The Nanticoke River in MD is frozen all the way across. I haven't seen that for a few years.
Makes for a nice computer background screen pic though. I took this pic of my pier at sunset yesterday.
Re: Lining/coating inside of leaky aluminum gas tank
Hah! Those pics are from when I bought the boat for cheap a few years ago. After power washing, replacing the planks with Ipe wood, replacing seats, LED nav lights, and other futzing, it looks pretty good now.
Here's partway through the...
Re: Lining/coating inside of leaky aluminum gas tank
Here's a cut away of the boat. I'm not sure if the foam is bonded to the deck, the hull, or both. I'll have to do some searching to see if anyone has removed the cap off a Wahoo.
If I can't remove the cap, I can remove the plank on...
Re: Lining/coating inside of leaky aluminum gas tank
The tank within the bench is wider than the board on top of the bench. To remove the tank, I'd have to cut a lot of fiberglass, and rebuild.
I have too many projects to deal with that, for now. In my spare time, I'm still rebuilding my...
My '85 Wahoo has a built-in, leaky aluminum gas tank. Removing it would involve way too much cutting and rebuilding the built in fiberglass bench than I want to deal with.
I can remove a wood plank over the gas tank, cut a 1' X 2' hole in the top of the aluminum tank, repair or reline the tank...
Re: Kayaking away from the Mother Ship
I'm at the mouth of a river entering the east side of the Chesapeake. It's in a boondocks area, usually with miles of open sea.
I want to try kayak trolling for Stripers. One or two rods dragging lures behind me as I paddle by some choice spots.
The best spots are some creek mouths and shoals about 10-15 miles from my dock, so I'm considering loading the kayak on my 21' Dual Console, get near the spots, anchor the DC...
Re: Boat refueling on the water from 5 gallon gasoline cans . . . Regulations???
I use a couple of Safety Cans with the attached funnel. No vent, and no spills.
Amazon.com : Eagle UI-50-FS Red Galvanized Steel Type I Gasoline Safety Can with Funnel, 5 gallon Capacity, 13.5" Height, 12.5"...
Re: FINALLY DONE with winter/spring projects. What do you have left?
Now that the weather's finally getting nice, it's about time I repaired my pier damage from Hurricane Sandy.
My pier and boat lifts are in a shallow tidal area. At low tide, it's too shallow to get back on my lift at its lowest point. I normally just tie off and wait. Once, with a big surprise storm approaching, I pulled off this desperate maneuver. It worked, and now I use it at any extreme low...
Re: What boating mistakes have you made?
Left my boats on the boat lifts during Hurricane Sandy.
Pier is trashed, but lucked out and the boats are fine.
The lift still works for the bigger boat, the other lift has no power.
I'm taking the bigger boat out fishing this week, then a couple of...
I have grounded a few times, and used my prop to muscle out.
Fortunately my area is 99% mud.
I have a spare prop that I got from a yard sale/flee market for $5. I also have one of those plastic drain plug/prop wrenches from Bass Pro. I don't trust it.
I'm just wondering if anyone has had to...
Re: Steering wheel stuck...STUCK
Instead of a puller, what worked for me was standard shims, like the kind you use for installing a door. After loosening the center wheel nut, I rapped a couple of shims between the back of the wheel and the old Teleflex bezel. It slowly forced the wheel...
Re: hurricane sandy
As it turns out, the lifts were the right place for my boats. A couple of large branches went down right where I would have parked my trailers.
With the forecasters crying "Wolf" for so many years, I guess I let my guard down a bit.
It was the NOAA Storm Surge...
