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I have a 1989 procraft fiberglass bass boat I want to know if top can be removed and how

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The two halves of a fibreglass boat are usually permanently joined in manufacture.

A bead of structural adhesive is applied and the two halves clamped together until fully cured. The adhesive is tough and similar to that used to glue in car windscreens.

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  • Posted on Feb 10, 2009

SOURCE: Towing capacity of a 1.8L Nissan Primera Station Wagon

1500Kg is more likely to be the maximum towing weight.

You should, in theory, be able to launch and recover a boat/trailer of this combined weight ok, but in practise you need to consider how slippery the ramp is and if your front wheel drive vehicle will be able to cope with it.

Use a long strop attached to the trailer and looped around the towing hitch, to launch and recover the boat, so your car stays well away from the water.

You could have some problems getting enough grip with your front wheel drive, when recovering a boat.

I have had to recover my boat from a rocky beach when I couldn't get it back to the launch ramp because of bad weather. I was very thankful that I had a four wheel drive car for that.

What ever you do, ALWAYS plan carefully exactly how you are going to do the launch or recovery and make sure you stop and think about it before doing it.

Regards, Andy

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SOURCE: Installing a Terrova Trolling Motor Bow mount to a

Personaly I would drill through and use a nylon backing sealed with siicaflex. Your boat your call.

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  • Posted on Aug 07, 2010

SOURCE: I have a 1989 Bass skier boat and the steering is

SOUNDS LIKE THE CABLES ARE CORRODED / BINDING MAY HAVE TO REPLACE THEM

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SOURCE: I have a small crack in the top of my paddle boat

I used ABS, PVC combination plumbers glue, the kind they use to put plastic waste pipe together, to patch up 2 small holes in my plastic pelican boat. It seems to melt on, so far so good

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  • Posted on Oct 16, 2013

SOURCE: I know that there are 3 types of boat trailer

Since your boat is fiberglass, you can use either rubber rollers or red soft poly rollers. Aluminum boats can use rubber rollers as well as blue hard poly rollers.

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