dan dombos
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Peter,
I have been looking around myself, in hopes of a couple of years being in the market with check in hand. I have stopped looking at the pure flats boats and started looking for more of a hybrid bay boat flats boat, if there is such a thing. I really like the small ranger bay boats, and even the Triton. I think I have decided on, my dream boat, of a Ranger Bay Boat. Not sure what size but most likely a 20 or 22.
I wish I were in a position to be seriously talking to dealers about delivery. Good luck with it and please post pics when you get it.My wife’s uncle “upgraded” from a Scout Bay 201 to a Ranger 2310 Bay boat a few years back.
For those of us that are not local, you ought to hook up with someone with a decent video camera and make a couple flicks. Would be interested in seeing some of this single hand spey stuff. Thanks!
I second this motion.
Zach,
I’ve been jonesing for a new FWX 3/4 and an Intinerant Angler interview with the folks at Nautilus.
You will need to get another pair since they don’t even last a season. More like CloudFail.
their rep over here told me that the pair that he got leaked right out of the box
Their rep told you that?
I wouldn’t mind getting a hold of another pair of Gore-Tex if I can find a deal like I got on the 8x pros.
Dan,
I’m a civil engineer and you lost me!….jeff
The spool radius is the lever arm and the tension on the line is the force.
I ask a friend in the industry recently why they had never been a major player, he said was told that was not their business model or desires to be a Sage.
That’s hard to believe.
Drags are fun too consider (especially for a Civil Engineer). They are neat little mechanisms that employ principals that we know, but not so complicated that we feel intimiated by our Mechanical Engineer friends.
Lots of factors go into the determining a certain drag’s characteristics. Larger spool diameters create more moment (think leverage) at a given line tension. In other words, they are mechanically weaken the drag by giving more Mechanical Advantage to the fish.
On the other hand, large diameters also allow the spool to spin slower and allow for maybe slightly smoother operation. This may (or may not) translate to more drag force depending on frictional characteristics of the drag materials. Some materials maintain their frictional forces more than others once the spool is spinning.
Cortland/STH had a really cool idea with their turbine drag. That was real out of the box thinking with some really neat advantages. Low startup interia, with automatically increasing drag resistance under higher spool speeds. A little weak on the top end, but what about a hybrid system with just a little disc assist? Unfortunately they couldn’t put it in a package that people wanted to buy.
At the end of the day, there is a lot of engineering but also a lot of art in the highly designed equipment. Designs with advantages in one area often sacrifice in another. There are so many really great designs out there. It is so fun to look at the ways different people at different companies go about it.
