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Here you go Gman! I backed it up with some 3/16 alumin plate. Been on there since 99. The higher and farther forward the better IMO! It is a bit flexible and have thought of installing diagonal struts but so far so good. Birds eye view Nice boat Bandrus! Great Catch fellas. What brand hooks did you use?

I think I see a rocket launcher mod coming next!!!!!!

Nice job. Thanks for sharing!

Holy Moly!!!

If the drain plug that you pulled was down on the block and not on the head in the area of your actual engine temp sensor then I feel this is not a true indication of your temp. The highest temps are in the heads of the engine. You can actually fill the water jackets in the block with concrete and just flow the water through the heads on intermittent use drag engines as 80% of the heat is disipated into heads water jacket. Just want to insure your having an apples to apples comparison. I like your experiment providing your getting the water sample from the head.

Nice progress! You guys are kicking butt.You'll be on the water in no time.

I personally like the launch in Fairhaven State park. It has a nice gradual slope, the docks are nice and my boat seams to come on and off the trailer just right. Parking is usually quite available too.

I started like you with 2 hand riggers and a compass and have built my boat up with mostly used items yet sometimes you just have to buy new things as deals are sometimes scarce. As far as getting big bang for your buck, a Fishhawk X4 down speed and temp probe was one of my biggest successes though I had to buy it new. The next big bang for the buck was a 7.5 honda 4stroke kicker used with Troll king speed control for $650. Keeping your baits on speed longer through the day with the trollking remote rheostat again adds fish to the boat and pays for it's self in gas savings. I never dreamed that I would be trolling for 11hrs on less than 3 gal. gas. Next in line I rank GPS high on the list. Even if it's my stanby handheld which I've seen for as little as $40. It allows you to mark spots, bait, fish you've caught, contours and return to those spots. I don't know how many times I've caught all my fish in a 3/4 mile size block. Get outside of that block, and nodda. GPS saves gas as well. Last on my list is my sonar. Sure I'd like a top of the line one but as long as mine shows depth, bait pods and an occassional fish I'm good. Unless you know your gonna use it to hunt fish down on plane, and are willing to tear your program down, power up, run, reset up, then I can see spending more. Most days people run, set up, then troll and hunt for bites on the troll. All day long on the radio you here people marking fish but can't get any takers. As always this is just my opinion. Everyone has one.

i JUST WENT AND VERIFIED my Big Jon wing nut.It is 1/2" NF. IF YOU are fishing more than one day this weekend a reg. hardware store ought to have a nut you could buy and use with a wrench or pliers for temp.

Put some electrical tape right on the spool to help get the wire started. No backing required. I put 1000ft of Mason on. viewtopic.php?f=3&t=30813

Yes! What Paul said

Matt, That repair to the stringer sounds good provided you are going to use solid rivets and buck them as original. In one of your other threads I noticed you said the rivets were 1/4". I thought all of the rivets I delt with were 3/16 on my sea nymth. Are you sure on the 1/4 dimension? Solid rivets are the way to go on issues with your hull. They really aern't that big a deal once you get going.

I was told that trapped water, left to freeze, is what ruined the closed cells and allowed it to absorb. Don't know if that is true or not.

I did this exact strip down on a 19.5 ft Sea Nymph Great lakes special in 1999. My pics from back then are on film. I cut a square chunk of foam, about 18in by 18in, out of mine that was saturated in water and it wieghed 20lb. I set it on a shelf and after it evaperated it was less than a lb. When I went and priced the foam it was gonna cost $300 from boat places. I bought mine local from a place that repaired wrecked stainless steel milk tankers. Got it for $100 and the quaility was better for structual strenghth. I know your on a budget but I went with marine plywood, marine spar vanished undersides and edges, then coverd with marine vinyl from cabelas. That's great that you are bringing it back to life. WTG

I switched to the walker 124s as well. I ran one against a dipsey mag and it hit bottem in 90ft of water. The dipsey still didn't hit in 70. That was 30lb. wire on a 2.5 setting pulling Sd/ flys. I also liked the quality better. All the dipsey mags I bought required massaging of the realease dentents and metal arms, They were really lame.

My fishing partner does. Thats because he likes to sleep in till noon!

I want to try building a set of planner boards out of that deck trim. I wonder if it floats a little?

I saw a boat done with exterior plywood and then he glued Linoleum on. At the time I saw it he said it was 8 yrs going strong. He got the stuff on discount super cheap.

Heres what NADA's value is: http://www.nadaguides.com/Boats/2002/Me ... ard-Motors this is the value for a long shaft manual start I believe! This is Retail price as well!

Heres one for people in the market. http://binghamton.craigslist.org/boa/2947546560.html Missed this one. http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dl ... NA:US:1123 Here's new ones to your door no tax and this is what the mercs. are. http://www.onlineoutboards.com/Tohatsu- ... -8A3L.html Also be advised 8hps in honda, merc, tohatsu are the same bore and stroke as 9.9hps

A few of us have been running Ande Pink 30lb for years. We like it and I think it has a good rep. Does well against fleas. For a service spool of 3200yds is $70 verses Maxima at 2700yds for $100. I know one I have tried and disliked was trilene big game.My 2 cents

nice!!!

Are you sure you want one and will you use it. I have just about what you have there in the picture on a 19ft tin can and I only use mine on a dead hot no wind day for shade or on a no wind rain day. Any wind and it's not worth the lost boat control. Who ever is on the wheel better stay on it cause you'll be spun on a dime in seconds in my boat. Then theres the ability to deal with big fish, storing rods fast, even netting. Look at the room left in the back of the boat in that picture. Mines a 19ft and it is quite constricted. The track of your boat slips with the wind twice as bad, causing your rigger cables to almost always be off at an angle. It doubles my tangle ups. Just my 2 cents. I see people running them but I'm sure they have some of the same conciquences that I have. Longjohns, Raingear, Sunblock= $100

Ray, Must be you drill a hole in a cap of a bottle, run a bolt thru it, tighten it down with a nut.Then screw cap on bottle I like your idea better. You don't have to cut a bolt head off and you can unscrew the bottle, throw bottle and line away. Save cap/bolt assy.for next line change! Nice

Yes to removing the whole assy. How tight you screw the lagbolt in to the post against the spring, dictates the amount of drag tension it applies against your retrieve. I adjusted it till it felt about like pulling a dipsey in untripped.