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lowaccord66

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Quabbin 2020
« on: Feb 19, 2020, 11:10 AM »
Doing big things for this season....notice something missing from the back of my boat?




Someone happily took the 140 looper off my hands. (Hours after it was posted!)  Soon a shiny new 25hp tohatsu with a 9.8 kicker will be sitting back there.  That plus existing ipilot and panoptix means the lakers and salmon are in trouble.

touge30

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Re: Quabbin 2020
« Reply #1 on: Feb 19, 2020, 11:36 AM »
whats a looper

lowaccord66

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Re: Quabbin 2020
« Reply #2 on: Feb 19, 2020, 12:44 PM »
A looper is an evinrude v4 outboard.  In this case a 1990 140hp. 

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Re: Quabbin 2020
« Reply #3 on: Feb 19, 2020, 01:27 PM »
I know you are excited.
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lowaccord66

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Re: Quabbin 2020
« Reply #4 on: Feb 19, 2020, 02:35 PM »
I know you are excited.

I am.  I was boat shopping but now I am not.  My buddy is helping me with this endeavor and we agreed if he uses my boat for quabbin i can use his crestliner elsewhere. 

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Re: Quabbin 2020
« Reply #5 on: Feb 19, 2020, 05:45 PM »
If I remember right you had nothing but problems with that old engine. I would dare say the trout are in trouble when the season opens.

Have you used the panoptix on the boat to target cold water fish much yet, and if so what do you think?

lowaccord66

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Re: Quabbin 2020
« Reply #6 on: Feb 19, 2020, 08:48 PM »
If I remember right you had nothing but problems with that old engine. I would dare say the trout are in trouble when the season opens.

Have you used the panoptix on the boat to target cold water fish much yet, and if so what do you think?

To be fair the outboard worked amazing until I ran the gas too low and clogged the carbs and then I found out through fixing things on my own the tune up I paid for was never actually done...(avoid Suburban marine in Meriden CT)

As for the panoptix, I have and it works great.  (Using the ice bundle)

Used it a lot on champlain during the summer to jig big lakers.

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Re: Quabbin 2020
« Reply #7 on: Feb 20, 2020, 06:59 AM »
Congratulations on your new acquisitions! 

(And I didn't even know you had a boat). :P

lowaccord66

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Re: Quabbin 2020
« Reply #8 on: Feb 20, 2020, 10:16 AM »
I have had one for a while Jim and had some amazing adventures with it.  Converting it to a quabbin boat makes the most sense.  The cost to repower to a similar hp that it had was more expensive than buying another boat.  Being that I love that boat this was the best way to save it! 

More updates as we continue to build it out as the ultimate quabbin boat.

burgerunh

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Re: Quabbin 2020
« Reply #9 on: Feb 20, 2020, 11:20 AM »
I am not trying to sound like a jerk but why put a kicker on a boat that has a 25 HP on it?  That 25 HP should get you to an appropriate trolling speed and burn hardly any gas.  The only logic to the kicker is that it will get you back to the ramp should the main engine fail.  That should not be much of an issue with the new motor.  Personally I would save the cash on the kicker and get the additional weight off of the transom.  Now if you were running a significantly larger main engine (not allowed on quabbin I know) then we would be having a different discussion.

lowaccord66

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Re: Quabbin 2020
« Reply #10 on: Feb 21, 2020, 11:24 AM »
Solid feedback for sure.  I already owned the 9.8 prior to removing the 140!  The other thing is its tricky to get that 25 to troll in the lower range of speeds that we sometimes need.  Especially if we are towing bait! The other side of things is keeping idle hours off the 25.  Its gonna get its arse kicked pushing a 19'6 boat at max rpm all the time.

With that said if any quabbin experts have thoughts on how to prop that 25 for max speed I am all ears.  (The upside is it will be flashed to 30hp)

burgerunh

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Re: Quabbin 2020
« Reply #11 on: Feb 22, 2020, 08:26 AM »
The kicker I run on my 20’ aluminum Lund Fisherman is a 15 HP merc 4 stroke.  I believe I am running a 3 blade 8 pitch prop and it will basically rev out and push the boat about 6 MPH.  Hope that might help you out or at least give you a starting point.

That quabbin fishery looks pretty cool.  IF I lived closer I would set up a boat like you are doing!

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Re: Quabbin 2020
« Reply #12 on: Feb 23, 2020, 06:34 AM »
quabbin hp restrictions.....* FOUR-STROKE ENGINES - Private boats with four-stroke engines are limited to one-half the BIA or OBC hp rating of the
boat up to a maximum of 25 hp* Private boats may use two motors provided the total combined hp does not exceed the hp limits above.
* Combined four-stroke and two-stroke engines may not exceed 20 hp total.       Looks like you'll have to leave the kicker home.

lowaccord66

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Re: Quabbin 2020
« Reply #13 on: Feb 24, 2020, 08:46 AM »
Plans may be changing a bit as I am headed to look at another boat this week...

In other news the 9.8 pushes the boat a respectable 5.5mph and might end up being the main!

lowaccord66

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Re: Quabbin 2020
« Reply #14 on: Feb 26, 2020, 02:40 PM »
New boat purchase scheduled for 1pm Saturday.  Meanwhile we found someone to trade the 9.8 tohatsu for a 25hp 4 stroke Suzuki.  That'll be much better. 

 



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