Catus Magnus
Cadet
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- Mar 31, 2013
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Hi folks. New to this board, and I've found much good info. Glad to find it.
Well, I just bought a boat. I was thinking about getting a jonboat - something easy to tow with small car, just to get on the lake/river to fish with. But I wanted to take my daughters (9 and 12) so it'll have to be a good-sized jonboat. And I'll want girlfriend come with me, but she doesn't care to fish all that much, but likes being on the water... so I looked a little further. Fifteen years ago I had a 17' I/O, it was fun but crowded and not a good fishing boat (sold it @ birth of 1st daughter). I wanted something a little more fishing-oriented this time. After looking for a couple months... found & purchased a 1988 Dixie 171, w/115hp Merc. It's a sort of fish-n-ski design, and was by far the nicest boat I looked at it this price range (craigslist find). I looked at some from early 2000 boats that were in worse shape - esp a Scout that I wanted but was just beat - seemed that they were never as nice as pics & description indicated
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We've had it out a couple times, great fun. Much better fishing layout than the I/O, and prob has MORE space on it. It does have an intermittent problem where it is weak for the first fifteen minutes or so or running - it'll barely turn 4000rpm, mid/lows 30mph speed - but then something kicks in and it leaps to 5700 or so and just a little shy of 50mph indicated, and runs fine rest of the day. Huge difference in smoothness, too. I'm guessing spark? I'll post query in the Merc outboard section, but if anyone has a quick fix, let me know!
the girls are just tickled, and I am, too... this will generate memories they'll never forget. I've got those memories with my Dad, and the girls will have some to. Now, just to sort out this spark (?) problem...
Well, I just bought a boat. I was thinking about getting a jonboat - something easy to tow with small car, just to get on the lake/river to fish with. But I wanted to take my daughters (9 and 12) so it'll have to be a good-sized jonboat. And I'll want girlfriend come with me, but she doesn't care to fish all that much, but likes being on the water... so I looked a little further. Fifteen years ago I had a 17' I/O, it was fun but crowded and not a good fishing boat (sold it @ birth of 1st daughter). I wanted something a little more fishing-oriented this time. After looking for a couple months... found & purchased a 1988 Dixie 171, w/115hp Merc. It's a sort of fish-n-ski design, and was by far the nicest boat I looked at it this price range (craigslist find). I looked at some from early 2000 boats that were in worse shape - esp a Scout that I wanted but was just beat - seemed that they were never as nice as pics & description indicated
.
We've had it out a couple times, great fun. Much better fishing layout than the I/O, and prob has MORE space on it. It does have an intermittent problem where it is weak for the first fifteen minutes or so or running - it'll barely turn 4000rpm, mid/lows 30mph speed - but then something kicks in and it leaps to 5700 or so and just a little shy of 50mph indicated, and runs fine rest of the day. Huge difference in smoothness, too. I'm guessing spark? I'll post query in the Merc outboard section, but if anyone has a quick fix, let me know!
the girls are just tickled, and I am, too... this will generate memories they'll never forget. I've got those memories with my Dad, and the girls will have some to. Now, just to sort out this spark (?) problem...
