It's a bit of a drive for me with work in the afternoon, but I'm keeping an eye on this thread! You planning to leave out of oak shores I assume? The concrete path there gets you pretty close to the water, and the walk isn't too steep.

You could try aircraft paint remover, that's what I used to remove the paint from my mtb and dirt bike frames. It's a bit of work, but it can be done.

Well that's no good! We'll try another weekend, I wouldn't be able to get to the lake until 9 or so anyway.

Nice video!

I recently put a DIY anchor trolly on my WS thresher 140, using hardware store pulleys at the bow and stern, a length of BRAIDED rope, and a stainless steel ring in the middle to clip my anchor/chute to. The trolleys operation is flawless, until I attach something to it. After sitting in the current of the slough or the ocean for any amount of time my anchor/chute line always winds up wrapped around the trolley line, and I can't for the life of me figure out why. Sometimes it's not so bad, but last weekend I got so frustrated trying to untangle my chute I just cut the rope away. It really just doesn't make sense to me at all.

Could the ring be catching so much current that it's able to spin despite the pull of an anchor or chute on the end?

Thanks for any insight!

John, I do remember seeing and asking how it was going for you! I fished shallow all day 10-15 feet, I guess that was my problem... Well part of it. Suppose I just need to go dangle some night crawlers out there so I can at least catch a fish at the port 

Good read and good advice in this thread! I'm in the middle of trying to decide on a new paddle and this has helped everything but my wallet!

I'm battling some tendinitis in my right elbow, and the cheap/heavy paddle that came with my boat can't be helping. I would imagine my paddle angle is pretty high, but I'm scared the high angle blades are going to hurt my elbows more. I went out today and worked on paddling technique, but I'm curious to know how a new paddle could help to?

Hydrospider, thank you fro the thread link, very informational! It seemed you had pretty good things to say about the Conseal kits, and hadn't at the time had the seadek long enough to know durability.

FishingForTheCure, and anyone else interested, I got a kit on the way just now. Should be here next week I hope, but it may be a bit before I can get to the install. But if anyone is interested in a review, thoughts on install or wants to see the kit up close I can post it up here!