Recent content by Jeff Reardon

If you can see the full length of the boat, that's just mist. Fog is when you can't see your own bow light. But those photos make me jealous of many things. T shirt weather. Unfrozen water. And those fish are gorgeous. I can smell that plate from Maine.

This is cool to see. But would Tod Osier still shoot it?;)

Is a diesel heater any different from kerosene? K1 is a lot cheaper than on-road diesel fuel. Some local gas stations also have off-road diesel. I don't know if that's any different from K-1. Never seen both at the same place.

I have a couple of kerosene heaters that we used during black outs before we bought a back-up generator to keep the heat on. Two of them kept our pretty small house well above freezing for up to three days if we moved them around a bit to keep the cold corners warm. Too big and bulky for an ice...

I see stories about picking up dropping iguanas. Hoping the Everglades pythons are taking a hit, too.

A key starting question is whether you are doing this repair with glass cloth or fiberglass matting. Another is what kind of resin you will use--epoxy, polyester, or maybe other choices. I've only ever worked with glass cloth and epoxy. I'd definitely check with the manufacturer on what kind...

How do I do that?

That's good to hear. Maybe I'll buy a box or two and shoot some clays when it starts to warm up. I did really like how well the 2 3/4, light loads worked on ducks over decoys.

I just use my phone. But the issue is not that our three devices disagreed on location. They all spit out close to identical coordinates. The issue was the base map layers from different sources did not agree with each other, sometimes by as much as 100'. If I set a waypoint in my phone and...

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Just to add some real life complication to these scenarios, another common issue using GPS devices that intersect with digital map data is that at high zoom levels, the combination of location uncertainty from GPS and data location mis-alignment among map layers from different sources can be...

Can't speak for Roy's depth finder, but on my phone app--and my hand-held GPS when I had one--a plotted route from point to point will take the shortest path. The machine doesn't know if you are on water, land, or in the air. I suspect more sophisticated systems can plot a route that keeps you...

Approaching that point myself. 60 is rapidly approaching!

Colder than Maine. I woke up to 9 degrees. What's exceptional is not the cold--I remember -15 and -20 on multiple occasions when I was growing up, and that was down on the coast so warmer in winter than where I now live inland. But it's stayed cold for a long time. Since December 1, we've...

I think you've already made up your mind to go another way, but if you want navigation without a depth sounder, you could also download a GPS mapping app to your phone, and mount it on a cup phone or something similar. It allows you to lay down tracks as you go, and even to lay down a route in...