J Francho

Glad your okay!

I'd wipe it down with some Armor All and keep fishing it.

That was sort of my point. You need seat time.

Seems they disappeared off the face of the earth. Probably some legal issue. They've had some ownership issues in the past.

Width alone does not make it stable. Hull design plays a much larger part. I have a Cossa that is less stable than many boats that aren't as wide, such as my Commander 140 which happens to be one the most stable boats I've owned. That hull features a double tunnel, as does my Hobie Compass, that many wider kayaks do not feature. It really comes down to how you feel in the boat, so seat time is important. Stability is subjective and no one spec tells the whole story.

I doubt it. That was from 15 years ago.

It never really mattered to me.

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especially...with those "high speed" 3.7:1 reels

Your claim was that some monos are less stretchy than some braids, but didn't say which monos.

Not if it matches your purse. ?

Bold claim. Which ones? Even braid that is designed to stretch doesn't really stretch that much. I do agree that copolymer/mono (technically these are mostly multi polymer lines these days) is more versatile, but most here are going to specialize and use a certain line type best suited for that task. I don't like braid that much, but almost all my heavy cover set ups have it. I rarely use a leader, so the knot argument doesn't hold for me.

Cones aren't really distinguished by red, blue, and green. Each type is optimized for a range of wavelength. A better way to put this would be to term them as short, medium, and long. There's some over lap. A lot of this discussion is based on the assumption that all red cones are the same, all blue cones are the same, etc. This isn't the case. A bass's vision evolved to optimize seeing what it needs to see to survive. To assume that something blue cannot be distinguished or call bass colorblind blue is probably a small leap, and too cut and dry/black and white. What is true: their cones are different than ours. I'll keep tossing blue jigs, while this gets debated.

NADA and your current market is the best bet. You can try looking at boats sold on ebay as well, but that's hit or miss.

Should work for me.

Going through the manual or videos with your unit on demo mode in the kitchen is how I figure it out too. You will be way ahead of most of you do that.

So does any boat.

I've been using SI in a paddle kayak for nearly a decade. It works great. Adjust chart speed to your usual paddling tempo.

My oldest son built a few pedal cars. One of them had enough torque to pull a trailer with a recliner mounted to it. I'm sure that would pull a kayak around just fine.

It's underpowered.

Roger.

Not really a even curve, but a $300 reel is a huge leap over $100 reel. The $500+ reels aren't that much better than the $300 reels.

Why wouldn't a simple bottle jack work? That's what I used the one time I had to lift my trailer with the boat on it. I feel like I need some education.

Replace Shimano with Daiwa.