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

Now I see where you are going with this... container hunting in the North Pacific!
 
Seen it before. The stuff all comes from China and even on a good day its covered with mold and mildew. Best just to let it sink. That Stachybotrys is nothing to fool with.
 
Painted the plywood/signboard and stashed it with the hardware under my home's deck. Pretty remote planning on my part but I had the time. Be prepared, as the doorkeeper at the Reno gentleman's club said. Did I ever tell you..........?
 
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Arminius said:
Painted the plywood/signboard and stashed it with the hardware under my home's deck. Pretty remote planning on my part but I had the time. Be prepared, as the doorkeeper at the Reno gentleman's club said. Did I ever tell you..........?
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We need pics after install
 
This was recently posted on the Haulover inlet guys site. Pretty eye opening why bowriders are not suited for big water waves.
 
Folks I’m a sheltered puppy from VA only. Never really went much anywhere.

What’s with this one inlet and why do some of the boaters fight the way out then turn back?
 
Stupid mistakes all around in that video. Note at :58 into it they start hauling out life jackets and passing them around, then one went overboard.

Sad.
 
dwna1a said:
Folks I’m a sheltered puppy from VA only. Never really went much anywhere.

What’s with this one inlet and why do some of the boaters fight the way out then turn back?
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It is notorious because of heavy waves due to high flow on outgoing tides and the fact it is a major inlet for Miami area so it has lots of boat traffic, lots of eye candy (fibreglass, saline, and natural) and a few guys that make a living filming the inlet.
 
Gofirstclass said:
Stupid mistakes all around in that video. Note at :58 into it they start hauling out life jackets and passing them around, then one went overboard.

Sad.
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What I don’t get is that inlet is notorious. Why would you NOT be wearing PFDs in an open boat when transiting? And why put people in the bow with the known heavy waves? See it all the time in the videos.
 
This and other final photos are posted above at Nov 18, 2020. I penciled in the trim lines, disassembled, trimmed, and painted before storing. I would add some sort of wedge shaped timber under the windshield if I actually used it. The material is signboard which lasts pretty much forever.
I made this because I have vivid memories of having to get back to work during a day's long fog from a Rosario cabin in a closed bow 18' Seaswirl (150hp Johnson). Worked my way down coast slowly but eventually had to cross shipping channel to get to ramp and truck at WA Park. Thought it would be safe to follow a superferry and found myself in a major procession of private boats with same idea inside a large and safe wake. Getting out of it, without crowding the guy astern, I managed to shove the bow in. So it got washed off, big deal. But I did have the thought that an open bow boat could have been swamped out there in blue water.
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I made it to the end.
Thanks for the journey.
Need some pics of that covered bow parting the wild blue seas.
 
Arminius, just a suggestion for that area at the aft end of the plywood where it gets to the windshield--how about a heavy canvas piece that could snap to your plywood then snap to the windshield frame. I had a 20' open bow boat and that's how the canvas bow cover snapped at the aft end.
 
Arminius said:
This and other final photos are posted above at Nov 18, 2020. I penciled in the trim lines, disassembled, trimmed, and painted before storing. I would add some sort of wedge shaped timber under the windshield if I actually used it. The material is signboard which lasts pretty much forever.
I made this because I have vivid memories of having to get back to work during a day's long fog from a Rosario cabin in a closed bow 18' Seaswirl (150hp Johnson). Worked my way down coast slowly but eventually had to cross shipping channel to get to ramp and truck at WA Park. Thought it would be safe to follow a superferry and found myself in a major procession of private boats with same idea inside a large and safe wake. Getting out of it, without crowding the guy astern, I managed to shove the bow in. So it got washed off, big deal. But I did have the thought that an open bow boat could have been swamped out there in blue water.
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Buddy i give you a lot of credit. You solved a problem that nobody thought of and rocked it. Congrats!
Dont try taking it out with Captain Sig Hansen for the crab season in the Bering Sea.
 
Arminius, after looking more closely at the photo you posted above, let me offer one more suggestion--reverse the way those two boards fit together. If the aft board sits atop the forward one, a wave over the bow will certainly find a way to send some water through that crack and into the bow well.

If the forward piece of plywood sits on top of the aft piece there's less of a chance for water to get in.
 
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