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| Author: | daddyflea [ Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Driving in Unknown areas |
I know this may be a wierd question but here goes. I am driving a Boat with a Surface Drive Motor in an area that is unfamiliar. This most likely holds Stumps but unknown. Is it best to go dead slow or better to get on plane to draw less water? |
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| Author: | Migrator [ Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Driving in Unknown areas |
Get it up on top if you have the boat to handle it. The motor is not the big factor here. Thats what the motor is made to do. Use common sense and your fine. |
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| Author: | chaseh [ Wed Mar 21, 2012 1:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Driving in Unknown areas |
On Plane bc momentum will save your ass on the big ones! |
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| Author: | bbb [ Wed Mar 21, 2012 2:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Driving in Unknown areas |
Let's see......you can idle through the area first, and find out if there are stumps under the water, where they are, and how bad they are. OR you can run wide open and risk hitting multiple stumps with the possibility of flipping the boat, or getting thrown out of the boat and hitting your head on a stump. You choice, but if you have a family, make sure your life insurance is paid up first. I'd rather find stumps while idling than on plane. And hitting one stump on plane, and being done is not a big deal, but it you have stumps every 10-20ft, expect a hell of a ride and a hell of a landing. Signed: I run a 37,500 acre stump infested reservoir. |
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| Author: | chaseh [ Wed Mar 21, 2012 6:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Driving in Unknown areas |
| Author: | duckduckboom [ Wed Mar 21, 2012 6:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Driving in Unknown areas |
WTFO- i have never seen a mud boat flip hitting a stump underwater. just make sure you hold the grab bar and you left leg is clear of the tiller handle. Wear your kill switch |
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| Author: | riverratdm84 [ Wed Mar 21, 2012 7:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Driving in Unknown areas |
its the ones that stick out of the water that u gotta watch out 4. |
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| Author: | duckduckboom [ Wed Mar 21, 2012 7:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Driving in Unknown areas |
| Author: | Barroll [ Wed Mar 21, 2012 7:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Driving in Unknown areas |
If i know there are stumps, i ride on step but slow. Its not going to hurt the boat or motor. But the tiller will put a hurtin on leg |
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| Author: | daddyflea [ Wed Mar 21, 2012 7:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Driving in Unknown areas |
Reason I was wondering is that I have a lot of places that is shallow with nothing above the water but has trash and stumps below. My Long tail planed out very quick and maintained a plane at a very slow speed. Just got my Surface Drive mounted and have not tried it yet. I am betting that the Draft on my Boat on plane might make it safer than plowing along. No idea what speed I will have to maintain. The Boat is a 1540 with a GD23 on it. |
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| Author: | BradS [ Wed Mar 21, 2012 9:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Driving in Unknown areas |
If ya skered say ya skered --- RUN IT LIKE YA STOLE IT |
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| Author: | eljefe [ Thu Mar 22, 2012 6:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Driving in Unknown areas |
Wot blind folded with a tallboy in hand....don't worry about anything just use the force... |
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| Author: | Woodiebuster [ Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Driving in Unknown areas |
Never run a new place in the dark, go scout the day before. |
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| Author: | mizzippi jb [ Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:57 pm ] |
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| Author: | Beadlejuicejr [ Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Driving in Unknown areas |
When in dout punch it out. |
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| Author: | daddyflea [ Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Driving in Unknown areas |
Last time I went to favorite spot, I found a bunch of people already there on foot, and in Kayaks. The best spot was across a shallow spot that no one could get to because of the shallow spot combined with the swift water. This included the Kayaks. I asked them if they minded if I came on through, and they looked at me like I was crazy. Mud boats in this area are as scarce as Hen's teeth. I got my boat on plane and zipped across like it was nothing. Coco most likely owes me a sales fee now. |
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| Author: | bbb [ Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Driving in Unknown areas |
| Author: | chasinmallards [ Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Driving in Unknown areas |
I agree with bbb. No shame in checking it out first. I'm don't know if you can flip your boat on a stump, but I sure don't want to find out! I like being alive, so I tend to scout places before i run them WFO, especially during hunting season. That cold water's a killer. |
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| Author: | cb5331 [ Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Driving in Unknown areas |
I don't usually run wot through new areas that are filled with stumps, but I do usually run on plane. You hit a lot less stuff and you're more likely to tear your boat up crawling over stumps. Better off sliding on over them at a decent pace. |
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| Author: | med [ Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Driving in Unknown areas |
I trim up on the high side, jump on plane then back off of the throttle til it's nearly falling off |
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| Author: | SHANE704 [ Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Driving in Unknown areas |
hittin a stump on plane will most likely not hurt your boat but you have got to come off plane sometime....thats when a stump can ruin your day |
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| Author: | nocemdead [ Tue May 08, 2012 10:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Driving in Unknown areas |
AMEN!
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| Author: | WAD SHOOTER [ Wed May 09, 2012 7:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Driving in Unknown areas |
bbb you hit the nail on the head. Check it out first then run it. Id like to see some of these fools run it wot through that area north of RIP pops island or outside of the channel markers through spring creek. |
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| Author: | tchredneck [ Wed May 09, 2012 3:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Driving in Unknown areas |
boat knows only 2 speeds woah and go. go slow front boat goes up back of the boat will go under tall transom saves me every frogging trip. |
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| Author: | brasso [ Wed May 09, 2012 4:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Driving in Unknown areas |
The lake I run is extremely stumpy, and I've always ran WTFO but I also had a 23 longtail so it was about equivalent to a surface drive Just barely on plane. If there are no stumps visible then hop you ass on plane and hold on. I know where the creeks run, so stumps aren't that big a deal for me on some spots, others are clear of any of The creek channels and full of stumps. Either way I'm on plane running Through it. It seems to be way less of a hit when you do hit them, and not as bad due to being on plane and being able to slide over instead of crawl and make the boat lean and rock, etc. |
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