Im lost without the PW thread!!!!

[lancehon]

Wow! Very mini

[skippabcool]

Some bug is going around up here - My son missed 2 days of school with a fever and aching muscles. It didn't stop him from eating my grilled Rib eye on Easter. His teacher said 30% of the kids in the class missed a day last week.

Hope it passes quick.

[hyphen79]

darn cute!

The guys at work give me sh*t for having chihuahuas. These two are awesome. They even come on the boat with us.

[majestic]

I just missed getting a nearly new set on CL for a good price.

I think they are about $140 new.

[majestic]

The guys at work give me sh*t for having chihuahuas. These two are awesome. They even come on the boat with us.

I used to have Greyhounds. That's quite the opposite in size.

[skippabcool]

I think they are about $140 new.

$250

[skippabcool]

They are made in China but the company is just down the road from me. You can get the old style at Cabelas for $199.

[skippabcool]

I wish they were only $140. There aren't too many options.

[hyphen79]

I just missed getting a nearly new set on CL for a good price.

I had something like this happen to me today. There was a guy in Sac who had a mooring cover for a 20v, and was asking $150 for it.

Called him, and he sold it an hour before I called, and he let it go for $75 cause he really wanted it out of his house.

[majestic]

$250

maybe I was thinking of a knock off version. I am certainly not paying $250. I will make my own for less than $50.

[skippabcool]

It is amazing how fast somethings go.

[majestic]

How about these Skippa?

http://www.thetrailerguard.com/

[Iwndr]

My dad used to take all the junk mail and stuff it in one credit card offer envelope and send it.

Lol, I do that occasionally

Any of you guys use rock tamers? Do you think they really help and are worth it?

I think ET has a set

[hyphen79]

How about these Skippa?

http://www.thetrailerguard.com/

That's not a bad price.

[Ewok]

Probably the $257 one, unless there is a major advantage to the one that is $308

Sounds like a great upgrade

I'm having trouble trying to figure out how a gps helps to make a consistent wake. The gps will measure ground speed relative to a stationary surface on the earth. It will not take into effect the current of the water. While it may be insignificant in a stable lake, it will be off a little in a river to maintain the same wake.

The wake of the boat is generated when the hull moves through the water and displaces water. The rebound of the displaced water is the wake. We all know that 1-2 mph difference in the speed makes a little bit of difference in the wake. So if you are using a gps to go upstream in 2 mph current and the speed is set at 22, then the relative speed of water across the hull is 24 mph. Going downstream with the same speed would be 22 mph minus 2 mph for going with the current, so the relative speed of water over the hull is 20 mph, a 4 mph difference from upstream to downstream.

This example is not unreasonable for a river and we had a 1-2 mph current in Lake Amistad since it was formed by 3 rivers and had a steady flow through the dam.

This is why I think a paddle wheel is better, since it measures the relative flow of the water across the surface of the hull and is not influenced by currents. The paddle wheel is way more accurate than the pitot tube my I/O had built into the stern drive.