"Bill McKee" wrote in message
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On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:16:19 -0700, "SteveB"
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/

Three pics here. One is of a cleat like thing that I would assume is to
guide a mooring line to keep it in place. What's it called, and what's
it
used for.

Second pic, of the configuration of my bow reel. I think it would be
better
if the vee landing would be below the d ring, as when I come in, I'm
usually
floating higher than the rubber pulley. Total reconfiguration and
location,
but not a problem. Should the bow eye on the boat be below or above the
receiving vee?

Last thing, oxidized aluminum. How to treat? Sand it off, and repaint
with
what, and seal with Sharkhide, I would ass-u-me.

Thanks in advance, and sorry to take you all away from your politics.

Steve

May also want to give Steve some tips on spray painting.

Nice scrub land. Wonder where the nearest water is...

Lots of water in Southern Utah. Rivers and very large lakes. Mead,
Powell, and probably a few smaller lakes.

Quail Hollow Lake is about six miles from my house. The state largemouth
and crappie records were from there, last I heard. Both keepers and catch
and release. I caught a limit of trout in half an hour yesterday afternoon.
The trip before that, I caught a 20" and two 18"ers in about an hour.

Mead sucks. I grew up in Henderson, Nevada. Lake Mead used to be
largemouth bass and crappie heaven. In the old days, the bass limit was 10
fish or 50#. Crappie were caught by the ice chest full. Then they put in
the stripers. To me, a striper is one step above a carp.

Then in 1984, the lake overflowed into the Colorado River system below
Hoover Dam, and the stripers ate all the trout.

Lake Powell ................... eh. I'd rather go up to some small mountain
lake or set of lakes and go float tubing or kayaking, or stream fishing
instead of going down there and listening to a bunch of drunks play hip hop
at loud levels, or buzz you with their PWC while you're trying to troll
motor fish along the bank.

Mead used to get 250,000 people on 4th of July. Not my idea of getting away
from it all for a few days.

Steve