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- 03 Aug 2020, 10:51
- Forum: DIY Section
- Topic: Cheaters Skiff
- Replies: 82
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Re: Cheaters Skiff
Any idea of what the final draft of this will be so you can work out the westernport tides you can work with? Are you sorting a special trailer for it? Draft with the motor up will be less than the stealth and most fishing kayaks Think this way it will be about the same weight as a Hobie PA but a l...
- 02 Aug 2020, 20:01
- Forum: DIY Section
- Topic: Cheaters Skiff
- Replies: 82
- Views: 36048
Re: Cheaters Skiff
Don't keep guesssing, you might surprise the bank manager and then what? :D It's apparently easy to disguise the 'little bits' each week rather than the $3K up front. I don't have problems with the minister for finance and the cost will be close to my guess @ $ 1500 not counting my time of cause bu...
- 02 Aug 2020, 14:11
- Forum: DIY Section
- Topic: Cheaters Skiff
- Replies: 82
- Views: 36048
Re: Cheaters Skiff
how much do you think the total cost of the build will come too? good question I think I have used or have still in stock 6 x 6 mm bunnings marine ply @ $ 66 per sheet - 1 x 9 mm bunnings marine ply about $ 84 from memory some hard wood for around the gunnels and probably $ 500 for epoxy and glass ...
- 01 Aug 2020, 21:59
- Forum: DIY Section
- Topic: Cheaters Skiff
- Replies: 82
- Views: 36048
Re: Cheaters Skiff
ok a bit of an update things have been progressing again and not because of the Wuhan Bat Flu lock downs but more because it's been a bit warmer to get out in the shed so the main things I've been doing is to get all the floor bracing in I decided to go with sealed under floor for floatation with 3 ...
- 12 Jul 2020, 17:45
- Forum: The Ride Home
- Topic: Ship Shape.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3531
Re: Ship Shape.
One just hopes we are out of Lock down by then Sue - the caravan park is outside the Leper Colony and us lepers can't travel than far
- 10 Jul 2020, 15:22
- Forum: Kayak Reviews
- Topic: New Stealth Fusion 480
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9738
Re: New Stealth Fusion 480
now hang on a minute :evilgrin: weren't there comments made at time with regards to the differences in glass and plastic yaks? didn't I hear the glass owners bagggggg plastic? :evilgrin: I will say, I like the idea of the composite construction :up: will be interesting to see how well these go and ...
- 06 Jul 2020, 22:15
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Tankerton?
- Replies: 6
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Re: Tankerton?
So I'm thinking about heading over to tankerton for a fish, I've never fished there before though have heard it's a great place to target kgw. Any advice would be greatly appreciated regarding good launching spots (was thinking crib point) how fast tidal flow is crossing said launching spot to reac...
- 30 Jun 2020, 19:54
- Forum: DIY Section
- Topic: Greenland Paddles
- Replies: 5
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Re: Greenland Paddles
its just the done thing I guesslaneends wrote:You gotta have one with a timber boat..
- 30 Jun 2020, 17:34
- Forum: DIY Section
- Topic: Greenland Paddles
- Replies: 5
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- 30 Jun 2020, 12:28
- Forum: DIY Section
- Topic: Greenland Paddles
- Replies: 5
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Greenland Paddles
just wondering if anyone has used a Greenland paddle - I had toyed with the idea of building one for a while and my thoughts were to maybe make one as a storm G/Paddle which would only be about 1.6 meters long - something that size would be easy to store as a spare paddle On top of that after doing ...