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POLLIWOGG

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  1. Was the accident reported? Any charges laid? Cause if he's trying to keep it under wraps that ship has sailed.
  2. If you happened to be a member of Canadian Power Squadron Icom will give you a discount.
  3. Don't forget your flares.
  4. If its not that old the gel coat will be thin and you might be limited to buffing and polishing. If its older the gel coat might be thicker and you can sand it. Start somewhere where you can experiment with different grit till you get something that works for you. I'd start with 400 to bring up the color and work up to 1000 or higher then buff it smooth.
  5. If you want to change the limit you must organize into a large group as the Gov. no longer has an ear for individuals. Then you get some signs and march down the streets of Toronto. Good luck with that.
  6. It'll cost a million to fix that.
  7. Rocked the house pretty good Picton area.
  8. Another option would be to get a copy of the construction standards for boats for the time it was built and see if they cheaped out somewhere. If you can show it doesn't meet the standards and you can collect some support from others with the same problem then petition for a recall on all of them. If it doesn't meet construction standards it doesn't matter if it was "hard trailed" or not.
  9. Yeah, 10 years isn't long enough to get a card, come on gov. give us a break. There is nothing about online providers that conform to testing protocols so you might have a long wait.
  10. The best I found was Made by Spar and was an aluminum plate with a slight bend at the back. Had it on an old glastron cathedral hull 235 i/o. It would be on plane in 2 lengths of the boat without the up and over you get with a trihull. We put one on a 16ft 145 outboard and it lifted the boat to where it got scary so we took it off.
  11. Your motor makes 90hp at 5500rpm but at 3800rpm it makes far less than 90hp so you have to get that rpm up by dropping pitch or diameter of the prop. I think it goes an inch of pitch is roughly 400 rpm and an inch of diameter is 200 rpm. The smaller prop will give you a better sense of range between slow and wot.
  12. Ontario plans on polluting over 15,000 acres of prime LO smallie habitat, It'll be interesting to see how this affects the fish.
  13. Great example of a boat at wot and no wake because the boat is almost out of the water.
  14. www.westlakewillows.com, If he can't do it he might know someone who can.
  15. Don't forget a document with a picture of you on it, all that stuff is useless unless you can show who you are.
  16. Bear eating a G8 security guard?
  17. I bolted one to a piece of steel and set it in place, anything goes wrong with it you can just pull it out. Don't depend completely on a float switch, there are lots of nightmare stories that involve them, best to check on the boat or have someone check on it once in a while and after a rain.
  18. Burnt contacts in the solenoid. Short across it everything works fine right.
  19. Scotty used to give the dealers a box of parts. When the switches gave me problems the dealer threw me 2 newer style ones, no charge. Might be worth asking the dealers how long it will take to get you back on the water if something goes wrong with them. I like the scotty.
  20. Solar panels produce very little power compared to the cost of putting them into production financially and environmentally and the idea that if we build a subsidized market for them they will build a better solar panel is questionable when you think about the market for solar panels has been satellites and space stations. If those guys can't make a better panel who can? $80,000 puts up a 10k solar panel that at pre green energy policy unsubsidized prices would hardly pay for itself over its life expectancy let alone make a profit. On. doesn't use oil to make electricity so there is no comparing wind farm to fossil fuel. We may have to built gas fired plants to help regulate the wind farms though like they did in Europe. Then they figured if we got to build gas plants why bother with wind generation and stopped using them. The best way that wind generation will replace oil is with the electric car but by driving up the price of electricity it guarantees that will never happen. Got the notice in the paper today... 138 turbines right on top of 6,550 hectares of the best smallmouth fishing in On. We are going to find out for sure if offshore turbines create dead zones, if they let us any where near them.
  21. If it takes more energy to build ,transport ,install and service than it produces, it cannot fill its environmental footprint. Where else can you produce a product and the gov. subsidizes at a rate of over 10X market value. If the gov. wants to promote solar power spend some $ on research and development not spending over $200,000 on an $80,000 panel that will produce around $20,000 worth of power over 20 years. How much will gov. give me per KW if I get Irish to build me a big squirrel cage on a generator for $80,000 and people could run on it watch a smart meter show them producing electricity and feel good about themselves, loose some weight and drink no sugar, no salt beverages. Maybe I can charge them a few $ to let them run on it, maybe I should delete this before somebody else steels the idea.
  22. We don't use oil to generate electricity in On. so there is no trade off and the pollution footprint from a wind generator or solar is probably worse than what we have. But what we do in On. is build cars that run on gas so I think I have figured out that the purpose of the green energy act is to kill the electric car by driving up the cost of power, its the only thing that makes sense when you do the math.
  23. If your property value drops 50% because your in sight of an industrial wind generator you wouldn't want one near you. Just talk of them will kill the housing market.
  24. Pretty sure Harris spent way more than Rae but at the time Harris was in, the Prov. was dripping with cash and it wasn't as noticeable.
  25. Harris spent like a drunken sailor but economy was good and he got away with it. I think if you look it up he outspent any previous gov. There is no incentive to pay the dept of previous gov. because you can't get elected by paying for what the other guys did. That's a problem A big problem is we don't understand how our system works. Cliff can't run for Prime Minister because despite what Harper would have you believe, the Prime minister is not elected by all the people of Ca.. and MP's don't work for him, they should be working for us if they had any balls to stand up and take control of their party.. I also think McGuinty is History, but I'm afraid his replacement will do more of the same. As for a tea party, just watch the thumpin the protesters are going to get at the G20. They warned us in Seattle, who would have thought the hippies were right.
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