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Boat Fishing & Boating A new forum at Striped-Bass.com for those fishing from boats and for boating in general |
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03-19-2019, 08:48 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 8,718
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Upgrades
I am thinking of making a couple for the season. I would like to add curtains to my t top,right now it’s a 3sided but early and late season It would be nice to have more coverage. Also looking for an upgrade to my electronics to better pick up fish as well as the bottom in deeper water.
Anybody else got some upgrades planned?
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PRO CHOICE REPUBLICAN
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03-20-2019, 05:32 AM
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#2
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,698
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A for sale sign
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03-20-2019, 05:47 AM
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User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 5,454
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The trailer is at the end of it’s road......pulled the wheels yesterday
Thinking radar but pretty sure this is the last season with this boat...
She’s getting ready to kill me....
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03-20-2019, 06:54 AM
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Idiot
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 2,287
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Need new tires on the trailer, have a box of drum brake replacements downstairs... this year we’ll decide if the old motor + this decaying trailer will force the hand into a 23’, because that’s a lot cheaper than a new trailer, or at least that’s what I’ve been able to convince my wife of.
Radar is always on the list, but then I go and do something stupid like buying a new house :shrug: so we’ll see.
Also need 1-2 more flush mount rod holders. So I’ll do that some time this spring.
Finally, I bought an analog converter for engine data last year on the used market, I’d like to fidget around with getting that to work so I can use the digital stuff on my plotter for engine data.
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03-20-2019, 07:50 AM
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#5
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 8,718
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie
A for sale sign
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Something new or boatlessRonnie?
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PRO CHOICE REPUBLICAN
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03-20-2019, 11:28 AM
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#6
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Newtown, CT
Posts: 5,659
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I keep threatening to upgrade my radar, butI'll probably just keep using the old one until it dies.
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03-20-2019, 11:39 AM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,505
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I was hoping to see that Chris was moving up to bigger, so I could swoop in and buy his current ride.....
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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03-20-2019, 06:54 PM
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#8
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,698
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Originally Posted by Sea Dangles
Something new or boatlessRonnie?
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Bigger Downeast 33-35 ft is in the plans.
Leo has 1 more year at Ma Maritime
Planning for then.
Younger son Matty going there also starting next year 👍
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03-21-2019, 06:01 AM
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#9
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 8,718
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie
Bigger Downeast 33-35 ft is in the plans.
Leo has 1 more year at Ma Maritime
Planning for then.
Younger son Matty going there also starting next year 👍
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A neighbor’s son goes to the maritime Ronnie and is a lineman on the football team. Mills is his name,good boy.
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PRO CHOICE REPUBLICAN
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03-21-2019, 03:31 PM
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#10
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,698
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sea Dangles
A neighbor’s son goes to the maritime Ronnie and is a lineman on the football team. Mills is his name,good boy.
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Leo plays football.
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03-22-2019, 06:41 PM
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#11
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,748
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Guppy
The trailer is at the end of it’s road......pulled the wheels yesterday
Thinking radar but pretty sure this is the last season with this boat...
She’s getting ready to kill me....
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I put radar on last year, I can't believe I fished so m as my years at night without it, makes those creepy crawly kyakers that refuse to use lights visible in the dark.
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A good run is better than a bad stand!
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03-24-2019, 07:46 AM
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#12
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Somerset MA
Posts: 9,197
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TRIM TABS this year looking to smooth out that afternoon bay chop.. motor trim alone isn't cutting it
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03-24-2019, 09:36 AM
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#13
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Cumberland, RI
Posts: 2,257
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Originally Posted by wdmso
TRIM TABS this year looking to smooth out that afternoon bay chop.. motor trim alone isn't cutting it
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Best money you will spend...
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Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement -- Keith Benning
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03-25-2019, 08:47 AM
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#14
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Newport, RI
Posts: 2,395
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Put the painting on hold another year due to budget restraints. Last year did new Raymarine axiom and quantum radar thanks to Raymarine program hooking me up. I only got the 7" so I Need to add another axiom screen. Might do new sunbrella for the bed cushion underneath.
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03-25-2019, 09:10 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,666
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Originally Posted by wdmso
TRIM TABS this year looking to smooth out that afternoon bay chop.. motor trim alone isn't cutting it
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Put them on my boat I sold. Best investment I ever made.
Made any sea a breeze.
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No boat, back in the suds.
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03-25-2019, 08:49 PM
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Idiot
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 2,287
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Originally Posted by wdmso
TRIM TABS this year looking to smooth out that afternoon bay chop.. motor trim alone isn't cutting it
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If you get electric tabs, test the actuators before you install them. I 5200’d them to my Hull last year and got out on the water with a faulty actuator... that sucked.
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The artist formerly known as Scratch59.
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03-26-2019, 03:42 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Somerset MA
Posts: 9,197
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian
If you get electric tabs, test the actuators before you install them. I 5200’d them to my Hull last year and got out on the water with a faulty actuator... that sucked.
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Thanks... I will.. sounds like my kinda of luck
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03-26-2019, 04:49 AM
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User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 5,454
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wdmso
Thanks... I will.. sounds like my kinda of luck
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Luck?
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03-26-2019, 05:04 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,748
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Ordered a,garmin pantopix live scope to pair with the Garmin 94sv input on last year. ..
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03-26-2019, 06:55 PM
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#20
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: marshfield
Posts: 3,614
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wdmso
TRIM TABS this year looking to smooth out that afternoon bay chop.. motor trim alone isn't cutting it
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get big ones
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my 1st wife didn't like me fishing so much
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03-26-2019, 08:07 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,505
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Chit... I am getting nothing, and even launching this season is up in the air. Knee replacement is pending. Hoping for a scheduled surgery date this Thursday so I have some idea what the next six months might look like....
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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03-27-2019, 06:24 AM
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User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 5,454
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Originally Posted by nightfighter
Chit... I am getting nothing, and even launching this season is up in the air. Knee replacement is pending. Hoping for a scheduled surgery date this Thursday so I have some idea what the next six months might look like....
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90 days you’ll be up and runnin...
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04-21-2019, 06:59 AM
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#23
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Somerset MA
Posts: 9,197
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Originally Posted by niko
get big ones
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Got the 9x12
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04-28-2019, 01:56 PM
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#24
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Somerset MA
Posts: 9,197
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update on Tabs seems there is an issue with the module that controls the Tabs it interferes with the VHF and FM radio (saw the issue on the hulltruth ) and sure enough mine does the same thing .. issues goes away once you kill the power to the module
Be calling Bennett on Monday from what i have read their Customer service is top notch .. keeping my fingers crossed
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04-28-2019, 03:36 PM
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User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 5,454
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wdmso
update on Tabs seems there is an issue with the module that controls the Tabs it interferes with the VHF and FM radio (saw the issue on the hulltruth ) and sure enough mine does the same thing .. issues goes away once you kill the power to the module
Be calling Bennett on Monday from what i have read their Customer service is top notch .. keeping my fingers crossed
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Geeees, good luck Wayne, that sucks
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04-28-2019, 05:30 PM
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#26
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 8,718
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Hope you can figure that one out as you end up using the tabs more often than you think.
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04-28-2019, 06:05 PM
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#27
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Pete K.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 2,936
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I hope to finally, after 12 years, read the manual to my fish finder/gps.
No idea how to really use it... alway showing false fish icons when no bait or fish are present... and I never mark spots and return to them successfully.
Yeah .... I know......... Look guys, I'm a surfcaster who owns a boat. who should still have a flip phone.
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04-29-2019, 06:43 AM
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#28
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Somerset MA
Posts: 9,197
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ivanputski
I hope to finally, after 12 years, read the manual to my fish finder/gps.
No idea how to really use it... alway showing false fish icons when no bait or fish are present... and I never mark spots and return to them successfully.
Yeah .... I know......... Look guys, I'm a surfcaster who owns a boat. who should still have a flip phone.
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I had the same issue with my fish finder the cause was there were no fish under the boat. Then one day I saw a banana looking things and the rod bent .. now I know what to look for... calling Bennett today I'll post the results
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04-29-2019, 08:14 AM
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#29
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Somerset MA
Posts: 9,197
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Just got off the phone with bennett Marine they are telling me my issues is the power needs to be connected directly to the battery not the helm power even though their Installation direction makes no mention of a direct battery connection or that the provided power wire is only 2 feet long.. seeing i am running a new wire should i just install a new fuse block
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04-29-2019, 09:33 AM
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#30
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,698
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wdmso
I had the same issue with my fish finder the cause was there were no fish under the boat. Then one day I saw a banana looking things and the rod bent .. now I know what to look for... calling Bennett today I'll post the results
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Wow.
Not shocking considering your political views 🤣
Both in Demo mode 🤭
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