After around three decades in a twelve foot tiller steer with a four horse I looked for an upgrade.A couple years of checking out the bottom of the barrel due to price ranges the sixteen foot goal was abandon when a fourteen turned up. A fiftieth anniversary deep Sea Nymph with a side console,25 h.p. Evinrude,the model just before the not good attempt to put an oil tank under the cowl,remedied by pulling them and going back to premix sometimes after the two strokes were run without oil,ouch.
With flat decking ,a huge plus for me,comes storage and live well. Very low hours on a mid nineties and stored indoors till now under a cover. After last years work boat is near mint factory.. Last run,thirty m.p.h. was top speed.Plenty fast to catch up with the fish around here and after putting around with the four horse this one makes me giggle. No offence to the puddle jumping little one as it was bought to be carried when needed to portage and owes me nothing. Sit in the back and it still rows like a leaf and has seen a lot of fish.
Next work will be replacing bow mounted trolling motor with an eighty pound thrust,an i-pilot system that will take some learning all its options and besides a foot pedal controller also a remote to control it and a conversion to twentyfour volt. My claim is I,m graceful on the water,l.o.l..There is a place I go by Waif and another its WaterWaif.
Its bad luck to rename a boat but this one is not named beyond its manufacturer,so perhaps in time it will get one.
With flat decking ,a huge plus for me,comes storage and live well. Very low hours on a mid nineties and stored indoors till now under a cover. After last years work boat is near mint factory.. Last run,thirty m.p.h. was top speed.Plenty fast to catch up with the fish around here and after putting around with the four horse this one makes me giggle. No offence to the puddle jumping little one as it was bought to be carried when needed to portage and owes me nothing. Sit in the back and it still rows like a leaf and has seen a lot of fish.
Next work will be replacing bow mounted trolling motor with an eighty pound thrust,an i-pilot system that will take some learning all its options and besides a foot pedal controller also a remote to control it and a conversion to twentyfour volt. My claim is I,m graceful on the water,l.o.l..There is a place I go by Waif and another its WaterWaif.
Its bad luck to rename a boat but this one is not named beyond its manufacturer,so perhaps in time it will get one.
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