Initial feedback from Randall:
Hank:
I do no believe the barracuda and wahoo can hybridize.
Aloha, Jack
Posts by hank
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Nice video. Thanks for sharing. :thumbsup2:
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Do you have a better picture? I'm in Hawaii right now and can show it to Jack Randall. I'll see him a in couple days.
If you can't send the pictures, I'll mention it to him. What makes you think it's a hybrid, besides the teeth? It looks like a barracuda to me. -
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OMG no way would I personalty use baby shampoo.;):D
Motherocean= Peace, tranquility, dream like bliss,mermaids..:)
Baby shampoo= Baby smell....Are you sure it's mine? Does he look like me:@ Will I need to dive safer now?
'' Honey you need to sell the boat''. :@:@Cheers, Don
When it gets cold my boat already smells like the girl's bathroom at home. All that damn hair conditioner to get the open cell suits on....hell, might as well add the baby shampoo and some pink panities hanging on the bimini. :laughing:
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Many thanks. Dan.
I'm in Miami, on my way to HNL. Wish I had time to stop by your shop.
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Gorilla glue is great for wood. Like you said it takes on air and expands to fill gaps. But it's useless for fins. Which may make cleanup easier, you'll need to clean the tendons out carefully.
I don't remember if these f/p require rails or if they glue directly to the blade. Hank, is the slot inside the tendons straight or in the shape of a T?
It's not just a slit. It does look like a T inside the tendon. I think I screwed up and was supposed to use the rails to mount the tendons on. I thought the rails were to replace the old rails on the swimming end of the fin. :crazy:
oops. :laughing:
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Pretty much sums it up. I tried it based on what the guy at the hardware store told me, "it's better than Crazy Glue".
But it takes on air as it cures. Weird. This morning I grabbed the tendons I had glued and pretty easily pulled them off. I'll get some Loctite in Hawaii.
I went for the Gorilla Glue partly because Gorilla Tape is so badass. I could probably use THAT to hold the tendons on. What do you think, Dan? :laughing::D
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Maybe they read your posts Dan. It seems they took your advice. There is nothing inside the pocket where the heel slides into.
JD sent some glue but maybe the post office drained the bottle? Nothing there. So I bought some Gorilla Glue, same company that makes Gorilla tape. It took a little longer to dry than Crazy Glue but I wrapped the fins in Gorilla tape to hold the tendons in place. It looks like shit and you'd give me a ton of shit...:laughing:....but I think it will work. There's also a couple screws and plates that hold the heel in place so I had to drill two holes in each blade using the holes in the pockets as guides. But it lined up perfectly and fits nice.
And really soft pockets. Nice fit.....But I'm off to Hawaii tomorrow. Won't get to try them for ten days or so. It'll give the glue plenty of time to dry.Regarding the soft tendons, JD actually recommends cutting the tendons shorter....to only 4-5 inches to give the blades better action. He uses them for performance diving and says they are more efficient. But....I dont know....still learning. Most of my time in the water is taking small "flicks" of fins, or even modified frog kicks to move around on the surface. I'm only diving 50-70 feet so I don't need the perfection of competition free diving fins. But if he's right, and they don't work with the long tendons. I can always cut them. We'll see.
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An update.
I needed new pockets because my Pathos pockets were dry rotting. They don't seem to like the sun, or the fact that i had heated them to reshape them?
Anyway, the new Salvimar pockets don't have that ridge inside the footpocket. There is no need to cut a groove in the heel of the blade.
Also, on JD's recommendation....I went ahead and got a pair. They are as comfortable and soft as the Beauchats I had years ago. I think I can wear these with no socks.I'll get some pics later.
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Family day. Wife and five kids came along....and DuQuesnay too....Uncle Andre. I drove the boat and Mo and Tino killed it. Put them on a couple of our spots so they could drift. Then found a nice school of dogs. Mo shot a nice dog that holed up at least 70 feet deep. Tino (17) dove down and got it out. They got 5 nice dogs, a huge hog, a few smaller muttons and dog. Those boys....they became men....shit.
The pic of the 7 year old sitting....that's the same Willy that's in my avatar. Can't believe how big he's gotten. And the little one, Alene, she loves the boat. If she knows I'm going and can't come, she'll cry for two hours. -
Well apparently putting a new shaft on, even though the old one wasn't bent, was the answer.
9 shots, 7 kills. Two tear offs due to flopper adjustment. It wasn't opening. Lost a nice dog in a hole at the end of the day. But got this big hog. Other hogs, dogs, muttons, porgies, barracuda...and man, my first shot of the day. I hit a nice yellow jack and as I pulled it in to get it off the shaft, here comes a small reef shark right at me. I was like, "WHOOAAA"....and dropped the shaft. The shark didn't go for the fish, it kept charging in at me. Finally it just took off down into the blue. Great way to start the day.
But yeah, I weakened the bands a bit by putting them in the back two holes. Whew....:):) Jon and Alrick got a lot of fish. Big hogs, dogs, muttons, barracuda, mangrove snappers, porgies....badass. -
Had the first try out with the new Humminbird. Had good, clear bottom picture at any speed. No problem with turbulence.
I didn't spend a lot of time in the boat with it, other than driving out. A friend of Belizespearo (Jon) who is a commercial dive boat captain, and one who doesn't mind captaining while his brother and friends shoot fish, came along. We drifted, he drove. So I didn't get to see how well fish showed up on it, but given the bottom pics I saw....I'm sure it's good.
We killed it. Sorry, no pics. But Jon and Alrick were commercial hunters for a couple years and know all the spots down here. Big muttons, dogs, one nice black grouper, hogs....two BIG ones....
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Reviving and old thread. My Pathos foot pockets on my Moana fins are dry rotting a bit. I wanted to get another foot pocket to change them out. JD, of Moana, recommends the Salvimars.
He says he can wear them all day with no socks, and get no blisters etc. And he recommends cutting the tendon a bit shorter, but you don't have to.
He said he can send installation instructions and glue etc.Is there any new news since this last year old post?
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Welcome. Looking forward to some stories and pictures.
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Dan, la zona se llama "Cabo Codera" , en Venezuela. Pocas veces al año esta calmo el mar ahí. Puedes ver agua cristalina y en minutos cambia la corriente y se pone turbio. Es zona de grandes pargos Cuberas y los que le gustan a Hank. no es muy profundo de 4 -20mts .
Hank, here you would be the king of the tear in the eye snapper.
Se ve hermoso , José. Un día me gustaría venir a bucear con él . Gracias.
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That's a beautiful coastline Jose. Where is it?
Notice he had the GPS turned off? Secret spot....:laughing:
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will any sponge work?
I generally burn the lenses, then scrub with toothpaste, and just use mask defog for a couple of dives, then saliva generally works after the mask is broken in.
Ill definitely try this before I dive though.
This is after the toothpaste or burning treatment of a new mask.
In my trials on this, saliva works just as good, but sponge keeps it fog free for a bit longer. you know how you get the inside edges of the mask starting to fog a bit? When i use the sponge, I don't get that. But there's not a lot of difference and if I don't have any sponge, which I usually don't, unless DuQuesnay is on the boat...:D...no worries. -
Jose, The fish finder is just that. No GPS, but I have a handheld Garmin. Was hoping to get out today but it's windy as hell. Tomorrow or the next day.
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Yep. My biddy DuQuesnay always has one of us dive and get him a piece of sponge. He swears by it and won't dive until he gets a piece....of sponge.
