rolmops

I don’t think so. Once you get close enough, you will find out that they smell like rotten fish. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Is it possible to launch,or is there also a nasty current?

They don’t have to swim very fast, just a bit faster than gobies is fast enough. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

As of Saturday morning, I-Bay was still open. It has floating docks. You will need boots to get to the docks. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I had a very similar problem with my Islander when I just bought it. And my first thought was "oh S..." now I have to drain the tank and replace all fuel. But if you stabilized your fuel last year, is should not have gone bad. Add to that that your son told you that he could not get the gas to burn. Stinky old gas will burn if you light it. I suspect that you are sucking water out of the tank into your filters and carburetor. The way to remove water out of the tank without having to completely drain it is as follows: Get a long hose that is long enough to go from the tank outlet through the transom drain hole to behind the boat and then another few feet. ( 3/4 inch garden hose will give you a nice tight fit around 3/8 inch fuel line). Connect this hose to the fuel outlet on the tank or slide it over the fuel line a few feet,but only if it is a tight fit. Raise the front end of the boat as high as you can so you get a a good angle going backward. This will allow all the water in the tank to concentrate in the rear bottom part of the tank. Get one or two five gallon containers . Create some vacuum at the end of the hose and allow the liquid to stream into the container.. A very clear hose will help you see when the water is finished and the fuel starts. after you are done with that try and start the engine again and see if it works now. If it does ,top of your tank with high octane fuel and some dry gas. It worked for me. Look at the good side of all these bad things that happened. At least you will not get a mouth full of gas when you suck on that hose, somebody else will. Tell your son not to smoke before , during and after. Good luck!

So did it sit all winter with a half full tank? If so you have a water problem

unless you have run the engine after you put the stabilizer in, it is quite possible that fuel in the filter and water separator is spoiled while the fuel in tank is fine. So don’t panic just yet. Replace the filters ,fill them with fresh fuel and make sure that there is no old fuel left in the hoses.Drain the carburetor and spray carb cleaner inside. Let it sit for a minute. Then try to start again and see what happens. It so start. Let it run for 10 minutes and check the water separator again. Good luck. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

If anybody is really interested, there is an easy way to see what there is to see. Go to view on your task bar and continue to zoom in . Zoom in a few times and you will see a lot of little zebcos ,almost exclusively open or closed spinning reels. 1 nice surf casting rod and one or two casting reels of a certain age. There are a few little tags on some rods which makes me think that this is "over stock" from a pawn shop. The seller could donate them to the salvation army, and make a bunch of poor kids happy. Selling them for $500? I don't think that is very reasonable.

There is a special forum on i-boats dedicated to Mercury-Kiekhafer. There you will find a lot of people who still run those six cylinder tower of power monsters.They can direct you to project engines. It seems to me that you have racing on your bucket list.

The pike, perch and musky are capable of “breathing “ through their mouth into their air bladder and into their blood stream and they will if needed. That’s why perch and pike stay alive for so long out of the water. It is a very good thing to have, specially in Summer when the water is warm and does not hold a lot of oxygen. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

They stopped making those in 1971, but they are very nice light weight trustworthy outboards.

West Milford

I crossed the Niagara river at Lewiston today and there are lots of big chunks of ice going down stream. They move at a good clip. It is not yet safe out there with those big chunks floating around

2x