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  1. rolmops

    Penn Downriggers

    I am about to change from Penn manual down riggers (the ones I bought from rndn) to electric Does anybody here use electric Penn down riggers? How do they compare to Scotties and Walkers? Which ones will haul up a 13 or 17 pound rigger weight? Please give your opinion and advice.It is quite an...
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    Lake Ontario Spring Derby.

    It is going on right now and it will go until May ninth So far the leading fish is a 27 pound 11 ounce lake trout ..... They will probably catch something bigger before it is over. As I was printing this another fish was weighed in. It is a 33 pound King salmon... Let's see what tomorrow brings.
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    building a planer board mast.

    I am currently building a planer board mast so I can do some Lake Ontario brown trout fishing next spring and then later on some steelhead hunting. I have built the boards and currently the mast is being worked on. For the board lines I want to use the reels of Cannon mini-troll down...
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    ball hardens as it gets colder.

    I decided to go for a spin on Keuka lake today to see the changing colors on the Bluff while coaxing some pike to my lures.(All I caught was some very large perch). After launching the boat and parking the car I tried to pump some fuel to the engine in order to start her up,but the ball was hard...
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    oil oil oil oil oil.

    I have about four gallons of mixed 50:1 gas with TC-W3 in a can.Now I just wonder if it a good or a bad idea to use it in my chain saw or leaf blower. In short,is 2 stroke oil that is for water cooled engines good or bad for air cooled engines??
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    I need someone to outsmart my merc,cause I can't do it

    My 1984 75 horse 4 cylinder merc is giving me a serious headache. For a few weeks now it is going back and forth between being a great machine and then refusing to start 2 hours later. I drained the fuel tank and only use fresh seafoam laced fuel.The carbs are very thoroughly gone through and...
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    fuel pump on a 1984 75 horse merc.

    The engine is a 4 cylinder 1984 75 horse Mercury. She runs fine most of the time,but during stormy weather when I run at a relatively low rpm (2000) she often cuts out and does not want to restart until half an hour later,and then only with pumping the ball. I checked the fuel pickup,changed the...
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    Smoker Craft and Sylvan.

    Does anybody know whether the 18.6 foot 1984 smoker craft and the same year same length sylvan are the same hull and windshield? Thank you.
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    Lake Ontario fishing

    We went out on Lake Ontario this Friday and we caught a nice 7 pound steelhead (rainbow alias bug eater on steroids) a 14 and a 23 pound king salmon.Not bad for a 3 hour trip to enjoy the sunset. We caught the trout 35 feet down but the salmon was caught when we lowered our down rigger balls to...
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    1964 9.5 Evinrude

    This is a longshaft with aftermarket remote control setup little 9.5 trolling motor which does great on my 19 footer.There probably are only a few longshafts 9.5s. Anyways,the problem is water coming out from between the outer cover and the exhaust housing.The water is cold while at the same...
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    shock absorbers

    I tow my 19 footer with a grand caravan,but the rear end of the vehicle goes down a bit mostly because it is not fitted with a tow package. I put an extra tranny fluid cooler and the weight on the tongue is only about a hundred pounds the trailer is about 500 pounds below the tow rating of my...
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    exhaust trouble/tachometer

    This is for a 1984 4 cylinder 75 horse Mercury outboard,which I picked up with a 1984 18 foot sylvan for $1000 bucks.This is my second Merc,all my other outboards are OMC This engine has a through hub exhaust system, which should dull the noise and leave very little smoke to come out of the...
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    Mercury remote controls

    The remote control system on my boat,is a quicksilver that is original with a 1984 75 horse engine. The handle (without t/t) is quite wobbly and after some reading I found that it has a screw at the bottom of the handle that can be tightened. I checked on my handle and found a hole that is...
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    Home Depot into boating business???

    I got this Home Depot Email Add for an automatic 500GPH Sahara bilge pump for $39.98.$10.00 less than I-boats.After checking it out I ordered one and that is when strange things started happening.First the site claimed that the pump was back ordered,but as soon as the pumps become available...
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    exhaust bellows

    This is for a Volvo-Penta AQ 170 straight block with what I presume is an AQ270 outdrive. The exhaust bellows are ruined and my friend asked me to replace them for him.He bases my I/O expertise on the fact that I like to fix late 1950s 10 horse Johnson outboards.... Anyway,replacing the outboard...
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    great stuff foam

    I have to replace a small section of foam under one of my deck boards and I wonder whether it is possible to use "great stuff" instead of the 2 component foam that is normally used.It just seems to be so much easier and cheaper.
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    trial by water.

    Today was a bad day. The original plan was to fishing on Sunday,but the weather report looked nasty. The plan changed to today.Then the weather people issued a small craft warning for Lake Ontario. So I went to Owasco lake.By the time I got there there was a stiff northern breeze but nothing...
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    Connecting a GPS to a radio.

    I have a Garmin 182 GPS and a Uniden Oceanus ship to shore radio.The radio has a few extra plugs hanging out of the rear.One for a PA system and the other to hook up to a GPS so in case of a MOB or MAYDAY the radio will automatically start broadcasting the ships location combined with a constant...
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    fuel connector.

    Hello guys, I just rebuilt a little 10 horse 1959 Johnson and it runs real sweet.One of the changes made is the introduction of a fuel pump so as not to have to deal with different type fuel tanks in a boat.That works fine too. One thing that bugs me is the fuel hose connector on the engine...
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    beyond the plug club.

    Just wondering,did YOU ever forget to remove the strap that holds the boat to the trailer and then you did not understand why the boat did not slide into the water? Or even better,did you ever forget to remove the transom saver?Or worse did you ever forget to put it back on? Or how about,did you...
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