Got a Gheenoe

[Zach Matthews]

Steve –

I wet sanded before the last coat.

[jarrod white]

it looks great ! now quit working and use it for its intended purpose 🙂

[brian dunigan]

is that paint splatter all over the floor ?  :-/

He’d better hope so.

[Zach Matthews]

Motor has basically crapped out.

[Mike Anderson]

Buy a new motor. Nothing worse then an old POS outboard always breaking.

[brian dunigan]

Hard to say.

[Peter E.]

Hard to say.  Sometimes those old motors are just one problem after another.  Usually nothing major, but if you don’t like working on motors, that’s no fun.  I’d rather fish than work on stuff so it’s not a hard decision for me.

On the other hand, it may be a simple fix and you might be back on the water at a fraction of the cost of a new motor.  I was looking at new outboards the other day – in some dream world I’d love to upgrade from a 15 to a 25 on my Gheenoe.  That $3,000.00 price tag is a tough one to wrap my brain around.

Actually, it would be more accurate to say “explaining the $3,000.00 price tag to my wife” is a tough one to wrap my brain around.  The crucial importance of the “Domestic Tranquility Index” cannot be underestimated where boat expenditures are concerned.

bd

Wise man.

[Cameron Mortenson]

Zach…stellar work.

[Jon Conner]

Don’t even think about trying to resurrect that old motor, it was junk when it was new, get a four stroke, quiet, fuel efficient, no oil smell or mixing and no maintenance to speak of. Speaking from experience.
JC

[R Black]

Windy day on the other side of the lake from the truck,  batteries for the trolling motor die, nobody on the water but you.  
Unless you have lots of time it sorta sucks with a motor you can’t depend on.

[Zach Matthews]

Not a good pic but I agreed with all the advice here:

2005 Mercury four stroke 8hp in great shape.

[Jon Conner]

Great motor, by the look of the skeg its never really been used, I have that same basic thing in the 15hp configuration, ten years old now and still starts first pull, and it has been really used.
JC

[Zach Matthews]

Here are some better pics.

[Mike Lewis]

Awesome. When does it get christened?

[brian dunigan]

You may want to get some bunk slicks for the trailer.

[Zach Matthews]

Brian –

I didn’t know those existed.

[Jon Conner]

Bunk slicks are made of some slippery plastic but with a boat as light as yours it won’t be that big a deal. I would recommend some “bearing buddies” or something similar that exerts positive pressure inside the hub to

[brian dunigan]

I didn’t know those existed.  Good tip.  Are they made of like Teflon or something?

Depends on the ones you get – as noted above, most of them are made of a slick plastic.

Your boat will be lighter than mine, but carpeted bunks still tend to kind of grab a fiberglass boat and make it tougher to slide off.

[Zach Matthews]

Learned a valuable lesson Saturday about why outboard motors have a little ring to clip on to.  Andrew and I had just been talking about the time he lost his motor on a huge submerged tree, when about ten minutes later I whacked mine on a shelf and knocked it clean off the back.

Long story short I was able to get it back.  It had hydrolocked but I worked and worked the starter rope until it pumped the cylinders free.  I emptied the oil out, pulled the spark plugs, and pumped it dry with more pulls.  The oil looked emulsified like salad dressing.  Gave the whole engine a WD-40 bath and changed the oil about four times.  By the fourth oil change it was starting and running like new.

I ran it yesterday and I swear it runs better than it did before.  I think maybe it was in need of a good lube and it certainly got that!

Lessons learned.  The motor is now chained to an eye bolt strong enough to hold my weight and then some.  Hopefully this won’t be happening again.

Here it is floating in about 4″ of water:

Zach

[brian dunigan]

Here it is floating in about 4″ of water:

Sweet.

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