Just picked up my new to me boat!

[Darren Smith]

I finally picked up my boat! had to drive across Panama to get. After getting out of the port, of course it started to rain. So I ended up driving 50 miles over lousy two lane roads in a downpour to bring it home, but it is home!! This is the first time I have seen it, and it is everything I was expecting, clean exterior, needs a new door for the cabin (plywood) and some batteries (shipping left one key in the on position) but other than that I will be mounting my elctronics this weekend, and hopefully splashing it to adjust the bowstop on the trailer (6 inches to far forward, boat was forward of last rollers). I feel like a kid at Christmas with a new toy!!Eventually I will get a pic and post it as I couldn't get one yesterday, the port didn't allow cameras!

 

[vipzach]

Re: Just picked up my new to me boat!

You don't want your boat to hang off the rollers, you may not need to move the bow stop.

 

[Darren Smith]

Re: Just picked up my new to me boat!

vipzach, unfortunately the only way to keep the boat over the rear rollers is to move the bow stop/winch back about 6 inches, effectivly stopping it from going forward too far. I'll find out more on Sat. when the workweek is over... work always seems to get in the way of boating!