I have never seen cars painted with rhino liner, but there is a guy who lives near me who is the "astroturf" man. He has a couple vans completely covered in it (one with a pretty cool design from the Pink Floyd dark side of the moon album). He even covered all of the trim and shutters of his house in astroturf (aka indoor/outdoor carpet)!

I saw a jeep that works for a oil co. all coverd with oil, so they had in painted to protected it

I trailer my V20 to the ramp in May and from the ramp in November. I removed the brake pads from the trailer and put a bolt with a locking nut through the actuator to stop it from clanging in/out when I stop & go. MADE MY LIFE EASIER!

Thanks for getting us back on topic, Skunk. Here is a making my life easier tip for trailer boaters. Whenever you park your rig until the next trip, undo the winch strap/line from the bow eye of the boat (or at least undo the winch pulley catch i.e. the clicker and loosen the strap/line). You should never have to replace a bow eye if you do this.

baitwell fill/drain
 

This is another one my father does if you have baitwells/livewells and the need to keep the water fresh and clean but don't want to use pumps.

Utilizing the existing fishbox drain tube, get a piece of flexible hose that will fit snugly inside it, add a piece of pipe with a cap and holes drilled (starting at the level you want to maintain the water height).
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This works well with boxes that drain to the side or rear.
If draining to the rear, just add a 90 in order to reduce any engine exhaust problems.
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For real troublesome bait like pogies or shrimp the addition of an aerator or bubbler greatly extents their survivability.

One little trick is when running wire fore & aft where there is seemingly nothing to hang the wire from (port side for instance)...the cap and rub-rail screws coming thru to the inside work great...place a cable clamp on the screws and permanently attach by screwing a wire-nut onto the screw over the cable clamp...works like a charm and I've never had one come loose...

this is a trick a local marine electronics installer taught me 20 years ago. instead of putting the little screws and cable ties in the transom. put a "Hersey Kiss" of 5200 on the transom and lay the cable in it. then tape it so it won't move and let it cure. no holes to seal or ties to replace. this one has been on this transom since '89.(hard to see but below the drain hole on the starboard side)

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Cooler divider
 

Been doing this for about 3 years. Got tired of trying everything to reduce food from getting soggy by comming in contact with the ice and then the bag or container sweats on the inside.
Made out of PVC pegboard, cut to fit snugly, finger holes are a must.
This application will work excellent when using dry ice too, no worry about freeze burning. Also keeps the ice a little more protected to last longer.
Usually I freeze 6x6x6 plastic tubs filled with water, put the whole thing in the bottom, this also keeps the pegboard level.
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Tsub that would make a good bait tray too for ballyhoo which doesn't hold up well when directly on the ice.

(RW, Willy, CaptP and Lumber, this is a great one for the Shrewsbury River)

Sorry, no pics of this, but something I do for bait for the spring Flounder run is make my own chum logs. Before you could buy package goods in bars in NJ you had to buy beer in a take out container. The container was a round can made of white cardboard with a lid that fit over the top and was one quart size. A lot of food places still use the half quart size for hot take out soup. Most bars still have them available, as well as chinese food places (rice) and lots of other places (soup). The trick is to find a source for them. (There's a place not far from me in my town that actually makes them, so that's where I get mine.) Once you do you can make your own chum logs. I cook rice, mix it with mackrel or blue fish ground up in my Grandmothers old hand meat grinder, add some cat food and niblets corn. Mix the whole mess up and pack it into those paper cans and put them in the freezer over the winter.

Come springtime, the water warms a little and the flounder wake up and come up out of the mud in the rivers where they were burried during the winter. You take one of those chum logs, peel the paper off the hard frozen log and put it in a chum pot you hang over the side of your boat. The beauty is that the chum log is exactly the same size as your standard chum pot, so it just fits in nicely while frozen without a lot of mess getting all over your hands or the boat. It will take several hours for the really cold river water to thaw out the log, and while it's doing that the natural rocking of the boat on the water is shaking tiny little pieces off the main frozen body and making a beautiful chum slick that the flounder follow right up to your baited hook(s). It's just a little thing, but it saves tons of time and cleanup and gives you more time for fishing. :beer: