Tootsie II

Name on my previous Geisler 16ft cedar strip boat. Tootsie I, inherited from Dad was a 16ft 1947 Peterborough cedar strip. My uncle who originally bought the first one, named it after my sister who's nickname was Tootsie. She is in her 70's now and some of her friends still call her by that name.

Thanks for all your help guys, it's a 1974.

Just purchased a reconditioned older small horsepower Johnson outboard for a kicker. Runs good in my tank! Vendor did not know its age and I wouldn't mind having a ballpark figure on it. It's an older Johnson Sea-Horse with the olive green shaft, white prop and white top cowling. The starting rope handle is on the right side of the front face of the cowling. There is a bottom red/orange colour band and top black band along both sides of the cowling. Could any of you more mature members out there possibly give a time period when Johnson was using this colour scheme. Thanks.

Getting slightly off topic, Mercman, it was my understanding that you could not attach a 20 lb tank to one of those little Coleman BearCat catalytic heaters that normally use the 1 lb tanks. I have one that we use in the dining tent when it's cold and have been told that the pressure differential between the 1 lb tanks and the 20 lb'ers can cause a surge in the heater the unit could seriouy overheat. Can you confirm if you've ever heard that?

This weekend's flyer from CTC has a 2.6 hp gas outboard tucked up in the top corner of page 31. Sale price is $ 729.99 . I suspect it is one of these Chinese units that we are now seeing in Canada. Anybody had any experience with their or other South-East Asian ( excluding Japanese) outboards. Am thinking about a kicker for my 14' wide body Naden.

50% per cent for tonite. Habs lose but Owen Sound Attack win OHL Western Conference championship. They get an automatic birth in Memmorial Cup even if the should lose league championship series to Missy St.Mike's Majors.

Bought a new "tinney" 3 years ago and the dealer told me to make sure I held onto my bill of sale to prove I paid the taxes. Sounds like I better start looking for that bill!

Watch out for the 10 year warranty thing. To keep the warranty valid you may have have the unit inspected and serviced every year by that company or one that sells and services that line. My warranty inspections/servicing run about $ 200. a year + $ 190.00 for the special " Hepa" type air filter that we installed for my wife ( health reasons).

Really folks, the gun registry was a huge waste by one party, the G-8 & G-20 was way overspent by another, shouldn't we give the other guys a chance to try their hand at wasting our cash? LOL

As a long gun owner I agree that the whole thing was a waste of time and money. The problem is that as 80% of Canadian citizens now live in larger urban environments and many of us who grew up using guns as a tool to put food on the table and well as for recreational hunting are getting a little long in the tooth, today's urban dwellers see guns as a threat to public safety and not as a tool. As well, regretably, in those cities, it is also seen as a womens' safety issue. If any political party wants to get rid of the registry, they should keep quiet about it til they get a majority and then do the deed. As long as we keep harping about it and keep the registry in the minds of urban dwellers and particularly a majority of urban women, we will be stuck with it. Sorry if that appears as an "us against them, urban vs rural issue" and a rather sexist point of view, but IMHO, that's the way it is.

Just tried using that gov't of Ontario website. Looked at the areas where we go and virtually none of the roads we use are shown. Anybody else found this?

Thank God it's nearly over. But now we'll have to listen to the news pundits analyze it to death for the next 3 weeks.

My fishing partner and I have been doing our three trips a year since 2005. Prior to that it was one main 4 to 15 day trip in July since 1979. We had to extend that trip one day per year over a few years to satisfy "the significant others". Now we think they're glad to be rid of us. LOL. That trip is still part of the three. The one's added are 8 day ones in early June and Sept. Our meals are planned daily and kept on computer from year to year. Each meal is planned in case we get skunked fishing. We usually eat a late breafast, little or no lunch and a good supper with appropriate libation. We eat like kings for the first 8 - 9 days, then it's the canned stuff that comes out if there's no fish. The canned stuff hasn't come very often. We do the grocery shopping together about 5 days before we go so that steak, pork chops, chicken and ground beef can be frozen. It's only canned stuff that come back. We also have master lists for all equipment and personal items. Luckily, we're both retired.

Ok, laughingly playing part of typical Canadian bureaucrat: Is that thing considered a small vessel? Do you neeed an Operator's Card ? Does it have to have all the required safety equipment? Looks to me like it might have a high centre of gravity, so is it safe in high winds? Can you imagine trying to paddle it in high winds if the battery runs out. You'd probably be turning in circles! Only in Canada, AA

Don't know if this topic has been has been discussed before but "Search" turned up nothing so I'm asking if anyone has had any experience with this brand of coolers ( Yeti Tundra) shown on the BP website. They seem pretty pricey but mite be worth it to my fishing partner and I as we go on a 15 day fishing trip in Shinning Tree area every July. Have managed to get ice to last 11 - 12 days by burying coolers in sand up to their lids but 12 days is limit. Wonder if these coolers are that much better.

Different motors sometimes require different methods. Older 2 strokes like my 1971 - 20hp Johnson require that you burn any remaining fuel out of the engine and then spray fogging oil into the cylinders ( remove plugs to do it) and carb. Crank the motor a bit to get the oil to cover the cylinder walls. Newer motors require that you burn fuel in the system with fuel conditioner in it and leave it in the carburation system. You still fog the cylinders. You should always change the bottom end lube at the end of the season. My motors have been fine stored in an unheated garage.

Is the engine a 2 stroke or 4. Got fooled myself once. Thought excess unburned 2 cycle oil draining out the underwater exhaust port was gear case oil. It wasn't.

As a former issuer at Wal-Mart, I don't think that non-Canadian non-residents get an outdoors card. You only get your temporary license for the duration of the type of license you buy ( ie: non-resident sport or conservation). If you had an outdoors card it would mean that you could just walk into an issuing outlet for the next two years and get a resident sticker. There are no non-resident stickers to go on outdoor cards in the package that the government sends to issuers. The non-resident stickers that they sent us had to be put onb the back of the temporary paper license you are issued.

I used to issue fishing licences for Wal-Mart in Owen Sound til I retired in May 08. The regulation that they came out with that year said that anyone who had resided continuously in Ontario for 6 months in the last twelve months prior to applying for a licence was considered an Ontario Resident. Other Canadians who did not meet this criteria were considered as Canadian residents. It had something to do with an agreement signed by all the provinces so that people from out of province did no get hit with non-resident fees. Non-resident fees are substantially larger.

Born, raised, educated (Northern) in Timmins. Moved to London in 1973. Moved to Owen Sound in 76. Miss "the bush" like hell and get back there at least 3 times a year.

Hate to admit it, but Ive done it more than a few times. Now I just wear old running shoes and wade right in if I have to. As one gets a little more mature ( that's polite for "old"), falls can be more serious. However, it's usually July or August water temp's, and I have spare socks and shoes in the truck.

Lunboy, your bio says you're from the GTA. If my memory serves me right, it wasn't that long ago that some guy talking on a cell phone to his wife with his young son in the car didn't notice the flashing lights a level railway crossing. He was still talking to her when the train nailed them and killed them both. The reason I want the phones banned is because I've been nearly hit four time by drivers talking on a hand held phone and the worst thing was is that all were either in a Wal-Mart or mall parking lot. The ratio was 3 women to one man. When your driving you attention should be on your driving. If you want to talk, pull over.

I'm afraid that the only way we'll ever see the Spring bear hunt re-instated is if some bear wearing a night gown and a sleeping cap devours the provincial Premier's grandmother and takes a stab at his grandaughter and that'll happen when the hot hole down under becomes the home rink of the Leafs.

Take it from a part time cemetery manager that those are burial vaults. The casket goes inside them and the concrete lid goes on top before the grave is backfilled. They are optional in most cemeteries but mandatory in some if that's approved in Ontario by the provincial Ministry of Consumer and Business Affairs. The funeral directors like them because for about a five minute phone call to the supplier, they usually make at least a 100% profit on them. The vaults help minimize the ground settlement over the years but don't do much to stop nature from taking its course with the remains.

I realize that many of us may have already done this, but unless all of us posters/fishers who love our sport, take the time to look up Donna Cansfield's e-mail address on the Province of Ontario website and e-mail her telling her to get off her duff and get out and look at the damage first hand, nothing will get done and the anti's will keep winning. Politicians have long used the ratio that one letter from a constituent represents the views of 10,000 constituents. This is why we need to keep the letter writing/e-mail pressure up on her. Can you imagine what she'd think if just 50% ( 40,000 ) OFAH members all e-mailed her on this subject.