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Personally I use an 80qt Ice chest with a reinforced top as an extra seat. It holds all of my extra fishing gear, down rigger, crab lines, Line puller, etc. It serves as a step to a high dock. :smilep It seats two people for short trips. :sad It also serves as a movable ballast for...

The fact that the car shorted out from getting wet, then caught fire. :shock: Living in the PNW, that sure makes me want to go electric... :thdown

That was my first OB Motor. They run forever. :thup Only problem was the pressurized gas tank. The bottoms would rust out and pump gas into the boat. :crook

I fired up the Pocket Yacht this morning. The main engine ran like a top. Then I went to fire up the kicker, my venerable, (1988) Evinrude 6hp. The bloody throttle cable was frozen solid. I cursed, pulled and pried to no avail. It wouldn't move. :disgust Finally, I took it out of the...

The pressure washer started on the second pull and within half an hour, 98% of the dirt and moss blew right off. Now for the inside. Only one wasp and no nests so far, but the inside of the back canvas had a life of it's own. I had to lay it in the driveway and use the pressure washer pressure...

Don't forget to pay close attention to the current flow in Rosario Strait. It can get really lumpy on a tide change. :shock:

You don't, "Own" anything anymore. You just rent it from the state. :sad

We use vitamin B and Garlic tablets taken once a day. If you do get bitten the bite doesn't itch forever. Also check Harbor Freight for the Bug Zapper Paddles. We used to use Avon's Skin So Soft, but our source moved away. I liked the way it smelled but the wife says it was too oily.

Bob, I was speaking from memory. I'll have to see if I can find my old manual on antenna designs and tuning. As I remember it had to do with tuning. Watching the SWR meter as you slide a 1" metal half cylinder up and down near the tip of the antenna. When the SWR was correct, you taped the...

Those that insist on flying flags, or burgees from their radio antennas should refrain from using those cute little metal clips. Placing a metal clip around your antenna is effectively, "De Tuning it" from the factory specs that it was designed for. :smileo

It's been a long time ago, but there was a fellow in Canada that was making baseball caps with your model and color of C-Dory on the front. On the back were crossed U.S. - Canadian flags and your boat name. I don't remember who it was, but maybe this will jog someone else's memory. :smiled...

Sorry Mark, Much as I'd like to view the new models, I don't do face book. :thdown

If that Johnson is a two cycle, there can't be too much wrong with it. :wink My 1988 had spent most of it's life outside and the biggest problem I found was mold. :teeth

I'm still using the '88 6hp. Evenrude that came on my boat. :smile Two cycles run forever and they're lighter than most four cycles of equal hp. :wink

Years and years ago we took our 14' Run-a-bout up the Duwamish. Is that old Whaling Catcher Ship still there? I remember it because it still had a Harpoon Cannon mounted on the bow. :smileo

One of the the things we noticed, when one came into Desolation Sound, the people seldom came out of the boat. :sad

I just look at them and think....WOW !! :smileo I could float my boat in what it takes to paint their bottom. :crook

I make it a point to have an extra of any thing I may drop in the water. Spacers, lock washers, cotter pins,etc. :wink

WOW :shock: Try clearing Canadian Customs with that. :smileo They gave me a "Bubblegum" time over an NRA hat. :sad

Thank goodness the motor was was up, or it could have caused major damage to the transom. :smileo Either way, we should probably let this thread die as this person will will remember the incident the rest of their life. (For sure their wife will.) :wink