08-10-2020, 02:54 PM | #1 |
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I've started doing work on my new boat
Now I'm getting ready to install a fish finder. It's a Humminbird HELIX 5 CHIRP GPS G2 Fish Finder/Chartplotter.
I have a trolling motor on the way. It's a Minn Kota Riptide PowerDrive Bow Mount Bluetooth Trolling Motor with CoPilot. I'm adding 4 rod holders and 2 pedestal seats, and a few other goodies. I took it out yesterday and gave it a dry run. I can see now that I have to add some weight to the front. When I goose the engine, the bow rises way up until the boat starts on a plane. When I add my trolling motor, marine battery, and a live well it should be balanced out pretty good. I have the side bunkers off of the trailer because I'm modifying them. I also had to adjust the trailer. The boat dealer had the boat too far to the rear. 20200810_144305 by John Danley, on Flickr
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08-10-2020, 04:21 PM | #2 |
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That looks like it's a big outboard for that dinghy...it will fly
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08-10-2020, 05:11 PM | #3 |
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I have a fishing boat like that. Mine isnt as long, smaller, has a middle seat too. Oars or elec fishing motor
What horse power is that motor? Geeze ! That's gonna haul ass.........That's like one of Thailand race boats https://youtu.be/ThZ2H_THyZw
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08-10-2020, 06:57 PM | #4 |
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I got the transducer installed.
The motor isn't that big. It's a 25 HP, 3 cylinder, with electronic ignition and electronic fuel injection. |
08-10-2020, 07:20 PM | #5 |
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Looks like you have two Temporary Tags...
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08-10-2020, 08:07 PM | #6 |
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08-10-2020, 08:29 PM | #7 |
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I was going to ask about the temporary tag on you truck, as I know you've had it a long time.
What length is your new boat? Brian
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08-10-2020, 08:37 PM | #8 |
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25 hp is a lot for that light little boat
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08-10-2020, 08:37 PM | #9 |
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That flat bottom with the 25 hp will flat out move. I bet you can get it up around 35-40 mph. When I was working in Northern California at a boat marina, I'd take one like that out to pick blackberries on the water. With that flat bottom I could get right in to shallow sloughs and such.
Had an agreement with a lady I worked with. If I'd fill up a bucket or two, she'd bake me a blackberry pie at 1 for 1. For every pie she baked for me, she'd bake one for herself. I didn't need to fish. I caught pies! Actually, I had a really good catfish hole behind the seawall next to the travel trailer I slept in. I could get off work, bait a hook and have a nice catfish for dinner in just a couple minutes.
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08-10-2020, 08:41 PM | #10 |
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08-14-2020, 08:14 PM | #11 |
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This is how I"m attaching Pedestal seats to my boat.
I bought a couple 1/4" thick aluminum plates. I cut them to size on my table saw with a non-ferrous blade. I'm going to attach the aluminum plates to my boat with riv-nuts. I'll paint the aluminum plates and the pedestal bases the same color as the boat. |
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