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I just bought a Pertronix setup for mine I got the complete Billet Distributor and coil. Hope to have it in this weekend so can give you a report after I run it.

Fantastic day to be on the water unless you wanted to find and catch fish. So far Don and I have been perfect in picking nice days to fish but not as good at inviting the fish to join us. Congrats to Drift for his winning box 119.2 points, Double D took 2nd with 87.15, 7Mary3 came in 3rd with 84.25. Big Fish went to Fine Line with a nice 18.8lb King.

Here is the full results.

Actually the opposite is true you want the lowest rpm cruise you can get on plane with. Max Rpm is something you do not want it to be able to go past Max RPM on my motor is 5200 however preferred wide open range is 4200 to 4800 because that is where the torque curve and HP curve meet best. Just like your truck you want to cruise on plane at a low RPM so you prop to max out under 5200 and best trimmed cruise as low as you can get it.

So it is a different cup in the prop what did it do to your top speed? It sounds like your motor does not have enough power to go any faster and changing the prop only changes what RPM that is. try this out http://www.go-fast.com/Prop_Slip_Calculator.htm

I may whine now and then but to replace my boat with new all the stuff on it would likely be between 100 and 115 thousand. Just looked a a new Striper 2601 I/O with no AP no electronics or fishing gear 93k. Makes the 20k I have into owning mine 6 years seem cheap.

hopefully boat will actually run long enough to fish this time LOL. On tap for this week is a new Distributor Coil and bilge pump plus new plugs and a rebuild on the old carb. I am putting in a Pertronix billet electronic distributor and coil no more points yeah. Every year I plan on getting a nice new rocket launcher but every year the boat eats the money long before I get the launcher. Ain't boats fun I am really starting to look forward to the second happy day of boat ownership the day I sell it.

You could call Bill at Shoreline services he is the Cannon repair center in Muskegon.

As we approach 16000 spammers and only 90 members the website is closed to new registration. So it is now pretty much a read only site which it remain. If you would like to participate send Don fishsniffer or me a email and we will get you a log in. No one posts on it much but I have kept it up as a place Don and I can share and store event info and such.

One week to go til our 3rd event. My boat might even run for this one.

I for one would much prefer a boat registration as i seldom fish with the same crew.

make them a deal close the Chicago Canal permanently and force Chicago to build a sanitation system that puts clean water back in the lake and I am OK with selling them water. The problem now is all the water Chicago and those areas use leaves the Great lakes because of the canal. Other than companies bottling and selling water all the water we use stays in the system. Like it has for thousands of years.

The stuff we use does not break down and would not be black if it did it would be gray. Lots of companies use a foam tape under trim it does what you were describing. Another option would be putty tape. We use a lot of it as well it tends to get chalky with age though. Another option would be to just seal the seam with a good clear silicon.

Nick on RV's we use Butyl Tape under trim to seal it and forma gasket. http://www.butyltape.org/heavy-duty-butyl-tape-gray/ chk that out lots of places sell it.

one other thing to consider and that is not every GPS records the same speed I did a test on my boat a couple years ago and ran 2 GPS units My Garmin handheld in a dash mount and My Lowrance 525 they were never even all that close to each other in speed even at trolling speed they were different one would read 2.5 the other would read 2.7. I also found on a trip to NC at Christmas my wife's Tom Tom at highway speeds always read 2mph faster than my el cheapo unit I have on my dash. While I realize you can never believe what Fishsniffer says on the radio during a tournament I have had him pass me when he said he was running the same 2.5 as me.

Here is a look at the over all results for the Port Championship.

A great day with a very nice turn out every boat that fished weighed their 6 fish. We want to Thank Fish Hawk for the great sponsor package.

We were 2 for 2 last night however chk our tourney results for the MSCST event. My boat broke down so I did not fish in it.

I would bet most of those baitfish were trying to avoid being eaten.

Black works fine and I doubt you can over load anything the fish are hitting however you could remove the setup that is bringing them in. More than on I care to count we have pulled a dead rod out of a active spread only to kill the whole spread. As such if the fish are hitting i don't change anything even if it means pulling one dead rod all day. We used to pull cowbells behind a empty cannon ball because fish would come in and look it over then hit one of the other lures.

Just a reminder we will be on ch 72 for roll call Sat morn big fish are in the area and Fish Hawk is a great Sponsor so weigh in should be lots of fun.

one from last night

Going to knock the cobwebs off mine in the afternoon

I have 3 of the aps on my phone and they are all a bit generous I don't think they allow for underwater temp and current changes.

lets see how this works