Lloyd, buy a set of beach wheels for the boat. Eide Industries has the best
ones I've seen. I have a set of Wheel-A-Ways. They mount to the transom
and flipdown down to launch and then via a pin arrangement, flip up for
boating. Eide has a spring pin setup that is nice, Wheel-a-way has a pin
you pull.
Bill

"Lloyd Sumpter" wrote in message
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On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 22:06:15 +0000, noah wrote:


As this year dwindles down, and a new begins, I'd like to salute "Ugly
Jon". As
friends go, he's never let me down. As long as I do my part, he never
will.


Once again, I hear ya!

Here in Western Canada, the jonboat is replaced by the aluminum
"cartopper" - sorta like a jonboat, but shaped more like a boat and wider.
I'd guess at least half the backyards in BC have one around somewhere in
various states of disrepair.

I bought one last spring (basically traded the 18ft Campion for it and
some cash), and it's rapidly becoming one of my favourite boats. It's SO
versatile! It has enough shape and freeboard to be OK in protected areas
of the Salt Chuck, but it's so light you can "hand-launch" it on lakes
that have nothing more than a gravel beach for a launch-ramp. Trolls all
day with a 40-lb Minn Kota, or skims to the Other Side of the lake in no
time with the Venerable Johnson "9.9".

...and mine even has full canvas!

http://www.user.dccnet.com/lsumpter/Skeeter/
I've since cleaned and painted it - looks MUCH better now!

Lloyd Sumpter
"The Tin Boat" Mirrocraft 12