Recent content by RidgeRunner

New indeed. That sounds like a plan. I think the Merc is a little bit heavier than 25 lbs. but what a difference it will make with long idle in and out canals.👍 welcome to the site. I like my dual bilgepump setup with the auto switches. My boat is a trailer queen. Painted so I am...

I had an issue with the hydraulic steering in my flats boat. There is a guy in Ft.Myers that fixes them for so-so money. Amazon has the entire system under Vevor branding. Went with the Vevor. It looks identical to me. Not sure about pricing now, it was less than half of what sea star...

Agree there, once you hear it pop, if it doesn’t start, crank without key pushed in.

I think I’m in agreement with you steplift20. I don’t have it in me anymore. Nice work indeed. I don’t have any pictures of my rebuild. Wish I did. I was instructed by a good glass guy to poke holes in the new coring. So I lay the core into a couple wet layers of CSM and weigh it down with...

Well? What did you do?

I don’t like the parallel all the time setup. One battery goes south, could cause the other to fail quick. But my switch has the ability to combine both. I understand switch issues.. always good to have some wrenches in case of switch fail. Depending on setup, type of switch and engine...

lol somebody needs to update this post. Real bad….!!! Fighting my TDS to stay away🤫

While we’re at it I say change the name of a few road signs. I mean, “Dead End” just sounds so, well, permanent.. how about a simple “Road Ends” Or we could go the other way and start naming stuff for what it really is. I nominate Interstate 4 to be “ClusterDuck of Death” anybody with me? 🤪🤔

I say, recycle one. Give it to a pal or a youngster that deserves it. Then wait until day after tomorrow to decide on what to do about remaining at the 100 mark..🤔

PTSD flare up after seeing those pics. Square nose shovel works good to chunk out that foam. Nice job, demented minds think alike. That’s exactly how I went about my rebuild. I disliked how they cut the top of stringers for the rigging tube crossover. Put mine between stringers when it went...

No photos of rebuilding survived. Transom was a pita to make look right. Grafted a piece off a larger boat to help with rear of cap. It already had the hatches made into it. Raised the console about 6”, made an extension on console to flush mount electronics. Huge knee braces on transom that...

Never experienced much. I dislike being cold so I’m gonna say no. It was 40 the other morning. 56 inside, I was living on a space heater

This time of year, low winter tides, reds like to habitat in coastal creeks. Feed on fiddler crabs and congregate in holes between mud banks and oyster bars. It’s low now, I wanna go so bad it is plain ludicrous…

Heater gave up in my trailer last night. 56 inside prompted me to find the space heater. We only got down to 44.

Sadly the draw of people to the coastlines has created one hell of an issue with insurance and flood plain restrictions on construction. The latter being a good thing. If you want insurance the height of your floor here is 14’ above mean high tide. That is considered the 100 year flood plain...