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For those in northen climates how do you cover your toon for the winter? I've shrinkwrapped mine in the past (DIY) but that is expensive with the material running about $100-$150. I tried tarping it with a quality tarp last year but the above average snow (in WI) collapsed pockets of it, which...

Thanks Jeff, that is the way I'm leaning if I can find one around here used. Airshot I hear what you are saying but I've had horrible luck with 2cycles. This one I've had serviced three times since I got it and I still don't trust it to go down stream. The one before that was a lemon as well...

Hi all, Still trying to figure out my best boat option (without breaking the bank). I moved to WI and have a small place on a small river here. I've been a lake guy all my life so have been trying to figure out my best option for using the river. Was hoping some of you more experienced river...

Took a look last night and without me in it, it looks like its sitting 3"-4" in the back. Hard to say exactly with me in it but I'm guessing it sunk another 3"-4". Floating in a foot of water I dropped the motor down and the skeg went into the sand a few inches. The cav plate looks a couple of...

hmm I'll have to go out and measure after work. I don't have any batteries in it, I moved the tank to the middle but it couldn't reach to the front without a new line. I was going to do that but haven't been in a hurry as it's a small 3 gallon tank.

Hey all, I have an older Alumacraft 1448 Jon (MV) that I'm putting pods on to hopefully float a little shallower. My river can get pretty shallow in the summer. Right now, we are about as low as it gets and if I were to take it out my short shaft Evinrude 9.9 would hit the skeg in some spots...

Hey all this is a great site and I've found a lot of good info here for modifying my Jon boat. Does anyone know of a site like it that is for pontoons? Now that my floor is done I need to mod up the toon!

Update #2 to the original post. She's running :) It was two different issues. The first was the fuel intake hose inside the (portable) tank. There was a crack at the very top so the line wasn't staying filled. The second issue was, as suggested, still some bad gas in the carb bowls. Once...

Update: Part of the problem seems to be the tank intake. There's a stiff tube that goes down into the gas. As part of my troubleshooting I removed the connector on the hose and put it directly into the tank. The line maintained pressure so there must be a hole or crack in that tube. I drained...

Thanks Dale. If I can get it running I'll give the decarb a try as well.

Did a search and couldn't find anything. I am trying to get an outboard going and could use some help. The guy I got it from said it was running a year ago and hasn't used it this year. His brother winterized it for him last fall. It's an '89 Johnson Tracker Pro, 60hp, oil injected (from...

Thanks. I wasn't cutting anything until I found out more.glad I waited!

I'm mounting my depth finder transducer on my trolling motor. Instead of having 15' of cable to deal with when moving the motor around I was wondering if there was a way to cut the cable and put some sort of quick connect harness on it. That way the cable can stay in the boat but I can just...

Thanks guys. I bought the boat. The price was so good I figured I'd try it. If it doesn't work out for me I can easily make my money back or even a profit.

Wondering if anyone has one of these. A friend of a friend has a 1985 he was thinking of selling only he's out of town so I can't see it for a week and meanwhile I have a different boat I'm interested in. Not sure if I should hold off until he is back or not. I can't find any pics on line...

When you guys say aluminum I assume you are talking about sheets. What thickness do you recommend?

I had actually thought about doing something like that Dale. The ramp, winch and pulley system I built is certainly strong enough to pull the weight of the boat and the motor. I just wasn't sure if wrapping a strap around it would equalize the load/stress. That is why I was thinking pulling the...

Yeah that is sort of where I started on this. However we have a pretty steep bank (6' vertical) so I'm worried that when I'm pulling it up with the motor attached, the motor end is unsupported and stressing the metal with the winch pulling one way and the motor pulling down the other.

Some good ideas here to think on, thank you very much! I don't want to get too complicated in the solution. I can still lift it, it's just a pain trying to lift, place, balance, then set on the dock. I was hoping maybe someone had designed a sling or modified a furniture dolly in a creative way...

Thanks for the thoughts. I hadn't thought about some sort of boom like contraption, I'm going to mull that one over. Getting into the water is easy (sand and rock) when it's 2' a little trickier when the water is up and it's at 6' lol