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If you have a kicker, have you had to use it to limp home?
No
45%
 45%  [ 52 ]
Yes
54%
 54%  [ 63 ]
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 12:19 am    Post subject: A new Poll Reply with quote

A new Poll:

If you have a kicker, have you had to use it to limp home?
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 1:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No but, my time will probably come.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 1:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not yet...
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 1:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Twice - once on the CD22 when a water pump impeller failed, and once on the CD25 when the steering cable broke.

I ran without a kicker all last season.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 1:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had to use my 15 HP Johnson kicker once in the California Delta when I spun my main prop on a sandbar.

Don't have one now, but have a 45 lb thrust trolling motor on the anti-ventillation plate, lots of batteries (4), a Honda 1000i generator, and a 40 amp charger. Works on lakes, anyway!

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 2:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nope,
But if I didn't have it........I would have needed it.



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 3:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

At the end of our 2007 Southeast Alaska cruise we returned to Skagway from the Juneau area, a distance of about 85 miles on the Port motor & it with the charge coil out using the Honda 2000 generator for the house battery charging. I didn't want to run the starboard motor due to it making oil from unburned gas adding to the oil & not knowing the reason at the time. The Lynn Canal portion of the Alaska Inland Passage is considered by many to be a somewhat more risky portion of the Passage, due to it's long stretches between shelter & the very long fetch known to build big waves especially in the area where it narrows, caused by the Venturi Effect of the wind & the big wind waves can be made very steep if the wind is blowing north against the ebb tide. On the way south at the start of the cruise we encountered this resulting in a forced retreat back to Haines. Returning to Skagway that day, to me was an option, only due to our kicker being one of a pair of twin 40's.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh ya, & the cost of that auxiliary motor & method of operation suddenly became the furthest things from my mind. Sea anchor & anchors are also nobrainers but that little motor would always be my first choice & has been my best friend. Vern/C-Dog
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 12:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We have twins but I have had a starter solenoid fail and used the one running engine to go several miles to a marina where we could get mechanical help.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 12:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Once, in the Kentucky River when I hit a rock and tore up the main prop. That tiller-steered Honda 9.9 got me back to the ramp, but was a pain to use since I couldn't see over the cabin particulary well. New kicker will be remotely started, operated, and steered from the cabin.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 2:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not yet. But...



I look at it like an umbrella or a handgun. I'd rather have one w/ me and not need it, than need it and not have it with me. JMO.

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PostPosted: Sun May 12, 2013 8:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JUST BOUGHT A KICKER I ran a groung last year and was dead in the water had to get towed back. my wife didnt like it very much so thus we now have a 9.9 kicker.
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PostPosted: Sun May 12, 2013 10:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not on the C Dory--but on other boats--either a kicker, or a dinghy to push the boat with.
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PostPosted: Sun May 12, 2013 10:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had an aluminum Crestliner with an inboard and kicker. It wouldn't start one day three miles offshore, so I tried using the kicker. It wasn't powerful enough to move the boat against light wind waves, so I had to call Vessel Assist. I later removed the piece of dead weight from my boat to improve my mileage.
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