Posts by Dan

Thanks Alan. If anyone sees something good please let me know.

Aaron, what is the meaning of your Avatar? I know the star trek characters.

I've just begun learning about boats. I have my mind set on a cheap RIB for spearfishing. I also wanted a center console for ease and comfort of steering. I want at minimum a 16ft RIB. The prices are very high even on used RIBs. RIBs without a center console are more reasonably priced. A center console has the disadvantage that it takes up a lot of space in a small boat. A few days ago I saw a pic of the unihelm for the first on a used RIB for sale. I really liked the idea and did some more searching and found these pics.

I'm thinking of buying a basic RIB and adding the unihelm to it. I haven't been able to price the unihelm yet. If someone knows more about it, cost, ease of installation, advantages, disadvantages please let me know what you think. It seems to me from the pics that it's part of the seat framework. I wanted to have a cooler as a seat but even if not it's still a good clean setup.

This is a very small boat, maybe less than 10ft.

How many shots would you get out of each cylinder? Would you carry a few with you?

What was the purpose of the band slot shape in this gun?

Very neat. I'm having trouble visualizing how this tube would work with a euro handle. I'll understand better what you're planning to do when I see the finished product.

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#6 Soda bottle charged Barracuda gun hrom the 60's.

Don't tell me it was powered by those little cylinders that were used to carbonate water? I haven't seen that in 30 years, I started to think that contraption was a figment of my imagination.

Yep, we call them bajonao in Cuba, they grow big there. The big ones are very difficult to spear from my experience. I've been told they get big here too but I've never seen it.

Good report.

Yes tomorrow. Tuesday is bad weather again.

Ready to do it again tomorrow?

Very nice guys. How was the water temp?

Chad, thanks for posting that. That technique is mind boggling, I'd never figure that out myself. The jointer to me is a mystical tool, I just can't get consistent results with it. Maybe because it's not as long as the one in the vid. I will definitely refer to this information in the future. Now let me watch that again..

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Thanks, good to know. In the pic I did think it looked like it was made up of links.

What is the red belt made of? How did you calculate the length belt that will be used?

My understanding is that the actual receptor/lens can be quite small, small enough to be clipped to the side of the mask without causing much hindrance. A wire can go from that to the bulk of the electronics which could have an arm band and sit on your arm. This wire can run behind your head. I don't know how much moving the lens 3" to the side will affect the footage, but it can always be cropped later.

All I can figure out is that one shaft is rigged breakaway and the other is probably connected to the reel, and that it's over under.

That's a very nice machine you built Wood Guy.

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I have a few special places I dive alone that are very beautiful as the sun lights up the kelp bed. Large white sea bass glide through streams of shimmering silver bait. Some Sundays this is my church and if god sends a fish
to me I accept her with a two banded polished hardwood hook.

Later I may sit alone on my deck with my special gift and my beautiful gun and give thanks for the life I am living.
Don Paul

I don't know what to think. I'm usually too engaged in fighting with the sea to feel like that. Sounds like a day with flat seas, perfect vis, no current, and no boats around. We never get that around here.

You've got to be kidding. Animal farm was banned at one point by every communist regime that ever existed.

Yeah Don, what are ceremonial kills?