Fishing Rhino

I mounted mine on the step where the drain plug, intake for the live well, etc., are located. I mounted it to the right. The problem, which I managed to solve was that if you hit a submerged object, when the unit tripped, the trailing edge of the transducer would hit the bottom of the hull. The solution was to remove the two star washers, that lock the transducer in place on the mount with two neoprene rubber washers. The trick was to get the assembly tight enough so that it would stay in its position at any speed, but if it hit something that made it trip, the transducer could "unfold" and slip out of the way. The transducer and the bracket which trips roughly form a right angle. Now, when the bracket trips the angle of the transducer and bracket can open up, allowing the entire transducer to slip up behind the step. The advantage of this is that the transducer will record the bottom at speeds over 40 mph. At 50 or higher, the image gets iffy, due I suspect to air being carried under the bottom of the hull, and interfering with the transmission of the signal and reception of the echo. I couldn't mount it on the stern because the motor has no jack plate and would interfere with the left side imaging. It took a bit of trial and error, getting the height just right, because of the deadrise of the hull, to get a good image at speed. .

Do you suppose her hubby follows her around with a bucket and a shovel?

Don't be so diplomatic. Tell us how you really feel.

I find this hard to believe. And, supposedly she did it in a two hour sitting. Now, what was that thread about food? A New Jersey woman who hopes to become the fattest woman in the world got 30,000 calories closer to her 1,000lb goal with a festive feast that could have fed dozens of revellers. 46-stone Donna Simpson, sitting in a reinforced metal chair, chowed down on the world's biggest Christmas dinner as she ate for two straight hours on Saturday. The single mother-of-two tucked into two 25lb turkeys, two maple-glazed hams, 15lbs of potatoes (10lbs roast, 5lbs mashed), five loaves of bread, five pounds of herb stuffing, four pints of gravy, four pints of cranberry dressing and an astonishing 20lbs of vegetables. After polishing off her enormous main course, she still had room for dessert and ate a 'salad' made of marshmallow, cream cheese, whipped cream and cookies. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1341683/Donna-Simpsons-feast-The-30-000-calorie-Christmas-feast-eaten-worlds-fattest-mum-ONE-hour-sitting.html

I'd tip the motor down. Can't you drop the trailer at the tongue so the skeg does not touch the floor? Think about a tire losing pressure. It would put a lot of pressure on the skeg. My skeg, with the trailer hooked up, and the lower unit down has several inches of clearance. They display boats on showroom floors on trailers sans transom savers. Just remember to tilt it up when you trailer it.

That happened on the water, not while trailering, that's for sure. Pretty piece poor construction on that transom. The fiberglass failed at the seam of the center section of plywood. Tells me someone was skimping on the fiberglass at the critical area that takes all the thrust. There's no excuse for that type of failure.

The flashlight is necessary so you can read the magazines. If the power goes out, I'm ready. Have a 10,000 watt portable generator. It won't power up every circuit in the house, but will allow us to live normally. Heat, water, fridge, kitchen range, and most of the rooms will have power. We have it wired through twelve switches that will switch the the power source from the outside source to the generator. The family room with the tv and a computer, the bathrooms, kitchen, and a couple of bedrooms have lights. It will run several hours on its twelve gallon fuel tank. I have it set up in the garage, facing a window with a window fan set in the window. The fan is on high, and plugged into the generator. When it starts, the fan goes on, to remove the exhaust which is directed at the fan. If we lose power, we're back in business in a couple of minutes.

My Motorguide always turns off when my foot is off the controller. There is a position on the speed switch which will keep it running at all times. I used a boat with a MinnKota and it was the same. Foot had to be on the switch for it to run, unless you had the speed setting switch to the always on position.

Are you sure you're not me? ;D ;D

Are you sure you're not me? ;D ;D

Are you sure you're not me? ;D ;D

Though I posted the link to the log on this site, I don't keep any written records. Too much like work. I was a commercial lobsterman, and I have a stack of notebooks about three feet high, in which I recorded the loran bearings of every trawl I set from the 70s to 1997. I recorded the date set, the date hauled, the number of pots in the trawl, and how many keepers I got out of each trawl. The prime purpose for the loran C unit was two fold. When you are fishing up to 70 ten pot trawls, and you lose both ends, it makes it much simpler to locate, and grapple it up. The second, and equally important to locating all the gear was that I had a record of the better fishing bottom at various stages of the season. When prospecting yielded poor results, I could avoid repeating my mistakes and setting there in the future. Hot spots were easy to return to in future seasons. I clearly know that keeping accurate records will, in the long run, yield better catches, regardless of the type of fishing involved. I'm just not that detailed when it comes to recreational fishing. It's what I like about fishing. We each go about it in a way that gives us the most pleasure. Some guys want a trophy even if it means getting skunked several times in the attempt. For others, it's all about numbers. Some fish for bass, others for trout, walley, or whatever.

Though I posted the link to the log on this site, I don't keep any written records. Too much like work. I was a commercial lobsterman, and I have a stack of notebooks about three feet high, in which I recorded the loran bearings of every trawl I set from the 70s to 1997. I recorded the date set, the date hauled, the number of pots in the trawl, and how many keepers I got out of each trawl. The prime purpose for the loran C unit was two fold. When you are fishing up to 70 ten pot trawls, and you lose both ends, it makes it much simpler to locate, and grapple it up. The second, and equally important to locating all the gear was that I had a record of the better fishing bottom at various stages of the season. When prospecting yielded poor results, I could avoid repeating my mistakes and setting there in the future. Hot spots were easy to return to in future seasons. I clearly know that keeping accurate records will, in the long run, yield better catches, regardless of the type of fishing involved. I'm just not that detailed when it comes to recreational fishing. It's what I like about fishing. We each go about it in a way that gives us the most pleasure. Some guys want a trophy even if it means getting skunked several times in the attempt. For others, it's all about numbers. Some fish for bass, others for trout, walley, or whatever.

Though I posted the link to the log on this site, I don't keep any written records. Too much like work. I was a commercial lobsterman, and I have a stack of notebooks about three feet high, in which I recorded the loran bearings of every trawl I set from the 70s to 1997. I recorded the date set, the date hauled, the number of pots in the trawl, and how many keepers I got out of each trawl. The prime purpose for the loran C unit was two fold. When you are fishing up to 70 ten pot trawls, and you lose both ends, it makes it much simpler to locate, and grapple it up. The second, and equally important to locating all the gear was that I had a record of the better fishing bottom at various stages of the season. When prospecting yielded poor results, I could avoid repeating my mistakes and setting there in the future. Hot spots were easy to return to in future seasons. I clearly know that keeping accurate records will, in the long run, yield better catches, regardless of the type of fishing involved. I'm just not that detailed when it comes to recreational fishing. It's what I like about fishing. We each go about it in a way that gives us the most pleasure. Some guys want a trophy even if it means getting skunked several times in the attempt. For others, it's all about numbers. Some fish for bass, others for trout, walley, or whatever.

I was thinking more like banana.

Check the green bar near the top of the page. It has five buttons. Click on tacklebox, then click on fishing log. Print it as many copies as you want. Here's a shortcut. http://www.bassresource.com/fish/fishing_log.html

Check the green bar near the top of the page. It has five buttons. Click on tacklebox, then click on fishing log. Print it as many copies as you want. Here's a shortcut. http://www.bassresource.com/fish/fishing_log.html

Check the green bar near the top of the page. It has five buttons. Click on tacklebox, then click on fishing log. Print it as many copies as you want. Here's a shortcut. http://www.bassresource.com/fish/fishing_log.html

Golden Snowball? Is that anything like don't eat yellow snow?

Last night the forecast, oops, that's now the "futurecast" (sounds more impressive, don't ya know?) called for the snow to begin around noon. Let the dog out at around four this morning and light snow was falling. Guess I'll hook up the plow after breakfast. Our daughter, who lives about forty miles west of Atlanta, GA, had three or four inches of snow on the ground and big flakes were still falling at around nine o'clock last night.

All I got for my wife this year was a ten dollar digital cooking thermometer, the kind that slides into a sleeve that clips into a pocket. We had a couple of major expenses this year, one of which is that our septic system is being repaired and some big vet bills for our dogs. We joke that those are our presents to each other. We don't even bother with cards. For our kids, and the younger family relatives we do the gifting thing. Anniversaries, birthdays, Valentines day we do celebrate with cards and gifts.

Your doc makes a mistake and expects you to pay the co-pay? That's outrageous. I'd notify the insurance company and let them sort it out with your doc. If you feel that would affect how the doc treats your wife, then you really need to get a new doctor. Keep in mind that malpractice lawyers and their families need medical care. They'd be in big trouble if doctors held grudges. My wife was the chief nursing officer of a three hospital system, until her retirement, last year. While not common, it is not a rare occurrence for a patient to have serious complaints about their care to the point that some end up suing the hospital. While it's not an everyday thing, it's inevitable that "incidents" will happen simply because imperfect (patient and care providers) are human. Sometimes the complaint is legit, sometimes not. When one thinks about it, no normal person enjoys being in a hospital. It's a place where people are sick or injured, and therefore not in the best frame of mind. The hospital will still do their best for patients who lodge complaints. It goes along with the turf.

Speed control card or rheostat. Happened to my Traxxis 55# trolling motor last year. It took all of 15 minutes for a servicing dealer to swap out the part. Can't tell you how much it would cost cause it was still under warranty.

It costs them about five bucks for the shipping charge from the post office. That is only a part of what it costs a company to ship merchandise. Once again, they have to pay someone to pack and label it and they have to pay for the materials to pack it. By the time they are done, if they make a couple of bucks on it they are not robbing you. And I haven't mentioned the bookkeeping involved for their records and tax purposes. You just do not understand, or you don't want to understand. Seems like your request for someone in that area to pick it up, ship it to you and you'd reimburse them for postage shows you have no appreciation for what the task involves. You should have offered to reimburse them for the time they spent to get the item, and the gas they burned running around for you. That plus the five bucks postage would put you well over the ten dollar shipping cost. You get no sympathy is right.

Buy ten of 'em. It would cost 9 bucks for shipping to Massachusetts. The nine or ten bucks for shipping is not really a rip off. How much profit do you think is in a six dollar item. To think it unreasonable for someone to pack an item, label it, and send it along to charge nine or ten bucks for their trouble, is being unreasonable. It's either that, or you have no idea of how much it costs a company to ship a small item. They might make a few bucks on it, but they are entitled to make a profit on their labor, materials, and supplies used to ship an item. How much do you think they should charge? When you come up with the number, ask yourself this question. Would I pack, label, and drive the product to a UPS, FedEx or post office, pay the shipping costs for that number? I wouldn't do it for ten dollars. Not if I was trying to make a living doing it.