JimG
Well-Known Member
- Nov 4, 2008
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- Boat Info
- 2007 310 DA
Kohler 5ECD
- Engines
- Twin 350 Mags
Raw Water Cooled
V-Drives
Now I see where you are going with this... container hunting in the North Pacific!
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We need pics after installPainted 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..........?
Nice.... keep the dock lines on ....no reason to remove thoseThis was recently posted on the Haulover inlet guys site. Pretty eye opening why bowriders are not suited for big water waves.
And keep the fat guy in the bow when the bow is going under. Lots of mistakes and stupidity.Nice.... keep the dock lines on ....no reason to remove those
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.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?
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.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.
Buddy i give you a lot of credit. You solved a problem that nobody thought of and rocked it. Congrats!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.