EarlyRiser

Selling 2 of these never used, in opened packages with all parts for $15 total -- pickup near Ithaca, Myers Point area. I bought two of these to try on my Walker riggers and quickly discovered that the magnets for my auto-stop will not pass through the pulleys.

Thanks everybody. I ordered the items and will get it all set up this week.

Hi, I need to replace the batteries in my boat and I am hoping to clean up the connections a little bit. I currently have a positive copper bar in the one battery compartment and I believe that bar is wired directly into the 4 position battery switch (positions for battery 1, battery 2, both, and off). A few positive connections for accessories are wired to that bar, but the negative connections for those items and other things are connected directly to the negative on the battery, so I have like five things connected to the negative terminal of the battery. Could I just add a copper bar connected to the negative terminal of the battery and wire the negatives for those accessories to the bar instead of having so many connections right at the battery? Thanks for any help you can offer. I think this is possible, but want to confirm my thoughts before I screw something up...

Not that it is some terrible thing, but this guy is reselling all these electronics or doing who knows what with them. He's been buying electronics on here under that same premise for at least a couple years now. I gave him a nice deal on an affordable fishfinder for his "son's boat" a year and a half ago thinking I was doing the guy a favor and I've watched him buy several others since that time with that same story. If you're buying them to sell them again, fine, but just don't try to give the story that you are trying to help your son out with something for his boat to appeal to people's heartstrings.

I just make sure to use an outboard motor support arm when I trailer mine.

It's been slow the times I've been out so far. Hopefully you have better luck than we did. If the wind is out of the south it's not too rough down at the south end -- not enough pitch to get it worked up until about Bolton Point and points north.

interesting -- never made it down there that far into that corner -- nice work. We were in the Trophy with the green awning (there were two Trophies down there Sunday)

Went out for the first time this year. Launched at Meyers at about 6:45am and fished until about 12:30 when the damn sailboats ran us out of the south end. Wow, they make it tough to have planer boards out when they are out there in the tight quarters of the south end in any kind of numbers! We fished from Bolton Point down south to the inlet and the trip can be summed up in two words -- Windy and Slow. The winds were whipping from the south, so there was quite a bit of debris up near Portland Point and the bay at the south end of Meyers, but not too much debris at the extreme south end. We had to fight the wind through most of the trip -- especially if we were north of the drop-off at the south end. Fishing was slow -- we only caught one fish -- a barely legal brown on a black and gold stick. Water surface temps varied from 36.9 degrees when we launched at Meyers to just over 44 degrees at the extreme south end near the inlet. The water didn't hit 40 degrees until we were in about 15' of water just north of the sailing center. We didn't target any lakers, just fished the top 20' of water with stick baits and a 4 color lead core. There was a lot of brown water down in the south end and that was where we picked up the one fish, but by the time we tried to head back through that same area about a half-dozen sailboats were coming at us from every angle and we had to make extreme course changes that don't work well with the program we were running. Rather than frustrate ourselves we decided to call it a day. On the plus side, it was way better than being at work, it was nice and warm, and no major troubles with the boat. Kyle

Just curious, when is it a bad thing to have a motor with a slightly longer shaft than you really need? I understand why it would be bad to have one that does not sit deep enough in the water, but is it really such a problem to have one that rides a little deeper than you really need?

Hi, I only have two batteries on board, but with the fishfinder/gps combo and the stereo and some lights on board, I wanted the ability to run these when anchored up without worrying about the batteries draining, so I bought a solar panel and a smart charger to split the charge between the batteries as needed. It works great -- kept my old batteries topped off all year long last year. They come in different sizes, but here is what I bought: http://www.amazon.com/CBC-GSP-6-Flexible-Solar-Panel/dp/B006GFPF30/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396458572&sr=8-1&keywords=ganz+solar http://www.amazon.com/CBC-GCC-D10A-Dual-Charge-Controller/dp/B007I6VSJ6/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1396458805&sr=8-10&keywords=ganz+solar

No experience with that approach to be able to comment, but I run a wireless remote steering/mounting bracket combo on my kicker and I love it. Here is the link: http://remotetroll.com/

Sorry, but this sold long ago. I should have marked it closed and will do so now. I did just see one on ebay if that helps you at all. I am selling a dual rod holder for a walker rigger if you need one of those...

In my opinion there are just too many unknowns to jump into an old i/o system. Unless you are extremely familiar with i/o motors, outdrives, bellows, etc.. I would steer clear. You could repower your Trophy with a newer outboard engine and have a known commodity that you can rely on...

Had a great experience with Franks.