My boat trailer is galvanized steel. It's not rusted but looks patchy. Is it worth painting? I think it will look nice painted but I don't know if there's durable paint for this sort of application. I wouldn't want the paint to start flaking or something and then the trailer will look worse than it does now. Or worse for the paint to trap water in places where it comes loose, and make the trailer rust faster if such a thing is possible. If there's good paint for this I'd want it to be grey to match more or less the galvanized steel color, so I don't have to paint the whole thing, only the most visible parts.
Posts by Dan
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Good luck or good fortune. The name also sounds like good adventure.
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Buenaventura or Bonaventura. Probably taken though.
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Bimini top is easy enough to put on. 4 eyelet anchoring points are on the hull and 2 specialized ones on the tubes. The ones on the tubes are a glue on patch with a plastic part.
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I don't know the number of deaths. But I know there's a large number of blackouts and samba associated with the pursuit of increasing breath hold time, which is fundamentally what's promoted by these courses. I don't know if it's just the psychology of people drawn to this, breath up techniques taught or whatever. In my book blackout and samba = you're dead. Just because someone was there to rescue you doesn't mean it can be overlooked.
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Now you have to eat them raw with lime while floating on your dive board.
Better floating on your back with the scallop on your chest beating it open with a rock
Nice report Daniel.
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You are so right. A senseless but easy way to go. But very hard on family and friends.
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I didn't want to say something like this on the thread about Patrick Musimu, but it's OK here. The way I see it a diver has a better chance of ending up the same way if he adopts the mentality of freedive training, and that is what those courses promote.
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This is a SS (stainless steel) Pursuit euro shaft. It fits the carbon gun mech.
This is a coated SA (south African) Pursuit euro shaft. It doesn't fit the carbon gun mech.
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Yes you can remove the safety completely. But I don't recommend it, the safety is unobtrusive and there's zero chance of it deploying by itself. If you remove it you'll have an empty space where it used to be.
I think up to 140cm.
The coated shafts I sent you will not engage in this handle/mech. I've yet to try an RA shaft.
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Welcome Jeff. Interesting story.
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Yes down it goes. And it's not so little, it is a mighty pin
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Now that I have the pics up I can comment on the gun. The barrel is %100 carbon fiber with an incorporated track. I took this gun out for a dive on Tuesday. I was concerned that it will have too much flotation. I was pleasantly surprised that with the shaft in the gun floats about 1" below the water surface. Once you take it down below 2-3ft it sinks soooo slowly with a nose down attitude. There's room inside the hollow muzzle spigot to put some lead ballast if someone wants it to sink faster, I have a mold to make weights that fit inside it perfectly. I wouldn't change the balance though, it's really nice.
The muzzle, barrel, and handle tracks align perfectly. The shaft sits nice and tight at all points of the track. The gun is very light and maneuverable. It's also accurate. I didn't get too many chances on fish that day, but on the swim back I found a beer can on the bottom (not the one in the pics) and took a couple of long shots into it.
I agree with Marco. I was a die hard 2 wraps of line user. Then I took the time to really consider the distance involved. I used to measure distance to the target from the muzzle of the speargun. Now I measure distance from my eye to the target. IMO it's the only way to gauge the distance from which you can realistically take a shot. I found that with my wood 120cm gun there was no way I could hit something at the end of two wraps of line, so I reduced it to 1.5 wraps of line.
Now that I'm producing this pipe gun I reconsidered the whole thing again, because it's much more tricky to put a pin for 1.5 wraps of line in the middle of a carbon barrel than it is on a wood barrel. As I measured distances again I realized that hitting the target at the end of 1.5 wraps of line of a 120cm gun is almost as fictional as 2 wraps of line. It's just too far. With this 120cm gun the distance from my eye to the 2/3 mark on the shaft at the end of one wrap of line with my arm and gun outstretched is 23ft! Do you think you can hit something further than that? This is the beauty of a 120cm and longer speargun, you get great range and power, at the same time eliminating the drag and mess of more shooting line, decreasing loading time, and getting more leverage on the fish after the shot.
That said I initially rigged this carbon gun with 2 wraps of line, I will rig it that way again and post a pic. The line release has no problem holding on to two loops of 300lb mono, and does it securely. There are other alternatives for a line release. I find that most of the reliable ones work off a tab under the shaft. When pressure is put on the line release as the shooting line is wrapped tight around it, pressure is also put on the tab and this tends to raise the shaft off the track. Granted when you load the bands the shaft settles back into the track, but this has always been a point of annoyance to me. With the line release on this gun it's not a problem. Further, this line release works off the sear and is very simple and secure with zero possibility of sticking.
Another nice feature of this handle is the recessed push button safety. I'm not a fan of any kind of safety, but this one is neatly tucked out of the way with no chance being deployed unintentionally.
Adrian, I'll post a pic of the barrel cross section later, along with the wall thickness. This carbon barrel is very well made, and with two 16mm bands there is no flex.
The gun in the pics is with an H Dessault 7mm shaft. It is a good shaft but very expensive. I'm waiting for an shipment of Pursuit shafts which is what will actually come with the guns.
I only have 2 of these guns that I put together, both 120cm. One is what you see in the pics, the other has a smaller square pattern in the outer carbon fiber layer. I haven't figured out the pricing yet. But I'll sell these guns for $325 now http://freedivingspearfishingg…suit-carbon-speargun.html. I'm pretty sure they will be more expensive once I start producing them in quantity.
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Welcome!
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Does anyone have a thought on maybe belt sanding down the top of a Pathos foot pocket to make it less rigid. It's a little tight on the top of the foot
Don't do that. The Pathos f/p are sometimes not comfortable for guys with a high arch. But there's no solution for that other than to change footpockets.
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