LA Elwood, I have heard of people trying to copy the card and it will wipe the card clean and you will be out the cost of the card. Pretty sure it was a security feature they had built into the cards, otherwise one guy could buy one and copy it for all of his buddies. Not good for the old Navionics pocketbook. They aint cheap, but doing so would equate to copying a DVD movie and sharing that.
With the motor down, do you have an overall length on the trailer? Looks like a pretty nice rig and a good price with the equipment you have on it.
Have to agree with the comments here. Ivan is a class act for sure. My wife and I drove up from the metro area to check out the kitty cats and yarcarfts. We went out with Jason in his 15 Eyra and had a blast. We hymmed and hahed a bit and walked over to Ivans Puma FTD and he said lets go for a ride. Running 75 in the heavy chop that a 25 mph wind can whip up on Mille Lacs was crazy, but Ivan knows how to drive a Bass Cat. Doing figure 8s at about 35 and not a drop of water in the boat. Then running back into the head wind at 75 again, I was on the carpeted step box and was comfortable. You get the boat up on top and it just walked across the waves no problem. I was absolutely shocked at how smooth that boat ran across that chop, my wife giggling the whole time. Her hair after the ride was awesome, and Ivans was looking pretty swept back too.I had a blast up there. Wish we could have stayed longer but we ran back home to get ready to see the Foo Fighters Saturday night in St. Paul. I was under the impression that my wife was going to not care for how fast the bass boats ran and how low they were to the water but she liked the feeling in the Bass Cat more than the Yarcraft, even out in the heavy chop. We grabbed a couple catalogs and started on the way home talking about a purchase next spring. Thinking Sabre FTD with a 175 XS or VRod. Ivan made a Bass Cat fangirl out of my wife. To that Ivan, I will never be able to thank you enough!!!!Thanks again,Tom
Bama, I have been looking at your old Sabre on the for sale side. Nice looking boat. Not quite in position to buy right yet but if it is still at Brech when I am, I may have to make a long drive. Would love to have a 20 footer but the Sabre is the biggest that will fit in the garage. Congrats on the new rig! Going fast is only one of many joys of being on the water.
With the motor tilted down, what is the overall storage length on the boat. From the pics it doesnt look to have a folding tongue on the trailer, so just curious as to the overall length.Thanks,Tom
I had been wondering about real world numbers as well, specifically towing a boat. I will be in the market pretty soon and have always been a Chevy guy. This time around I am either going Aluminum F-150 with an Eco-boost or Ram Eco-Diesel. The Ram mileage, from everything I have heard and read, is astonishing. For a guy that runs 75 miles round trip daily for work, the empty mileage would really add up quick. I have a 2wd Silverado right now and get about 17 empty with it, tack on another 8-12 mpg and that adds up quick. The problem is I really really like aluminum, I design aluminum extrusions for curtainwall systems, it is very much a part of my life blood. Living in Minnesota we deal with a lot of road salts and steel trucks rust out, quickly if they are not washed 3 times a week in the winter. Aluminum is going to win the longevity battle every time up here. I would really love to see a 6 cylinder diesel in the aluminum F-150 or see Dodge start to build aluminum trucks. GM has kinda turned a blind eye to the future of the truck market by not stepping up with a fuel saving full size truck. Would be great to see Toyota do the same with the Tundra.The technology exists to get a solid 30 mpg empty and 20 mpg towing full size truck. Why every manufacturer isnt building them is what confuses me the most.Tom
Oh trust me on this one, I have been watching the Mille Lacs saga unfold for a long time. There is a group of anglers who are fooled by the regulations but there is also a very large group of anglers who see right through it. Ive been fishing Mille Lacs (not hardcore but off and on) for 30 years. Walleye is king there and the biggest problem for walleye anglers is an overwhelming majority of them do not practice catch and release. Well maybe they do but it is ONLY a hot grease release. Walleye are table fare and nobody ever puts them back unless forced to by slots or limits and some wont even follow those. Yes, the natives have treaty rights to take a number of fish from the lake each year, but it is almost always at 25%(native take) to 75%(state angler take) quota system. In all the years since the treaty rights were reinstated, the natives have taken their quota and very rarely gone over their quota, and if they do they go over by very little. The state anglers on the other hand have gone grossly over their quota EVERY year. The numbers do factor in hooking mortality as in the hot summer months guys will troll lead core or long line troll cranks out over 30 feet of water and the walleyes are down on the bottom. Factor in high water temps, a fish that fairs better in cool water, and a fight as you reel in 100 feet or more of line while the boat is running 1.8 – 3 mph and the fish take a beating. They only have about a 50% survival rate, maybe a little better, but not much. But the fishing is great so you have reports on facebook of guys catching fish so everyone and their brother runs up to the lake cause its 90 minutes from the cities. They kill a lot of fish.So how does this factor in with smallies and muskies? The walleye crowds are woefully uninformed and in my opinion ignorant. Is this a generalization, hell yeah, but a lot of them fit the category. They believe that smallies and muskies are eating all of the walleye fry each year causing the walleye population to plummet. Forget the fact that they are going grossly over the quota of fish allowed each year and continue to kill fish even after the quota is filled and walleye fishing is “closed”. Forget the fact that the forage base (yellow perch and tullibee) of the walleye has been in decline for the last decade because the biomass of the lake trended toward lots of big walleyes but no little ones due to slot limits, the big walleyes simply ate up all the baitfish. Forget the fact that walleyes are cannibals and with the forage base collapse they had nothing else to eat so they started eating the young of the year fish. Forget all the studies that show the contents of the stomachs of smallies show almost no walleye but mostly crayfish diets. The studies of the muskies stomachs show lots of small pike and suckers, they used to show tullibees but they are very scarce in the lake now so evolution.The walleye guys say over and over that the smallies and muskies are eating all the walleye in the lake. So the general mentality was lets relax the regulations on other species, the ones that we say are eating our precious walleye but have no proof of. Who cares if there is a world class fish population in the lake, lets just destroy it because WALLEYE is king and it isnt a WALLEYE. It makes me sick to see the launch boats on the lake that used to take groups of 30 people out for a sunset cruise to soak bobbers and leeches over the side to grab a quick limit of walleye each and every night of the season now switch to target smallmouth because the launch owners feel like smallies are eating all their precious walleye. When they first opened up the regs on smallies a couple years ago youd see posts from launch services coming back with coolers full of smallies headed for the cleaning shack and the launch owners proclaiming “they taste pretty darn good, not as good as walleye, but itll have to do.”I may have ranted a bit much there, but like I said, I have been watching this unfold in front of me for several years. I love the lake and wish they would protect the world class fish population rather than intentionally destroy it. And for the record, I have taken a few walleye from Mille Lacs, but I have released a whole lot more than I have taken, and I dont do the hot water trolling. And I have also caught 9 out of 10 of my best smallies on the lake, all of which were returned to the water after a kiss.Take care,Tom
So here is a thought and it would be good to get BCBs take on it too. What about the use of those teflon slider pads on the bunks. They screw into the carpeted bunks and help the boat slide off easier. Obviously you would never want to remove the bow strap before backing in, I have seen a boat come off a roller trailer before and it wasnt pretty. My thought though is that they get the hull up off the carpeted bunks just a little bit to help dry them out a little easier. One issue I could foresee with them is they are not providing even, constant support to the hull. But if you spaced them out right, is it enough or still not recommended? Say a 6″ pad spaced 18″ on center?
EastcentralMN, I like your way of thinking. A Lynx in Orinoco Blue and Jade, with Silver accents would match up nicely with the MN Lynx team colors. They seem to be the only major league team in Minnesota that can pull off a championship anymore.
I have a couple of good photos of the Midnight Mist colors from Ivans boat, shot in the sun. If I can email them to someone to post up I would be happy to oblige. The photos were shot specific to try to show the midnight mist color flakes.I did just upload the photos from the Mille Lacs ride and drive on my flickr page. You should be able to select the photo and enlarge it to the max size to get a better look. If you look at the Puma FTD 11 photo you can zoom in and see the flake pretty good, especially down on the fender. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ctd_photo … 6073561854
Thats a big bobber.
Eddy actually has a really nice looking Sabre FTD sitting at the shop right now. If you check out his website you can take a good look at it. It is rigged with a 150 four stroke and a Fortrex 80 I think. Not sure what it has for graphs.Edit – just checked, its got a Motorguide X5 and a Helix 5 at the dash, dont think it has a bow graph mounted yet.I rode in a similarly rigged Sabre FTD last year at the ride and drive event with my son and Ivan was driving. If I get a Sabre FTD when I buy, it will have the 150 four stroke on it. Great motor. There is a video on youtube of a guy with a new Sabre FTD with twin power poles and I think an Ultrex or maybe its a Fortrex and the 150 four stroke on it running down the lake. Gives a good look at holeshot and top end.Last edited by tdobb on April 26th, 2017, 11:39 am, edited 1 time in total.
Use Flickr. Super easy and free. They have a share button looks like a little arrow on the lower right corner of the photo. Select that button and copy the link, then you can paste it into the forum. I am going to show you the link coding and then you can delete out the portions you dont need and the spaces.The code will look something like this…
Just delete out everthing before the [ img ] and [ / img] boxes and it should look like this.My wifes reaction after riding on Mille Lacs at 75+ with Ivan in 3 footers, not a drop of water in the boat. Man was that fun and good gawd can Ivan drive a boat.Last edited by tdobb on July 11th, 2017, 7:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I once watched a guy who was distracted by his three kids complaining about not catching fish hop in the car to go home, no boat in tow, completely empty lot minus my buddys truck, take off like a bat outta hell. Only problem was he musta been looking backwards at the kids because he made a B-line for the turn around median with the only light pole in the parking lot. Hit the curb, jumped the car up the median and hit the light pole square on the grille emblem. Light pole falls, bumper is hung on the stump of the pole, but just enough to where the tires still made contact, slams it in reverse, tears the bumper off the car, gets out screams at the kids saying look what you made me do, gets back in and high tails it out of the parking lot.My buddy and I are sitting in the boat and I say to him, “How much you bet those kids are gonna have a race to tell mom what happened when they get home?”The whole thing transpired in about 45 seconds as we were idling in to load the boat on the trailer.
Where are you located? How about some photos? Can you send to c_tom_dobbins@yahoo.com or text them to me at 651.206.1340? Would also like to know the overall max length on trailer with the motor down. Thanks,Tom
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