What a Difference a Year Makes

workinpr0gress · #1 05-16-2010, 07:43 PM

Well this month is a year from when I first stole my 20. I feel like I've made some good progress. Still have more to do but in due time. My other half snapped a couple pics behind my docks and I was comparing them to the first day I got it home. Wierd.lol

5/2/09 Just Got It Home

5/16/10 Been in for a little over two weeks.

BigLew · #2 05-16-2010, 09:46 PM

Lookin GOOD there Bruce. Spit and polish, Spit and polish!

I like your First Mate: looks like she's right at home.

workinpr0gress · #3 05-16-2010, 10:10 PM

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Lookin GOOD there Bruce. Spit and polish, Spit and polish!

I like your First Mate: looks like she's right at home.

Thanks, my niece was begging to sit on the boat for the pics when I got back in so I let her hop on. She's to cute to say no to, she almost had me talked into taking her for a short ride when my fuel meter said I had about 8 gallons left. I don't know exactly how much gas I have but I haven't been this light on fuel since first getting it.

BigLew · #4 05-16-2010, 10:17 PM

Sounds like a good time to find out how good your fuel gage is. Put gas in 2 5gal. jerry cans and take it out no further that what your fuel gages says has been 4 gals worth distance. Now run her back and forth on that line and run her dry. Keep good notes and put the ten gallons in when she has run dry. Pump it with your hand bulb to fill line and to prime, then start it.

Go home and make a label that will remind you of the details for future referrence.

CaptSeaCraft · #5 05-16-2010, 10:59 PM

Stole it...LOL ...glad to hear it.
and look at it now! What a awesome Rehab!
Mind if I ask what is the overall length with the Armstrong Bracket?

workinpr0gress · #6 05-16-2010, 11:08 PM

my guage sucks it's erratic, already time for a new head and transducer....I don't ever cut the fuel this close, I don't need to for what I use the boat for. Thanks for the fuel tip, I did that early on with portables before I was running off the main tank.

workinpr0gress · #7 05-16-2010, 11:22 PM

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Stole it...LOL ...glad to hear it.
and look at it now! What a awesome Rehab!
Mind if I ask what is the overall length with the Armstrong Bracket?

Thanks , it's far from perfect but more than presentable. I always have at least a few people breaking there neck or asking questions whenever I take it out. My bracket is 30" bracket plus the 19'6" for the hull of course.

BigLew · #8 05-16-2010, 11:57 PM

Then fill it up, install a FloScan and be done with it. A pound of cost for a ton of confidence and peace of mind. Further it helps you really trim it out. Oh yeah, add a vacuum gage and learn how to really use it, if you don't know already.

workinpr0gress · #9 05-17-2010, 12:17 AM

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Then fill it up, install a FloScan and be done with it. A pound of cost for a ton of confidence and peace of mind. Further it helps you really trim it out. Oh yeah, add a vacuum gage and learn how to really use it, if you don't know already.

That's what I have, I need a new one. Mine is more like a POS not piece of mind...lol. I'm not really worried about it . Hell I used to commonly pull into places with a 60' sportfish with under 30 gallons, one time 9 gallons a side, by sticking the tanks, no fuel level guages, no flow meters, no sight tubes.

BigLew · #10 05-17-2010, 12:29 AM

I've done it a few times in the boat, very often in the car. In the car with a 20.6 gal. tank, I have routinely pulled in and put 20+ in the tank. But with triple A in my pocket on the road, the down side is a 100 times worse on the water.

It sounds like you don't need my musings given you're experience.