[EsteroS]

Got these wheels in yesterday and put on my trailer last night after my other half went to bed. Gotta stash the galvanized ones now. This morning I was back at work searching boatoutfitters.com looking for my next quick fix, so my job is suffering. I'm hiding cupholders and mesh suspended storage bags from my wife. I have v-lock bases with no where to put them. My beer consumption is down for fear of not installing something perfectly.

Am I all alone, or is there somewhere to go for help? Is there a microskiff support group of addicts with the same affliction? None of this has made me fish better.

 

[bryson]

Read your last sentence over and over, out loud. Record it onto a cassette and play it through headphones while you sleep.

Might help, might not.

 

[Flatsaholic]

Where did you get the mesh bags?

 

[EsteroS]

https://www.boatoutfitters.com/storage/bags

You're not helping

 

[ifsteve]

Here's how I look at these kinds of things.
1. You can't simply fish everyday. Work, weather, other commitments. But you do have at least a little time everyday where you can think fishing. Plan fishing. Work on your boat and gear. Its all part of the whole package so customizing boats is just a piece of that.

but most important.

2. When you lose enthusiasm for that stuff then you are done. Might as well give up fishing. Look none of us are getting out of here alive. So do what you love with as much passion and energy as you can!

 

[LowHydrogen]

Here's how I look at these kinds of things.
1. You can't simply fish everyday. Work, weather, other commitments. But you do have at least a little time everyday where you can think fishing. Plan fishing. Work on your boat and gear. Its all part of the whole package so customizing boats is just a piece of that.

but most important.

2. When you lose enthusiasm for that stuff then you are done. Might as well give up fishing. Look none of us are getting out of here alive. So do what you love with as much passion and energy as you can!

Sage advice right there Steve^^!!!

I just turned 38, but I have several much older friends, mentors, heroes, my Dad included. The one common trait between all of them, is they still have as much passion and drive about something in their mid to later 70s as I do now. They all tell me that (like me) they have felt the same way since their teens or 20s. So it never goes away, things might get in the way but the passion never goes away, and like Steve said you don't want it to!

One of my buddies is 76, and will be fishing in a Bass tournament tomorrow, in his 4-5 yr old tricked out 19' Ranger 250 ProXS, told me the other day he's ordering a new boat, said he's going with something a little bigger and a little faster HAHA. So no, it never goes away, there's no cure, and if there was you wouldn't want it!

 

[Fritz]

“My greatest fear is that I will die and my wife will sell all my guns for what I told her I paid for them.”

Plan appropriately my fishing brother.

 

[Capnredfish]

You don’t have a problem yet. When you start polishing trailer hardware, sewing the carpet guide on carpet seams. Making a custom license plate backer or capping off those guide on brackets. Sanding and polishing back side of hatches. Then maybe you are obsessed and have a problem. Even then it’s not skiff related. Just a bad case of OCD.

 

[LowHydrogen]

Got these wheels in yesterday and put on my trailer last night after my other half went to bed. Gotta stash the galvanized ones now. This morning I was back at work searching boatoutfitters.com looking for my next quick fix, so my job is suffering. I'm hiding cupholders and mesh suspended storage bags from my wife. I have v-lock bases with no where to put them. My beer consumption is down for fear of not installing something perfectly.

Am I all alone, or is there somewhere to go for help? Is there a microskiff support group of addicts with the same affliction? None of this has made me fish better. View attachment 79550

Forgot to ask you, do you have a link you can provide for those wheels? Did they come with the tires already mounted?

 

[Marker10]

Not exactly the same insofar as the interior rim surface is aluminum vs. black -

https://www.etrailer.com/Tires-and-Wheels/HWT/AM22323HWT.html

Here is the same one as the OP -

https://www.etrailer.com/Tires-and-Wheels/HWT/TTWALS51354B.html

Sharp looking rims, and I'm wondering if it is worth the cost to replace my existing ones on my Float On trailer.

 

[EsteroS]

Here's the link for etrailer - yeah they come mounted and ready to go. I initially went on there to buy a spare steel wheel, but ended up turning my current wheels into spares and upgraded a little
https://www.etrailer.com/Tires-and-...us_J2anUM8WVWbCCq7Y3wSzep5Jk4rssaAg0mEALw_wcB

 

[LowHydrogen]

Funniest thing about this thread is the fact @CaptainSam came looking for support for obsessing/buying too much. An the only thing he accomplished is sending a few of us to go looking for rims and other stuff we don't need!

 

[Capnredfish]

He has my support. Heck I pulled boat out and started it in the driveway just to hear my outboard this morning. Can’t make it out till next week. So I look at it as a pre fishing trip- pre fishing trip warm up and inspection. Looks like the new 4lb lithium battery is doing well.

 

[permitchaser]

Not exactly the same insofar as the interior rim surface is aluminum vs. black -

https://www.etrailer.com/Tires-and-Wheels/HWT/AM22323HWT.html

Here is the same one as the OP -

https://www.etrailer.com/Tires-and-Wheels/HWT/TTWALS51354B.html

Sharp looking rims, and I'm wondering if it is worth the cost to replace my existing ones on my Float On trailer.

those are nice darn rims. I dont think you can do without them

 

[DuckNut]

That picture looks exactly like @Megalops boat and garage.

Let be be real simple. If you are hiding stuff fyom your wife...your azz is grass. Period!

 

[permitchaser]

I'm sitting in my wife's new chairs $700 a pice. Plus that big new sofa not saying what that cost. I just received and 8 wt. and reel so when my RMD comes in next month I'm getting a new AR. Keep it in the live well for those Somali pirates

no offense @SomaliPirate

 

[EsteroS]

I'm sitting in my wife's new chairs $700 a pice. Plus that big new sofa not saying what that cost. I just received and 8 wt. and reel so when my RMD comes in next month I'm getting a new AR. Keep it in the live well for those Somali pirates

Waterproof case to keep the AR in?

 

[EsteroS]

Hey, all these upgrades caught me a decent sized snook over the weekend (with my wife on board) so she's starting to come around and appreciate the R.O.I.

 

[Snakesurf]

Waterproof case to keep the AR in?

Storm cases makes a very nice one. You can hide it up behind the surfboard in the picture. I keep a lot stuff between my surfboards. Wife never messes with them.

 

[Smackdaddy53]

He has my support. Heck I pulled boat out and started it in the driveway just to hear my outboard this morning. Can’t make it out till next week. So I look at it as a pre fishing trip- pre fishing trip warm up and inspection. Looks like the new 4lb lithium battery is doing well.

Everyone is sold out of them...