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Default Up the creek today




"Larry" wrote in message
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Happy wrote:
Well I spent the day fish up the creek with Grandson and doing some boat
riding with "our" 1965 12' Sea King & 7.5 Eska, caught a few crappie on
spinner bait??, and a few catfish on treble hooks and stinky
stuff...forgot to take the camera but We did have a good time and I only
burnt 3 qts of gas all day. One thing about a 12'er there hard really
hard to **** from!.

heres a pic just after I finished the trailer.

http://s783.photobucket.com/albums/y...t=100_0334.jpg

I replaced the transom this spring

http://s783.photobucket.com/albums/y...t=100_0168.jpg

http://s783.photobucket.com/albums/y...t=100_0167.jpg

My 1st Mate,

http://s783.photobucket.com/albums/y...t=100_0428.jpg

I you trailer far, I would change the tire/wheel combo to at least 12".
The fenders are usually adjustable for a good fit. Those little tires are
spinning at 50,000 rpms at highway speed!




It's 3 miles to the creek and lake, 26 round trip to the river, 45-50mph, I
always add grease & do the shake test and check them for heat at the stops,
But I do think this winter I'm going through all wheel bearings on all
trailers. that's always good advice... Thanks and if I move to Florida I
would buy some 12" combos for the long trip...someday I will be there. What
I need is a bumper hitch for a 540i I to pull my tri hull...is that red
necking or what?