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Small boat big big project!
- Fishboy
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I just spent an afternoon reading this thread, I missed it in real time because I'm new here. Very entertaining and an excellent story well told. Thanks! and I'll be looking forward to following your future adventures.
Doug
- hardchines
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- hardchines
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- hardchines
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Well my little 26 foot carver does no have any gun turrets (yet) to keep dry, but I do have large thin glass windows (34 inch by 44 inch by memory) I have buried the bow on my boat twice in three one thousand mile trips to date. My boat is slow so I can not get the bow up high when going through large wakes and waves, my little boat is very heavy for her size as it has allot of equipment for her size, the boat started life with a v8 volvo out-drive , the book said it was around 5400 lbs my weight if just north of 7500 lbs completely empty and dry, loaded and wet trip departure weight is very close to 9K, had to replace the springs on my trailer to bring the axle weight up to 11K from 9600 as it was too low, just did the springs last week so if I need to rescue my boat next year off the ICW because of hurricane threats of mechanical failure far from home, it will be in good shape for towing!
So I gave allot of thought to building a break water for my boat "VENTURE", I know it looks like a 2 hour job but believe me it took a long time to get it all together and built finished and usable, your comments are always welcome, hope you enjoy my rambling, photos below.
- hardchines
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I've only come close to stuffing the bow once on Lake Erie and that was enough for me.
- hardchines
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So to the question I have. Considering the tremendous power of waves, are you concerned about the mounting of the post you have this deflector attached to. I mean if that got tore out of there, it could result in a hole.
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hardchines wrote:Source of the post .... major plow speed passed me , I was north bound. when the wake reached me....
That reminds me of a "near miss". We were out cruising around and I was near a major shipping channel. I like to parallel the channel passing the big freighters and get some close-up shots.
As we were downbound, there was fairly large vessel upbound. Looked like a USCG boat, so I was preparing to get some pictures. The boat was a 270 foot bouy tender cruising at a pretty good speed. At the last second I realized the wake she was pushing just in enough time to get off plane and avoid being slammed by it.
- hardchines
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KM on my last trip in 2018 I had a 500 foot ship sneak up on me on the Hudson river, I knew he was coming its just amazing how far away they look and next thing you know he is about to tailgate you! Well I made a large 360 for spacing ( common maneuver with aircraft) as I came around his stern I met his wake, big but no wet deck from his wake but I did get a wet deck from my coffee cup sliding off my chart table next to my upper helm, my mug smashed on the deck, I keyed my mike and said you broke my coffee mug,Hmm no response. I buy coffee mugs from places of interest that I visit, the mug was from my Canadian trip the previous year, I bought it at the air force museum in Trent , I called the museum and ordered a new mug, shipping was high but not as high as a return trip!
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