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Check your pm. I have one you could borrow and should fit as long as your motor is not an Optimax.

Just waned to say THANKS for the heads up on these. Just picked up 4 of them. One for personal use and the other 3 for the local air cadet squadron. Will save them a lot of money.

Worked for me on IE. Nice work by the way.

I would hold off on trim tabs until you do some more testing. You should not need trim tabs on any 17 foot boat. Like has been suggested above you need to move some weight forward in your boat. Another issue I believe is that you are under propped. You should be in a 17 or 19 inch prop with cupping. A 4 blade will give you stern lift and cupping will allow it to plane at lower speeds. The bow lift is causing your problem. You need a prop to give you stern lift. Dealers are not the best at propping new boats. They prop for general use. Everyone will load there boat differently and thus require a different prop. Also as mentioned is the use of a hydrofoil. That will get the boat on plane faster and also hold it on plane at lower speeds.

Not sure about tenting sites other than Big Bear. As far as the public launch goes though, there is no docking at the launch just a ramp. As for what they charge you at Big Bear for launching and parking I would highly recommend it. We were charged $3 a day parking and $5 launch fee. We were there for 5 days/4 nights and they only charged us $17. Our vehicle was safer then leaving it at some public road with no one around to watch it. As for the fishing, we went in august and caught over 80 fish. We plan on going back in September, but we have a place to stay on private property.

A memory that he will never forget and a memory you will always remember as well.

I agree with Tayzak15 on the bowguard. We were lucky with a pontoon being high off the ground but you here the stones hitting the pontoons all the time. If I bring my glass boat next year I will be buying or making some sort of guard to keep all the stones from hitting my boat.

Just got back from 5 days on Horwood Lake. We left from Big Bear Camp and went about 5 miles south and then camped at a friend of a friends cottage. Fishing was pretty good considering the cold front that came through on Wednesday with a hail storm. We caught around 85 walleye/pickerel, 10 perch and 5 pike for the 2 of us that went. Nothing big with most of them around 1 to 1.5 lbs. The biggest we caught was about 2.5 lbs. The neighbors grandson(17) caught one that would go 3-3.5 lbs. The pike were all small with one better fish around 10 lbs but no picture. All the fish were caught on a jig and worm or a dropshot setup with just a worm on the hook. We did not fish hard with only about 5-6 hrs a day split between morning and night. All in all a very good trip and will likely do it again next year.

OK. Thanks for the input. I looked on ebay and have found 4 for $20 which is a lot better than $20 each here.

I would definitely raise your motor. Although the 7 inches may be good on flat ground, if you enter/exit a parking lot at any time you may end up dragging it on the ground. The same could happen if you come to any speed bumps.

The heat shields that cover the burners on my BBQ are all rusting and falling apart. At $20 a piece and needing 5 of them it will be pricey. I was wondering about making them out of aluminum. I have 1/4 aluminum 5 inches wide that I would be using. Does anyone see a problem using aluminum instead of steel or stainless. Thanks Mark

Do you have any pics of the trailer. I would be interested to see what happened. It is hard to get a visual from your description only because every trailer manufacturer builds them differently. I have seen the complete wheel and hub assembly come off but never and entire axle.

Try scrubbing in one direction only. I usually go from front to back. Just a habit picked up from filing. You should never run a file in both directions.

The Alumacraft will be a much better boat. As far as width goes it is only 4 inches narrower at the max but is 3 inches wider at the transom. In other words the smokercraft flares out at the console and then tapers at the transom. The longer hull will ride better in rough water and I agree that the Yamaha is a much better motor and there are more dealers for service.

I am on my second set of Delco Voyager batteries in 15 years. I had 11 years out of my first set and am now onto 4-5 years on my second set. They are sealed batteries with no maintenance needed. They will run around $140 a piece for a group 27.