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Title: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Powder Keg on May 07, 2010, 11:30:10 PM
Anyone here run boats? I have a 1975 Reinell Tri hull that I fish with. I made a deck over the front seats and added a trolling motor to the front. I have been fixing it up the last few weeks:o) I'll try and post a few pictures. We are planning on decimating a couple generations of bass and carp this summer\0/
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Bernd on May 08, 2010, 08:23:16 AM
Does a 22ft long by 8ft wide poontoon boat count?

Pain the butt to dock at a 10ft wide dock in a side wind.  :(

Bernd
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Powder Keg on May 08, 2010, 01:19:16 PM
If I was to get a different boat it would be a "Party Barge" I'll post some pictures of mine when I get her in the water.
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Powder Keg on May 09, 2010, 01:13:42 AM
So far Ive installed new carpet. Replaced a couple pieces of wood that were rotten under the dash. Installed new fishing pole holders. Today I made a box to store the trolling motor battery. It also serves as a step up to the deck. I started to tidy up the wiring today. I'll see if I can get the bottom finder installed tomorrow. I also have some painting and some welding to do. I'm making a rack to hold a cooler on the splash deck near the motor. Then the new seats can go in and we can hit the water :clap:

I know :worthless: I'll see what I can do:o)
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Powder Keg on May 09, 2010, 08:50:03 PM
Here's a couple of quick pictures. Here you can see the new boards that I put in under the dash. The new Fire extinguisher is handy and out of the way. The box in the center houses the battery for the trolling motor and serves as a step to get up onto the deck in the front. Nice new carpet.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v652/Powderkeg3418/CIMG4471.jpg)

The deck\o/

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v652/Powderkeg3418/CIMG4472.jpg)

I think I have the wiring nearly sorted out. I have to clean a few more connections. I need to get a Tachometer and a radio. I also ran the wires for the bottom finder today. Hopefully I can hit the water this week\o/
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Bernd on May 10, 2010, 07:58:46 AM
Nice. Ready to relax on the water drowning worms.  :lol:

I thought I had a few pics of our party barge but didn't find any. Looks like I need to take a few.

Bernd
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Powder Keg on May 15, 2010, 12:11:29 PM
I took it out yesterday. The motor didn't want to rev clear up. It would kind of sputter and cough and get boggy. It starts and idles great and I think midrange was fine. Just not enough oomph to get the boat up on plane.  :(

I messed around with it a little and ran it quite a bit. Just not up on plane. when I got home, I pulled the cover back off. A buddy had stopped by to say Hi. We noticed the choke lever under the hood was part way between "automatic" and "choke". We are going to go out today. Hopefully that was the problem.

Wes
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Powder Keg on May 17, 2010, 06:03:30 AM
I'm pretty sure the problem is the carbs. They probably just need cleaned.  I don't feel comfortable taking them apart, so I'm going to take them to a guy I know.
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Powder Keg on May 19, 2010, 09:17:36 PM
It's going back togather today\o/ The bottom two carbs were filthy. He said it should run like a champ.
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Powder Keg on May 19, 2010, 09:29:41 PM
I forgot to add. I had to order a new Tachometer. Smoke came out of the old one? I have new marine speakers and a CD player\o/ And the new boat cover should be here this week. Hopefully the cover wont get much use.

Anyone ever go bowfishing? I went for the first time last weekend. I got 5 carp. We had a blast!!!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v652/Powderkeg3418/Bowfishing/CIMG4473.jpg)

Anyone have any carp recipes? Smoked/ cooked/ pickled?
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Bernd on May 20, 2010, 09:01:46 AM
No recipes Wes. How the heck do you aim. I know about the angle when you see a fish as to were it really is? I forgot what they call that.

Bernd
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: DABIRDGUY on May 20, 2010, 12:26:31 PM
BOAT: (noun) A hole in the water into which you pour all your money, time and elbow grease.
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: ozzie46 on May 20, 2010, 07:08:06 PM


   Carp Recipe;

   Get a pine shingle. place carp on shingle, season to taste.

   Stick in oven at 450 Degrees for 1 hour.

   Remove from oven, throw carp away and eat shingle.    :)



   Sorry I couldn't resist.   :) :) :)
    Ron
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Powder Keg on May 22, 2010, 08:53:47 PM
That recipe works good for muskrat also Ron :lol:

Aiming is tricky. The phenomenon that you refer to Bernd, is called refraction. Basically you aim low. I am probably going to make some stiffer limbs for my recurve bow. There were a couple that I hit that the arrow didn't go in. My uncle makes bows and has a limb jig that will work for my bow\o/
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Bernd on May 22, 2010, 09:10:30 PM
The phenomenon that you refer to Bernd, is called refraction. Basically you aim low.

Ya, that's it. Had a brain phart and couldn't come up with the right word.

Bernd
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Powder Keg on May 26, 2010, 12:04:14 AM
Got my boat back yesterday. Man what a blast!!! My Guy did an excellent job rebuilding the carbs!!! I went out tonight and the boat hops out of the water like it used to :headbang: We went out to shoot some more fish, but  didn't see any:( I got my new cover installed tonight also. Just have to install the new tach and stereo :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: But its suposed to rain the next few days. Well see.

Hope all are well, Wes
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Artie on May 26, 2010, 12:59:25 AM
I agree Wes, boats ARE a lot of work... but boating is so much fun......

(http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm54/artieonedge/ATT14.jpg)  :D :)
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Bernd on May 26, 2010, 11:41:29 AM
What's that Artie? Austrialian sand sking?  :ddb:  :lol:  :ddb:  :lol:

Bernd
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Artie on May 31, 2010, 08:04:36 AM
nah not us mate..I think its you lot...(steering wheel is on the 'wrong' side)  :) :D :) :D :) :D
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Bernd on June 01, 2010, 03:00:07 PM
Ah, got me.  :lol:

Bernd
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: 75Plus on June 01, 2010, 06:37:28 PM
For a boat, the steering wheel is on the wrong side for this side of the pond. Most of our boats have right side steering with a few that are center mounted.

Joe
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Powder Keg on June 20, 2010, 07:42:57 PM
We were out the other day and the steering cable came unraveled  :bugeye: :bugeye: :bugeye: I ordered a new replacement.

I got Gout right after and haven't been out in the shop. I couldn't hardly walk for four days :bang: But today I got the new cable and steering box installed. I'm ready to hit the water now :)
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Artie on June 20, 2010, 07:48:27 PM
Mate, Im glad the cable didnt jam on ya.... kinda NOT funny......

Gout? Oh my...... I used to suffer from that particular form of torture...... nasty nasty..... I found my 'trigger' and removed it from my diet...  :( (im an Aussie..we LOVE our vegemite) hardly an occurance now in years......

Oh I feel for you....

Rob T
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: fatal-exception on August 24, 2010, 01:28:54 PM
Cripes, Vegemite sounds like the definition of Gout.... Wish I could find my trigger...I think it might be lasagna unfortunately.... :scratch:

Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Artie on August 25, 2010, 07:58:10 AM
Ah, tis a terrible thing... until I was afflicted I truy had no idea..... my doctor is a woman who is also (quite rare) a gout sufferer, she says that gout is more painfull than childbirth... who am I to argue?

I know that I have had a morphine injection while 'under the influence'..... gladly tis no more.... and thats the way it will stay... (I hope)....
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: MrFluffy on August 27, 2010, 04:45:43 AM
Dont you guys get prescribed aluplurinol to get the blood over acidity back to normal, which stops the gout in its tracks...?
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Artie on August 27, 2010, 07:23:21 AM
Dont you guys get prescribed aluplurinol to get the blood over acidity back to normal, which stops the gout in its tracks...?

but does it? not in my case...
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: fatal-exception on October 08, 2010, 06:02:47 PM
Indomethacin. It works, but usually takes a day or two and is pretty hard on the guts.
Title: Re: Boats sure are alot of work!!!
Post by: Powder Keg on August 21, 2011, 01:59:19 PM
We have also been over hauling my boat trailer. The rollers on the easy roll system never have worked very good and they were getting so old that one broke and fell off. So I decided to make some bunks to replace them. I was busy and didn't take any pictures while we were working on this one. But here is what we did. It was all done with stuff we took off or scraps that I've collected. The only thing I bought were the bolts.

The boat was too close to the Blazer. So we moved it back about 5" on the trailer. I loosened the axle trunnion and slid it back 2". I moved the yellow bow stop down low and it now centers the boat on the trailer. 2 of the old rollers were in OK shape so I made a new Bow stop out of them. I moved the jack to the other side and made some brackets to hold a plank next to the tung of the trailer. I can now walk on the trailer very easily with out loosing my balance. We also repositioned the bracket for the spare tire.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v652/Powderkeg3418/Boat1.jpg)

We then pulled all the rollers out from under the boat. A friend had given me some plastic and I made the new bunk boards out of it. This would have been easier if I had a way to take the boat off the trailer while we were working on it. We also lowered the boat about 3" on the trailer.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v652/Powderkeg3418/boat3.jpg)

I have never been happy with the safety chains that were on it. So I installed some new ones.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v652/Powderkeg3418/Boat2.jpg)

When we lowered the boat it was way too close to the fenders. We made new mounts that mount to the axle, so they now float with the wheel. We used the hoops that the rollers were mounted to to make new more sturdier side boards. We then mounted the lights up high on them.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v652/Powderkeg3418/Boat4.jpg)

My uncle offered to help me paint it. At his house we can take the boat off to do that.

~Wes~