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New tanks with new fittings, valves and sending units are ready to drop in.

Sportcraft makes a sweet rig. Wonder why they dont make the 25 in an inboard?? Very nice boat just the same. Good luck with sale. Will make someone a very mean fish chasing machine.

I have a Sportcraft 252 inboard. 5.7 merc and velvet drive transmission

We dock at Wiley's for a couple of months. Don't know if they do overnights or not

I got my rod holders from Frank's great outdoor at a really god price. For other boat items like lighting hoses etc I use Defender Marine. My choice for electronics is BOE marine.

4Cs used to offer overnight docking. I don't know if Lake Breeze now has those docks or if they are still with the lodging units.

We have a set of rods with 50 lb Big Game spooled that we break out when the fleas are bad.

Or you could make a boom from galvanized conduit of the right size.

Got both tanks out. Starboard tank has 4 holes.

Port tank -can't see holes but it was completely dry and heavily corroded. Seacast is ordered and I pick up the replacement tanks on July 8. Got to get her finished for our July 30 trip. Good thing I retired in January.

Using Atlantic Coastal Welding in Bayville, NJ.  I needed a tank for my small boat earlier this summer and ordered on a Monday and picked up the new tank on that Friday, Good job of making a beautiful  tank.  Now I need two bigger tanks. Ordered this morning and will pick them up on Friday July 8 after our annual trip over July 4 week to Chincoteague.Got to get them installed and the floor repaired before late July. 

Got the first tank out - learned a lot. It will make the second tank removal easier.  Three 1/8" diameter holes. New tanks will take6 days for fabrication.  Need to have the boat ready for a trip to Point Breeze first week of August.

Location is south central PA near the Mason-Dixon Line.

By the way. I also found rotted balsa in the floor. I'm going to pour with Sea Cast.

Started digging out foam and I'm getting pound after pound of gas soaked foam. Should have the tank out in another couple hours of work. Then I can get accurate measurements and order the tanks. I'm going with Atlantic Coastal Welding for these tanks. They did a great job on the other tank and their delivery is one week after approval.

What he said.

No lines leaking. After talking with the tank manufacturer and seeing all the wet foam, I am replacing both tanks. Started on the starboard side.

There are vinyl liners you can put in the rod holders and they take a lot of the wiggle out.

Can't believe I cut a hole in my boat to replace a gas tank.

Not enough time on my trolling batteries yet to tell.  We also have a pair in the Sportcraft 252.  One is to crank the engine and the other runs out electronics. Two seasons and no problems.

I had a pair of bass pro group 27 AGM batteries that lasted for 7 seasons. When they finally died last summer I replaced them with optima blue tops.

Thanks.  Something I did not know exists.

What a winter it was. First my small center console boat sprung a fuel leak. I removed the console and took up the deck section covering the tank. I discovered it to be severely corroded due to being imbedded in flotation foam when installed at the factory. I ordered a tank yesterday and will pick it up in New Jersey on Friday. It will keep me hopping to get the bot ready for our memorial weekend trip.

Next I found a leak in the Sportcraft 252 inboard. I haven't even found out which of the two 55 gallon tanks the fuel is coming from. I If it is also a leaky tank is there anything I can do other that cutting the deck to get at it?

Great results and congratulations. Happy for your success.

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Nothing and I repeat nothing will ever beat his King of Sting spoon pattern............

What he said.

I've got one cannon and one scotty.  Both work fine, but the scotty ferrule is getting some grooves worn in it.  No problems with either after more than four seasons.  Catches are mounted to the sides of my Unitroll 10's