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Wingless aka FredM aka Armnius is a troll. He gets off on peeps trying to validate his preposterous assertions. Stop feeding the troll and ignore these bait threads.
Where is GW when you need him.......
I’m sure Gary is just chomping at the bit waiting to get into this one.
View attachment 95375 This is a progress report. Used 2 sheets of 3/8" MDO plywood. Attachment points are the snap retention holes using same pitch #8 stainless screws. Clearance holes are loose enough that I can finger twist as I don't want to damage threads. The 9 snaps in front were flat and I got good imprints whacking the plywood and will drill after I remove the wood for final trimming, finish work, painting and storage. Fender washers will be added in front and at other points where the screws are perpendicular. The upper wood will be drilled after the underlying screws are removed. A 33" leg of 4x4 treated fence post fits under the center of the overlap retained by 4 long deck screws through both sheets. Will add another supporting leg forward of that. The brackets beneath the windshield are aluminum angle from Lowes. Plywood edges will be filled and sealed with paintable, siliconized, latex caulk. Add a couple coats of oil paint from Sherwin-Williams and then I store it under my home's deck against the unlikely event I venture into blue water with my lake boat. I read "The Perfect Storm." There might be 30 sq. ft. of area and water weighs 64.5 lbs per cubic foot. The weakest point would fail first. However, pleasant ideas (like Sucia) have a will of their own and it is better to be prepared.
The biggest challenge here was fastening the cover below the windshield. I used the 3 snap holes and a pair of 1.5" aluminum angles bolted to one another with short embedded carriage bolts. The lower angle was increased to 100 degrees by clamping in the shop vise around a piece of 2" conduit.
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WOW, what nostalgia!So can you remove this on water? Seems like getting to your anchor well would be a pain. If so just make sure you pull your anchor lines in before reinstalling. It would suck to cut them with the prop...
A couple of good waves over that bow and a submarine is exactly what he will have. A submarine with a wood door.I’d use a submarine to flee.
Is it walkable?
A couple of good waves over that bow and a submarine is exactly what he will have. A submarine with a wood door.
A couple of good waves over that bow and a submarine is exactly what he will have. A submarine with a wood door.
I buy my boats new, maintain them meticulously and always garage keep them. They get run hard, but never put away wet.Boats don't last forever and you don't get value out of them at the end so you might as well use them hard.
This cover is not removable after launching. Having beached the boat, I could retrieve the bow anchor and tie it to something sturdy. I carry a 4' chunk of rebar, looped at one end and sharpened at the other. Maybe the plywood deck could be a landing platform for an anchor line drone. Boats don't last forever and you don't get value out of them at the end so you might as well use them hard. Gave my last boat to my brother on the other coast. This Columbia Law grad finally admitted he is incapable of maintaining it which is satisfying in its own way.
Cell based systems don't work on the high seas. I was planning on installing a pipe flange over the overlap and the fence post leg with 4" deck screws. I could screw in a radar reflector if I had to motor home in the fog or wanted to impress the tribes with my hood ornament.You could mount your “On-Star” antenna on the center where the boards meet. Wire it to an altimeter so it’ll send an automatic SOS call once the bow goes under. That way the coast guard will have the GPS coordinates of where to start looking for you.
You complained about having OnStar. So, if your wife had an accident you would not want her to press the button because it would be an invasion of your privacy.Cell based systems don't work on the high seas. I was planning on installing a pipe flange over the overlap and the fence post leg with 4" deck screws. I could screw in a radar reflector if I had to motor home in the fog or wanted to impress the tribes with my hood ornament.View attachment 95874
Have to cross shipping lanes twice to return from Sucia. Large freighters and containerships only have one screw and change course or stop very slowly. They will sound their horns if they see something in front of them.You complained about having OnStar. So, if your wife had an accident you would not want her to press the button because it would be an invasion of your privacy.
So, why would you deliberately want your boat to become visible?
I’d invest in a good radio with AIS and a larger boat.Have to cross shipping lanes twice to return from Sucia. Large freighters and containerships only have one screw and change course or stop very slowly. They will sound their horns if they see something in front of them.
Going slowly, semi-planing, about the only metallic, radar reflecting portion of my boat significantly above the water line is the windshield frame. You'd have to put it on the stealth pylon down at Area 51 to find out what sort of signature it would have, who knows. I think having a radar reflector stowed alongside the engine to be screwed into the already mounted flange on the high riding bow is good cheap planning. Fleeing is not an option in the fog.
In the "Hollywood" movie suppose Brad Pitt had a 911 button on his dash and Squeaky put her finger on it and insisted upon her proposal upon threat of telling the cops they already had. Pitt would have become one of Manson's homicidal zombies.