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After 43 years wires get brittle. Rubber and plastics harden. I don't know what happens electrical components like coils and condensers but ones that have been sitting for years seem to fail often. carburetor floats get leaks and flood wth fuel. Needle valves and valve seats corrode. It...

Fuse between the battery and fuse box protects the feeder to the fuse box. I have a 30A fuse that screws right onto the battery terminal and the feed to the fuse box connects to that. My other boat has a trolling motor (and no other electronics) and that is also fused the same way. In the...

I think about what happens in an accident. Everything that holds the boat onto the trailer gets thru-bolted. Forged eyes on eye bolts or weight rated D-rings. For safety chains, I think a 1/2" Grade 8 bolt is plenty strong enough.

Between the switch and the linear actuator on the motor is a relay. A relay is an electrically operated switch. When you turn on the console switch, it provides power to the magnetic coil in the relay. This coil only draws a small amount of current (Amps). There is a heavy duty switch...

I need a "like" button. Lots of good ideas here.

Finally pulled the tarp off my boat today. Here's a picture of the lights on the front of mine. I welded the T-shaped pedestal out of aluminum angle and made a V-shaped socket for it to slide into. It is stored in one of the storage lockers unless I need it. The cord plugs into a 12V power...

I don't think length is the issue. I put that 12' jon in an 8' bed with a toolbox in the bed, so I probably only have 6' of bed. It sticks out but I strap it down - problem solved. The issue that I see is weight. One guy unloading a 14' jon is doing some work, especially if you're at the...

We transport a 1232 in the bed of our truck. I wouldn't want to unload anything bigger or heaver than that and I'm unloading with my 13 year old son.

Look up the specs on your motor and find out what the gear ratio is. With that, the prop pitch, RPM, and speed, there are lots of on line calculators that will give you prop slip. That will tell you if you're already in the ball park. With a 10 pitch prop, 30mph might be all your motor can...

When you say you have a kicker motor "that doesn't make any difference", I'm not sure what that means. I'm assuming your kicker is lifted up out of the water when you're using the main motor? If not, I could see how lift from the kicker would make the boat list. If I run with my kicker down...

I got the fish finder on Amazon for $120. The box cost me $17. Battery was almost $30. The c-clamps came from Harbor Freight for $ 2 or $3 each. I already had the scrap metal I welded between the c-clamps. Total cost was around $170.

It's nothing fancy but I put this together a couple of weeks ago and just got it out on the water in the last few days. Thought I'd share. I have a nice sonar/chart plotter unit on our larger aluminum boat that we take out on salt water. I haven't ever had a sonar unit on our little 12'...

Bend a piece of stainless or aluminum flat stock to any shape you want and screw it to the casting deck or to the side of the boat near the gunnel. Or, get a piece of aluminum rectangular tubing and cut off a short length. You can get rectangular tubing in just about any size you can imagine...

Instead of screws, use machine screws with nuts. Heads of the screws on the outside to provide a smooth surface and nuts inside. I have stuff mounted all over my boat with machine screws.

I've always thought these were pretty interesting: https://www.boatstogo.com/central-console-inflatable-boat.asp They're made for inflatable dingys but something could be made for any jon boat. A Harbor Freight hydraulic tube bender and a couple of lengths of aluminum tubing and you'd have...

Just curious where you're buying them. I don't know anything specifically about Minn Kota but Walmart (and maybe other big retailers) tell manufacturers what they'll pay for products and manufacturers will often make a cheaper version of the same product. Same model number, same SKU number...

There are short shafts, very short shafts, long shafts, extra long shafts, and all manufacturers are a little different in shaft length. But... in a 9.9hp, a short shaft is usually pretty close to 17" and a long shaft is usually pretty close to 20". A 3" rise should get you pretty close to...

I don't see any downside. Looks like it only sets your outboard back about 3". That wouldn't worry me.

Can I make more money selling as a set or separately? Am I upgrading electronics or can I reuse what I have? And, most importantly, how much of a pain in the back side will it be to remove everything and have to deal with multiple buyers. Unless I had some really high end electronics on a...

I have a gps/chart plotter mounted on top of my side console. I also keep a paper map and a compass in my emergency kit. It's awfully easy to get lost in the winding salt marsh creeks where we crab and fish. It's miles and miles of twists, turns, and side creeks that all look exactly alike...