leadcore troller

Pipe benders electrician's use are made for pipe, tubing is different size's than pipe. Tubing is measured by outside diameter and pipe is measured by inside diameter, or visa versa

Happy youngsters, doesn't get any better than that, kudos

Finished laying down 2 layers of Bi-axle fiberglass matting and 3 gallons of resin. Just completely rewired the whole boat. Only thing left is painting the topside and gel coating the floor. This is a project I know I will never do again.

woods all down already, monday i'll start glassing the floor with fiberglass mat and resin.

Got all the plywood down, Hardest part was both consoles lining up so the windshield closes right. Needed a new teleflex cable for steering but they dont make it anymore so a whole new Sea Star steering system went in. This week hopefully I can glass the entire deck, Then rewire everything.   Should of just got a new to me boat.

if that motor has reed valves I would change them while your at it. Reed valves are an easy job. Then you should be good to go.

I found a very flexible bilge hose on amazon that would work great, thanks for the reply's

i was thinking about that possibility , just was hoping to find a very flexible hose.

Hello all, in the slow process of putting down a new floor in my 18ft smokercraft, My problem is while i'm at it i am replacing any thing that was under the floor. the live well's overflow hoses are about 10 inches long going out each side , they have an 1 1/2 in inside diameter but they have a 3 inch offset, i need some flex hose that is soft enough to get the offset needed, guess it would of made too much sense to line the overflows straight when they built it. I found what the local marine shop calls flex hose but you need a gorrilla to bend it, and i need to offset it 3-4 inches in a 10 inch run. any help would be welcomed. Thanks Bud

Decided to go with Marine plywood, place downstate in Dutchess county, Condon Lumber has any piece of wood known to man. $119 a sheet. By far the strongest plywood i have ever seen. Will keep updated on progress.

When I mention stringers, I mean the raised ribs the floor was screwed down to. I wasn't planning on using marine grade plywood, just a good acx with maybe 5ply. I understand now about the epoxy floor idea, it would adhere to thr paint and not the floor itself. Guess I will go with a vinyl floor covering. I appreciate all the ideas, always good to ask, saves time on doing it twice.

Transom is solid, the floor rotted out from previous owner . Boat had a 2 stroke with an oil tank in the rear, either a leaky tank or just a lot of spillage trying to fill it the floor was oil rotted, once that started water compounded the problem. Instead of doing a piece meal job I removed the entire floor. Stringers all look good , i would replace all the styrefoam weather it has life left in it or not. 

Original floor had carpet, I was thinking about an Epoxy floor instead of a covering. Guessing the ACX plywood should be covered with an oil based paint or clear polyurethene.

Hello fellow fishermen, I have an 18ft smokercraft with a soft floor, Hull is all aluminum , floor was plywood. I want to replace the whole floor, question is, is 1/2 in marine grade plywood suitable or does anyone have a better suggestion.

What in the world were they thinking when they designed the new pier at Ollcot. Guess they don't want people fishing anymore. Some real genius designed this one. good ole DEC , I'm sure with no access the whole area is going to suffer, that was a very popular access point for shore anglers.

I never found the short shallow in wonderbread but i'll bet they would of been exceptional.

It is extra hard to believe because they are a very great bait trolling for browns. The long shallow in Wonderbread has been my main brown trout lure for 3 yrs. And i've searched high and low and can't find anymore anywhere.

Anyone know what happened to BayRat, did they close up , their website is vague about their future.

 I need long shallow Wonder Breads

The little man is a real trooper. Congrats to the both of you. Memories to last a lifetime

those Heathkit flashers were the best, I built about 8 of them for all my buddies i fished with. Yes there were 100's of parts, took about 50 hrs per unit to put together. 

it probably died listening to one of Bidens speaches

Is that per 9 or per 3

Beautiful clean looking Bow

Well that was a bust. Weather report looked great for saturday. Trailered the boat up to Lake O, 5&1/2 hour ride, lasted about 20 minutes, was hoping it was fishable out past the break walls but no such luck. 3 to 4 ft waves with about 6 foot swells. Safetly made it back in the mouth of the Salmon, casted plugs, spoons and even fished fresh skein, not only did we get skunked, never saw a fish caught all day, fished till about 2pm then made the drive back home. total waste. 

heading up to pulaski this weekend, wondering if  i need to bring downriggers, or are maglips or diving plugs enough, along with spoons with a little weight on them.

Jeremy, Kudos to you for taking your time to make it happen. I'm sure your time and generosity will be paid forward when the time arises.