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Howdy from texas

#1 Post by Chris.and.jamie » Sun Jun 16, 2013 6:06 pm

Ok so we are new to the forum but not our boat, I was looking for some advice on putting a trolling motor on my deck boat (Tahoe 215) and I stumbled onto the site. So our boat is 3 years old and we've definitely angered the Lake Gods we've had a stretch of bad luck with the boat. Year 1 we went out for the first time and there was no satellite radio a small inconvenience but something we had paid for and wanted bass pro outsourced our boat to car toys and on the way back luckily not under our watchful eye the back cowen ripped off and out of the fiberglass 2 months of fighting insurance companies and so on we had a couple rides left in the year. Year 2 as a result bass pro gave us a free winterazation of the boat at the end of year one so April year 2 we launch and water is flooding the boat it was never winterized so 2 months and a new motor later we were good to go again. Year 2 ended with low lake levels and a chewed up prop, so year 3 has started with a new prop and the realization we must shake this bad juju and finally name the boat along with my wanting a trolling motor, so look forward to using the site and meeting new people.

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#2 Post by nathan » Sun Jun 16, 2013 6:12 pm

welcome from a fellow Texan. post pictures of the boat and it will help to give better advice.
My Happy place is on a boat at the lake with my kids!!

current boats:
1983 chaparral 235 XLC (restoration)
1977 playcraft p24 pontoon (parents own now I am the mechanic)
1975 skeeter hawk (on hold)

past boats:
this list will not fit!

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#3 Post by curtiscapk » Sun Jun 16, 2013 6:20 pm

nathan wrote:welcome from a fellow Texan. post pictures of the boat and it will help to give better advice.
and you location!
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#4 Post by bassn386 » Sun Jun 16, 2013 6:39 pm

I think I'll wait a year or two before riding along with you folks.
Welcome in any case!
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#5 Post by Chris.and.jamie » Sun Jun 16, 2013 6:49 pm

Here is our baby ??????????
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#6 Post by Chris.and.jamie » Sun Jun 16, 2013 6:53 pm

Ok we our new to forums and I tried to add a pic of our boat to ouR avatar but it says might must be between 0 and 48 kib any help

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#7 Post by nathan » Sun Jun 16, 2013 6:58 pm

I open the picture with paint. I then resize it by percent and save it as a different file name until the file size is below 48 kb

also you might want to flip the other pictures
My Happy place is on a boat at the lake with my kids!!

current boats:
1983 chaparral 235 XLC (restoration)
1977 playcraft p24 pontoon (parents own now I am the mechanic)
1975 skeeter hawk (on hold)

past boats:
this list will not fit!

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#8 Post by nathan » Sun Jun 16, 2013 7:01 pm

here are two options

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My Happy place is on a boat at the lake with my kids!!

current boats:
1983 chaparral 235 XLC (restoration)
1977 playcraft p24 pontoon (parents own now I am the mechanic)
1975 skeeter hawk (on hold)

past boats:
this list will not fit!

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#9 Post by Chris.and.jamie » Sun Jun 16, 2013 7:06 pm

Sorry you say flip what do you mean

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#10 Post by nathan » Sun Jun 16, 2013 7:13 pm

The pictures are upside down.
My Happy place is on a boat at the lake with my kids!!

current boats:
1983 chaparral 235 XLC (restoration)
1977 playcraft p24 pontoon (parents own now I am the mechanic)
1975 skeeter hawk (on hold)

past boats:
this list will not fit!

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#11 Post by Chris.and.jamie » Sun Jun 16, 2013 7:21 pm

Whiskey tango foxtrot, upside down you say they look right on my end I'm very sorry that's why your request caught me unaware.

Ok here they are flipped now these look upside down to me but if they are right for y'all all the better
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#12 Post by nathan » Sun Jun 16, 2013 7:41 pm

Still upside down. O well I have seen it on other sites. Some times there is nothing you can do about it. Aren't computers fun. :drink4
My Happy place is on a boat at the lake with my kids!!

current boats:
1983 chaparral 235 XLC (restoration)
1977 playcraft p24 pontoon (parents own now I am the mechanic)
1975 skeeter hawk (on hold)

past boats:
this list will not fit!

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#13 Post by TSip85 » Mon Jun 17, 2013 12:21 pm

Welcome C&J. I would say a proper boat naming ceremony should please the lake gods a bit and hopefully end all the sorrows. What lake do y'all plan to be on most often this year?
Hook 'Em!! \m/

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#14 Post by Chris.and.jamie » Mon Jun 17, 2013 2:29 pm

You know we don't have a lot of lake loyalty and its probably just cuz wr are still getting our feet wet ( pun intended ) but we live 15 min from joe pool so we go to the state park to launch, we also like lewisville just don't like the hour plus drive home, we like texoma but that has to b more of a long weekend to be worth it, we went a couple times to kimble bend and made the trip down to whitney which is a great run but the river has been so low the parks dock is out of the water

How bout you where do you take that burnt orange machine of yours ( sorry lil cross town rivalry for the tsip screen name )

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#15 Post by steveiam » Mon Jun 17, 2013 7:40 pm

You college boys need to settle down!
LOL!
Welcome guys from another Texan, Joe pool scares me because of all the traffic there.
I know you heard about the recent incident there last week.
I know it could happen anywhere but I just haven't had a good time at the ramps there.
And that lake is not known for its bluecat population.
We are waiting for Whitney to come up some also, really want to get on that lake.
I often wonder if Jimmy really did crack corn, and why should I care?

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