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Brought my boat home today, my wife is ok with it.
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Awesome dude. I'm almost entirely sail these days but in the summer of 2013 and 2014 I was taking cabin cruisers (mostly a Maxum 24 and 25) out on Lake Union & Washington a bunch, so if'n you're wanting to bring someone out... I'll take you and yours out sailing on Puget Sound quid pro quo. 
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Jun 6, 2017 06:56
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I may just take you up on that, I haven't been sailing in years and years
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Jun 6, 2017 18:13
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bird cooch posted:Brought my boat home today, my wife is ok with it. I thought you were towing that with a Ranger for a second. Takes some good boat to make an F350 look small. Looks good!
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Jun 6, 2017 18:29
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Boys who love boys
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bird cooch posted:I may just take you up on that, I haven't been sailing in years and years yeah just hit me up on PMs, I'll be out sailing most weekends this summer
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Jun 6, 2017 18:36
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Welcome to the hell club of boat ownership, bird cooch! Looks good!
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Jun 6, 2017 20:16
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monsterzero posted:I thought you were towing that with a Ranger for a second. Takes some good boat to make an F350 look small. Looks good! A 7.3 turbo diesel and a manual transmission makes towing a 7klb boat a breeze. I bought it to tow around track cars, but this is it's true purpose. Neslepaks posted:Welcome to the hell club of boat ownership, bird cooch! Looks good! New pfd's New throwables Strobes New pyro Dye markers Update the bilge pumps and install a redundant system Backup gps Backup radio Hand held radio Replacing one compass and checking the other for true Need a plotter dual screen if possible for the flying bridge Second screen for the depth Sounder Charts ECT Engine and out drive maintenance Clean everything ECT ECT ECT. I want to put it in the lake next week sometime so I can see what else shakes loose. I feel like I'm being robbed at boat point.
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Jun 7, 2017 08:31
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One of us! One of us!
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Jun 7, 2017 12:24
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bird cooch posted:Being robbed at boat point. I think you've found her name.
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Jun 7, 2017 13:08
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n0tqu1tesane posted:This weekend's progress on the pirogue: Update:  Some bugs decided to try and go all Jurassic Park, but unfortunately they will not last 75 million years in resin, and will get sanded away.  Quick sand of the bottom, made sure to bring down all the trimmed fiberglass, so that I don't cut my hand.  Fiberglassed the interior seams, and painted the rest of the bare wood with epoxy resin. Going to go buy paint tonight, do a little sanding, then paint the bottom and inside tomorrow and Friday. Hope to have it on the water this weekend.
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Jun 7, 2017 13:48
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bird cooch posted:
Hilarious and so true.
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Jun 7, 2017 19:41
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bird cooch posted:A 7.3 turbo diesel and a manual transmission makes towing a 7klb boat a breeze. I bought it to tow around track cars, but this is it's true purpose. And you though you had a good deal on that boat... Don't worry, it's all worth it!
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Jun 8, 2017 04:24
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An enlistment as a small boat crewmen in the Coastguard means I am overly cautious to things I consider safety gear. There's a lot of things already on the boat, but I want to be sure I have exactly what I want in new condition. I've seen what happens to the under prepared. On the other hand, I'm running my poor wife and daughter through a fairly intensive boat training, and that's really fun/funny. For me. Today I cleaned out the bilge, changed the oil and coolant, pumped out the old gas and replaced it with fresh and water treatment. Then I ran the motors up to temp to bleed the coolant and check for leaks. Now I'm chasing wiring issues. The horn doesn't work, the lower console fuel level doesn't read, the upper console compass is sunk and I can't figure out what console is the master so I can replace the stretched shift cable. Also I have no idea what my fuel capacity is amd I have 6 batteries on this bad boy. Yay. Still on track to float it next week.     Child labor is grrrrrreat! bird cooch fucked around with this message at 06:12 on Jun 8, 2017 |
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Jun 8, 2017 06:08
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Oh hey, a mercruiser 470. One of the few I don't know that much about!
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Jun 8, 2017 06:13
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n0tqu1tesane posted:Update: Bugs love resin, I work with composites and there's always a fly or something in a big open job. If you get a big sheet of release film and use it as a cover it works great right up till the final beauty layer on hand laid projects. That's a really cool build you have going. Are you planning on just doing the one or are you going to go bigger next? I would love to do a resin infusion or an out of autoclave carbon pre-preg hull for a fast tender some day. Cop Porn Popper posted:Oh hey, a mercruiser 470. One of the few I don't know that much about! bird cooch fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Jun 8, 2017 |
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Jun 8, 2017 06:17
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bird cooch posted:It's an odd ball 4cyl from the oil crunch era. I just looked it up, and it's an aluminum block marine-specific 4-cylinder with a Ford 460 V8 head. Weird, but cool. Aluminum block with an iron head.
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Jun 8, 2017 06:30
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Much like a BMW (aluminum head, iron block) you get to overheat it ONCE. Then it's headgaskt time at a minimum. I wonder if there are aftermarket big block Ford aluminum heads....
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Jun 8, 2017 06:34
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bird cooch posted:Much like a BMW (aluminum head, iron block) you get to overheat it ONCE. Then it's headgaskt time at a minimum. Wonder no more!
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Jun 8, 2017 14:33
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Nice boat Cooch. Have you looked over your fire extinguishers and any smoke detectors? It wasn't on your list, and you would know as an ex-coastguardman how much a fire on board sucks.
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Jun 8, 2017 14:59
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bird cooch posted:Bugs love resin, I work with composites and there's always a fly or something in a big open job. If you get a big sheet of release film and use it as a cover it works great right up till the final beauty layer on hand laid projects. That's a really cool build you have going. Are you planning on just doing the one or are you going to go bigger next? I kinda want to build another one of these, with all that I've learned building this one, but this will probably be it for a while unless friends/family rope me into helping build them one of their own. Don't really have much of a need to build a bigger boat, this is for my lab and I to paddle around on, and I've got a 1995 Scout 172 that fills the rest of my boating needs, for the most part. 
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Jun 8, 2017 15:47
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Humbug posted:Nice boat Cooch. Have you looked over your fire extinguishers and any smoke detectors? It wasn't on your list, and you would know as an ex-coastguardman how much a fire on board sucks. I have 2 5 lbs, a 10lb, an old halon system, fuel vapor detector. I will probably replace the old halon in the engine compartment before too long. Fire is the most scary thing I can think of on a boat.
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Jun 8, 2017 20:06
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bird cooch posted:I have 2 5 lbs, a 10lb, an old halon system, fuel vapor detector. Solution: You're surrounded by water. Problem 2: You're now on fire AND sinking, congrats!
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Jun 8, 2017 21:41
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bird cooch posted:I have 2 5 lbs, a 10lb, an old halon system, fuel vapor detector. Sudden major structural failure for me, but that's because most of the boats I've sailed on were bulk carriers.
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Jun 8, 2017 22:52
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Turns out that the gallon of white paint I thought I had was off-white. Oh well, it'll hide the tannins from my usual river spot a bit better than plain white. Still, got two coats on tonight.
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Jun 9, 2017 05:01
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n0tqu1tesane posted:Turns out that the gallon of white paint I thought I had was off-white. Oh well, it'll hide the tannins from my usual river spot a bit better than plain white. Still, got two coats on tonight. You work quickly and that thing is a beauty. Very cool project.
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Jun 9, 2017 06:51
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Scrapez posted:You work quickly and that thing is a beauty. Very cool project. I've only been spending a couple hours a night on it, and as such it's one of those things that looks good from 10 feet, but up close you can see all the glaring flaws. Of course, that may just be because I'm the one building it.
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Jun 9, 2017 14:41
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n0tqu1tesane posted:I've only been spending a couple hours a night on it, and as such it's one of those things that looks good from 10 feet, but up close you can see all the glaring flaws. Of course, that may just be because I'm the one building it. If it lets you drink beer on a lake it's perfect. If I didn't have a bunch of other projects I'd love to build something like that to leave up at my buddy's cabin.
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Jun 9, 2017 19:09
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Coat of primer, and a coat of green on the bottom tonight. Will do another coat of green tomorrow morning.
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Jun 10, 2017 06:38
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Put a second coat of green on the bottom. 
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Jun 10, 2017 17:23
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Triple posting: Pulled off the tape, and out into the sun.   Immediately regretted not cleaning off the work table better before putting the pirogue down on it.
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Jun 10, 2017 20:32
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That looks great!
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Jun 11, 2017 16:43
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Babby's first boat day. 
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Jun 12, 2017 02:20
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This weekend my daughter and I rebuilt a lower unit, changed out the ruined transmission cable, cleaned up some wiring, replaced lightbulbs with LEDs, bought new rain gear, cleaned the bilge, cleaned the freshwater tank ECT. I still have to repair a small damaged section of fiberglass on the starboard side, replace the rub rail and on an on. Still hoping to get it in the water this week.      I also retrofitted my pre alpha-1 mercruiser out drives to take a1 parts, so that's pretty cool. bird cooch fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Jun 13, 2017 |
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Jun 13, 2017 17:52
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Is....is that a St.Bernard wheel chock?
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Jun 13, 2017 20:27
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Scrapez posted:Is....is that a St.Bernard wheel chock? Pretty sure it's a Bernese. Should be plenty for a boat that size.
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Jun 13, 2017 20:31
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Pretty sure it's a Bernese. Should be plenty for a boat that size. Winner! A wheel chocks is the perfect job for her. She 7 months old, 80lbs and largely ornamental. I take her everywhere with me.  The Mrs. For scale bird cooch fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Jun 13, 2017 |
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Jun 13, 2017 20:34
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This just gives me flashbacks to helping my dad work on his boat(100ft steel workboat) when I was a kid. "Your small, crawl down under the main engine and catch the connecting rod as I drop the new cylinders/liners into the block." Bernese are awesome, we had one when I grew up and she was the best dog. They seem to be the new "in" dog in Seattle, especially ballard.
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Jun 13, 2017 21:37
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That's why she's in there. "Crawl behind the motor and grab this cable I'm feeding through" As far as berners being "in" dogs, that's a terrible idea. Mags will hit 130+ lbs full grown, there's not near enough room in Ballard for that much dog. I'm going to have to keep my eyes out for dogs that have outgrown the apartment next year. We got her as a dent and ding special because she had a hernia so nobody wanted to buy her. Poor sweet thing. I'm way up yonder way by mount loop, so my finger is far from the pulse of what's cool these days.
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Jun 13, 2017 22:35
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Bernese are the best boat dogs. They love to swim but are happy to mostly curl up under a table and act as a space heater.
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My wife used to babysit for this lesbian couple who had two young kids and a Bernese, and she was the best guard dog. She didn't recognize my scent (or the scent of any man, to be honest), and while she was never violent, she was very wary about me. Lots of barking and watching.
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