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I have a fixer-upper. A 06 Ranger bass boat. 85 Hp Johnson and a great Dilly trailer with Buddies and Boat guides. I have all the paper work too. groaner@hughes.net

I have a fixer-upper. A 06 Ranger bass boat. 85 Hp Johnson and a great Dilly trailer with Buddies and Boat guides. I have all the paper work too. groaner@hughes.net

Moved here to get away from the kids. They wouldn't think of looking down here. Spent most of my life in the Puget Sound area of Washington and Alaska. I fish in Smith Lake and Catoma lake now. Mostly for the fun of fishing. I bring home Cat's and occasionally a big Bass. I row this little boat on the small lake. I like the quiet when I'm fishing. I plan on trading this V for a Jon as I'm needing a bit more stability these days. For fishing in the larger Smith lake, I use this bigger Tin boat with the 25 Hp Mariner. By the GPS it go's 28Mph. I like this boat for getting me around the lake and its so stable I can get up and walk around in it. If your coming through this way, lets have Coffee...

Some new words in his vocabulary would be "Kill Switch tether"! Or if he can ignore those words, maybe a Metal Helmut would serve him better.

Glen-L, a Boat builders site that sells Plans and kits, had a gathering up at Guntersville AL this last weekend. I saw some really great boats there. This one in particular was done by a guy from San Francisco. He made a long rowing boat with a Tiller and on the bottom of the Tiller he fastend a Motor guide trolling motor. Great workmanship. He made a top out of one of those Tents with the springy Fglass rods. Whattadeal! The Wooden shoe is protection while towing. It comes off for use.

I like the electric acutator, fwd/rev for the trim tabs or the Hyd lift on the big outboards. That stuff can be used for steering on your kicker. That way, from the helm, you only have a switch for left n' right. You sure wouldn't want to use that for your primary outboard steering on a big Hp motor or larger outboard going pretty fast. Stick with what's engineered for that kind of activity.

A single cable stick is possible. I've seen, in a Catalog, single cable and housing, Push-Pull cables. With a large inner wire. It must have been for industrial applications. All a guy'd have to do is make a bracket for the Stick at one end, and mount the cable housing at both ends and fasten the steering end of the wire to the outboard.

Money! That'd be the main reason. For our smaller tin boats, a 'stick' steering assembly is over $300. A home made Hydraulic system can beat that all to heck. In the past I've owned two larger boats with Kickers. On my 27' I had a link between the Out drive leg and the Kicker. I worked myself to death wheeling the helm back and forth to steer that little Kicker. To steer a larger longer boat with that little kicker requires almost a complete swing from left to right, quite often, to maintain a straight line. Also, You have to be up at the helm to steer so you can see what other boats are doing. It was then, the idea came to me of a 12V powered Hydraulic link to steer that Kicker. From the Helm, the operator would be moving a Toggle switch back and forth, instead of turning that big heavy out drive. I known for a long time what I'd do. I just thought somebody else has already done it. I was looking for ideas or experiences.

Have any of you guys put a home-made Hyd steering on an outboard? Two "Push-pull" hyd Cylinders. One connected to the outboard, the other plunger being operated by a stick? Sounds simple, but has anybody heard of it anywhere? How about the power trim stuff from a larger outboard? Connect the plunger to an Outboard motor, and put the electric switch somewhere up front for a remote steering out board. Anybody?

This is on the subject of letting the bottom fish go or keep them when fishing in the deep cold waters off Alaska. I responded with a tale of something else you might do with the bottom fish for some entertainment. Down in southeast Alaska if the fish was too small to fool with, we'd stand at the back of the boat and wave the fish up n' down at arm's length. Soon you'd see an Eagle a few hundred feet above you and off to the side. Then you set a straight course and threw the fish up as high as you could. The Eagle is watching. About the time the fish splashes down, the Eagle is on his way. Before the bewildered fish can get his bearings and start down, the Eagle is on his final approach and 'SNATCH' up up n' awaaayyyyy! Its a marvelous sight. Sends chills right down your spine and the Hair on your ears stands straight up. Then the fight between the Eagle who wants to keep that fish, but cannot gain altitude fast enough, and the Gulls who want to knock the fish loose from the Eagle, but have to work in tag teams to get the fish. What a Drama. The Eagle cannot gain altitude fast enough, and the numerous gulls crash into the Eagle. You can hear the 'thud' as the hit takes place. The Eagle continues to struggle up wards. Eventually the Eagle tires. The Gulls are getting to him. If he's going to lose the fish to the Gulls, its at this first level of struggle. For a brief respite from the Damn Gulls, the Eagle goes into a shallow hi speed dive. The Gulls just cant keep up with the Screaming Eagle in that dive. The Eagle loses 50' or so and gains a bunch of momentum and at the end of the dive he starts up again, this time he's above the Gulls. You can hear the wind whooshing off those huge wings as they slowly whoosh whoosh whoosh and he gains yardage and altitude with each powerful whoosh. He gets a couple hundred feet each time he does that shallow dive. Soon the Gulls catch up though and the struggle continues. That struggle will repeat maybe as much as six times. Finally the Eagle is so far above the scene you cant really tell if he still has the fish. The Gulls quit and Flap noisily back to the lower altitudes. The Eagle soars off to deal with his dinner. Every minute you spend on the water is an entertainment of some sort.

Get a set of oars and row. I did my Trout trolling and fly fishing that way most of my life. You can row a 20' as easy as a 16' and you'll like the quiet fishing much better. Let it drift for a few seconds, them give the oars a big pull, and let them drop, because that's the time the Rainbow will hit and you better have a hand on the rod!

I was called to work on some stuff in P'burgs during the Nordsky's festival. There wasn't a room to be had. The customer got me into the wheel house of a Fishing vessel in the boat harbor there in that photo behind the fish and fishermen. What a nice but noisy place to sleep. All to myself with only a half million Seagulls squawking all night long. Did you notice all the near-surface Rocks, big ones, as you left and returned. Many's a boat man has failed to make that turn wide enough and camped on those rocks till a Towboat with a Pump could show up.

It just said she Hooked it. That's the truth and she should get credit for it. I've hooked them too. But I am not strong enough to bring a 40#r up. I hand the rod off to someone and let them bring it up. One time I had four people out with me. I hooked four fish, one at a time, handed the rods off, took an empty rod and hooked another......etc. Finally I had to wait till somebody brought one to the boat before I could hook another. Its a knack and that little girl seemed to have it. When I had a Commercial Halibut permit, I had an electric windlass on a davit. My 29' Boat heeled over and the windlass groaned down to to nearly blowing a breaker when we were bringing in a set and a 205# Halibut began to resist. It was spooky. I don't know how any one person would have the strength and durability to haul a fish that large in by himself. So that little girl needed help. Anybody would. She got credit for hooking it. Thats good enough.

Can you use an automotive Vacuam pump to bleed those lines. Similar to bleeding Hyd Brake lines in a Car. YOu attatch the vacuam pump at the remote, highest part of the system and pull vacuam till no more air comes through.

I'm guessing the shift register in the logic is being re-stuffed with data from a different form of Data or a different clock time. You might have to make sure you have the right sender or there may be something you have to change in the logic. Call the help line!

I bet I could find some of that at the Second Chance stroe. The Good will of the South.

Thanks, I have both those manuals. I just don't see a tutorial in there anywhere. It was similar to feeding me a bunch of disassociated facts, and asking me to put them in order. IE; to make a way point, first press (?) then press (?) etc...

Basically I cant figure out how to use all the features. I also do not have a strict procedure to follow when inputting a waypoint. Also, I don't know how to put in a longitude and latitude address, and then go to it. For instance, looking at an old chart, finding a good spot, and put that into the GPS, and when you get to the water, use the GPS to take you to that spot. I have a bunch of MOB's stored in there, some are years old, and don't know how to get rid of them, or label them. Who is a guru that may be able to help me with setting up an operating procedure?

Somewhere there is a screw-on or split slide on cover for these cables. Originally they had a shrink wrap, long gone now, so I need an after-market, hard plastic so its slick and easy to slide around, but tough enough to live well on a boat with Anti-skid paint on the deck. Who has a hint for me?

Awrite for my Barn!!!! I found enough parts n' pieces in my Barn to make this thing work. If you have a big Barn and NEVER throw anything away, you'll have what you need if you look long enough and stir up enough stuff! I found some stainless Cotter pin, some stainless to make shear pins with, and two props. Both fit. I've never seen one of these motors in action so I don't know which prop. Here's a slide show. Look and tell me if one prop or the other is right, or if I have to do something different yet? http://s55.photobucket.com/albums/g121/gro...nt=3095aa70.pbw

That Model number is hard to see. "25 E-25" and the Serial number starts with "H-57nnnn" When I was looking for the Model number I discovered why this thing came into my possession along with a boat full of junk. Someone has removed the foot-stomp switch. The Bracket, screws, switch and all are gone. Wires are cut. That switch must have failed and the guy intended to get a replacement....That was years ago though. Now I gotta figure out what to do next. Any ideas?

Good question. I'll have to edit that post. Its in Cullman Alabama. Not far off I-65 just north of B'ham and south of Huntsville. I want $995 for the whole works. I have a couple more of those Johnson trolling motors to throw it with it. This trailer is in good shape for a long trip. Its been all over Louisiana and the surrounding states when the guy was an active bass tournament guy. He won a new boat, and this one sat, till I got it. I towed it over here from Lake Charles LA, 12 hours with no problems. It will tow anywhere in the states and even up to Alaska without a problem. Good tires, springs, Bearings, hitch etc. I have paper work on the boat and the trailer.

Wiley didnt you mean 15 to 30 hours? The Housefly is a boon to the space travelers future. By messing with its genetics, the DNA, they were able to make a house fly last about a week. Great, what this means to space travelers going to places that are light years away is that we can re-engineer a human so he'll live 30 times his normal life span. After all what would be the benefit of sending a human on a journey that will last longer than his life span? So the humble pita housefly has started us on a journey that no Human will ever see the end of or the return of!

Good suggestion, thanks. I already have it there too.

I really dont want to sell this boat outright. I have too much into its development. I need a Jon boat to fish with. I'll trade my Aluminum V for your Jon Boat. This is my Rowing boat. Its certified for a 10 Hp and I've had my 9.5 J/E on it. GPS speed is nearly 17 Mph with just me in it. I've put a rolling-rowing seat in it. I have the original seat with the floatation and I'd put that back into it for you. The Front seat was gone when I got the boat. Its wired with Regulation lights, interior lights and some Cigar sockets for plug in's. The Depth sounder is new. Works great. I have the paper work on the boat. Located near Cullman AL.