Not surprising when you figure the 2040 used to be rated for 300, then also take in account Ranger 20′ at 300 already.
Maybe a 3 mph gain.
While my 2200 will go 58, I’m sort of a 35 mph kind of guy.
There is really only about a 25 hp difference when you look at the dyno charts, then take in account the more performance lower unit on the 250 SHO, I probably would stay with the 250.
My first house when getting out of the service was $15,500. It was a flat where I collected $110 rent on one half so that the half I lived in was $40. Great times for a single guy when one weeks pay plus rent collected, paid for my total months expenses.
Will the boat market retreat somewhat, maybe if the economy tanks. With ten year old glass boats going for what they cost when new, The only people really hurt are those not having a boat to trade in when buying new.
You will never get back to what things were, my first Suburban cost #3200 now $80 to $100k
After charging a AGM battery and letting it rest for a couple hrs, your voltage reading on a good battery should be in the neighborhood of 12.8 volts. You need to wait a couple hrs or overnight before doing this. If you are 12.6ish battery is bad
If by Marketplace you mean Facebook, and bought it used, I would first assume the seller knew it was bad and scammed you. Are you sure you set the battery profile to AGM for the AGM battery? In the charger manual it gives the different charge curves and voltages. You could try putting a voltage tester on the charger leads when first plugging in and check to see if it matches up with the volts for that charge curve.
How long have the PCL chargers been out, there is a two year warranty.
Lindy, just get a slider mount for the trolling mtr. The Skeeters come with them. Really simple on the water, just pull one pin on the side and slide it out. Easy peazy. Saves room in the garage also.
If that is where you back the trailer in to, you need to back in more. By the picture you posted, you have apx 1/4 of the top of the fender submerged. It should be backed in more so that apx 3/4 of the top of the fender is submerged.
And yes I also forgot to mention backing further in at first to wet all the bunks, then pull out till apx 3/4 of the top of the fender is submerged.
It changes by the angle of the ramp, but on my last three Skeeter walleye boats, on an average ramp you can figure backing in till apx 1/4 to 1/3 of the top of the fender is out of the water. This has been on a MX2040, and two WX2200’s. You back in more than that to start and you’re asking to have the boat crooked on the trailer.
Also I might add, on my 2200’s, I added a 2 speed winch. Even my WX2200’s winch up like they were a 16′ boat on a roller trailer.
Some use the Dorato and just drive on till it clips. Thats great till you end up at a no power load launch, then it sucks.
Thanks, finally got the last two out. No way they were coming out by hand with all that over abundance of red Loctite on the screws. I had been using a impact driver, and a 3/8 ratchet wrench and the last two didn’t want to budge. Finally got one more to loosen. Last ditch effort, borrowed a slightly stronger impact, and even with heating the loctite, it snapped the remaining screw. Drilled that out and made a tool to double up two wood screw inserts and screwed those into the fiberglass deck with lots of epoxy to help set them. Ran an electric space heater on that for two days to make sure the epoxy cured. Then just ran a new bolt in. Also cleaned the origonal bolts of red loctite and used blue this time.
My guess would be venting. Sometimes in the winter with heavy snows,the vent over my bathroom closest to our septic tanks gets plugged up and the shower and toilet will will sometimes make funny noises yet the sinks and toilets at the other end of the house are fine.
Soon as I clear that vent it goes away.
Just say no if you really don’t agree with it. Why on earth would you support something you are totally against and help to subject that on others?
If he truely is a real friend, he’ll understand and respect your opinion and seek out someone else to do it.
BP visa for us. 15 cents off every gallon of gas, plus credit back on other purchases. Our grocery store is linked to our bp card at bp gas stations for rewards. At times we get 30 cents off per gallon of gas.
A 20′ trailer by it’s self is 6k to 8k or more for a good one.
As a 50 yr plus fisherman, I will never have a boat with a cheap trailer.
Wife spends about a half hour on the phone every year with Direct tv to get our bill lowered every time they raise it.
She has to go through two or three people till she finally gets someone that can lower it.
It doesn’t do any good to tell them you can get a better price from someone else as you would have already switched if that were the case. You need to tell them you just can’t afford their rste increase, and when they say they can get you less of a plan for less money, say no, you like the plan you have. Also if you are a long time user like we are, stress that.
Took a look at my wifes bow. It’s a Hoyt Vantage X7, 30-40#,
27″-29.5″ draw, 41″ axle. Sure-loc micro adjust sight with a 4x scope, and micro adjust target rest.
I probably am going to try and sell as a pkg first, bow as stated,case, quiver, x7 arrows, and Carter target release. If it doesnt go that way will break it up to sell then. It’s a fantastic bow in new cond, and if I remember right, actually tops out about 42 lbs.
Forgot, easton target stabilizer also.
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I’ll look at my wifes bow tomorrow to see the draw range. The sight, scope and rest would be about 5 to 600 new alone. Its a good deal for someone if it fits, if not, its not.
Too bad she’s not a little taller. Wife and I no longer shoot target archery and she mentioned we should sell her bow and sight. Haven’t gotten around to taking pictures yet, but it was a $600 bow with a Sureloc micro sight, micro rest, and scope for the sight. About a $1000 plus for all and would sell around the $300 range. 30#-40# draw and her draw was 29″, would have to look at the range of the wheel.
Would be a fantastic bow for the price.
I would agree with Bill, get a sight on the bow, and double check eye dominance before buying bow!
We also used to coach archery, and you couldn’t believe how many parents bought the wrong first bows because of assuming if their child was right or left handed, that must be the right bow for them.
Then there is the biggest thing of all, do not, do not, get too strong of a bow for a child because you can get a deal on it.
Mathews Genisis bows are great first time bows fir beginners, plus can easily be sold when you decide to upgrade.
Finally got all but two screws out on the passenger base. I’ll keep trying. Took a heat gun, would heat them, let the heat soak and keep doing that till they started to turn. Had to be really carefull with the floor so close to the screw. Plus it starts out so cold in the garage now.
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I really envy all of you. Brings back such good memories of younger years. Enjoy these times, it’s worth every bit of effort you put into it.
When I said 3:30, that’s when they usually head out. Hot bite is usually hour before to hour to two hrs after daybreak. The water up by Sturgeon bay is very clear, as you get Algoma south, the water gets more cloudy. When I fish Racine, the time of day doesn’t seem to matter as much.
Just because most go out early it doesn’t mean that I do. I get out enough, and get enough fish, that we usually don’t go out till 7 or so. Still plenty of fish to catch depending on wind direction and water temp.
We have a summer place in Sturgeon Bay and are there May through early Oct. For Salmon in Sturgeon Bay Algoma figure mid June till mid Aug. Earlier iffy, and later the big ones start to turn color by late Aug.
Alot of 18′ boats out depending on weather. The bite can be early in that area. A lot go out 3:30 or so and in by noon. Water is calmer then also. Action can be fast and furious at daybreak. You’re about 5 to 6 mi out and if SBay, and launch in town there is two, mile long no wake streches and one mile long strech inbetween you can run to get to the lake. Algoma you can be fishing alot quicker, no, no wake.
If you don’t have downriggers, dipseys and planer boards will get fish. I use 50# powerpro, 40 might do. 20-25# leaders. Leadcore 27# 4 to 7 color or just 5 and 6. Copper I like 220′
Sturgeon Bay can get very crowded on weekends on the shelf and test your patience. The fish get bigger as the year goes on. Typical 20-30 minute fight for 20# plus kings.
Sturgeon bay launch is really nice and roomy parking lot. Lodging in Sturgeon bay area can be expensive and tough on short notice.
Think south further also if its just for fishing.
It can be real addicting when the big kings hit and pull drag to the point you wonder if you hsve enough line on. Twice last Aug I was out bymyself and had limits within 2 1/2 hr of setting up and thst was with 3 rods out. It’s really tough bringing in 20+# kings by yourself.
Wind direction is vital. West you don’t have to go out so far, east/ne you are out further.
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I’m not having issues on this forum other than an occasional slow loading when posting. Don’t really post here all that much though.
What issues are everyone having?
Whirlpool 27+ sq ft great interior layout. Looked at ones up to 4k, just paying more for fluff.
Spend any more you are just getting fluff.
Try your small town appliance places, they don’t have the overhead of big cities.
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Zero support for LG in my area, even from the places that sell them.
Here is the new Whirlpool we just got put in today. 27+ cu ft. Wife loves it. Also the small appliance place we bought it from services them to.
On sale $1790 delivered.
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We just trashed our LG. 8 years old and broke 4 times. Also no one will work on them, not even the major appliance place we bought it from. I finally had it listening to the wife complain and me having to work on it.
Just bought a Whirlpool at a fantastic sale price from a small local appliance place that also services what they sell and paid them $15 to haul ours away.
I will never buy a LG anything the rest of my life.
Haven’t really thought about sand in the back as I have a cap and a heavy rubber mat in the bed.
One thing I did add on the new truck last winter though, and that was a seal for the tailgate that stops rain and snow from entering.
I frequent this site among many others and I get virtually zero spam. My yahoo catches virtually all of it.
I would estimate 3-5 spam emails a week makes it through. Don’t open them just mark as spam and delete. When I look in my spam folder there is probably 100 or so a week in there they catch. I don’t even look at them, just select all and delete.
I use yahoo, mcafee, malwarebytes and add blocker.
There are solutions for a reasonably stress free internet experience.
Reminds me, about a year back I was getting a bunch of spam in my yahoo account that wasn’t being caught. All different addresses but the same common theme. I right clicked their address heading to see the true sender, and with some internet searching found their business name and a phone # for their marketing director. Called her and told her I wanted it stopped. It didn’t. Now I was out for revenge. I did some further internet and linkedin digging on their company officials. It was quite easy actually. Once I had their email addresses I started spamming their email addresses back. I was quite creative in my email subject line so when they looked at their incoming emails they opened them up before realizing they had been spammed. After about 5 days or so they must have all got together and blocked my email, so I then opened up a new email account and spammed them again. It actually was quite a bit of fun knowing I was getting them back. They caught on again after a few days and blocked that address. Then I did some internet digging on how to get revenge and there is all sorts of things to do. What I settled on was a mass marketing site that with a email address you provide, they send apx 300 mass marketing emails for various products to the email address provided. Their email boxes were now flooded with apx 300 different solicitations. It was such a good feeling knowing I was getting back at them. I guess they must have figured out who was behind it as all my spam from them stopped.
Ya, I saved about 100 lbs, is my boat faster because of it, don’t think so. Take off is slightly quicker, although my boat always had a quick, low bow rise takeoff. Also had to lower my engine height setting from my last boat apx 1/2″. Last boat was the same as current one. My new boat is apx 1 mph faster than last so maybe it is slightly faster. The main gain is the massive increase in battery power and never having to worry about running out of power. I actually had had a 5 bank charger instead of the original 4 bank put in my new boat, along with 5 battery trays incase I wanted to go with a house battery for my new electronics. So far I am still running 4 batteries, but if I decide to go with 5, I will still be 60 to 70 lbs lighter than the standard 4 battery setup.
These new batteries are just beyond impressive, and even though you really don’t need it, their app showing everything going on about the batteries is just fantastic. You can monitor everything, charge %, current draw, and battery health.
Yes, mix away. Oil forums talk about this all the time. No problem, especially amongst same brand of oils.
Or another option is add lithum trolling batteries like Ionic. I have them on my WX2200 and they are fantastic. They have a app for your phone to monitor them but you really don’t need to.
I troll almost exclusively, and my front trolling motor never shuts off all day, whether my kicker is running or not. I could easily go 3 days without charging.
Also no need to worry about outgassing, although I feel its a non issue.
