I hear you on that. In a similar situation, we always had an inflatable dingy that inevitably gets a solid leak and never seems rated for enough...
If your bottoms soft (I've only occasionally been to the sc coast over the last 20 years so don't have a heavy familiarity with its substrate)...
From the pics this was welded with a commercial machine on Virgin material, guessing there is a low probability of it coming apart. Dont doubt...
Been some wild June weather out that way, was recently on the peninsula where the chain starts. We usually have a decent blow start of summer and...
Ill reiterate my earlier points. Many steel boats in the commercial fishing fleet were poly urea foamed direct to recently blasted steel. Im not...
His other thread addresses it fairly extensively. Tldr. Relatively snappy rolling steel trawler style boat, has a buoyancy pod aft that...
Just throwing out ideas. The grid coolers come in some small sizes. Not saying it would be my first choice. The video posted a finned small...
Since your on a salt estuary it might be worth an extrusion thats marine grade. Cant imagine those fins and that extrusion with rock contact from...
Does pro drive have numbers on cooler sizing relative to substrate your plowing through? Seems like you'd need a little extra for heavy load with...
Called a few old boatyard contacts from some projects in the Oregon central coast. Suffice to say father time has permanently retired the sources...
Dont know the East coat, but about 15 years ago there was something like 250 registered boat builders in the pacific northwest. Since your talking...
Travel lift usually had pretty good scales. Gauges neat the driving station (although most are remote now) usually have good weights.
Looks like and old 1970s era desco shrimp trawler with some additional structure where the gear used to be. Compared to a big gantry and poles...
Wowza. Thats up there for the ugliest Ive ever seen. Must not get hurricanes. Big hull like that with some ballast probably keeps it planted....
Ah.... I should have looked that up