mind you i have to pick up the back deck, anchor and anchor system tomorrow and the motor mount tomorrow also, but this is absolutely sick!! the amazing thing is that it all fits into that one roller bag!! cant wait for sunday!
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Nice looking rig! Can't wait to come pick up mine this afternoon!
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Zach, what a trip and nice talking to you this morning.
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Now you keep mentioning mesh deck...what mesh deck?
I saw this motor mount several years ago when I had my H3. Slight modification from the first one, but this one is sweet. Get mine tomorrow.
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FG,
Not sure which mesh deck he's referring to but if you have Dave's catalog, there is a folding mesh rear deck in the accessories page for $129. It looks to have a tube frame that folds in half and fits in a suitcase. For some reason he has not put some of these options on the website.
Jim
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Jim, you so rock! That is it I bet...LOL
I do have the catalog....wish book[
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Good call Zach! I'm really enjoying the Renegade I got in April!
Its not perfect, but I like it. It does seem to "sway" more when anchored in river current than my old pontoon, and the wind has more effect on it than it did in my old standard Anglers Inn frame-model pontoon. I would have made the thing about 8 feet long too. I still fail to see the use for the front 18 inches of the pontoons, but that's just me.
I had to move the side bags back from their original position for rowing, and have recently added a cushion and Therma-rest seat over the standard seat to gain more height in the seat. I now have plenty of room to pull on the oars without the bags getting in the way, and also can see fish a bit easier with the seat a few inches higher.
Replace the plastic clips that hold the seat back up with some metal snaps. Both plastic ones broke the first few trips on mine. The Scotty anchor system is still working ok, but I put a plastic pad on the stern to protect the pontoon material from chafing.
I love the clips that the oars stow and lock into, and the oar locks are working out ok too. I would still like to try some longer oars, but so far I'm living with the standards. Those new valves have not been a problem at all. (I always had Halkey's and had some reservations about the "new" ones) Its been fairly easy for a short, skinny guy like me to lift and carry back and forth to the river, fully inflated, even up some steep banks.
Those storage bags are big enough for more crap than anyone needs. I put a 6-pack cooler with ice in one of them, and still have room for rain gear! That still leaves the other one for all the "stuff."
I rowed mine through Red Creek Rapid a while back, with no problem at all. Also rowed some small white water in Montana a few weeks back, and again, not a worry at all.
So far, everybody I've seen or talked to about their Renegade likes the way it handles and enjoys fishing from it. I think you will too.
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Jim, the seat clips are now metal...live and learn.
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this mesh deck does not have any tubes in it, its all mesh heres a pic along with orvis1's new mean machine! anyone willing to bet me 1 dollar he took it home and is filling it up with air right this second?
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Nope I was getting some things together for the fish finder and the plexiglass registration hangers. I also found a cooler that would work for my battery I plan on setting it on the back mesh deck and strapping it to those additional rings. I think it should work out o.k. going to take it out for a shakedown cruise tonight and see. Excited to get it out ...
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Best of luck with the "shakedown". Im sure you going
to love your new ride.
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here ya go, i think im done.... dont know what else i could add... note im still missing the back mesh deck, i should have it friday.
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You might need to slide your bags back to row, but heck you got motorage, you don't need no stinkin oars...LOL
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One more thing. Loosen the nut and bolt holding the head of the motor on and turn it so that the prop is facing the same direction as the handle. Then carefully put the bolt back not to short out any wires.
This way it pulls you in all speeds.
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[quote flygoddess]You might need to slide your bags back to row, but heck you got motorage, you don't need no stinkin oars...LOL[/quote]
done, easy as pie, now I can be pulled off my seat instead of thrown from it
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Just remember, never, ever, never, armorall your seat![laugh][laugh][laugh]
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no way, i save that stuff for my shark skin fly line.
KIDDING!
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Shakedown went well... Two small alterations I need to make but it performed well. The fishing that was another story 1 small largemouth bass weird didn't know they were in g-ville.
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i turned my motor around so now im being pulled in forward gear if you will and pushed in reverse, was way easy to do.
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You will have to show me on Sunday.. RNF and his wife are joining the flotilla... Working on a buddy that has never tubed before and seeing if he will com out... It is growing.
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