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Thread: Drift boat advice
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06-13-2019, 10:43 PM #26Registered User
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06-13-2019, 10:47 PM #27Registered User
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06-14-2019, 06:16 AM #28
low sides cool
till the waters higher than the side
goin on 18 years now and probably more days than the rest of your glass fibred boats combined
hogs and J St.J been great for me
and don't try the 12 guage durability test
on the water with your rubber or glass
cause it wont float and you wont be happy
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06-19-2019, 12:16 PM #29
Not sure if you found one yet but this is a stupid good deal, I am half tempted to buy it for myself, just cause
https://classifieds.ksl.com/listing/56498209Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield: Oh, I'm sorry. Did I break your concentration?
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06-19-2019, 02:06 PM #30Registered User
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06-25-2019, 08:02 AM #31Registered User
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Got her out for the maiden voyage last weekend. It’s a sweet little whip!! Feels like a sports car out there. A breeze to backrow and Soo nice to fish out of. The best part was that my wife absolutely loves rowing it!! Most I’ve fished in a long time!
I was hoping I’d be able to use my 9ft sawyer MX/dynalite shoal cuts, but they are definitely too long. I had to move the stops all the way to the ends and was still hitting my knees. RO sends these skiffs out with 8 1/2 foot oars. I talked to those guys in Bozeman and they suggested I could add in some risers to try to run the 9fters. To do this I would need to get some XLong cobra oadlocks, and fashion blocks out of hdep. Which would cost 150$ or so and could still be goofy.
I’m leaning towards just scooping some new oat shafts and moving the blades over. The shop in Denver has both 8 and 8.5 counterbalanced sawyer polecats for 150/ea. MX would have to be ordered and are 225/ea. unfortunately, none of my buddies have this short of oars so trying different sizes is not really an option
You guys think the softness of the polecats vrs MX would be as noticeable in the smaller size/ lighter boat? Do I want to go all the way down to 8fters or stick with the RO recommendation of 8.5?
As always thanks for the input.
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07-11-2019, 05:34 PM #32
Why spend money when you can build your own?
https://www.ksl.com/article/46592257...omemade-canoes
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09-14-2019, 09:50 AM #33
im pretty stoked on the new black dog trailer I got from the ro bros
the fact that your a business and cant afford to cover 3% on credit card purchases
not so much
first and last thing I ever buy from them"When the child was a child it waited patiently for the first snow and it still does"- Van "The Man" Morrison
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09-14-2019, 12:52 PM #34Registered User
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I was in a cardboard kayak race, we got 2 rolls of tape some cardboard fridgeboxes, 45 minutes to build a boat and race it around the swim area marker at the beach in a calm lake
by the time i got back to the sand a couple minutes after the start my kayak was leaking/ taking on water ^^ these guys are crazy
some of the spots people want to get in/out up here have steep banks and its a big hassle with a drift boat but with some 12' long 2x4's its usually possible to deal withLast edited by XXX-er; 09-14-2019 at 04:49 PM.
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