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  1. There is an interesting story there. About thirty years ago in another country where I used to live everybody bought dollars on the black market to beat inflation. These dollars were not kept in the bank but in hiding places in the house. A friend of mine took care of the house of an elderly couple while they were on a trip abroad. He swung by the house every few days to check up on it. Their freezer broke down and pretty soon the meat inside started smelling My friend came to check on the house and picked up on the smell. He decided to clean out the freezer so things would not get worse.. He threw out maybe thirty defrosted chickens and cleaned up everything. It turned out that the elderly couple had hidden their dollar stack inside the frozen chickens inside the freezer. He had thrown $120000 in the garbage.
  2. Yes, but you have a Boston Whaler and those boats are just about unique
  3. If you have 20 to 30 loose rivets, you probably should take the floor and the tank out and replace all those rivets with solid rivets and use some sort of epoxy sealing when you drive them in. 20 to 30 leaky rivets are very exceptional. I am thinking that this many loose rivets may well have been caused by towing long distance with that unsupported bracket hanging on the back of the structure. Heaven knows what else has been shaking loose in there. You should really find a way to support that bracket. Maybe using a longer trailer.
  4. would you be interested in just selling the rocket launcher setup?
  5. I think it is 20 feet down per hundred feet of wire.
  6. We were at roughly the same depth but a bout a mile farther west. We ended up 9 for 12
  7. I use Lysol advanced power clinging gell, which is a great disinfectant. It is for toilet bowls, I know, but when used, it can be spread over the vinyl and other bad spots. I let it sit for a few minutes and then use a large brush. After brushing, all the stubborn dirty spots are gone and the floor looks like new again. I never do this when the boat is in the water.
  8. They usually have long blocks laying around as well.
  9. I'll take the weighted steel if the other deal falls through.
  10. It looks like a super slim dream weaver, but as for its name? I can barely remember my own name.
  11. You can sent me a private message
  12. So most people who replace a transom doing it themselves do have at least some do it yourself talent, but often lack the power equipment to make the hole process go as smooth as it should be. One of those tools often is a crane or cherry picker or backyard tree. There is a simple cheap solution to this problem. What you need is 3 4x4x8s 2 feet of 3/4 inch pipe with a 90 degree angle and a 5 inch piece of pipe screwed into the 90 and a little ratcheting pulley thing capable of holding a thousand pounds that you can get for cheap at harbor freight. You lay two of the 8 footers across the beam and lay the 3/4 inch pipeon top across the beams right above the hook on the engine, hang the pulley off the 3/4 inch pipe and you are ready to winch your engine up. So why the third 4x4? If you need to move the engine backward or forward, you should cut that one in two and lay it crosswise on the other 2 beams . You put the 3/4 inch steel pipe on top and hang the winch on it. once you have raised your engine, you can move it back and forth by rolling the pipe with the help of the "handle" piece of pipe. I wish you all happy puttering which is as much fun as fishing.
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  13. Did the water deep down get a bit cooler ? Or was it still 60 degrees at a hundred foot down?
  14. In Rochester
  15. So far I have restored 4 aluminum boats. My first rebuild was a boat that was a sixteen foot boat like the ones used in the Bay of pigs fiasco. The rest all Starcraft, a Holiday and 2 Islanders. I may be able to help you out dependent on what you need done.
  16. 3 day delivery is not too bad. In Rochester (Irondequoit) there is a West Marine store. They have high quality epoxy resin, but here is a 3 day delivery option for your preferred epoxy. High Performance Epoxy Resin TotalBoat https://www.totalboat.com › resins › epoxy-resins Our 2:1 High Performance Low Viscosity Epoxy Resin cures clearer than traditional 5:1 resin, making it ideal for wooden boat builds. Rating: 4.5 · ‎18 reviews · ‎$38.99 to $371.99 · ‎Free 3-day delivery · ‎30-day returns · ‎In stock
  17. I would not throw good money after bad money. Do retire the Magdas
  18. Just a heads up. The 150 quarts 7 day Igloo coolers are on sale in BJs for $74.99 If you're interested you should go get one before they are gone.
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  19. You may want to reconsider. Most trolling is done with small kickers in order to save on gas and because the 9.9 engines can run at very low speeds ( between 1.5 and 4 mph) Here it is quite common to have a 30 or 40 horse main engine to go places and then switch to the 9.9 for trolling.
  20. You should not expect the counter to give exact footage. They count the number of rotations, not feet. They are fine for going back to the same depth.
  21. Go to Keuka. Launch in Penn Yan and troll slowly along the north east side south of the marina just outside the weed bed.
  22. They probably puked the baitfish up while fighting your line.
  23. We only had 3 lamprey scarred salmon and zero fresh scars on about 40 salmon we caught last week out of Olcott.
  24. There was hell and high weather, but no big one for me this week.
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