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Hey John, was them pics taken on the White River? Looks about like where I drove through this summer.

P_Weed writes...

Hey P_ I have maybe the closest modern incarnation of that old "Fisherman", a 13.3 Discoverer, gotten for exactly nothing from an in-law whose wife wanted to turn it into a planter (shudder). For some years prior to that he had been filling it with water for his and the neighbor's kids to use as a wading pool, and that canoe STILL ain't broke.

Here it is set up for a student project, the kid and his dad drove it all around a local powerplant lake, GPS in hand, doing water tests at marked points and continually measuring the temperature at the surface and about 1ft down using recording temperature probes (two of them can be seen wired to the motor shaft), mapping temperatures by reference to the GPS track.

The trolling motor is 40 lb thrust marine-spec, and will hustle the canoe along up to 4.4 mph when needed to cross boating lanes and such, otherwise will run all weekend on the two deep cycle batteries pictured.

A perfect stealth vehicle for cruising marshes and wetlands and such.


Note the bolt-on, two "D" cell running lights for after-dark operations. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

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