be by having a much larger screen so the two functions are easily readable and adjustable while being side by side on the screen.

Greetings from a nice and balmy San francisco. This is the first time we saw our first grand son. It is good to be a grand father. Cornelis.

May the fishing spirits be with you.

I would start by putting the trailer on an angle so that all the water will drain out through the plug hole. the next thing to do is buying a few 10 foot 2 by 4s and 1 20+ foot 4x4. then build an A frame around the boat in a place that can hold the boat and trailer for a few months without sinking in the mud. Next, get a tarp that can cover the whole thing while leaving it open enough for air to flow through.By next spring you should be fine.

Thanks again Ray. I will go downstairs now to test my Fire and CO2 alarm's batteries.