Huntinfool's 1860 Tracker

[huntinfool]

New starter installed, bumped the key to see if everything was hooked up right and she fired right up and purred......until the buzzer went off.
New water pump being ordered today, should have it tomorrow. Hopefully have time to install Friday after work or Saturday after work. Then, fingers crossed, maybe another trip on Sunday.

 

[huntinfool]

Dropped the lower unit, the gasket to the water pump was pushed out of the housing. Looking for a kit, but none found so far.

 

[huntinfool]

Water pump came in yesterday, and I'll be putting it in tonight. At least I'll know it will be good now.

 

[huntinfool]

Well we got her on the water.


Motor is running. Took her out and got her on plane. She doesn't have the correct prop on her. She ran 29.8 @ 5500rpm. So I have a feeling she will run much more when she has the right pitch prop on.
I caught one fish and lost 2 that were pushing 5lbs. I don't know how you lose two fish on a rattle trap at the boat, but I did it.
The repositioned trolling motor worked great. Plans are now to get a depth finder on the trolling motor, get some weather stripping on the storage box lid, and locate a prop. Then I'm going to go ahead and add the three bank charger that I had decided against. I also need to get a main battery switch. The boat scraped the trailer loading and unloading, so I'll have to address this too.
Lots of projects.

 

[huntinfool]

Just ordered some lights for my boat.....let the playing begin.

 

[huntinfool]

Well I got my lights in and I believe they are going to work great, just need more. Not installed yet so no pics.

BUT,

My son and I are on the way to the lake. Should have her wet in an hour and a half. Hopefully, pics to come.

 

[huntinfool]

Just got back. The super slick steel flex is so slick. My boat started coming off before we hit the water. Luckily I caught it. But I fell and banged my elbow and scraped my back. On the water we did this.
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And this
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The wind kicked up and we had to rough the white caps.

 

[huntinfool]

Motor did OK, but need a different prop. But for some reason I took on quite a bit of water. I guess I am going to put the plug in and start fling her up and see what's up. I have a feeling it is either a through hull or a hose

 

[rscottp]

Looks like you found the fishies!

 

[jonboatboy]

That last pic looks like a a gooden. I watch your post as you always have interesting info but I don't comment much because you always know what your doing lol.

 

[huntinfool]

Shoot, post away! I make plenty of mistakes, I just usually fix them before I post!

I always like advice and suggestions. But I do appreciate it too!

 

[huntinfool]

O, and as for the fish, it fought great, I thought it was going to be much bigger for the fight. We have caught some real beauties in this lake.
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[huntinfool]

I even put my dad on a good one.
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[jonboatboy]

Whhooooo. You make me get excited looking at them pictures. I got a tournament this Saturday and I hope to have a heavy sack and I ain't talking bout the one below the belt. Lol just joking. Them are some nice ones. How's the boat doing?

 

[Rat]

Less fish pictures...more boat pictures! :mrgreen:

Did you get your prop figured out? I think I see a river channel race in our future! 8)

 

[huntinfool]

Working on the prop.
I had to take some of the steel flex off and use some 5200 to seal up an angle iron on the bow. It was leaking water something fierce. Hopefully I have that problem fixed. There were 8 pinhole leaks under the boat, we'll see if I have those fixed also. If I do, I'll be mounting some lights and maybe sealing the front box.
I put some skid no more on the lid of the box as it was super slick. If it will stick then I will cover it and then I can come back and spray the boat color over that.
I have a light for under the console, I have some lights I plan on using as fish lights and I have lights for inside the boat. May start on those this afternoon....weather permitting.


As for a channel race....I'm still learning the channel. But I'll let you lead me up stream!