Preview of the weekend and week to come

Tomorrow, Rosanne and I will travel up to Island Lake near Bloomer, WI, to enjoy some family time at her brother and sister-in-law's lake cottage. Then Sunday, I'll take off solo for Bayfield and Little Sand Bay to launch C-Traveler and explore and fish around the Apostle Islands. Due to the lake level at Island Lake, I won't even try to launch C-Traveler with it's full fuel tank on the very shallow ramp there... Leading up to this trip, I had some main outboard issues with shifting into reverse. Replacing shift and throttle cables didn't alleviate the issue, but I did find the shift rod bracket lose, and hoping tightening it up resolved the issue. I'll find out in the Apostles! (This is what I shared on FB in regards to tightening that bracket up: Well that was a PITA! I had been having some issues shifting the main outboard in to reverse on C-Traveler. Replacement of the throttle and shift cables helped some but not completely. I found the shift rod bracket, hidden in the bottom pan beneath the powerhead, was lose. The single bolt that holds it had backed out some. Taking the air intake manifold and silencer off, removing the top flywheel shield, removing the outboard fuel filter and loosening the main electrical panel allowed a little more access to tighten that bolt. But smaller hands and a bent wrench would have also helped! You can see the bolt holding the bracket down in these photos.)Read more