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    Finally painting the boat

    2 years ago I stripped it to the hull and rebuilt the boat, last year I replaced the CDI and coils and put a new control box on it so the only thing left to do is paint it. I work next week then I am off till the first of the year so I have 3 weeks to kill. As luck would have it my fishing...
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    Brunswick update

    I heard today why they are closing all the plants. It is a consolidation deal they are working on, all the glass boats are being moved to one or two facilities and all pontoon production is moving to the Harris-Kayot facility in Ft Wayne, Indiana. Sounds like a reasonablle idea as long as...
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    Check your lug nuts!

    Had a bearing that was starting to make noise, decided to try and get through the last of the season before changing it so I just loaded up my bearing buddy and left to fish. Well the "bearing" kept getting louder and louder, I look in the mirror and see my trailer tire wobbling to beat all...
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    Am I crazy or does this work??

    Okay, I catfish and 3 trips ago I installed a livewell pump out, we have averaged 5-6 fish out of a hole we go to but the weekend I installed the pump out we got 10, next trip 15 then a day trip I got 8 and a 30'' pike. most of these fish came within 1/2 an hour of pumping the tank out and I...
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    Any rituals for moving the name on a boat?

    I would hate to anger the sea gods this late in the year. Put in a livewell pump out and the only place I could put the outlet was right through my old name so I had to peel it and am going to put it back on the other side of the boat, anything I need to do to appease the gods? Name is staying...
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    Cajon Fishing line

    I have used this on my last 2 trips and it works really well. Fishing for cats along weed beds so the fish usually get wrapped up in the weeds and you have to jerk them out, brought in 15 fish 4-15lbs and no break offs yet, I am pretty impressed with it. I am using 20lb line with a 3oz weight...
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    How do you post full size pics??????

    I have a photo bucket account, I have tried every conceivable option and can't get a full size picture to post, it always says invalid URL or "file too large" but when I resize it posts as a tiny pic. Technology is great when it does what you want it too.
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    Elliptical Pontoon

    The latest and greatest from Bennington. The tubes are the standard 25'' tall but they are 32'' wide so they offer the flotation of a 32'' tube without the weight or added height. They ran one last week with a 150 E-tec and got 40mph, normally a round tube boat would run 35 or less. Wasn't my...
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    Idiot of the year

    Fishing last night on a river, probably 500 feet wide, I am 25-30 feet from shore on a slight curve, 1 pontoon running on the other side of the river, 300 feet in between us. I hear a boat, sounds close, I turn around just in time to see this A-hole in a boat going 25-30 mph is going to go...
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    What is the fastest you have gone on water?

    I have an uncle that had a 24' Fountain with 2 427s putting out 450 hp each, got it up to 83mph, couldn't talk him into letting me drive for some reason. Pretty scary. My boat will only go 30 and the fastest I have actually driven one was 47 on a pontoon of all things, not nearly as fun as the...
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    Too much air in tube YIKES!!!

    My air checker was doing this tube today and has his regulator was set too high. Sounded like a bomb going off, I have seen alot of tubes blow up over the years but this one was the worst by far. He was checking the bottom of the tube when it went so he is okay, just a little bit jumpy now...
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    4 more boat companies out of buisness.

    I heard yesterday at work that GenMar( own Mercury engines and 12-14 boat brands) fired 4700 people(don't have to pay unemployment this way) and closed 4 plants, don't know which brands are affected but this continues a very disturbing trend. This makes at least 10 companies that have gone...
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    Base/clear on aluminum boat??

    I redid the inside of my boat last year and am thinking of painting it in the off season this year. My fishing buddy has his own body shop so I can do it for free but all he has is base/clear and am wondering how that will hold up. The boat is trailered and rarely in the water for more than...
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    Won't idle right

    81 evinrude 50 Cleaned the idle jets for the first time since I have had the boat(6 years) and now it won't idle right, it will idle for a couple seconds then misfire then idle misfire. Will only idle with timing after TDC as in +2-3 degrees, if you get timing at TDC or anything before it...
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    Fishing outer banks NC??

    We are going on vacation at the end of june/first of july to Cape Hatteras, Buxton to be specific and was looking for any tips on what to use, don't care what I catch just want to get something. I am from way north Indiana so I have no idea what to use, I was thinking a shrimp and a worm weight...
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    Any way to test a tach??

    I have 2 tachs and want to test them to see if they are good, does anyone know of a way to do this?
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    Still no tach II

    81 Evinrude 50, Rectifier tested good, charges when running(went from 12.8to 14) but no tach, zeros and jumps on key hit but no reading when running. Checked stator shows .9 on yellow/grey and .8 on yellow/blue and a high reading when checked from yellow to ground, which my manual tells me it...
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    Rectifier problem????

    Trying to trouble shoot a tach problem, checked rectifier while attached to engine, reads ohms both ways, pulled rec off engine only reads one way. So is it good or bad, when it is grounded to engine it is bad but if you take the engine ground away with all the other wires hooked up it works as...
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    Still no tach!!

    Replaced rectifier because my tach would work intermitently, now it won't work at all. When I hit the key it will jump to 1500 then 0 out and not move. The tach is set correctly and when I put the new rectifieron I changed one wire at a time so it is wired right. I will trouble shoot tommoro...
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    I did this right, right?

    Going out tomorrow and want to double check, I used Joe Reeves static timing for full advance, plugs out, spark tester on , hit key set timing at 15, which is correct 19 -4 degrees.('81 Evinrude 50) Is this right? I still have time to correct it if I did it wrong and I don't want to hurt the...
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