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Offline lokidog

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Re: I just bought a river runner- I need ideas!
« Reply #15 on: December 05, 2012, 02:03:47 PM »
The skeg protector is more for your prop.  If you hit something hard enough to break off the skeg, it won't matter what else is on it.  Skeg protectors are well worth the money to protect your prop at $60-90 for a rebuild and $90-140 for a new one, and that's aluminum not stainless.

My 19' Alumaweld with windshield only has flotation under the floor and maybe four cubic feet in the back.  Rated for a 120 I think.  You could probably get away with cleaning up/adding insulation under the floor and maybe just attached to the top or bottom of those side spaces.

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Re: I just bought a river runner- I need ideas!
« Reply #16 on: December 06, 2012, 08:59:37 AM »
I had a Macs Skeg protector. Its at the bottom of the Nootch with my Skeg!  :tup:

Skip it IMO. Its just more money you'll end up loosing.
you tried running a prop on the wynoochee?  :yike:
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Re: I just bought a river runner- I need ideas!
« Reply #17 on: December 10, 2012, 08:25:14 AM »
I had a Macs Skeg protector. Its at the bottom of the Nootch with my Skeg!  :tup:

Skip it IMO. Its just more money you'll end up loosing.
you tried running a prop on the wynoochee?  :yike:

That's what I was thinking!

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Re: I just bought a river runner- I need ideas!
« Reply #18 on: December 10, 2012, 10:11:22 AM »
All the time! Its an 8 horse Yami sitting next to a 175 jetted Etec....

But yeah, thats why the skeg protector dident work good. The boat is going backwards when the 8 horse is running. Its simply a gravel shovel at that point.

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Re: I just bought a river runner- I need ideas!
« Reply #19 on: December 10, 2012, 10:22:49 AM »
All the time! Its an 8 horse Yami sitting next to a 175 jetted Etec....

But yeah, thats why the skeg protector dident work good. The boat is going backwards when the 8 horse is running. Its simply a gravel shovel at that point.

FYI, there's a little button that tilts the big motor up somewhere around there.    :chuckle:   Says the guy who just sent five props to the shop to be rebuilt.....   :bash:

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Re: I just bought a river runner- I need ideas!
« Reply #20 on: December 10, 2012, 10:31:05 AM »
Its the little motor! ;) Use it all the time. I know when my sonar says 1.75' its time to start tilting up.
This time there was something sticking up. The boat just stopped suddenly, then began drifting again. Did not notice the skeg gone till I parked it at home.

Funny cause I have drifted this same drift thousands of times.

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Re: I just bought a river runner- I need ideas!
« Reply #21 on: December 10, 2012, 10:45:18 AM »
ah, i was thinking something more along the lines of the guy that tried taking his trophy down to blue creek a year or two back.
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Re: I just bought a river runner- I need ideas!
« Reply #22 on: December 10, 2012, 10:49:20 AM »
ah, i was thinking something more along the lines of the guy that tried taking his trophy down to blue creek a year or two back.
Hadn't heard that one yet. I'd pay to watch that.

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Re: I just bought a river runner- I need ideas!
« Reply #23 on: December 16, 2012, 02:47:58 PM »
ah, i was thinking something more along the lines of the guy that tried taking his trophy down to blue creek a year or two back.
Hadn't heard that one yet. I'd pay to watch that.

Here's a picture of the Trophy...........enjoy. :chuckle:

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Re: I just bought a river runner- I need ideas!
« Reply #24 on: December 17, 2012, 07:49:44 AM »
ah, i was thinking something more along the lines of the guy that tried taking his trophy down to blue creek a year or two back.
:yike:
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Re: I just bought a river runner- I need ideas!
« Reply #25 on: December 17, 2012, 10:37:30 AM »
 :fishin: :bow: Mr One Hung Low!
In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself. 

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