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  1. KodiakJack

    Absolute Noob seeking advice and knowledge.

    Ha ha, yeah that’s my fear! There’s a Food Truck down at the lake next to a boat launch that my family and I frequent in the summer. The boat ramp provides plenty of entertainment for the nearby diners. I don’t want to be that guy! Lol. thanks for the advice, perhaps one of your Canadian...
  2. KodiakJack

    Absolute Noob seeking advice and knowledge.

    So the old wood was removed, and replaced with 5/8” pressure treated ply wood. to verify the condition of the fiberglass, where’s the best place to look and poke? The “usual suspects”. From what I’ve seen so far, it looks and feels good, but maybe I’m not in the right areas.
  3. KodiakJack

    Absolute Noob seeking advice and knowledge.

    That’s very helpful, thanks. I was curious about the gas mileage one can expect, but it sounds like there’s so many variables that you just fill ‘er up and you get what you get.
  4. KodiakJack

    Absolute Noob seeking advice and knowledge.

    Ok thanks.
  5. KodiakJack

    Absolute Noob seeking advice and knowledge.

    Yes, the previous owner noted that to me (I should have mentioned that). Now, he said he was mixing at 45:1 to “err on the side of caution” instead of 50:1. But you think I should aim for 50:1 though, eh? More likely to foul plugs at 45:1 I’d expect? Not sure about the plug wire. Looks like...
  6. KodiakJack

    Absolute Noob seeking advice and knowledge.

    Re the bolt, yes, too true! thanks for the explanation on the tilt/trim. I was looking for a separate control.
  7. KodiakJack

    Absolute Noob seeking advice and knowledge.

    Thanks. Re the canoe comment: I wasn’t trying to be “smart”, I was just trying to poke fun at myself, and how absolutely out of my element I am with all this. Didn’t mean to offend you. My irreverent personality can get me in trouble sometimes. Pics of the motor for interest’s sake. Seems...
  8. KodiakJack

    Absolute Noob seeking advice and knowledge.

    I don’t yet have a compression tester. I could never figure out where to attach it to my canoe ;-) Before doing that, should I first go through the piston lubing procedures in the “waking a sleeping engine” sticky? Anything I should know about buying a particular compression tester? Model...
  9. KodiakJack

    Absolute Noob seeking advice and knowledge.

    So the warm up lever... That’s a means of throttling up the engine without putting it in gear? How much range of rpm does it give? The full spectrum, or just the lower end? Reason I ask, is I was reading the “waking up a sleeping engine” sticky, and how you set the carb’s h/s pin while running...
  10. KodiakJack

    Absolute Noob seeking advice and knowledge.

    Tips for the boat launch? Unwritten rules I should be aware of? is there any sort of resource for finding boat ramps? I’m used to just pulling off to the side of the road and tossing my canoe in anywhere.
  11. KodiakJack

    Absolute Noob seeking advice and knowledge.

    Any phone or tablet apps that I should have? Nav? Weather? Checklists? Etc?
  12. KodiakJack

    Absolute Noob seeking advice and knowledge.

    I want to give the engine a bit of a going over. Maybe change the plugs... any sort of a basic “to do list” I should follow when getting the boat ready after it’s sat for a couple years?
  13. KodiakJack

    Absolute Noob seeking advice and knowledge.

    With all due respect, if I had a potential mentor, I wouldn’t have needed to join this forum. Nobody in my circle of friends or family are boaters. The boating season has wrapped up here, and I’ve got all winter to slowly suck all the knowledge out of you fine folks ;-) Hopefully by June, I’ll...
  14. KodiakJack

    Absolute Noob seeking advice and knowledge.

    There’s a gauge (bottom right in the pic). would this be to indicate the tilt of the engine? Or trim? (Is tilt and trim the same thing?) I always assumed this was more of a binary up/down thing. Would you make small adjustments to get better speed or performance based on the weight distribution...
  15. KodiakJack

    Absolute Noob seeking advice and knowledge.

    Ok! Maybe I’ll start with some pics of things that I don’t know what they do... On the throttle lever quadrant thing, there’s a second lever beside it that goes up and down. There’s a pictographs on it that would seem to suggest that I go read the owners manual before messing with it? And...
  16. KodiakJack

    Absolute Noob seeking advice and knowledge.

    Hi all! I bought a boat! It was a total whim purchase - I had no intention of becoming a boater, but the price seemed right so I pulled the trigger. Now I’ve got a boat in my driveway, and not a clue what to do next! <:-O Background: Me: Young family, looking to fish and maybe some water...
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