Posts by Dan

  • Feb 20/2010 First trip with the RIB

    I do my best to avoid the hard questions and there you go and jump straight to it :) The guys named it rompeculo (ass braker) because it seems I was going a little fast and they had a bouncy ride. I wasn't feeling it because I was sitting in the drivers chair. I don't know what to name it, maybe the same as my line of spearfishing gear except I don't have a name for that either.

  • Feb 20/2010 First trip with the RIB

    Thanks.




    Quote from LunkerBuster

    Do you know why that chamber deflated? did you notice any other things you need to add/ remove/ rebuild or improve?

    I still don't know why it deflated. I removed and cleaned the valve but didn't know how to put it back in correctly, and in the process destroyed a thin rubber patch which is the active part in holding the air in. I then made a new one out of a piece of bicycle inner tube, figured out how to insert the valve correctly, and it works fine now.


    I realized that the Bimini top is not necessary until the summer so I removed it. I need to figure out a place for the weight belts as they marked up my transom. I'm going to go with Frank's suggestion and install a bilge pump. The GPS and sonar are not working properly and need to be fixed. Other than that everything's good.

  • Feb 20/2010 First trip with the RIB

    Pantoja, Frank, Alan and myself out of Haulover, first trip with my boat. Also my first time diving in 2.5 months. Vis was pretty good, water was cold. It was good to know that I could do 50ft right away being out of it for so long. I don't know the water temp but with the 3mm open cell suit it was ok on the surface but I could feel the cold near the bottom. I wouldn't mind a 5mm right now. Pantoja says it's colder this year than years past.


    We did some reef and artificials. I think fish are around. While I didn't shoot anything, I didn't care much anyways as I was more concerned with getting in the groove with the boat, I saw all kinds of fish. I missed on a big king and a yellow jack. Of course there was a very nice gag grouper where I've never seen grouper before. It was very distressing to not be able to shoot it. The guys had numerous sightings of good size grouper.


    Right at the end of the day, well we ended the day at that point, one of the chambers of the RIB deflated completely. We made it back no problem as the boat has 5 separate chambers and to my understanding will not sink even if they were all deflated. Today I learned all about how the tube inflation valves work and fixed the problem one. Overall I'm pleased with the performance of the boat and to my surprise it did fairly well with 4 divers on board.


    The guys got a bunch of fish, here are some of them.


  • It's cold in NC!

    Welcome Dan.


    You can post in other forum sections. Only members that have been participating for a while can post in member's items, and use the private messaging system. This is to prevent people from joining the forum just to sell or buy something, we want participating members. For this reason some may choose to put their email in the post when selling something.


    email sent.

  • member items sold sh%%

    If the first post has gotten too old to edit just put sold at the end of the thread, in big red letters if you want to. It's the responsibility of the person interested to notice the date of the thread and read through the whole thread to determine if the item is still available. Deleting is an option but I don't recommend it, it's useful to read these threads to see what the used value of equipment is. Plus sometimes there's an interesting discussion in the thread. Also these threads are cached by the search engines and will pop up in search results, directing potential new members to the site.

  • Calling in fish

    I hear Pantoja often doing that grouper call, can't say if it's been productive. I decided for myself that grunting is not worth the bottom time loss. I'm still very interested to know if it works you guys.