How could I fasten a piece of plywood over my open bow?

Wingless aka FredM aka Armnius is a troll. He gets off on peeps trying to validate his preposterous assertions. Stop feeding the troll and ignore these bait threads.

 

You think so? The guy is spending real money on some of these hair brained projects. I find both his project resume as well as his approach (never accept challenges or logic) to be quite entertaining.

 

Where is GW when you need him.......

 

I’m sure Gary is just chomping at the bit waiting to get into this one.

 

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I'm thinking if he mounts the cover on a hinge and adds a kick-stand, he can stand it up and use it as a sail!!

 

So can you remove this on water? Seems like getting to your anchor well would be a pain. If so just make sure you pull your anchor lines in before reinstalling. It would suck to cut them with the prop...

 

WOW, what nostalgia!

I didn't know that the African Queen and My Three sons ever acted together.

 

Is it walkable?

 

A couple of good waves over that bow and a submarine is exactly what he will have. A submarine with a wood door.

 

Install a periscope and he would be in business.

 

I buy my boats new, maintain them meticulously and always garage keep them. They get run hard, but never put away wet.

My last boat was 35 years old when we sold her. The capital cost investment turned out to be less than $180 / year. The selling price was about 4x above blue book. I consider that not too shabby of an investment. Because of the care, the maintenance costs were pretty low as well.

The new owner is tickled pink that he got a boat that looks like new and performs flawlessly. To him, that boat had quite a bit of "value".

 

You could mount your “On-Star” antenna on the center where the boards meet. Wire it to an altimeter so it’ll send an automatic SOS call once the bow goes under. That way the coast guard will have the GPS coordinates of where to start looking for you.

 

You complained about having OnStar. So, if your wife had an accident you would not want her to press the button because it would be an invasion of your privacy.

So, why would you deliberately want your boat to become visible?

 

Wooden panels, galvanized pipe and sharp edged sheet metal. Yup, I changed my mind.

Boats have no value.

 

I’d invest in a good radio with AIS and a larger boat.