LongLine

Measure twice & cut once or it'll get expensive quickly. Tie good knots & check you lines regularly or it'll get expensive quickly.

I don't know if you've ever jacked an aluminum boat up before, but in case you haven't, this is what I've done: (Chock your wheels.) Then you can use a single point automotive hydraulic jack at the transom, BUT MAKE SURE you use a short (maybe 2 ft long) 4x4 with a V cut in it that matches the bottom of your boat between the jack and the boat. This will distribute the weight of the boat/motor. Otherwise, that jack can do a lot of damage. (Whatever you do DO NOT lower the front trailer wheel, block the transom and try to use the front trailer wheel to lift the front of the trailer up! This is called a "stupid human trick" and will cost you 100 bucks for a new front wheel.....Been there, done that) Remember, you only have to clear the trailer by a couple inches at most. I've lifted the front of mine off the trailer (again trailer wheels chocked) by raising the front trailer wheel as high as it'll go and using 3 cinderblocks on each side of the trailer and placing a 4 ft long 4x4 across them between the boat and the trailer. I also put a couple wood wedges on top of the 4x4. (Note: rear of boat still on trailer) Then lowering the front wheel. Good luck & let us know how you make out.

If me, I would get the boat on a trailer & jack the front-end way up. Then I'd put some water in it, but I'd mix some food coloring in it. My reasoning is that you said you went to a smaller 4 stroke a few years ago and that you've recently replaced some rivets. I see from your pictures that you troll with the big engine as I don't see a kicker. Even though they're quieter, 4 strokes have many more moving parts than 2 strokes and as such their harmonics are different than 2 strokes. i.e. they vibrate differently, especially at low speeds. I suspect you may have multiple rivets, or a seam or a joint just starting to loosen up. Leaks may be so slight that you can't see them drip. The food coloring will make it much easier to see. I'd also check to see if there is some sort of dampening plate/spacers between the engine & the transom.

I'd advise invest in a rigger first. Even if only a manual one, then go from there.

You thinking just the weight or that it vibrates more?

Late start...launched about 7. No driftwood last week at the launch, when I took pooch for a walk but there where 2 large piles of small stuff there today. Ramp #1 blocked & between #2 & #3. Looked like guys kicked it all to the center. Large log at #4 was gone. Anyways....had to burn the crud out of the engine & break in the new kicker. Glassy calm water. Surface 54 in the river, 45-46 to the west. Lots of driftwood on the west side....probably due to the recent East winds. (Only saw 2 big logs out there) Ran to Round Pond a couple times then came back and slow trolled the beach & along the pier looking for a Brown (Less than 1 mph GPS). Came across this guy on a surface line straight back, about 100 ft WNW of the lighthouse. Little over 33", so guessing 14 Lbs. Revived him & let him go. N wind came up about 10:30 so called it a day. Luck to all. Tom B. (LongLine)

Back to the topic: If you want the shot, get the shot. If you don't want the shot, don't get the shot. Stop the BS that the gov't is going to save you and the BS that the gov't is going to kill you. You have the right to decide what you want to do, so stop, make your decision and move on. We had a saying in the Marine Corps: "You can gripe, but quit your GD ****ing."

I guess you missed the FEMA tent that he had set up in the old Kodak parking lot for free shots. (Driving park & St paul) What, What, What.....Free 1st shot.... free 2nd shot.....free booster? What, what, what....couple weeks salary continuation for employers who had people out of work due to virus? What, what, what....can't fire people who are out with covid? What, what what....grants & startup money for SMALL businesses? (More entrepeners now than ever) What, what , what... rent relief grants to states for people that were out of work due to covid? (& states not spending it) What, what, what.....eviction moratorium for covid issues. You get your free gov't masks or test kits yet? So glad you sent your gov't stimulus checks back. How about the regeneron that he sent to Florida, when DeSantis was begging for it? Guess you missed Texas (Abbott's) press release on the 31st begging Feds to send medicine, medical personnel & test kits to him? (Ivan said he'd help Red states & Blue were on their own... guess what - both Fla & TX are red) Guessing you only remember Ivan sending a ship to NY? (which BTW was only used for 9 non-covid related patients & Ivan held it up in Norfolk for over a month before it departed) Hey, how about the big hoop-la Ivan made about giving Kodak $500M for development of chemicals for a test (that we've been reminded of in this thread) that doesn't work, or the $30M he gave Harvard for who knows what? Guess you forgot those famous Ivan words: "It's no worse than the flu"..."this Kung-flu will be over by Easter" What more do you want your government to do for you? "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" (per B. Franklin) It's so much easier to make a mess than clean it up & Ivan was great at making that mess!

You mean like MT Greene owning stock in the vax companies?

hah, hah, hah.....Ivan poo-poo'd the whole thing. (as he told woodward) Remember: "Hong-Kong flu will disappear by May." Ivan tried to take credit for vax & got boo'd at his own rally. This is too plitical!

So what medicine is 100% effective and has no side-effects or risks for all persons? When vax came out, it was clearly stated that they were only 80-90% effective for serious infection. They claimed nothing about transmission. Masks have been promoted from the first as the foremost means to reduce transmission, although not 100%. When I got my 1st shot (well over a year ago), they had me fill out a questionaire about previous medical history. They also gave me a 3 page pamplet explaining possible effects and warnings about the shot. I also had to sign a document that I understood all the previous documentation. There was a 4th document regarding health ins/payment. On the 2nd shot, paperwork was a little less, but still had a page of the possible effects & warnings & another that I understood them. Payment was just to show my health card. When I got my booster, I had to fill out a health questionaire, read possible effects & warnings & sign the doc' that I understood. Bottom line: to say possible effects, warnings weren't publisized is capital BS. BTW, I did ask the right question. I l iked the way around answering it though, as we both know a super great majority of those deaths were un-vaxed. If you are against mandates, then fine. You don't have to like them. It's your right. (That also applies to taxes, speed limits, fishing regulations, noise ordinances and so on) Employers don't owe you anything except a renumeration for your labor/work. You have the right to seek other employment. You have the right to home-school your kids, You have the right to go to another store or restaurant. You can vote for somebody else. Go for it! You have those rights. BUT as a free country (1st amendment wise) I and the great majority on this site have to right to see through BS! Thanx Gator. I'm really tired of all this rt wng extremist & projectionist "stuff." HB2 - Glad she's feeling better! Happy New Year all!

It certainly does if 21,000 of those 21749 deaths were un-vaxed. The fact that your "source" didn't mention vax/un-vaxed ratio for that claim makes me wonder about its' credibility.

Great post however I missed the part where you said how many of the 21749 deaths during 2021 Nov 1-18Th were vaxed people vs not vaxed. care to clarify that?