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At 5'10" 180lbs. and 62yo I find that taking my feet off of the foot pegs in appropriate water conditions helps me; I rest the tops of my feet on the bottom of the boat and reach back to put them back on the foot pegs when needed. Adjust your saddle height to be as high as possible while maintaining...

Good to see you back on cboats Matt.

Good idea on the switch modifications.

Dang, I thought I was the only one.

Thanks Boatbuster, I actually prefer lower water runs. At my skill level I have more control over the situation and can swim much easier if need be. Been trapped underwater upside down at night with an old school seatbealt that wouldn't release in a beach-buggy in the Gulf of Mexico and just never g...

The cost of gas has me close to home and my boating skills keeps me off the Ocoee etc.. Still sucks.

In all of Georgia there are only 2 natural flowing river listed as runnable on the AW site. Sucks.

Some good info on this post. I've tried the "waterproof" push-pull switch from West Marine and found it to be only marginally better than the non-waterproof; not worth the extra $$. The di-electric grease sounds like a good idea.

Lots of G-Flex and carbon-fiber/kevlar hybrid cloth. Vee out the foam enough to give some G-5 (West systems 5 minute epoxy) time to hold the hull in position until the G-Flex/hybrid cloth patch sets up. Use 2 patches with the 2nd being 3-4 inches wider on each edge than the first. Never done this pa...

Man, he made that look easy.

Well, elbow grease was the winning formula for removing tenacious glue-doo from the ME. Water soaking help, paint thinner soaking helped, judicous use of MEK really helped but in the end I had to use a scraper and sand paper to get the adhesives off. I'll use gray paint to help hide the sanded areas...

A trick to use when soaking an area with paint thinner is to place a rag over the area to be worked on and soak it with paint thinner. Then cover the rag with a plastic sheeting such as polethelyne vapor barrier material. You'll use a lot less paint thinner and can soak the area for long periods w/o...

Well that was easy. Took maybe 20 seconds to remove a D-ring from the ME; came off very clean. Don't know exactly what the vinyl material to which the D-ring was attached was adhered to the boat with but I'm thinking Vyna-bond or a similar product. I also tried the heat gun to remove some contact ce...

When rebuilding wooden paddles I use a heat gun to remove the original carbon fiber or fiberglass. It'd work on a boat but you'll have to be super careful to not over-heat the plastic. Great opportunity for a bad screw-up. I'm contemplating using the heat gun method on the ME I rebuilding. I'll let ...

Bring it on.