I increased the scope on the manson to about 10:1 and we were glued to that spot. I had just finished splicing in shackle to give myself an all rope rode for a lunch hook and happened to be on the bow faking it down when I saw the wind coming across the water over the spit. Sunday evening 6:00 pm in the Fairlee Creek the wind went from 0 to 30 in a microsecond. I am extremely happy with the 35# manson supreme I switched to earlier this year. Looking forward to chatting (in English I hope) after we return from the maritime museum later today. I googled the boat name and found they have recently completed a Trans-Atlantic voyage from Oslo. The 1st mate heard them speaking - a foreign language. The moral of the story is they're only mechanical devices that follow the laws of physics, and they only seem like they are out to get you. I reassemble the Nissan and it runs like new. When I did get the Nissan home and I opened the carb it turned out that the screw holding the float had backed out. I should have repaired the Nissan at the dock but at this point I was so frustrated we decided to row the dink. I got the Honda tuned and it ran fine for that trip and the next year. My imagination was beginning to notice a cloud hanging over Novelman. Took it to Ventura Harbor and what to you think? It wouldn't start, and neither would my 10hp Honda which always ran well. Took it home and put it in the backyard, and bought a cheap used Nissan 8hp 2 cycle. Brought it home and it fired up again and ran great. Got it running great at home and took it to the landing with the dink and got it to fire up for about 10 min and it died. It turned out to be the points were gummed up and sticking. Now I carry a few extra in the boat box.Click to expandI did the same thing with my 50ish SeaBee. Needless to say, I don't want to travel 2 hours in the rain because of a sheared pin. I figure I can get a new prop for the price of a few dozen pins. Therefore, the prop will take the brunt of any accidents. The nails are slightly softer than the pins, so they tend to bend rather than break. I grabbed a hacksaw and cut them to length. An hour later I found a few nails that looked like they would do the job, or at least get us home if needed.
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Eventually I got tired of buying kits and I began to look around the garage for rods similar in diameter. Several trips later I needed more, so I ordered another kit. The trolling motor pins were softer than the original pins for the motor, so they broke/sheared much easier. I picked up a kit for $12 which contained two pins.
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All I could find was a pin made for a trolling motor, Bass Pro's "Prowler" series.
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So I made a trip to Bass Pro to find a pin that would replace the one in the outboard. The pin is made to break when the prop encounters a hard surface such as a boulder, tree, etc.
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For a lack of better words, I guess what we did when trying to travel up the shallow riffle was comparable to shearing a pin. That's when it hit me, when I bailed hay for my first time I "sheared pins" on the power take off. I took the prop off and noticed that the propeller was driven by a single pin. When I got home I took the motor apart and started to analyze every part. So we trolled 2 hours back to the ramp in the rain later that night. While trying to navigate an extremely shallow riffle, the outboard motor hit a couple rocks and the prop quit spinning, the motor still ran but the prop wouldn't spin. We have since found a public ramp further upstream. We put the boat in at the boat ramp near the Ohio River and drove upstream for an hour and a half looking for good looking catfish spots. A month and a half ago Rylan, Amanda, and I took the boat out to Brush Creek and ran into a few issues on along the way.