Zach Matthews
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Gheenoes are more stable for their size and draft less, but it depends on the jon boat obviously. You wouldn’t want to have to trade places with a guy in the front of a 14′ X 36″ jon boat over deep water, but you can do that in a Gheenoe thanks to how the hull is configured. Gheenoes also track way better when being poled, and I would imagine are more fuel efficient because they are hydrodynamic.
The real appeal is the fiberglass for modification purposes. You can do anything you want with them. Jon boats bring massive durability to the table. For hauling a deer out of the woods or shooting ducks, I’d take the jon boat, but for fly fishing, Gheenoe for sure.
Zach
Adam –
I just did all the paperwork today. You need a bill of sale, which you can download from the DNR website (gofishgeorgia.com). Fill it out and get it notarized when you and the seller sign. You can do that at a Publix but sometimes they make you both sign in front of them, which can be a pain.
Then you need to get the registration card from the prior owner. The hard part comes if the prior owner didn’t have it registered. Then you have to get the cops involved to show the boat isn’t stolen.
I am cutting and grinding away. On Andrew’s advice I primarily used a metal carbide cutting wheel on my Dremel tool. It was scary initially, cause that sucker could punch right through the hull, but as it dulled it became a little easier to control.
I’ll have a hell of a lot of sanding to get those benches flush with the floor, but I bought a random orbital sander and some 40 grit, which should make it somewhat easier.
The boat is surprisingly flexible without any benches to serve as thwarts. I’m definitely going to have to buttress the sides like we did on Andrew’s boat. I can pick up the rear and it’ll deflect about 3″ on both sides.
Zach
I’ve been testing different qualities and methods of making the welds now, including the way the Spey Pages guys do it.
Hey guys –
Some people have been communicating with me about making those welded loops; here’s one method that looks very easy.
http://speypages.com/speyclave/showthread.php?t=31079
That is different than the way I have been doing it so I can’t speak to the strength but I bet it would be quite strong.
Kent –
It was a steady pull; I put a clamp on the edge of my desk and used that to hold the line (wrapped it around one of the legs of the clamp), then I attached the Boga to whatever system it happened to be using a Double Surgeon’s Loop. Then I slid the Boga backwards along the desktop until the system broke. So no jerking.
The nail knots all failed by stripping the coating off the core and sliding off, including the double nail knots. As I recall, the Albrights failed the same way but also unraveled; the coating was partially slipped. When the weld eventually failed, it peeled up from the rear, which as I understand it is how they usually fail in the factory too.
I think premium-grade material would get you higher overall numbers before failure, but I would expect the ratio of which knots failed first and how to remain the same. It looks like the Albright is 20% stronger than the nail knot, for example, and I would expect that to remain true regardless of material.
The actual 20 lb. monofilament never broke in any test, including the Double Surgeon’s knot test; it always either slipped the line or the knot eventually unraveled.
Hey guys –
I ran this by the folks at TFO and here is what they said in a nutshell:
– The rod is a very high modulus and as a result it doesn’t have the same resistance to being high-sticked, whacked with a Clouser, or otherwise handled roughly as TFO’s warhorse TiCr series.
– The BVK is more akin to a sports car, where the TiCr is meant to be like a pickup truck.
http://www.photographybay.com/2012/02/18/nikon-d700-to-stay-in-current-line-up/
Photography Bay is usually accurate.
Charlie –
You almost got it. You just mixed up our two options. If you’re going to upload from your computer (which you’ve done there based on the file tree), use the little attachment utility at the bottom, just like attaching to an email. That will make the pics appear at the bottom of your post.
If you want to post pics in-line and position them in your post, you’ll have to host them on the internet, for instance on photobucket as many have done above.
Then you’ll use the [ img ] [ /img ] tags (but close the spaces) and put the http://www.example.com/picture.jpg address in between them.
Zach
John,
Dave Whitlock told me that the best part about fishing on the Buffalo is that if you position yourself correctly you can walk off the water with a half case of beer.This isn’t even close to a joke.
Zach
Yes indeed, although most of my experience on the Kings actually involves gigging gar, which is a long story.
The Kings is a great day float; you can put in at Marshall Ford and I believe there are several well-established take outs.
