09-02-2022, 05:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-02-2022, 07:02 PM by Gone Forever.)
Decided that I could not get a good assesment of how the motor on my recently refurbished boat unless I was on a lake, so off to J for an afternoon of giving it a shakedown cruise and see what else needs doing.
Launch went well and my reliable 6hp fired right up and took us to the dock.
Fiddled with the big motor for a while, starts up, runs nicely but won't get to WOT. Gets about 1/2 way then flattens out, I am beginning to think it's the spark advance not advancing.
So, after runing around at 1/2 speed for a bit and not progressing it was decided that the bow mount should be tested. It worked flawlessly and pulled the boat 1/2 way around and back across the lake with no problems about 3 hours of near continual running. It was able to maintain .4mph to 2.8 speed ranges.
The electric panel worked as I wanted, the master switch and the 4 connected sub switches for anchor lights, bow lights, courtesy floor lighting and depth sounder. The 12volt and USB ports worked great.
The Bimini was exceptional, providing a nice place to just drift around in the shade.
Since this was about testing the boat and not fishing only one rod and small tackle box was brought.
We trolled 30 to 50 FOW, marking some fish here and there, some as shallow as 8-12' and some in the 40' range. Using a CD9 long lined at 1.5 brought a few slimers to the boat, one a healthy 18". A smallie of about 12" was also caught. Same lure.
Launch went well and my reliable 6hp fired right up and took us to the dock.
Fiddled with the big motor for a while, starts up, runs nicely but won't get to WOT. Gets about 1/2 way then flattens out, I am beginning to think it's the spark advance not advancing.
So, after runing around at 1/2 speed for a bit and not progressing it was decided that the bow mount should be tested. It worked flawlessly and pulled the boat 1/2 way around and back across the lake with no problems about 3 hours of near continual running. It was able to maintain .4mph to 2.8 speed ranges.
The electric panel worked as I wanted, the master switch and the 4 connected sub switches for anchor lights, bow lights, courtesy floor lighting and depth sounder. The 12volt and USB ports worked great.
The Bimini was exceptional, providing a nice place to just drift around in the shade.
Since this was about testing the boat and not fishing only one rod and small tackle box was brought.
We trolled 30 to 50 FOW, marking some fish here and there, some as shallow as 8-12' and some in the 40' range. Using a CD9 long lined at 1.5 brought a few slimers to the boat, one a healthy 18". A smallie of about 12" was also caught. Same lure.