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    How To Hire A Perfect Boat Transporter

    Whether you're shipping a boat cross country or across the state, finding the right transporter can be nerve-wracking. You've already prepared your boat and received some competing quotes on uShip- and now it's time to pick a transporter that will haul your boat efficiently and safely. Take your...
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    How To Prepare Your Boat for Cross-Country Shipment

    Photo from uShip. Moving your boat across the country can be a challenging ordeal. Thankfully, online resources make it easy to find competing quotes. Perhaps the easiest solution is to list your boat on uShip.com and follow these simple steps for making sure your boat is prepared for...
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    The Wonderful Wild World of the Hideout

    All of my life I have treasured solitude in wild places. Even as a small boy I spend hours alone in the woods or at "my" woodland pond with a willow pole and a can of worms. That may explain why my years at The Hideout have been the most stress free and peaceful years of my life. I bought The...
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    The Wonderful Smallies of Lake of the Woods

    I caught my first smallmouth bass on Crescent Lake Maine about 1945. I was fishing for perch with a couple of my camp-mates. We were dropping baits with hand lines onto a rock bar leading out of a weed bed. I suddenly though I was snagged, then there was a strong jerk and a fish shot out of the...
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    Stick in the Mud

    I think it was the Summer of 1980. We lived in a partially restored old farm house plus five acres and farm buildings on a south facing slope a few miles west of St. Bonifacius, MN. I called it Sunnybank. From a glassed in porch we had a distant view of Lake Waconia, about 5 miles south, where...
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    A Series of Errors

    I have known many fine men in my life. Among those that I admired most was my hunting/fishing companion Les. He was a kind and gentle man who never exhibited an ego. This adventure took place in the late 60s. We both lived in the small town of Warrenville, IL and spent many hours in the...
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    Boating Safety - Collision off Littlejohn Island

    Full story here :: Marine Patrol seizes boat involved in fatal collision off Littlejohn Island Photos from PressHerlad.com We never want to hear about boating fatalities, especially if one loves boating. Unfortunately, there was a fatal accident Sept 21st this year that killed a man in his...
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    The Storm

    It was June, sometime in the early 70s. The whole family, plus a neighbor BFF of one of my three girls, were at Pine Ridge Resort on Big Sissabagama Lake near Stone Lake, WI. The musky and walleye fishing had been very good, as usual, for several days. Finally, on this day, the teen girls...
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    Hurrah for the Stars and Stripes!! The Rescues of Martin Costa and the Virginius

    July, 1853 at Smyrna, (today Izmir, Turkey). U.S Sloop of War St. Louis, Captain D.N. Ingraham, Commanding. Member of the wardroom, newly Passed Midshipman D. L. "Larrie" Braine, age 24. St. Louis is on a Mediterranean cruise, representing the United States. She had been visiting various...
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    Boat Seat Pedestal Safety

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    Stealth Fishing

    I think it was Uncle Jim Willis that first showed me how to sneak up on fish. We often fished for bluegills on spawning beds very close to the shore. The fish could see us if we just walked up and dropped a worm or cricket on them. They would just ignore our offerings. Jim would place his...
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    White Lightning

    Well, no, not homemade whisky, another sort of white lightning. On a Spring Saturday morning in Arlington VA in the late '60s I got a call from my fishing buddy, Dr. Bill. "Let's go fishing. The yellow perch are running over in Maryland." It would be a rare thing for me to decline such an...
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    Dangerous situation! [SHBT]

    As always, Stupid Human Boating Tricks from our very own iboats.com Forums and I Love Boating Facebook page. Posted by Expidia, Lieutenant Commander I try and get away from ramps ASAP but . . . It's still dangerous out there no matter what you do . . . Yesterday we tied our boat up to a town...
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    Boston Whalers I Have Known: Striper 15 RED SKY

    Sometime about 1970 a marine architect named Bob Dougherty joined Fisher-Pierce, the Boston Whaler organization. Within a few years his design genius showed up in revision of the 13 and 17 hulls to include the famous (infamous?) smirk and deepened bow, and three new designs arrived: The 19 and...
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    Boston Whalers I Have Known: Sunshine III

    I found Sunshine III in early 2000. She was a 1981 Montauk 17 powered by an Evinrude 100 of similar vintage. She needed some TLC and rigging to make her ideal for fishing. My first change was to re-power her. My experience with the original Sunshine led me to choose a 70HP as ideal power. After...
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    Boston Whalers I Have Known: Heidi Yawl

    1994. I had returned to Texas and settled on The Hideout after several years of difficult recovery from financial ruin. I needed a boat and had little money to spend, but I knew I wanted a Boston Whaler. That Boston Whaler turned out to be Heidi Yawl. She was a 1975 Sport 13 with a hole in her...
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    Boston Whalers I Have Known: SUNSHINE II

    April, 1983. I am in my CPA's office in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. He is lecturing me that I pay too much in income tax and should get some sort of tax shelter. After long discussion he recommends that I start a part time commercial fishing business and buy a proper offshore boat so that I can write...
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    Boston Whalers I Have Known: SUNSHINE

    In late summer of 1967 I moved to northern Illinois from Virginia. I had never heard of a Boston Whaler. I boat to fish, and in northern Virginia my wonderful Sport Yak II suited the waters I fished. I had heard of the Pacific salmon stocking program in the Great Lakes, though, and had some...
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    Fishing Boats I Have Known

    I did fish from boats before the 1960s, but they were always somebody else's boats. Mostly they were "Jon" type boats constructed from a few pine planks with square bows, a couple of plank seats and sometimes a livewell. They usually also leaked profusely. I could sit in the bow and skull around...
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    The Kid That Wouldn't Quit VS The Bass That Wouldn't Quit

    This was late 40s at "my" woodland pond. I was tossing a small popping bug for bull bluegills and finding a few on scattered beds that I could flycast to from shore. I could usually see the beds in the sandy bottom in the gin-clear pond and sometimes even the fish. But they were wary, often...
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