john lamon
Well-known member
Hey guys it's been a while, haven't been here much since my Checkmate left but wanted to share this since lots of you guys seen this kid as a baby helping me with my Eluder build.
Rylan turned 8 in Oct and that meant he could get his Canadian boat licence so we spent last weekend doing that, he did the test on his own and got 86%, he wanted to start driving the 14' Lund that I had when I was a kid, it had a 25 Yamaha, but by law he can only run a 9.9 on his own, so I went to work on a old 9.9 I got for free but found out Tuesday that it wasn't worth fixing, needed a full rebuild, 2 hours later I owned a 2016 9.9 with electric start, lol.
We ran up to the lake Wednesday after work to get the boat and test it, first run you could tell the prop was too tall, lugging and slow out of the hole, We ran it again Thursday after work with a 1.5 pitch drop and it was much better, I hooked up a tach so I could see RPM and it was turning 5800 RPM at 17.4 MPH GPS, pretty decent for a 9.9 on a wide beam 14' with a 270 lb guy in the front, lol.
I've been working on it pretty much non stop in my spare time since Wednesday, installed two swivel seats, since I got a battery I figured why not put a bilge pump in, then today decided to put lights on it, sanded it all down and first coat of fire red is on, waiting for it to dry now so I can do a second coat, well actually it's my Mom that's doing the painting part, lol.
So pumped to get this thing fixed up for him, I probably spent 1000 hours in it when I was a kid, had it since 1985, I'll try and post some pics.
Rylan turned 8 in Oct and that meant he could get his Canadian boat licence so we spent last weekend doing that, he did the test on his own and got 86%, he wanted to start driving the 14' Lund that I had when I was a kid, it had a 25 Yamaha, but by law he can only run a 9.9 on his own, so I went to work on a old 9.9 I got for free but found out Tuesday that it wasn't worth fixing, needed a full rebuild, 2 hours later I owned a 2016 9.9 with electric start, lol.
We ran up to the lake Wednesday after work to get the boat and test it, first run you could tell the prop was too tall, lugging and slow out of the hole, We ran it again Thursday after work with a 1.5 pitch drop and it was much better, I hooked up a tach so I could see RPM and it was turning 5800 RPM at 17.4 MPH GPS, pretty decent for a 9.9 on a wide beam 14' with a 270 lb guy in the front, lol.
I've been working on it pretty much non stop in my spare time since Wednesday, installed two swivel seats, since I got a battery I figured why not put a bilge pump in, then today decided to put lights on it, sanded it all down and first coat of fire red is on, waiting for it to dry now so I can do a second coat, well actually it's my Mom that's doing the painting part, lol.
So pumped to get this thing fixed up for him, I probably spent 1000 hours in it when I was a kid, had it since 1985, I'll try and post some pics.
