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04-10-2024, 7:07am | #1 | ||||||
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For you Florida bashers
Just cleaning up the pontoon boat yesterday morning and had some fun visitors:
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Otters are a ton of fun to watch. Assuming you've got riverfront property somewhere?
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On a fresh water lake right across from Disney....every day is a nature show; this morning its bald eagles (called "fish eagles" locally). Otters make a high peached squeak but can also bark like small dogs as a warning...a bit strange.
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Someone PM'ed me about my trolling motor mount after seeing the video (first few seconds) and this is the read out on that.....I replaced the trolling motor battery with a lithium version since the video and saved about 42 lbs of weight:
This is the mounting product and the total install was about $1200 "all in"; motor, mount wiring and plugs; the motor doesn't take up space inside the "playpen" when stored and no special "half door" required to use it: https://riderestyle.com/ |
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Lithium battery around all that water? "Florida man..."
Nice to see wildlife there other than friggin alligators. |
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If the boat goes down I'll be dog-paddling for shore while calling my insurance company. |
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Great job on the trolling motor! I am doing the same thing to my pontoon. My motor will be here Monday. I went with the Minn Kota Terrova 54 12 volt with advanced GPS. It's a few more bucks but it is totally self driving once you program your tracks.
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My Lowrance electronics provide the normal GPS functions if needed. Self-guiding GPS not a good idea on my body of water; there are several underwater "mountains" where you can go from 14' to 2' in a few seconds... My 55-lb thrust motor works well and pushes my small pontoon about 3mph, a bigger boat and I'd have hade to step up in models, cost and voltage (requiring dual batteries). |
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Try tossing the Eagles a fish. I have one that will catch one in the air from me now. |
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I have lived in my home for 23 years and saw an otter, only one, a couple weeks back.
Dood was entertaining, did some breakdancing in the yard across the water, he must have been out there for at least 30 minutes. |
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Nice otters, Floriduh sucks
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I believe the name is "Farm Pond."
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