05-10-2007, 01:38 AM
I should have gone fishing both yesterday and today, but I decided to do a little more gardening.
I picked up a couple extra mater plants, one is a pear and one is a better boy a foot tall and blooming. of corse this dosnt mean it is going to have fruit any time soon, it will revert back to our sun cycle here once placed in to the ground.
I found me a bartlett pear tree, I needed one for a pollenator for my amborsia tree I picked up earlier this year... and I grabed a couple dozen red white and blue spitunias to get in the ground for memorial day and forth of july and got them in the ground.
but that is not what I am writing about today, as you already know the last time I went out the boat did not take in a single drop of water. well I did not pull the plug last night so today when I went out side I found the tung of the trailer sticking up in to the sky, the boat took on about 50 gallons of water last night.
I managed to pull the plug and when the water flowed out enough the toung settled gently back to the ground.
this and the experience of having the nose of my boat sticking up in to the air when skooting across the lake has made me think that I had better move the gass tank to the bow point. meaning I will have to cut a nose point to mount the tank to and run the gas line though conduit to the back of the boat.
the gas can is 6.5 gallons at roughly 8 pounds per gallon comes to about 52 pounds. with two tanks that is 104 pounds. my motor weighs about 80 pounds the 2 12 volt battery is about 20 pounds each and me pushing between 200 and 300 pounds. === so we are talking roughly 400-500 pounds all in the back of the boat.
I am figuring if I can get a 140 pounds out of the stern to the bow I will get a much better ride, and if I get another person up to my size in the front I will have a flat running boat...
Make sence to you?
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I picked up a couple extra mater plants, one is a pear and one is a better boy a foot tall and blooming. of corse this dosnt mean it is going to have fruit any time soon, it will revert back to our sun cycle here once placed in to the ground.
I found me a bartlett pear tree, I needed one for a pollenator for my amborsia tree I picked up earlier this year... and I grabed a couple dozen red white and blue spitunias to get in the ground for memorial day and forth of july and got them in the ground.
but that is not what I am writing about today, as you already know the last time I went out the boat did not take in a single drop of water. well I did not pull the plug last night so today when I went out side I found the tung of the trailer sticking up in to the sky, the boat took on about 50 gallons of water last night.
I managed to pull the plug and when the water flowed out enough the toung settled gently back to the ground.
this and the experience of having the nose of my boat sticking up in to the air when skooting across the lake has made me think that I had better move the gass tank to the bow point. meaning I will have to cut a nose point to mount the tank to and run the gas line though conduit to the back of the boat.
the gas can is 6.5 gallons at roughly 8 pounds per gallon comes to about 52 pounds. with two tanks that is 104 pounds. my motor weighs about 80 pounds the 2 12 volt battery is about 20 pounds each and me pushing between 200 and 300 pounds. === so we are talking roughly 400-500 pounds all in the back of the boat.
I am figuring if I can get a 140 pounds out of the stern to the bow I will get a much better ride, and if I get another person up to my size in the front I will have a flat running boat...
Make sence to you?
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