I used this as a joke at lunch today on my wife and her oldest boy. Than I mentioned that we did this when I was a kid and the mild injuries sustained at an abandoned strip mine I got. My wife also did it and told about the disasters her and the girl from the farm next to them got under...
A little more info is needed. What about your current setup makes it unfun? Pictures of the current setup showing what it is now. Boat size and weight would be helpful also. Do you know now what the weight on the axles and tongue is? Moving how the boat sits on the trailer is usually a lot...
No problem, the auxiliary heat coils are 240 volt elements and would cause no unbalance even if only one is running. I have geothermal in my home (Heat Pump) and installed a switch for each zone to disable the coils by breaking a control leg to the relay for the coils. Unless we are not going...
That switch is for charging your batteries through the same receptacle that your trolling motor plugs into. You need a charger set up with a plug. You unplug the trolling motor and plug the charger in to charge. In most cases the gas engine does not charge your trolling motor batteries. Do...
A lot of variables such as are you going to be fishing by yourself most often. A center console with an adjustable pedestal seat would be the most comfortable to operate. However docking is a little more complicated when you have to leave your seat to tie to a cleat. As I am 81 years old I...
It is amazing how something one hundred and twenty five yards long can have such a small radar signature. Back when I was teaching boating safety classes I might have students that would be boating on the Ohio and Mon rivers. When we got on the subject of lights I would explain that when you...
I have done a couple of automatics. Yes they are fun but it seemed like I always had to fabricate at least one special tool on each for internal snap rings or such. Kept all of them too and they have came in handy for lower units and outdrives.
Hard to remember what was the first one. Probably an overhaul on my '40 Chevy six. Babbitt rod bearings on those old engines. Anyone else recall using layout blue and a bearing scraper to correct for wear. Remove shim(s) and plasti-gauge for proper fit up. Still have the bearing scraper in...
My Doberman does not take kindly to them being on the mowed lawn. As long as they stay in the brush or back past the treeline, no problem. She has learned that just walking to the edge of the porch and barking will move them back so she can resume her sun bathing.
My home airport was known to have fog rise up come the valley on it's East end in a matter of minutes and completely obscure every thing on the approach and the end of the runway some mornings. It was a non-controlled airport back then so basically below minimums for the ILS on 24. We used to...
I have boated, flown, and drove tractor trailer in my life time and all three have increased the pucker factor by a thousand percent when a quick dense fog has came up unexpectedly. Thick fog is never benign.
Trim changes the angle of attack my raising the bow. The higher the bow the less wetted area of the hull and less drag due to the friction from the water. Trimmed all the way down will get you on plane faster and is called by boaters as the "hole shot" Think of it as a short field takeoff...
Tilt is to lift the motor all the way up for trailering, trim is actually trim the same as in a plane. When you trim up it moves slow for fine adjustments then at a certain point when lifting the motor which is higher than you would normally run it speeds up to full lift. Rules of the road...
