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We are now in progress for getting the gator glide on. Boat is fliped over and hopefully start painting tomarrow
Got to use alittle redneck enginering to get the motor off lol

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You'll love it! Though...

How you drive + GG= you'll be an extra 200 yards into the nasty.

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I need to get off my ass and do mine

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Got the base on today. Turned out decent, the first coat looked like shit but after that it started to look nice. I already sliped on it and i dont even got the G4 on yet lol


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Dang, this should be an easy one. Looks pre-prepped. Let that base set a while! How many coats did you get on?

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need a progress report here - with pics please :)

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Why you flip the boat?

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Looks good! I did my 14 foot boat in Quickslick a couple weeks ago and Im about to do my 16 foot boat in the next week or two. you will love it! It makes a world of difference in the shallows.


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How much did you use? I see you got 4 coats, was that 2 gallons then?


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Only a half gallon


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Thanks Frog, i appreciate it!


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Here is pics of the base. Starting the G4 this afternoon


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Looks good.


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had alittle left over in the last coat so i went up the back of the transom kinda high but my dumb ass is always getting in to shit i cant turn around in so i figured it wouldnt hurt. And no i didnt tape the transom so dont make fun of my crappy paint job :lol:


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I was wondering if u did the transom in the dark.


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fine work. maybe should have done the lower unit? Anyway take the weekend off, flip it back over Monday!!!

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Yea the bottom of the skew wore off, not sure how long it took. When I'm on the bottom it's mostly sand around here, more sand then mud. It will still help to do anything that creates drag in the water.

I'm going to do the bottom of my jet skies and the hydroslide. Thinking of doing the bottom of a three man tube :lol: if I do t I'll post it cause I know it will work.

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How is this stuff going to hold up against logs/stumps? I have all the coastal marsh that im not worried about but also cypress swamps with passes filled with logs and i hunt lakes once or twice a year that are full of stumps.


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Got it back on the trailer today. This stuff is mind blowing...before my boat on dry grass took 5-6 people to move, now i can slide it around with 1 hand. Winched it up on the trailer without ever having to put an effort into it then once it was on i could unlatch it and push it right back off no problem. Im actually kinda nervous about getting it into shallows and grass now lol


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You got 4 god dam coats out of half a gallon? WTF!

And Yes, it is some great stuff! glad you like it.


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Just make sure the boat is actually over the water before you unhook the winch...

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looks like it turned out really good - now we need a field report.

I cannot wait to do mine :D

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I cant wait to get it in the water and run it. Hopefully it will help alittle bit with my speed issue too, i've lost some speed due to a few slightly large dints in the bottom lol


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Dave at GatorGlide is great to work with also

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Gonna like it so much you might aswell order some for that ski boat right away. :mrgreen:

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Q N S have you run it yet?

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Ran it yesterday and it did well. No sliding in deep water, and now when i get to shallow water i can come off the throttle almost to an idle abd get going again much quicker where as before i would just get stuck...i did manage to get my self stuck yesterday 5 times within the day though.. I was bound and determined to make it down this airboat trail but it never happened :( luckily there was a tree about 100yds across the pond that i used to winch myself off it.


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I got the same boat and really want to gg it also...i run 27 light load with only me and 25 to 24 with fishing gear and 2 people what kind of speed u getting now...fyi i just put on a new prop so that helped big time with speeds. Did you slide good in shallow and how was it loading up on trailer? Every one talks about unloading and keeping hooked up but never here about loading any changes at all...I have a bowfish deck on now and is heavy as a sob so i need that gg if it works good! speed with deck is 21 with 3 men cooler and 2k gen.


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QUACK check your gov. what rpms are u running I tweeked mine a bit and it really helped give that extra push..im running like 3900 to 3980 give or take the last time i looked and out of water i adjuted the gov and throttle just shy of it popping the limiter was 4350 so guess 4310 to 4320 is were i set it. Thanks for all the updates Ill be getting the GG soon!


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