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It’s be a fun summer with the 1036. We explored lots of coves in falls lake. It’s been hot mid mornings so we got out early and most of the time the lake was very calm. The engine is great, can’t say anything bad about it. Overall we could not ask for a better setup.

Daughter and I went out on the boat this morning. This was the first time two people were in it. The center seat was removed from the seat post. We went out for an hour. I was surprised it went 13mph. The lower pitched prop definitely was the right choice. My daughter came up with a pretty good...

Took the boat out today and did some tests with a different pitched prop. The original prop spec's are 7-7/8" dia. and 7-1/2" pitch. I purchased a prop spec'd at 7-7/8" dia. and 6-3/4"pitch and did some runs with the boat loaded with myself in it. The boat got up on plane much faster with no...

Thanks Ryan, The equipment used is a 10” Delta Unisaw with a Biesemeyer fence.

Anchormate II holder

The anchor mount works great. Here are some pictures:

The Anchor mount is almost completed. I'm waiting for a pulley that aligns the rope on the winch properly. The mount is already drilled and tapped to mount the pulley.

Check out these sites for metals. https://www.yarde.com/cgi-bin/dropzone.pl They sell left over pieces. (Drops) https://www.metalsupermarkets.com/store-finder/ This company will cut to your size. Prices are good.

Here is a picture of part of the mount for the Anchormate setup. It's not completed. It's just rough cut. Total weight of all the parts is 7lbs. Quitting for the night. Back to work on it tomorrow.

Great buy! Find of a lifetime.

Thank you LDUBS, The next project might be a bow mount for an Anchormate and Anchormate ll combo. I’ve been boating with an 8 lbs mushroom anchor and 5 pounds of additional weight on the bow bench so I know mounting the setup in the front will be fine. This will most likely be it for...

Its finished, the boat behaved very well in some chop and wind. It planes at 10 mph, it does not pound hard in the water and the bow does not raise out of the water to much when starting off. It tracks very well for a 10 footer. Checked the speed again with Google maps and I still get 17mph...

That's it for tonight. Tomorrow I'll be shopping for the seat. My idea when designing it was to keep it light as possible yet have the platform strengthen the floor braces. Another thing was I wanted to avoid drilling the braces so the boats warranty might not be compromised.

This picture shows how the platform is mounted underneath.

The next step was making the platform and mount it. It was made out of 3/4" 10 ply birch marine grade plywood.