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    You can use a paint that is just flat and add anti skid powder into the mix to the point that you decide upon. The anti skid material can be had at the home depot and it creates a sandy texture when mixed into the paint.
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    Sold / Closed Starcraft Islander 191 sold

    rolmops replied to rolmops's topic in Boats for Sale

    Sold pending payment
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    Sold / Closed Starcraft Islander 191 sold

    rolmops replied to rolmops's topic in Boats for Sale

    ttt
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    This is probably a cheap and effective option. You can attach it next to the main engine on the back of the tansom and it will set your kicker far enough backward to prevent problems with the main engine.
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    That extension a long threaded bar with removable ends. You can cut it at whatever length you need , and screw the ends back on.
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    Ever since the lotsa event in the Buffalo area became this huge commercial expo show. I stopped going there because it no longer is a friendly meet, greet and exchange event. The idea of a flea market exchange is so much more appealing. This is where you get to meet the local guy with his stuff that he bought years ago but no longer uses because he has so much more. There is good stuff for cheap and fun meetings with people you heard about but never met. Wouldn't you love to meet the guy who caught a 34 pound laker ? Imagine all the slime he had in his boat. He is probably going to be there selling his Gambler rigs. The captains will probably trade fishing tales, some true and some embellished. I will be there to listen and buy and maybe talk about my deep sea fishing trips in Costa Rica and the Outer Banks or sell you my Starcraft Islander. Come with a friend and make some more friends.
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    There is a way to move the steering arm of the main engine to starboard. Instead of sliding the bar at the end of the steering cable through the pipe in front of the engine. It has the pipe on the starboard side of the engine. There is or maybe used to be an adjustment to do exactly that. I had one on a 1960s. StarCraft that did exactly that. These systems were popular when cable steering was being replaced by the steering that is common today. http://continuouswave.com/sail-logs/ottawaRiver2006/images/8_CamoWhaler13Transom.jpg
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    See if there’s enough room to put it right next to the main engine. That would be the best place. If it fits and the engines do not hit each other when steering, you’re in business and you will need a panther steering bar and not an EZsteer.
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    It depends on a lot of factors. How busy is it around you, how close are you to shore, do you want to run one two or three lines on each side? Those are the main reasons why you want to go longer or shorter. There is also the side wind and your trolling speed. With a long long line they may end up behind you, specially when you go slow. The basic principle is letting enough line out so there is a safe distance between the lines. There is the consideration of having a fairly close setup pattern and so on. There is also another less known factor. The otter boats tend to stabilize the direction of your boat and when you have a fairly light and/or small boat it is easier to run a straight line . The farther out the boats the stabler you are. Until one or two hits happen together on one side, then all of a sudden you will feel the boat pulling toward the side that still has all the lines attached and it will start pivoting around that otter boat. and so on..
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    If noise is your issue, you should make sure that you pick a 2 cylinder and not a 1 cylinder. Mercury ,Nissan and Tohatsu are all made by the Tohatsu company. The Tohatsu is a bit cheaper because you do not pay for an expensive name printed on the side. I like my 9.9 Tohatsu because it is quiet and light weight. But there are new Chinese lightweight outboards on the market . Some are 2 strokes. They have become popular in Australia and are trying to get into the market in the USA. They are cheaper. As for Chinese products being of inferior quality, you should look around and you will see that a lot of the day to day things we all use are made in China.
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    Sold / Closed Starcraft Islander 191 sold

    rolmops posted a topic in Boats for Sale

    I am selling my Islander. The town does not allow more than one boat in the drive way. It is a 1984 with a 3 liter 140 horse Mercruiser. The engine is a 2021 complete rebuilt using a new longblock by Michigan Motorz and has 4 hours on it, The alternator is new. The break in period is not yet finished. The transom was rebuilt in 2016 and the foam and floor were rebuilt in 2018. I repainted it in the blue and white Starcraft colors. The boat is like a tank and I have always felt safe even in four to five footers. It has 2 bilge pumps,not because it leaks (it does not), but because I believe in having backup spares for critical equipment. It has a Panther 15 horse 4stroke kicker bracket. The boat has a through the hull Airmar SS60 tilted element that is installed. It has a Fishhawk X4 at the ball speed and temperature probe, with the monitor, the probe and the transducer all in good condition. There is also a Uniden ship to shore radio The tank is eighty % full with stabilized non ethanol fuel and it a new 2023 marine deep cycle battery The trailer is in good condition. I put a new 3500 pound axle on it and added electronic brakes. I did not have the opportunity to remove the boat in order to paint the trailer so it could use a painting spruce up. The tires are in good condition and it has a spare. My reason for selling is the fact that I chanced upon a 1989 22 foot Islander which I am completely rebuilding and I do not have room for 2 boats. If you are interested please send me a pm or text me at 585-733-2728. The paperwork for both and trailer is in good order.
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    I would go with an eighteen or nineteen footer because the gunnels are higher. The gunnels reach above your knees. The sixteen and seventeen footers have gunnels that reach below the knees and have more people fall over board when they have to "lean" forward a bit.
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    I will be trying a new to me 22 foot Islander with new transom, new engine and new electronics. For now I just hope it will float, the rest is a bonus.
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    The main differences would be the thickness of the aluminum and the purpose of the boat. Pre 1985 aluminum boats often used a thicker aluminum and were often built like sloops with a heavy and wide bow section. This was because of the very popular starcraft aluminum boats. As demand changed to lighter and faster boats the shape of the boat and the thickness of aluminum changed. My 1984 Islander is heavy and built like a tank , but my 1989 Islander is more streamlined and supposedly much faster. What is better, riveted or or welded? Lots of opinions about that.
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    I know that Ballzdeep6126 is not a copycat
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    Is this still available?
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    That's a great boat, congrats! But here is a word of caution. These boats were specced out for 70hp 2 stroke outboards which weigh about 250 pounds. The engine that you just got is a 90 horse 4stroke that weighs 350 pounds and it has a lot more power. I would be vary weary to put that much weight and power on this rig. It probably is way more than the Coast Guard would consider safe.
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    I used them to couple outboard to outboard. They are great. They are not made for I/Os
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    Is this the Panther?
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    The actuator is quite strong so increased weight of the kicker will not influence the actuator speed. You got me thinking about solving the actuator speed problem and I think I came up with a solution. I will extend the contact point of the steering bar farther away from the kicker by a few inches. This will cause the actuator to have to travel farther to make the kicker move and thereby make the kicker turn slower. I'll try to make it a bit clearer by using this example. If you draw a circle with a 3 inch radius you will have c=2Pir=2Pi3=roughly 19 divide this by half and the distance the actuator has to travel from far right to far left is 9.5 inch. If you draw a circle with a 5 inch radius you have: c=2Pir=2Pi5=31.5. divide this by half and the travel distance is now almost 16 inches. This will make the distance that the actuator has to travel 3 times as much and it will slow the turning speed down very much. I'll go make this adjustment to my kicker as soon as I can get it from under the snow.
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    Interesting, Why is it impossible to find any info about this anywhere else? I have a feeling that there is very incomplete and interest group produced information here. I would like to know exactly how much radioactive material there is in this water. If it is water that was used to produce steam or if it is part of a cooling reservoir that is present in every atomic reactor in case of overheating. Water will only become radioactive if there is a leak in the reactor and the water is used to keep the temperature down. There were no radioactive leaks in this reactor although there were some mechanical problems that ,if left unattended might have caused trouble. I'm all for crying wolf, if there is a wolf around, but the wolf here seems to be conjured.
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    I have a tailfin kicker setup and I am not sure what to think about it. It is mounted on a 9.8 horse Tohatsu and that caused some trouble because the tailfin relies on the tube that is on the front of most outboards for the actuator to go through. But it is absent on the Tohatsu. It is solved by buying a little setup that replaces this tube. The rest is easily installed. It is nice to have the remote switch and a wired switch. There is a direct connection to the battery with an on and off switch. that means that turning off the engine switch does not turn off the tailfin. I find the speed of the actuator very high and I tried to make it go as slow as possible because while trolling you usually want to make very small corrections. Because of the high reaction speed I ended up oversteering and having to correct and then correcting the correction. I only used it once on the lake so maybe there is a learning curve. My overal opinion is that the tailfin is more for bassfishing than it is for trolling. It cost me a thousand dollars but I'm not sure that it was well spent. Having used an EZsteer system for years, I am not at all sure that this is an improvement.
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    No more "brown trout"?
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    When ice fishing puts a big dent in the overall stock, it shows a few years later.
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    Yes. She signed 6486, but remember, it is only a moratorium, not a ban. Before too long we will find out what the stronger force is, big money or the citizens will. I suspect that we will not hear from this bill for a long time and when we have almost forgotten we will find out that it has been attached to another bill and passed in the middle of the night when nobody was looking..
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