On 4/18/2019 at 2:57 PM, MN Fisher said:

Jazzing it up a little to...replaced the crappy looking black on white block lettering Reg No with custom vinyl lettering.

Original

 

New

What?  You didn't like the mailbox motif?

Trailer assembled - all that's left now is wiring it and a couple piddly things...like mounting my gimbaled cup holder for my coffee.

Everything except a couple minor, piddly things is done. Posted pics of finished work in 'Show Your Ride'

 

 

Sweet set up, I was wondering if you found a solution to noise proof the bottom if the canoe?

3 minutes ago, northwoodshobo said:

Sweet set up, I was wondering if you found a solution to noise proof the bottom if the canoe?

Haven't even looked into to...I don't get much noise from the bottom anyway.

...any chance you can provide a link to your blog?

 

I've picked up a Meyer's Sportspal to chase bass and smallies on NW WI rivers too small for my boat and am looking for ideas to steal.

On 10/8/2019 at 12:01 AM, Further North said:

...any chance you can provide a link to your blog?

 

I've picked up a Meyer's Sportspal to chase bass and smallies on NW WI rivers too small for my boat and am looking for ideas to steal.

 

x2, couldn't find the link in his profile.

Canoe looks awesome btw!

3 hours ago, Neil McCauley said:

 

x2, couldn't find the link in his profile.

Canoe looks awesome btw!

Google did some things with Blogger that made it a pain...maybe I'll put it back up under Wordpress but right now things are a bit hectic here.

Okie-dokey - continuing on. This winter's mods are almost as intense as last winter's. First up, rebuilt the port rod-rack. Starboard rack is in process...ya, nine rigs now, so I needed another rack.

I'm going with a lighter gray than last year - yes, the rear seat will be re-painted to the new color once some mods are done to it.

 

Do you bring all nine every time out?

4 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Do you bring all nine every time out?

Last year I only had six rigs and I was switching lures often enough that I went to nine and plan on taking them all out every time. So ya, I'll be taking all nine out this year.

14 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

Okie-dokey - continuing on. This winter's mods are almost as intense as last winter's. First up, rebuilt the port rod-rack. Starboard rack is in process...ya, nine rigs now, so I needed another rack.

I'm going with a lighter gray than last year - yes, the rear seat will be re-painted to the new color once some mods are done to it.

 

Nicely Done - Look familiar too . . .

A-Jay

 

2 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Nicely Done - Look familiar too . . .

A-Jay

 

Well, it's the same design as last year's...just used a better quality wood this time and took more care painting it. Last year's was just a couple spray-coats slapped on. This year, two coats of Kilz Primer then two coats of brush-on latex-acrylic.

This stuff actually

Another item - once I finish painting the center-seat, this will be mounted to the aft side. Just a 4" wide piece of Lexan, drilled and painted. Gives me more control of the electrical. Mounted camera and tablet will run off the USB ports...no battery death!

MN Fisher, I've really enjoyed following this. Thanks

Front and mid seats done. I've temporarily located the clamp-mount for the tablet and the base for the Hook-2. A little experimenting and my camera will mount to the tablet arm using the bicycle clamp that came with the camera - you can see it poking over the top of the tablet spot.

 

Now the rear seat - I'm going to rout out the spot where the seat base sits so that it's inset into the wood and the top of it is flush.

Some of these photos are kinda blurry on my end, any way you can sharpen them up?

10 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Some of these photos are kinda blurry on my end, any way you can sharpen them up?

Sorry about that - closed garage (it was COLD out there yesterday) and bad lighting. The phone doesn't take great pics in that environment.

 

Once everything is done, I'll be doing a vid detailing all the work...once it's warmer and I can roll the canoe outside.

Just a sneak peak of something I'm doing...VIDEOS

 

This is just a short test, but it directly involves work on the canoe modifications.

 

 

Part of the whole new system is cameras - as shown in the previous post. Well, I wanted one to be 'on' me and got a clip on mount...but it was unwieldy. So decided to cobble together a 'hat-cam' using my Bonnie. Here's the set-up, and test of it while I do some painting on the seat-base that featured in the previous vid.

 

Still painting the rear seat - but starting to mount things on the center. Was tired of the paddle just knocking around the bottom of the canoe, so a couple spring-loaded tool clamps and it's off the floor, out of the way, and handy when I need/want it.

Last coat of the top-color is drying on the rear seat now...and I've got the electronics mostly finished

 

Backside of panel

 

Panel mounted, fishfinder mounted, tablet in it's mount - with power cord connected, and framing the 'Ryobi' on my drill/driver is the camera mount...and yes, there's a power cord for that too.

 

Now I just gotta terminate at the battery end and that part is all done.

Love the paddle clamp idea, let me know how that works This summer! 

Little vid of me soldering the battery ends on the wires to power the fishfinder, tablet and camera

Cut out most of the boring parts

 

 

What do you use the tablet for?