Came home for lunch to give it a hr, thanks buddy.
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Welcome Kyle.
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Trailer, have some bunk board work to do.
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Hahaha bring a sat phone or strong UHF too.
How are you gonna keep your catch? Cooler as a seat?
The boat will have the Military Ross DSC and a backup radio, two antenna.
Yeah,128 qt Igloo for ice and a fish bag.
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Thanks Lunkerbuster
I'm missing some good diving, but the boat needs to be big sea shipshape.
Even if I make a 26 mile island crossing in good weather, shite can get big in a hurry here on the West Coast.
It will have seat belts for three, a Epirb or Spot along with a bolt cutter in case the motor needs to go over board.:@ and oars deployed.Cheers, Don
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This weekend I was able to make some slow progress on the Avon. Disassembled and cleaned 5 chamber over pressure valves , than leak tested with soapy water.
Completed bow board, center and thrust board install.The new boards were fabricated from 7/8's marine mahogany plywood, sealed with West epoxy, then sprayed with bed liner after being two part glued into the boat.
Finally was able to invert the hull for inspection and measurement of the transom angles for a Titanium keel guard I'm making. This boat is a brute, transom is 2'' thick and the each scupper is 6x10 inches....small shite left on deck is going to go missing.
Bow rail is a work in progress.
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Cool bruta
Mahala, Don
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Very sweet fabrication mate, I'll look into those V-lock brackets for my boat project. Thanks for the heads up.
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Looking good Mike, I hear ya on pricey boat bits. The bare consoles (some used) were in the $855 to $1400 hundred dollar range for my inflatable project. I had a bunch of old resin and glass to get rid of so I built my own as well.
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Welcome Jamie.
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Holy SMOKES! That last pic... is that what you've got, Dan??
That's not Dan's boat.;) but I would thumper.
.......if I didn't have the GF.Cheers, Don
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Looking awesome DP. Are you planning to make a gun container or rack of some kind for pointy things. The tubes scare the hell out of me with spears around
A gun rack will be incorporated into the A-frame or radar arch from the rear stern floor board. The same arch tubes will also link the transom at a raked angle. I used the design on my first small Zodiac GT and it preformed well. Of the three inflatables I've spearfished from I've never had a puncture, but I run a tight ship.
One of the main concerns were large gulf grouper in Baja. I found hacking off the dorsal spines on a big fish while still in the water helped prevent punctures, along with tube guards of backed outdoor carpet.A small puncture in a inflatable at sea can be temporary fixed by a product called RipAid, then later repaired properly later.....But the best way to keep the boat ship-shape is limit the guys you take out.
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Some bits, strobe/mast head light, one of 2 Dzus pull latch for the console and a starboard nav light, radar head unit, and Com headset.
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G-Flexed a piece of ash to recontour my bow roller/cleat pad to my boats bow. The black material is 1670 decitx
hypalon, another layer will sandwich over this on the bow.Glue used is two part Staybond, one never wants to do structural repairs or hull repair with one part glue. There are different glues for boats made of Hypalon or PVC hulls, this Avon CRRC is made with hapalon.The cleat will just be used for docking as a proper one will be bolted into my bow thrust plate.
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Whats LSSS stand for?[/QUOTE]
It was a typo for LLSS - Lose Lip Sink Ships.
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That looks like its going to be a comfy rib.
SIB .....Small Inflatable Boat
RIB....ummm falls off da bone like chicken...I mean Rigid Inflatable Boat like Dan's.
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Thanks Mike.
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