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    First Time Boat Buyers -- Looking for The Perfect Boat?

    Help! I Can't Find The Perfect Boat! It happens all the time. You're looking for a boat for the first time, but you're stuck in the process of looking. You more or less know what kind of boat you want, or think you do. But, whether you're looking for a new boat or a used boat, you just can't...
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    Setting up the GARCKYIII

    I've mentioned some of this in other threads, but thought I'd show how I set up my little 12' aluminum boat for fishing. It's ugly, I know, but I don't care about that. There may be ideas you can use. A lot was for weight distribution, and the boat planes with its 6hp outboard at around 14-15...
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    How stupid is this?

    So, I have a little 12' aluminum boat on a trailer. Last year, the boating season in Minnesota ended and I stored the boat upside down on the trailer like I do every year. We have a single-car garage, where the SUV lives during the winter. Now...here's the stupid part: During the spring and...
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    Bass Fishing Santa

    Here in Minnesota, open-water fishing is just about finished for the year, and Christmas is fast-approaching. But, for one avid fisherman, bass fishing never stops. Here he is on my front lawn, with a hawg on the hook.
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    Too Close for Comfort

    On my last fishing trip of the season this year, I went to my favorite lake. Didn't do that well fishing, but I got a pretty good scare. I was running up the length of the lake in my 12' tinny, doing the whole 14 mph it's capable of going, on the right edge of the main channel up the lake. The...
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    Gheenoe Questions?

    I see a lot of mentions of these boats here on iboats. There isn't even a dealer up here in MN, but I did go to the maker's website. My question is: What is the attraction of these narrow boats? What is the reason Gheenoe users choose them over, say, an small aluminum boat for about the same...
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    You've Gotta Love Honda!

    So, I had a garage sale this Saturday. I decided to sell the 1965 Honda E1000 generator my dad had given me about 15 years ago. It's been sitting in my garage, waiting for me to get to it and attempt to fix it. Dad told me it wouldn't start when he unloaded it on me. Heavy thing for a 1000 watt...
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    Bowfishing for Sharks -- Long Ago

    Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I did a little writing for outdoor publications. I lived in California, near Morro Bay, and started bowfishing for sharks in the tidal flats there. Naturally, I wrote the process up and Western Outdoors published the article in their March, 1980 issue...
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    Sold All My Clunker Off-Brand OBs Today

    Finally! I unloaded all of my Sears, Eska, and Sea King outboards today in one lot. Good riddance to them all. The Johnson 6hp is running great, which I cannot say was ever the case with the others. The 1974 9.9 hp Ted Williams/Eska with the balky solid state ignition system would run sometimes...
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    Youthful Stupid Exuberance Trick

    The year was 1970, and I was not too long out of the USAF and had returned to college, somewhat older and a little wiser....very little. Just 25 years old and, well, with the exuberance of youth. Those were the days of the hippies in California, of course. Well, I had a boat, of all things...
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    Church Ties Up Launch Ramp for Baptisms on July 4

    This is one of the wierdest stories I've heard for a long time. In Tennessee, a Baptist church showed up at a launching ramp and started baptising 40 folks...on July 4 weekend. :eek: You can read the whole story from the Chatanoogan at: http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_131778.asp...
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    Valdez, Alaska

    I wanted to share a couple of photos. My parents, who are both 83 years old, going on 30, are up at Valdez with my sister and brother-in-law for a couple of weeks. Yesterday, they headed out on a charter boat for a little bit of open water fishing, with these results: My mom is on the left...
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    No Stupid Tricks at The Lake Today...

    No tricks today. It was a nice day this morning, so I headed for my favorite lake. Got there, and the parking lot was almost full, so that meant lots of boats on the lake. I did my prep in one of the free spaces, then ran my SUV around and backed down to the water. There was a guy already tied...
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    Musical Notes Equal RPMs -- Really!

    No tach? Do you need to know what RPMs you're turning at WOT or idle? There's a way, but you have to be a little musical. You'll need any electronic keyboard, or an electronic tuner, if you have one. Here's a chart that shows RPMs by the basic musical sound your outboard makes while running...
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    Pimp My Boat (Little Fishing Boat)

    Here's a look at my fully pimped-out SeaKing 12' aluminum boat, with some details. As it sits now, it's a great solo fishing platform for me, and all for really cheap. If you've pimped your inexpensive, small boat out in interesting ways, let's see 'em. Above, I added a 1x10 shelf to one...
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    Designing Muff for 6hp Johnnyrude

    OK, I'm working on a design for a device that will attach to my 1992 Johnson 6hp that will allow a hose connection. It won't be difficult for that engine, and I plan to post drawings and instructions for others to make one, as well. But...I have a question for owners of 6hp motors from the 60s...
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    The Other Guy

    Last season, I was fishing on my favorite lake near St. Paul, MN. Unlike my usual day, I had somehow wired in on the fish, and was soon hauling in big northerns and largemouths, fishing a stickbait in a foot of water over weeds. The actual depth of the water was about 6 feet. Well, after about...
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    Sears Outboard Parts & Diagrams --Sticky?

    The old site that Sears used to show parts and parts blowups has been moved to a new URL: http://www.searspartsdirect.com/partsdirect/index.action You'll need your model number, and outboards are not on the list of categories on that site. The parts lists and exploded views, however, still are...
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    Preventing Theft of Small Outboards

    With Spring here, small outboards are frequent targets for thieves, who sell them on Craig's List or eBay. Last year, there was a rash of thefts of smaller outboards (3-15hp) in my area. Most were stolen off boats on trailers in people's yards, late at night. I'm starting this thread to collect...
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    92 Johnson 6 hp -- Tips?

    In the middle of the winter, my dad shipped me this outboard, since he's given up boating at age 83. He installed a new impeller before sending it on. So, it finally warmed up enough up here in the great white north and I put the barrel under it. Three pulls and it fired up. Runs great, pumps...
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