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    Advice on first extended trip with 14 footer/7.5

    Well, it was a good trip. We ended up just renting the 16' deep hull - and even with that, on this lake, with the winds that were presented, the hairs on my neck stood up more than once. Even having some experience with Big Water in a small boat with easily a foot of freeboard in five foot...
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    Advice on first extended trip with 14 footer/7.5

    What?! How DARE you question my choice of vacation destination! The arrogance! :p A few reasons. It's extremely remote as it's quite a slog to get there. From Chapleau it's an hour to the next town, 90 minutes to Wawa, and four hours to Sault Ste. Marie. Then from Chapleau it's 60 to 90...
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    Advice on first extended trip with 14 footer/7.5

    Realistically, after discounting the benefit of a 16' deep hull over a 14' utility, how much more of a safety/comfort (mostly safety) margin will a second hull provide that a second engine will not? For the record, I am on the side of a second boat after the discussion in this thread. I'm...
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    Advice on first extended trip with 14 footer/7.5

    Let me propose something my wife suggested, even though I'm not a huge fan. She suggests we leave my boat, take my engine, and rent a 16' deep V Nader, available at the park we're going to. We would then tow a utility trailer with my engine in it along with the rest of our gear, instead of my...
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    Advice on first extended trip with 14 footer/7.5

    Uhhhm, was that above the falls, or below? Big difference. When I was still figuring out the vagaries of my new motor, I had brought a bunch of stuff back to the docks and left all my tools still at the cabin. I left my car keys at the cabin too, so I couldn't get into my car for the auto...
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    Advice on first extended trip with 14 footer/7.5

    I haven't yet seen a wind strong enough that my engine couldn't keep up with it. The worst I've had it was in 2019 on the lee side of a railway bed that crossed a decently large lake that lay in the direction a 40km/h wind was blowing. 40km/h is a guesstimate, but when I walked up the rail bed...
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    Advice on first extended trip with 14 footer/7.5

    Jas, you make some very valid points. This lake is well known for its chop. The thinking so far is, if it takes three days to get out there and/or we're windbound for three days going back, then so be it. It will definitely be multiple trips each way, 2 or 3 of them, to bring the weight down to...
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    What would you put in a small outboard repair kit?

    I'd love to but a 24 foot canoe is not a possibility right now. It would be awesome, especially if I could take a few nieces and nephews. This trip would actually be perfect for a freighter canoe. But alas, I have neither the budget to buy one nor the space to keep one. Wait - by "North...
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    What would you put in a small outboard repair kit?

    Considering we'll be beyond both cellular service and US territory, I doubt wither of those will be useful... As for the shear pin - you're right, it may not have one. The prop does stop if it gets too tangled with weeds or fishing line, which suggests it has another method of disengaging to...
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    What would you put in a small outboard repair kit?

    1979-1981 Mercury 7.5. I was debating on the fuel filter, the shear pins I'll pick up when I pick up the spare prop, but I hadn't considered a spare rope pull - thanks.
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    What would you put in a small outboard repair kit?

    What the what? Americans don't have Duct tape? I mean, I know you Yanks were backwards, but I had no idea you were that backwards. The duct tape is actually in the general repair kit instead of the boat toolbox. I'll be picking up a spare prop in the spring. I spent all day calling every marina...
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    What would you put in a small outboard repair kit?

    Clean underwear is like clean socks - always take too many. We have bear spray and bangers in spades. I'd take a shotgun but it's a game preserve. As for the videos, you assume that a) I will survive this crazy idea, and b) I will not be cast out of this place for being a total asshat 😜
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    What would you put in a small outboard repair kit?

    I'm spending the evening planning a backcountry trip with a 14' tinny and my 7.5 Mercury and thinking of all the things that could go wrong. I'm looking at the boat toolbox I carry in the boat on overnighters, wondering if anyone else has any ideas for what to carry. It's for engine repair...
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    Advice on first extended trip with 14 footer/7.5

    The lake is actually quite deep - at least 80' through the middle of the southern portion, and drops to 20' within 5' of the island just north of the docks. It's 200' or 300' deep in the northern arm. Electronic navigation isn't really in the budget this year, aside from what an InReach can...
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    Advice on first extended trip with 14 footer/7.5

    Haha, yes, you're right. The plan is a whole day to move everything there and then a whole day back, and we've made allowances for two days of weather delays on both ends of the trip. It's actually from Saturday the 17th of July to Tuesday the 27th, including the 12 hour drive there and back...
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