Hood
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Trouble will be getting it started before it sinks
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Hood
I am obsessed.
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BTW @Jim Davey , if you need any tips on Alu welding just give me a shout, I should be able to pass you on to someone who knows about it
Jim Davey
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From the same designer. This would be fun with a 250 on the back.
Yes I know it's an IO design but I'm sure it could be modified for outboard power.
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Only if your not paying for the juice. When I was young and daft, before I became old and daft I raced a power boat, it was like ripping 20 pound notes up very fast and that was only a tuned 85 hp yamaha. The 200 black max boys needed their own petrol tank.
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It's not the sort of thing you'd want to use every day I'll grant you.
But an aluminium boat is usually a lot lighter than a glass fibre boat of a similar size and shape and you can go the same speed using less power and fuel. Ok, maybe 25-30% isn't much in the grand scheme of things but it sure as hell helps.
But an aluminium boat is usually a lot lighter than a glass fibre boat of a similar size and shape and you can go the same speed using less power and fuel. Ok, maybe 25-30% isn't much in the grand scheme of things but it sure as hell helps.
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I once observed for a guy in a 21 foot phantom and it was stripped bare, two seats only, no floors etc, and it used 22 gallons in an hour.
So with ali and lower oil prices, its possible, with the company fuel card!
So with ali and lower oil prices, its possible, with the company fuel card!
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Those are the things that get chased all over the place by the Coastguard....the American ones.
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a good 50 cal gun soon slows them downThose are the things that get chased all over the place by the Coastguard....the American ones.
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Those are the things that get chased all over the place by the Coastguard....the American ones.
One of my customers helped to install some engines in a new boat being built to a clients very high specification. He had one overriding condition, it had to be capable of exceeding 90 mph.
On completion of sea trials after some experimentation with props (surface piercing drives, look em up
were the propulsion of choice) it was a 100mph boat. On the day they were due to deliver the boat they were met at the quay by hordes of police and the boat was siezed.It turns out the city trader who commissioned the boat had a very profitable sideline running a high speed customs avoiding delivery service for certain 'under the counter pharmaceuticals'. He wanted a 90mph boat because that was faster than any Coast Guard surface vessel at the time.
The yard had been paid in full for the boat so they didn't loose out, in fact they bought the boat back from the authorities for a fraction of its purchase price and sold it again.
The bad guys call them GoFast boats but you can't outrun radar, helicopters and cannon fire.
A far better way is to go slow and visible but that's story for another day...
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Apparently even they can be detected pretty consistently now. The Columbians were hiring ex Russian naval architects and paying them very well for their Submarine building experience. However a jungle isn't really the place to build something like that and they often seemed to end up getting caught in the build phase or being seen by air once they put to sea as they couldn't or didn't want to dive very deep. Either way, life as a narcotics smuggling submariner is pretty risky.
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Somebody has been watching Jimmy Diresta's YouTube channel
Lots of videos on leatherwork out there (I'll need to have a look at Jimmy Diresta's now that you've brought it up!), but Ian Atkinson's channel is my favourite at the moment. He has a lot of build-along videos as well as detailed ones on the basics, like choosing leather, stitching etc. and reviews of different tools. That's the sort of thing I watch while the wife is gasping and shouting at Corrie in the next room. This morning over breakfast I was enthusiastically explaining to her the different qualities of leather available. She's not a "morning person." She sighed and shot me a look that curdled my milk. I carried on talking anyway because it helps me remember what I've tried to learn.
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Edit. I ran out of the scraps bag of mixed leather and decided to buy a bigger piece for my next projects (lots of phone cases.) Less waste and a consistent colour. After much head scratching I phoned the place I've been buying from for advice. Turns out I've been practicing on the cheaper (chrome tanned) leather. Not suitable for moulding. Long story short I ended up buying a side of calf leather. I'll chalk this up as my lesson learned today.
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Women are from Venus, Men are from Mars...
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Lets be truthfull Jim , why oh why would someone with a rack full of EWM s go and build a glass hull........
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The best way is to pay someone not to see it. My dad used to work in air cargo and said there were some absolutely awful airlines in the 70s and 80s who would export two things from Colombia to Miami, meat and cocaine. The Medellin cartel had something like $40,000,000 income a week so bribes were all over the shop. Funnily enough, four years later my dad was working out in Baghdad and was using a bank called the BCCI to save his money with - they offered interest rates miles ahead of other banks. He said it was like a second salary when the interest came in every month. It was only later that it was discovered the bank had been facilitating money from warlords, dictators, cartels, criminals, gangsters etc. The wikipedia page for the BCCI is a good read.
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They reckon Pablo Escobar was loosing more money each year from rats eating it in his various stashes than the DEA were seizing in raids.
The mind boggles.
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That's cool man.
Gareth0123
You'll need 16 pigs to do the job in one sitting!
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Too big for my workshop, so I was working in the garden again today. 2 off 6mtr long Gym gantries. Made from 60x60x3 box for the rails and 25x25x3 box for the "X" stiffen supports. There's 596 welds on each gantry. 0.8mm A18 wire laid down by trusty R-Tech 250-1 mig. 3 hours to cut, drill and tack up each and then about 2 hours each to weld making for 10 hours over yesterday and today.
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Nice job , you must have got a wiggle on to produce those in 10 hours work ...well done ....
