MailManMike
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Hi. New guy here. I'll post the first of my inane questions in a separate thread.
I live in Clarksville, TN I like to fish, but have been doing it from the back for a number of years. Its fun and all, but too limited. So I decided to buy a boat. I got a 17 ft, aluminum Lowe with a 50 hp Johnson. It immediately turned into a "project": I treated the boat like I do cars and endeavored to learn how it worked, ticked and tocked. I took the boat on the water one time, ran fine. Back at home the next week, as part of my learning, I attempted to start the motor to check and see what it was charging at, and of course it wouldn't start. Primer was leaking. Bear in mind I know NOTHING about boat motors. I ordered a primer re-build kit then went on vacation. While out of state I found a MinnKota Maxxum 50 lb troller for $200 and couldn't pass it up. And that is when all my issues started or were discovered. Getting it home, I installed it ok. Then, having been to electrician school back in the '80s, I figured out the power wires for the troller were not heavy enough. To replace them, I had to remove the flooring.Carpeting, live well, control console, wireing for lights, bilge pump etc. I started finding a lot of hidden problems and I have to fix them before I'm comfortable with the boat.
Since this is going to be an ongoing project, you think that I should start a different thread for each issue? of just one continuous thread?
I haven't been on a boat since I walked off the ramp of an Army LCM into Lake Gatoon Panama in 1984. Jungle Warfare School at Ft. Sherman.
Long winded?
Is this an appropriate forum for a boat and motor this size?
I live in Clarksville, TN I like to fish, but have been doing it from the back for a number of years. Its fun and all, but too limited. So I decided to buy a boat. I got a 17 ft, aluminum Lowe with a 50 hp Johnson. It immediately turned into a "project": I treated the boat like I do cars and endeavored to learn how it worked, ticked and tocked. I took the boat on the water one time, ran fine. Back at home the next week, as part of my learning, I attempted to start the motor to check and see what it was charging at, and of course it wouldn't start. Primer was leaking. Bear in mind I know NOTHING about boat motors. I ordered a primer re-build kit then went on vacation. While out of state I found a MinnKota Maxxum 50 lb troller for $200 and couldn't pass it up. And that is when all my issues started or were discovered. Getting it home, I installed it ok. Then, having been to electrician school back in the '80s, I figured out the power wires for the troller were not heavy enough. To replace them, I had to remove the flooring.Carpeting, live well, control console, wireing for lights, bilge pump etc. I started finding a lot of hidden problems and I have to fix them before I'm comfortable with the boat.
Since this is going to be an ongoing project, you think that I should start a different thread for each issue? of just one continuous thread?
I haven't been on a boat since I walked off the ramp of an Army LCM into Lake Gatoon Panama in 1984. Jungle Warfare School at Ft. Sherman.
Long winded?
Is this an appropriate forum for a boat and motor this size?
This place is filled with a lot of very useful information and members who are very knowledgeable on a lot of subjects pertaining to tin boats. There is a section Jon boats and V boats modifications that you can make a running post in as you go through the upgrade of your boat. One thing everyone here seems to like is pics pics and more pics.....
