Moving from outboard to inboard, what to know?

Where you asking me my friend? If you where, Lake Somerville.. Great inboard lake, great for the camping, cooking, drink some cold ones, and just relax.. Come visit we can ride my friend.. [/QUOTE]

Lost track of this one, Thanks for the invite, I thought the photo was actually my lake, but I wasnt even close, If I get to Texas I will look you up. I'll bring the cold ones.

Thanks for doing that for me Pete..

Hey Nate,

I sure the we got you interested in inboards now. If you have not found one yet either on this site, there are some good Nautiques 2001 on boattrader.com. http://www.boattrader.com/search-results/Zip-77493/Radius-any/NewOrUsed-any/Type-Power/Category-Ski%20and%20Wakeboard%20boat/Length-18,20/Year-1978,1990/Price-2500,20000/Fuel-GAS/Engine-DIRECT%20DRIVE/Sort-Length:DESC/
Check it out! See what you think..

I am definitely focused in and sure I want an 82-86 2001. I am waiting to get my gas tank back so I can sell the motorcycle, and we've still got March to get through up here. I have some things to work out before it can happen, but my mind is pretty made up.

Thanks for all your input!

Wow, that all came out better than I anticipated hahaha..

So are we buying an inboard here or are we stuck on the outboard?? Seems darn black and white to me.

Moj'

boat dr wrote: Chris, just pokin' fun at you again....... You have a lot to add to the threads and your input into the makeup of boats, motors and trailers. Do not let me distract you from your duties,sorry if I poked a stick in your eye. You have been missed, we always need an opossing veiw.......Billy

Sorry But I just don't see it your way, and it's getting very old.

Chris, just pokin' fun at you again.......
You have a lot to add to the threads and your input into the makeup of boats, motors and trailers. Do not let me distract you from your duties,sorry if I poked a stick in your eye.
You have been missed, we always need an opossing veiw.......Billy

[QUOTE=chrisawalker45] i run my boat in a lake that is anything from 2.5feet to 5 feet depending on the time of year. The bottom is quite silty nd we get alot of weed. I do run the boat with a strainer, and it always has stuff in it

Well, you probally right, most inboards I can remember all had strainers on them. I bet you have to clean your strainer everytime you go out then.
I just try to stay out of shallow water, just scared I guess of hitting the rudders, or prop on something. If i know it is less than say 4ft, I turn the boat off.. Just me tho....

Hollywood wrote: Netdewt wrote: Every summer I dream about moving "up north". Best place in the world. Key word here is "summer". Where do you dream about being in the middle of winter?

Summer. We're baking up here this week, high 30's!

The lakes I'll be in are silty and sometimes weedy. The "channel" or whatever I'd have to go through each time we dock is about 200 ft long, 10 ft wide, winding, really soft nasty warm rotting silty bottom, and about 3 feet deep. Sounds like it's possible...

OverMyHead wrote: What lake was that in the Pics?

Where you asking me my friend? If you where, Lake Somerville.. Great inboard lake, great for the camping, cooking, drink some cold ones, and just relax.. Come visit we can ride my friend..

How can the truck driver bend up the prop,if hes driving the truck?

skicat wrote: I heard the guy at GL had the problem because the area around the camp ground was so shallow this year the BFN he was in sucked the mud off of the bottom while at idle waiting to pick up the truck driver. By the way, this same guy told me the impeller was way cheaper than the tire blow out or the prop the above mentioned truck driver bent up by hitting the bottom!

A little off tangent... Greg, do you think you could pass along a message to this "GL guy" for me? Just curious if I should avoid the campground launch with the BFN at GL this year. Maybe towing it over to the launch at the park would be a good idea. Thanks!

Yeah Hollywood,
In SW Virginia we usually don't think too much about freezing but the last two years have been doosies! Nice to have it self drain.........

Ok Fellas - don't wanna get in the middle........ but here is my life with strainers:

Strainer on the 2004 206 - In our lake we always have lots of barklike debris in lake and I always find some in strainer.... clean 2-3 times a year and always debris inside (one year, 1/3 of plastic shopping bag - glad I didn't have to fish that out of anywhere else).

No Strainer on 78 Tique for 6 months then place strainer on (took advise and put it on upside down for self-drainage). Find same large-ish debris in it but not the fines that are in the other. I guess the self-draining part clears out the smaller particles.

In my lake, I am glad I use them......... FWIW.

skicat2001 wrote: Gotta have a strainer.. Clean mine at the end of every season..

actually you should check it before you take off for the day/week-end and anytime you see a slightly higher than normal reading on the temp gauge.

Some say it's not needed and it leads to more problems than it's worth, I say their just lazy and don't want to use the safty device correctly for it's intended purpose as a filter.