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• ferris1248 Posts: 20,654 Moderator

  October 2021 #2

  35 HP Evinrude on a 28' steel pontoon boat. 

  
  

  "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole of the law. The rest is commentary."
  
  Rabbi Hillel (c20 BCE)

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• swampdog Central FloridaPosts: 3,944 Captain

  October 2021 #3

  3 HP Evinrude on a 10’ wooden boat, then on a 12’ aluminum Montgomery Ward. Little motor was still humming when we sold it. 

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• Lake-Linker Posts: 182 Deckhand

  October 2021 #4

  7 horse Johnson. 12' sears jonboat.

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• kellercl Posts: 11,772 AG

  October 2021 #5

  Werner carbon fiber paddles 

  #Lead beakerhead specialist 
  
  "Soul of the mind, key to life's ether. Soul of the lost, withdrawn from its vessel. Let strength be granted, so the world might be mended. So the world might be mended."

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• tom waxelbaum Posts: 784 Officer

  October 2021 #6

  1958 Evinrude 10 on a 1957 Feathercraft aluminum pointed bow jonboat. Piloted by a 1958 model.

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• The_Bearded_Angler Tampa native living in GaPosts: 371 Deckhand

  October 2021 #7

  35 HP Chrysler on a 16' Seabreeze (back in the 70's)

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• Tarponator Under a BridgePosts: 18,918 AG

  October 2021 #8

  Suzuki DT40

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• AaronCannon Pinellas County Posts: 1,009 Officer

  October 2021 edited October 2021 #9

  Mine was a evinrude 6 on a 14ft aluminum starcraft, put a 25 gamefisher on it. Much better.
  Saw 3 of those 600s today.
  
  

  The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.
  Jeff Cooper

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• Turner River Terror Posts: 10,679 AG

  October 2021 #10

  5 HP Eska on a leaking 12 f.t Aluminum Jonboat.
  Drove that thing for Miles and Miles

  Killin and Grillin :grin

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• cadman Home of the Gators Posts: 40,378 AG

  October 2021 #11

  I don't remember, but think it was a 90hp on a 17-foot Seafox. Before that was oars on a Jon boat. 

  Former Mini Mart Magnate

  I am just here for my amusement. 

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• altuck TallahasseePosts: 1,171 Officer

  October 2021 #12

  In 1957 a 3 hp Evinrude on a 12 ft homemade cypress jon boat with tar sealed joints
  
  

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• wynnv Posts: 769 Officer

  October 2021 #13

  I was fortunate enough to grow up on the river. Many of my teenage years were spent on the water. My friend’s dad owned a Marina so there was never a shortage of boats around. The 5 hp Eska and the 9.9 hp Johnson or Evinrude’s were the motor of choice back in the day. We were big timing it when one of my friends got a Whaler with an 85 Evinrude.

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• Mackeral Snatcher Posts: 12,787 AG

  October 2021 #14

  I wanna say either 3 or 6
  

  I can't remember as it was something like 60 years ago and I can barely remember what I had for dinner

  THERE SHOULD BE NO COMMERCIAL FISHING ALLOWED FOR ANY SPECIES THAT IS CONSIDERED OVERFISHED.

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• Jstubby2 Lat -90 Long +90 👍Posts: 843 Officer

  October 2021 #15

  9.9 Evinrude

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• Gary S Posts: 3,101 Captain

  October 2021 #16

  The family boat was a 60 hp Evinrude on a 18 foot Squall King. It was as big as a wash tub, I have a 60 hp Honda on a 16 foot boat now that  use for Bully Neting that is tiny in comparison. I had a couple things growing up that would float I would take to the canal a block away. One had a small motor but like the Snatcher I can't remember that far back.
   I personally hate the way the new motors look. Sort of reminds me of the pickup trucks that are lowered in the back with the front lifted.

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• ANUMBER1 Posts: 12,735 AG

  October 2021 #17

  5hp Eska on a 10' sears jonboat.

  I am glad to only be a bird hunter with bird dogs...being a shooter or dog handler or whatever other niche exists to separate appears to generate far too much about which to worry.

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• ANUMBER1 Posts: 12,735 AG

  October 2021 #18

  my Dad had a 17' wood ski boat with a 25hp Hurricane.
  
  

  I am glad to only be a bird hunter with bird dogs...being a shooter or dog handler or whatever other niche exists to separate appears to generate far too much about which to worry.

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• 2amigo Posts: 8,243 Admiral

  October 2021 edited October 2021 #19

  9.9 johnson on an aluminum boat.  I was 12 at the time.  Simpler times and had a blast

  
  

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• Jstubby2 Lat -90 Long +90 👍Posts: 843 Officer

  October 2021 #20

  Something about the 9.9 HP back then, I think you didn't have to register it or something, we used to throw on the back of my friends 10 ft John Boat with 2 lawn chairs 1 short one & 1 tall one in the back & run the canals & air boat trails at sawgrass & everglades holiday park, fun times. When done you could throw it all in the back of the truck & head to the hill.

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• 2amigo Posts: 8,243 Admiral

  October 2021 #21

  Jstubby2 said:

  Something about the 9.9 HP back then, I think you didn't have to register it or something, we used to throw on the back of my friends 10 ft John Boat with 2 lawn chairs 1 short one & 1 tall one in the back & run the canals & air boat trails at sawgrass & everglades holiday park, fun times. When done you could throw it all in the back of the truck & head to the hill.

  Motor restrictions on some bodies of water had to be less than 10 hp.  I'm sure those 9.9's were EXACTLY 9.9 and not 10 if hooked up to a dyno. 
  
  
  

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• Jack Hexter New Port RicheyPosts: 5,494 Moderator

  October 2021 #22

  5 hp Johnson on a plywood boat built by my Poppop
  

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• altuck TallahasseePosts: 1,171 Officer

  October 2021 #23

  When the state began requiring boats being registered, boats under
  14 ft with motors less than 10hp were exempt.
  So a lot of boats were 13'  10" and a lot of motors were 9.9.
  The state later changed the rules to powered vs non powered. ( more tax revenue)

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• Soda Popinski GrovelandPosts: 16,406 AG

  October 2021 #24

  90 merc 2 stroke.  temperamental but never left me stranded.   It hated to idle.    That thing wanted to RUN 

  You can't pet a dead dog back to life 

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• 2amigo Posts: 8,243 Admiral

  October 2021 #25

  altuck said:

  When the state began requiring boats being registered, boats under
  14 ft with motors less than 10hp were exempt.
  So a lot of boats were 13'  10" and a lot of motors were 9.9.
  The state later changed the rules to powered vs non powered. ( more tax revenue)

  
  Ahhhhhh.  Did not know that part of it.
  

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• MelbourneMark Posts: 3,843 Captain

  October 2021 #26

  My first outboard was a mid or early 80s 35HP merc.     That thing was the loudest motor ive ever owned, and frankly still seems louder than anything ive been around.    I think it had the exhaust mid-port or something?

  
  

  It wanted to run tho.  6gallon tank with pre-mix oil was all I needed all day long!  16ft carolina skiff with a baitwell was all I needed.    I used to bring a 1gallon tank of gas with oil pre-mix for the "long" runs.  
  

  
  

  My buddies once told me they heard me crank the motor at the ramp, and they were fishing a few a miles away. 
  

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• 1outlaw Naples FLPosts: 1,774 Captain

  October 2021 #27

  40 merc on a bass tracker TX17

  Jason :USA

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• gogittum Nature CoastPosts: 3,260 Captain

  October 2021 #28

  Twin 40 hp 1957 Scott-Atwaters on a 19 ft Bryant weekender.  Junk motors.  We needed 2, cause one or the other would quit on nearly every trip.  I think McCulloch made those lower unit gears out of glass.  Dad finally got tired of it and around 1960 he installed an 80 hp Volvo outdrive - one of the very 1st.  That made a dandy boat out of it.
  
  By then I was in the Navy and only got one ride on it with the Volvo.  What a difference.

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• jcbcpa Posts: 2,280 Captain

  October 2021 edited October 2021 #29

  9.9 Johnson with a short shaft and a plastic boat. It was perfect for fishing Spring Creek, dragging over logs and hitting rocks. 

  God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

  Arthur Young

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• Flash Posts: 12,089 AG

  October 2021 edited October 2021 #30

  1 1/2 HP Eska. Believe Monkey Wards made them.  Actually just one of the stores that sold them.  10 foot jon.
  

  
  

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  Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. --- Lord Chesterfield

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• WB Drifter Posts: 289 Deckhand

  October 2021 #31

  '76 ~ 85hp Mercury Thunderbolt on a '67 ~ BW Nauset
  
  
  

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