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Hozer Witta Hood
Does it float?
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Electric Chicken
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Better yet, just get yourself the fake cardboard ones.
Duck
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Electric Chicken
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Pretty sure if it's taking water immediately, it technically never floated.Of course it will.
The question is for how long.
Duck
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It was lined with styrofoam at the factory. Every hollow void, had styrofoam blocks or sheets. And it's got a bilge pump.Pretty sure if it's taking water immediately, it technically never floated.
My definition of "float" is anything on the positive side of neutral buoyancy. If it sinks to the bottom, it doesn't float.
If it's halfway submerged and only remains at the surface because of all the styrofoam blocks in every hollow cavity it's got, it's still floating. Just not by "boat" principles. It has become a raft at such a point.
ironpony
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Fixed...
Duck
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Ontario Outlaw
Hozer Witta Hood
I see. So your goal or benchmark for your boat is that it doesn't sink completely?
You should name it "Flotsam"
You should name it "Flotsam"
Duck
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There were two live wells in the boat. Previous owner converted the right one to storage... By sawing a chunk out of the hull and patching it with a piece of a sign.
So yeah, I'm just hoping it won't leak faster than the bilge pump can compensate for.
I left the hull intact when I removed the other one:
That thing is welded to the hull. The shiny stuff is the sealant that was around the hole in the live well. It'll be below the floor so there's no reason to scrape it off.
So yeah, I'm just hoping it won't leak faster than the bilge pump can compensate for.
I left the hull intact when I removed the other one:
That thing is welded to the hull. The shiny stuff is the sealant that was around the hole in the live well. It'll be below the floor so there's no reason to scrape it off.
Duck
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Interior side panel where previous owner hacked out the right side live well pipe with a Sawzall.
I plan on having my friend Brian in the boat, and he can't go anywhere without his kids. The boy is 12 but the girl is only 6 or 7. I just can't have this jagged metal exposed.
So,... 20 tons of pressure:
Then some rivets and a piece of scrap aluminum.
I plan on having my friend Brian in the boat, and he can't go anywhere without his kids. The boy is 12 but the girl is only 6 or 7. I just can't have this jagged metal exposed.
So,... 20 tons of pressure:
Then some rivets and a piece of scrap aluminum.
Electric Chicken
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So did you trade a Pez dispenser for this thing or what?
Duck
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It was a nice boat before we blew the motor up and left it outside next to a tree for 20 years.
Ontario Outlaw
Hozer Witta Hood
I can just imagine what your yard and shed looks like
Electric Chicken
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Nuclear fallout I'm guessing.
My cousin's in laws have a property that, from satellite view, literally looks like a bomb went off.
Duck
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3 barns. Two are old wood, third is ten year old steel. A leaning 2 car garage held up only by 2x4 braces I put diagonally across the studs on the inside.
A 20x35 chicken coop with the roof metal coming off.
A nice 12x24 shed completely full of bicycles. And an 8x12 milk house.
Every building is full of junk. Except for the upper floors in the two old barns, because putting crap up there requires climbing stairs.
But outside ain't too bad.
Except for the pile of scrap metal behind the east barn, two junk campers, a junk Toyota, a junk F-150, and my Ranger that runs just fine but never gets driven cuz I'm too cheap to pay for insurance.
Seriously, why do you have to pay extra for adding a vehicle to your policy? You're paying them to accept a risk. How does the risk increase? You can only drive one at a time.
I have 27 trees.
Electric Chicken
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Damn and I thought my property was looking junked up because of two old trailer tires and a tow dolly that needs repainted. Your place sounds a lot like my dad's. It's at the base of a mountain, lots of trees, lots of junk laying around.
I do have a junk drawer in my kitchen though.
I do have a junk drawer in my kitchen though.
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