The Adventures of Thumper

Quote from Trace

Very Nice work Don.

Thanks Trace.

Cheers, Don

Quote from Josediaz

Excelente trabajo Don , Nice job
It is seen, good work planning

Gracias amigo.:)

Cheers, Don

I know what you guys are thinking:rolleyes1:
It's Friday night and that wanker Don is down at da Pub drinking Kilkenny and a wee bit of the Jameson.

Not a chance.... Stopped by my favorite boat place; Minnies Boat Salvage in NewPort Beach. Down one dusty
path between racks of new old stock and used marine bits..... and there she was ...a $250.00 Weems & Plath
Map light for 5 bucks tucked in a corner. I brought her home and after a good cleaning and dielectric grease she is good as new.
It looks huge on this camera angle, but is removable with one button and rotates down and out of the way nicely.
I had one of these on my old boat but couldn't see my self forking out $250 for a new one. It has red or white dimmer controlled, flood or spot light output.
Now I'm heading to my vintage ice crusher and a BIG FAT Martini.:thumbsup2:

Cheers, Don

I had a killer 4th BBQ going the other night so I rolled the console around back to provide the dance tunes and use the radar to see through chicks tops.:thumbsup2:
Had to hose off the margarita spills and cigar ashes. My head is just getting better today....Fleckin :crazy:

Cheers, Don

P.S. These wire looms get cut to length once routed up the radar/com A- frame.

Thanks guys, I had to get everything I need (except the tunes) in a very small space, along with back up Coms
sets. it is very challenging to do this.

Lunkerbuster, I scraped the modular aluminum floor plan completely due to what I have planned for the rigid
hull build in the future, there will be a 1 piece composite floor born very soon.
I have killed a few fish without the boat, but nothing big enough to make a story of, more like grocery shopping.;)

Any nerds out there might appreciate that after 2 days of failed attempts, I prevailed in down loading a Garmin update, tweked it on my laptop and tranfered to 32gig SD card and force feed it to the system. Now the Navy VHS, ICOM, and Radar all inter- communicate to each other.:thumbsup2:

I was going to post the pic of the girls using the radar arch as a stripper pole during our back yard bash but
I know we have high standards here.:D;)

Cheers, Don

Quote from Dude george

AWWWW COME ON! We can lower our lofty standards for such a good cause Don

Here is my latest build idea..:thumbsup2::thumbsup2:

Quote from Dan

hehehe I want to be there.

Spearing fish is overrated some times.:reddevil::D

Cheers, Don

Spent the day sniffing glue:nono: I wanted to reinforce the outer edge of the tubes so today I taped out the starboard tube, washed it with acetone, sanded both the hull and rub strake with 180 paper, rewashed with acetone. Applied 2 layers of two part Staybond hypalon glue to both surfaces and installed the 3'' rub strake on the starboard side.
Started at 10AM and after prep and clean up finished at 3. Need another can of $22 glue to do the other side.I was off the project 30 days with back issues but feeling better now.

Cheers, Don

Quote from Dan

Very clean work.

Clean house & boat= dirty mind.:thinking:

Thanks Dan..

Cheers, Don

Thanks Marco, but I feel like a failure this week. I pulled a stupid move and I've been on crutches since Sat, I'm going to lose at least a week of work so my boat is at a stand still. I just limped in from outside and saw a dozen yellow leaves on my birch tree:@ I hated seeing that back in Connecticut...it meant summer is over and time to go back to school. In all honesty I'm not going to have any game fish on my deck this year if I keep losing time to life's sidetracks. Oh well... bug season starts soon, so I'll have to look forward to that...... and maybe a trip down south. Here is a shot of where I left off mocking up the radome,search light and the Navy Trilens radar reflector so my little boat is seen. The TriLens reflector is ranked very high for a passive reflector.

P.S. See that garage freezer .... I might as well unplug it for a month.

Cheers, Don

Thanks Oscar, I'm old.;)

Cheers, Don