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Our Lenco Trim tabs are 9" wide by 12" Long. At a full lock turn to port the kicker comes about a half inch from the tab when tab is in the up position. Our kicker is a Honda BF8D long shaft.

Our boat has the Lenco trim tabs with a Honda BF90A with permatrim and an 8HP Honda long shaft kicker. I purchased a mini jacker and found that I did not need it. I mounted the kicker directly on the transom and it works great. Clearances are close, but everything does clear and it keeps the...

I recently purchased and installed a Garmin 7sv Sonar/Fishifinder. First time out I was loosing the bottom above 10knts. Tried turning to the left and no difference. Tried turning to the right, no difference. I may have it angled to far towards the bow and would try making that adjustment next...

I have worked with epoxy fiberglass quite a bit with the wood boats I have built. As an experiment I decided to build a fish box for one of them using 1" construction foam sheets. I sandwiched the foam in 10oz epoxy fiberglass, glued the pieces together with epoxy and then fiberglass taped all...

We are sorry to hear of your condition Dr Bob. We met you at a c-brat dinner in Sequim a couple of years ago right after we purchased our C-Dory and we really enjoyed talking to you and Marie. More than that I have enjoyed the opportunity to soak up your knowledge through your many posts on the...

I have been following along with this thread and there are some very interesting points that have been made. On the subject of raw sewage being discharged in to ocean and inland waterways, It is a fact that the greater metropolitan area of Victoria BC on Vancouver Island, Canada (population of...

As Harvey said, this is very recommencement of a bartender. The Bartender boats are very highly regarded as very sea worthy boats. the smaller ones do operate with outboards, while the larger size bartenders use inboards. This is like the smaller variety, yet uses an inboard. This is the first...

Don,t know what type of auto pilot you are using, but with our older Raymarine auto pilot we tie our 8hp kicker to the main and troll 1.5 to 2 mph all day in the strait of Juan DeFuca and unless it gets really rough or windy it works great. On ours there is a lot of settings as to how far the...

Hello Ron & Anne Sounds like you have both worked hard to make this a super event. We were looking forward to this for months. Unfortunately we need to report in that we will not be able to make the event at all due to a death in our family. We hope to meet up with you some other time. Best...

Here is my take on the subject. I have a trailer with the oil hubs and one with the bearing buddy grease hubs. With the grease hubs I take them apart once a year to know that every thing inside is in good condition and that there has been no salt water intrusion that would cause rapid decay of...

It took us 1 hour one way at 16Knots when the water was smooth. In rougher water we could only do 8 knots and it took 2 hours. We also saw whales out near Tatoosh island, but not as many. Tatoosh is only a half hour from the harbor. Doug & Susan

Thanks Sunbeam, Thanks Edwin. I think I will take advice from both of you. I am going to order a complete seadog filller cap assembly. If I am lucky the cap will screw rright in to the existing housing. If not I will install the entire assembly. Time is of the essence here, so this will allow us...

We went fishing at Neah Bay last Monday through Wednesday. Monday we went to Swift sure Bank. This was our first trip on the open Ocean and it was very memorable. The first thing we saw when we reached Swiftsure was the biggest bait ball we had ever seen boiling on the surface for as far as you...

I sent one of our fuel caps over board at the fuel dock last weekend. The screw came loose that holds it to the chain and that was the end of it. I robbed the cap off the water fill and made a make shift cap for the water. I can not find the correct size replacement cap. I ordered what I thought...

Thanks for all this input. It didn't make since to us that these would not be allowed. We will take them with us and not worry about it. sometimes you can look all over the internet and not find a good answer. The go to place after that is the C-brats. We always get good answers here. Thanks again

Last summer we had a volunteer safety inspection by the US Coast Guard Auxiliary. We were up to date on all Items and passed the inspection. The guy doing the inspection while looking at our flares told me that the pistol launcher for our parachute flares would be considered a weapon by the...

Scotty does make their own braided line and it is approved on their downriggers, but to clarify, "Monofilament" is not recommended and will void your Scotty warranty. I have never measured the voltage on our boat, but I must assume it is OK, as we hook lots of fish. I have a spool of braided...

We also use Scotty downriggers. Ours are the 1101 with a fixed 30" boom mounted in front of the lazaret. Never have a problem with the steel wire interfering with the kicker motor. I don't know about Cannon, but Scotty does not recommend monofilament because it will stretch and contract on the...

I built a Ram mount for our ipad that will allow easy viewing of the Navionics program we recently purchased for a redundant chart plotter as well as internet and email and such. It folds up out of the way when not in use and the ipad just slides right out if we want to use it somewhere else...

Dash organizers fit like a glove and require no fasteners or holes in the boat. These allow for fastening things like ipad mounts and radios and such. We can pile a lot more stuff on to the dash/helm and things don't fall off. Our ipad slides right out of the holder when we want to use it...