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Well first of all welcome aboard! Of course you realize that standard RCMP and Canadian Secret Service background checks have to be undertaken from your application to join the board, along with interviewing your great grandparents from both sides AND all three of your ex-wives for character references. Then's there checking the ownership of your vehicles and vessels, along with your fishing and boating licenses while checking with your neighbours and Revcan. Along with that is a standard credit check, and employment verification including ensuring that the reasons you offer for taking time off to go fishing are at least believable. I understand that the previously established minimum quota for consuming wobbly pops may have been adjusted to be more politically correct HOWEVER it too is still checked. After that is all accomplished and passed/approved, then you get to post. Or it may have just been a slow connection... Michael

Nice! Are you sure y'all ain't dying Jack's hair? Seems to get redder with each post! Or is that with each catch? Michael

Ya, great cool and all that BUT! How would they be for trolling? Michael

I'll have to see if I have any left overs - I know when I did my tool trailer I bought one of those big two handed riveters so I may have used something smaller in diameter on the boats as I didn't have the big riveter then. At any rate, the two sources I named have a wide variety of rivets available, Acklands website was very detailed the last time I used it, Brafasco not very much at all. Michael

I used aluminum rivets to hold down 3/4" in all the floors I didn't use screws on. Didn't worry about the silly cone as the glue for the carpet (imho) locks the screws in. They can be bought from Brafasco, but I found Acklands in Barrie to be much cheaper. Think it was 3/16 or 7/32 x 1-1/4 that I used. Bear in mind different people do stuff differently - this is what worked for me. As I said earlier, the main advantage of the rivets is they can be drilled out much easier than ss screws (think you need cobalt bits for ss) if something goes wrong with the screw. Good luck as you finish your project - it's a labour of love that's looking good and will be something you'll appreciate every time you use it - ain't nothing like a good job well done and used by oneself! Michael

From what I get from the Ontario regs if you're anchored (or drifting?) you need to show a white light visible from 360 degrees. If you're under power then you need your proper bow red/green and white to allow determination of your course by others. I may not have exactly worded that right but it's the gist of how I understand it. So I guess the only worry would be to ensure the separation of the red/green to cleary indicate port & starboard, I don't think the type of light is that great a concern as long as it's visible. Michael

My understanding is that it's steel and aluminum that react, stainless steel and aluminum is ok. At least that's what all the research told me - checked with vendors, mechanics, iboats, marinas etc. over the years. Think I even saw Wayne contribute to the discussion as well, even offering specific grades of stainless that were superior. If I got it wrong then I've put a lot of stainless into aluminum over the years - hope I'm right! Michael

I only used either stainless steel screws/hardware and/or big (huge) aluminum pop rivets on the restorations I've done. Usually I prefer screws if I can use them - thinking ahead to removal in the future. Lucky me I haven't had to yet take out a floor I've put in, but the main reason I finally chose to use the pop rivets would be it's easier to drill them out than it is to drill out a stainless screw if something goes wrong (glue in the head of a screw comes to mind). Michael

Use gear clamps - allows the plate to swing if it contacts an obstacle just like zip ties would, but are much stronger. Almost all my boat trailers (amongst others) have had that highly tecknickel redneck modification. Michael

No help here Brian but because I never heard of it I had to google it. Interesting looking lake with lots of (or so it appears) access to adjacent ones too. Looks like it could be a winner - and I hope it is! Michael

Thought I told ya to hang fuzzy dice from the rear view - them laker spoons reflect the moon too good! Michael

I am so proud of your sacrifice for the betterment of many. I am equally as proud of the fact that I have NO idea whatsoever about this current craze and that it will take minimal effort for my ignorance to remain blissfully intact. I am sure there are those who benefit from the enjoyment they may get from their participation in whatever it is they do to further their interests in whatever it is this GO is, but I ain't one of 'em and as long as it doesn't impact or endanger me or anyone else I ain't gonna comment any further. Now then, Dave, didja make any notes on your efforts to pass along, ya know purely for research, confimation and other legitimate purposes... Michael

I've known Mike for years Geoff - this ain't the first time he's stepped up to the plate by a long shot. Many of his sales were held for the benefit of various organizations. Kudos to him once again and to you as well! Michael

Take it back - it's probably a return from another customer that was checked out to be sold as a refurb - as in used. Get a new one if you can, why bother with something that has been used when you can get new, after all you bought new with a warranty in place to protect you. Michael

Now that is funny right there and I don't care who you are! Couple of real good chuckles from me for that Terry! Michael

Surprise! Heard the ones I hate the most today at school - 2 ladies discussing freezers and danged if they didn't both say "unthaw" and "dethaw" a few times each. I durn near got meself b**tch slapped when I cut in and asked why they were putting the frost back IN the freezers when I thought the point was to take the frost out. Told 'em to sit in front of their computers and look up "defrost" and "thaw" on wikipedia. Not sure why they don't seem to wanna talk to me anymore... Michael

"same difference" and "but you know what I'm saying" are 2 of my "favorite" peeves. ya'd tink peeples wood speek moor guder ingliche! Michael

I've seen that configuration Dave, in fact it's on my laptop with 7, it's at school so I can't say much more about right now. The vendor also supplied backup on cd too. My refurb with 10 has it too, but that would just restore it to the windows 10 as installed only, I'd lose anything I've done or installed unless I choose the option to save all that with the risk of errors if I do (that's what the instructions say anyhow). For those upgrading from 7 (or 8 or 8.1) to 10 there is supposed to be the ability to restore to the previous within 30 days is what I've learned. I think you would also lose all data and installed apps that way though, unless there's a way to do a backup including these in the recovery partition before upgrading, dunno how to do it but it would seem worthwhile for me to add it to the list of what to find out about (list is now long enough to reach toronto from here!) Michael

No "if" Geoff - I'se here yup! Been doing some research and there are options, still looking. Most have start up and/or hardware costs varying from not too bad to holy ****! Just gotta see which is best for me. Raf - used task manager and am also digging thru all the options in 10. Only reason I found out the offline maps was updating was one of those options reported an update attempt 15 minutes ago - haven't even activated it yet and it's trying to update! I've only been playing with 10 since yesterday afternoon, still got my hair and what was left of my sanity before I started, haven't crashed anything yet so I guess I'm making progress. Found an item that said if I disable it the update function wouldn't work. Not brave enough to try that yet, still keeping it off the internet (using the old vista computer still for that) until I know/learn more. Kinda neat running both units, 2 of everything on my desk right now. Using my 500 gb external drive to transfer files (remember my rocket stick is expensive so no cloud etc for me!). Between this and school I might jest end up a geenyus yet! Michael

WOW! Gonna be saweeeeet when it's done! That'll be the best big screen y'all will ever watch, especially up there! Michael

Yeah I'm still working on it. Found some other applications like map that constantly try to update and shut 'em down. I had noticed there was still some usage beyond anything I was doing though not as bad as when I first started. Other than Edge, it doesn't seem to be a browser issue so much as background stuff in the built in applications. I was fine with my usage with vista, quite often I'd read stories for hours and hardly use any bandwidth at all. Noticed last night I'd gone to almost 200 mb and it should have been 50-75 mb at most so something was still happening. This morning I shut some more stuff off like the maps etc. We'll keep an eye on it but I think this computer will end up at school where they have unlimited and I'll bring the laptop with 7 home for now. Hell I'm gonna be there 2 more years so I got lotsa time to work it out! Michael

I'll guess - yer goin' fishin and will have a timer controlled camera in the cabin taking pictures through the holes that'll have windows some day? Be sure you post some! Michael

I'm far from being a techie, but not quite totally inept with pooters and such what goes on with 'em. OK so some of y'all know I was hurt at work almost a year ago and now am in school. WSIB provided me a pretty decent laptop with windows 7 which I have no problems with other than the constant pumping to upgrade to 10. Most of what I've read seems to indicate upgrading is best done as a "clean install". So, me being the "geenyus" I am, I disabled auto update on windows 7 for a bit to avoid the chance of it downloading 10 automatically like I've heard about. Keep checking on what people are saying about 10 and not ready even now to mess around with upgrading from 7 on the laptop, YET! So, my old desktop running Vista has been having more and more problems with various websites like this one, my banks and Walmart.ca etc. As a solution I bought a refurb computer with windows 10 installed. Good enough for what I do and cheap (160.00 all in). Got it all setup today, ran the windows updates manually right away, activated windows defender for now, rebooted as commanded, hopped on the web and starting setting up my favorites etc. I use a rogers rocket stick for internet here in the boonies and the connection manager shows me constant usage. Kept an eye on it as I've learned 10 is supposed to be bandwidth hungry due to updates, but I had run them manually until it said they were all done. It was going nuts! Where I usually might use 5-10 mb for the time I was on doing the little I had, it was already past 250 mb and rising like a bottle rocket - what the hell! That's when I started panicking - this wasn't gonna work for me at all. I pay 40.00 + tax for 5 gb/month, 10.00 per gb after that. This sucker is gobbling up over 1/4 of a gb up in well under an hour! So I gotta fix this and now! Goggled for some ideas and found a few, the 10 I have is home and the metered idea won't work with it and the rocket stick, could change regedit for the auto updates if I had Wi-Fi but I don't. Starting poking around in settings etc, deleting/changing some of the stuff I won't ever use, turning off options in privacy etc. etc. Checked in settings again to see if it was doing/wanting more updates (nope!), task manager to see if I could find anything using bandwidth (nope!) but I did see something I didn't recognize called edge, and it was there 4 or 5 times in task manager. Now zooming past 400 mb and heading for 500 mb, thinking of switching back to the old Vista unit to research this, decided to try once more. I did a bit more poking around in start, all apps and noticed Microsoft EDGE! What's that anyhow? Started it and got the same browser I had been already using!!! Found Explorer buried under Windows Accessories - CRAP! When I thought I was using internet explorer, it was actually Microsoft Edge. Dang Icons are almost identical! Shut that thing down, deleted the icon from the task bar and got explorer added/going. Usage immediately returned (plummeted!) down to what I expect. I've been surfing around, adding favorites, downloading some small add-ons for about 1.5 hrs now and am just under 20 mb usage. Whew! Next step is to get better internet here - it'll have to be wireless and that limits the options. Good news is that 10-50 gb/month can be had for 50-60 bucks, bad is upfront costs. Still looking though! Bottom line for all - make sure you're not running Microsoft Edge unless you have unlimited usage- that sucker makes Mama Cass like Twiggy! It's interface and icon looked like an updated explorer to me, dunno what the heck it does to keep cranking bandwidth but I'm not gonna find out unless I somehow get unlimited here. Haven't had time to try chrome or firefox yet - I'm just getting started today with my new pooter, hope I don't have another experience like this! Michael

Another way to get the details (I've done this) - hook 'er up and run over the scales at the dump/landfill/transfer station. Unhook and drive the tow vehicle back over. Deduct tow vehicle weight from total weight and voila! Now you have a starting point. I prefer the 4 x tire rating though, one true fact is you can't go wrong by having too strong of a chain AND you might be carrying a lighter boat now, but what about tomorrow? Besides, if you do get stopped there'll be a lot less argument if your chains are rated for the max of the trailer as oppose to the max of what you might be doing with it. Let us know what you find out/do to solve this, it'll be good to hear. Michael (ps - longshot but check to see if you can find the weight rating on the axles - they're probably in the 2500 to 5000 lb range or so, total of them would be an excellent guide, tires can have different load ranges than the axles)

PA probably has your answer. However, according to what I just read on E-laws for Ontarion, generally speaking with chains the LINK strength (and the hooks) must each equal or exceed the GVWR of the trailer. Simply put, if your trailer when loaded was rated by the manufacturer as say 5,000 pounds maximum, then the links (individual ones) must be able to bear the 5,000 pounds or more and so on. I'm assuming that you don't know your GVWR for the trailer for some reason, either the data plate is missing or it's not on your ownership. So, a quick down and dirty would be (based on your tandem layout) 4 x the individual tire weight rating which will be on the tires. If that adds up to say 7,000 pounds I'd go a bit heavier if it's feasible. Hope this helps! Michael