rolmops

It does look nice, but to me it is just another unnecessary gizmo that is prone to break

Thank you!

9 hours ago, lrg355 said:

But who determines who is lying????

At least politicians should have to take an oath to never lie to the public . It might make a difference

Your point is well taken.

21 minutes ago, Shattered said:

Rolmops- I’m redoing my helm over the winter. I ended up going with all Simrad units.
I have a Garmin 93 UHD 93sv (2 or 3yrs old) with GT56UHD Transducer 
I specifically used this unit as a chartplotter 

I will have this up for sale if you are interested. The transducer is still on the boat but I have the unit at home. I can get the demo mode going. It will control your autopilot and has NMEA2K. No radar capability 

Can you send me a PM with additional information, like the price and when you will remove the transducer from your boat

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It occurs to me that certain publications get paid by certain people to print certain things. Maybe we have to look into changing the first amendment so lying is no longer protected, fantasy must be marked as such and bending the truth must be clearly marked.

It would be nice to allow politicians to only speak the truth and every lie would cost them a few 1000 dollars to go into a fund for victims of their lies.

That would shorten the gravy train.

Oh well, on a cold winter's day like this , one can dream.

Great!

 I hope they will all go there and leave Sandy alone,then everybody will be happy

31 minutes ago, Gill-T said:

She is Swedish/Irish not Italian 

I stand corrected.

22 hours ago, Gill-T said:

she did!

Does she like to eat fish or does she like to feed fish?

2 hours ago, Bozeman Bob said:

Lake effect snow does not add any water to the lakes , if anything it draws water from the lakes , dumps it on land , then most ,not all , of it returns to either Erie or Ontario . Depending on which way the wind is taking the snow ,or rain . There is only so much water on earth,  including what's in our bodies . It's all one big cycle,  just like a terrarium . We die ,get buried , any moisture left in us ends up in the ground ,then it works it way back to the surface , then up into the atmosphere, then back to the earth as precipitation.  Sea levels will not rise if the ice caps melt , The ice itself displace's water , when it melts that ice space is replaced by water .

You are right and wrong at the same time. The lake effect snow that is created by Lake Erie and Lake Ontario does not change anything. That is where you are right. The Lake effect snow created by Lake Huron that travels through the air toward Erie and Ontario does  make a difference.

As for your second argument. That is true for the submerged ice and not for the ice that is above the surface of the water, like the visible parts of icebergs and of course all the ice that is on top of dry land masses like Iceland Greenland and Ant-Artica So yes, sea levels will rise.

Hmm. About that life insurance policy thing. Did your wife encourage you to go fishing?

The water level in Lake Erie has very little if anything to do with how much water they let out into the St Lawrence. It has to do with how much water comes down from the upper lakes. It takes a long time for water to travel from Lake Superior to Lake Erie. So even if there is a very heavy snow pack in the North this year it will take a long time to reach lake Erie. More than a year.

In this case, however, climate change is our friend. The lakes are still quite warm for the time of year and lake effect snow promises to be quite substantial because of it. Also because the upper lakes will take longer to get a serious amount of ice cover, which would limit lake effect snow.

Already we saw that there are lake snow connections that are coming in from the northern lakes and dump very substantial amounts of water from above in and around both Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. This dramatically shortens the travel time that the water would normally take to reach the lower lakes and it increases the overall amount.

Anyway there is little to nothing we can do about this in the short run.

Do the spark plugs in your kicker have resistors in them? If they don't it usually causes interference. On champions the letter code should have an R in it .

That is a beautiful boat.

I have restored about 8 boats so far, but always to make them ready to fish and never shiny like yours.

I did it because I love the process of planning and rebuilding, but upon finishing the project I usually loose all interest and look for something new to start. Do you have the same feeling about this project, or do you plan to use it as your go to rig?

$500 final

On the off chance that they may have come up from Florida. How about $450?

ttt

Another way to use the blacks is with a rubber band. You tale a size 14 rubber band and wrap it around your line like 7 times and then you take the 2 ends and put them around the small metal end of the black. I use them that way because my old fingers have a hard time wrapping the line around the metal thing the proper way. wrapping a rubber band is easier. But like Silver Fox I also use the Scotties specially off the boards with copper and leadcore.

Buying scotties tends to give people a bit of sticker shock. A single one is the price of a thousand rubber bands and you may end up using rubber bands with the Scotties as well.

I am looking for the triangular aluminum piece that goes on the bow tip of a 1989 Starcraft Islander 221V. If you have one or know of an Islander rotting away somewhere that might have it Can you contact me?

Thank you.

Why don't you rub it in a bit more.

The water and the antifreeze do the same thing. Water gets hot in the block, the thermostat opens and when the incoming water cools the block, the thermostat closes again. Now the antifreeze just flows by but does not go into the block. You have only five gallons of antifreeze and only some of it reaches the block. You would probably need at least ten gallons to fully replace what's inside the block because of the opening and closing  action of the thermostat.

Some of you may have bought a winterizing kit that uses a 5 gallon tank in order to replace all water in the block with rv antifreeze. You are supposed to warm up the engine until the thermostat opens up and then channel the antifreeze into the engine by shutting off water and running the anti freeze into the block.

This is a terrible idea. When the cold antifreeze hits the thermostat it will close the thermostat very soon afterwards and although a bit of antifreeze will indeed get into the block (usually enough to make the color of the cooling water change to pink) it will not totally replace the water in the block and the chance of this mix freezing over and bursting the manifolds or the block is quite high.

Marinas that use this system usually use the antifreeze in a closed system and the stuff warms up . This keeps the thermostat open and the system will work well. That would mean that you will have to fill a barrel with the AF in your back yard and run the system that way.

It is just better to drain all the water and make sure it is all out . You may even want to use air pressure to make sure.

I do that a lot. Usually on one those beautiful almost windless quiet fall days. Usually in 30 to 50 feet. No other boats around which makes it very relaxing. I usually run leadcore and follow a serpentine pattern so the lures are not on the same track as the boat. Once I catch the first one, I mark the spot and circle around it going over it again and again. Often there are under water springs where the browns gather because of temperature differences near the springs. As October turns into November the browns get smaller. I think that is because the bigger ones go into the creeks. I usually winterize after thanks giving.

I bought a reactor and it is a great improvement compared to having to always have somebody on the wheel. I still have my EZsteer and I wonder if it is a good idea to use it in combination with the reactor so that the kicker also controls the main engine steering.

Has anybody tried this? Does it work properly or is it just killing the reactor?