Hold on tight and send it
Fulcrum! I said fulcrum dammit!!!
Create a quick template for the cross section of 1.5” OD tube cut at a 45° angle, trace it out, drill a pilot and cut out with a jigsaw. Use a die grinder or file to clean up.
I like my way better
Agreed and too small of a boat
Gotcha, the first approach sounds good to me. Rain City, that should work too bud, and to make sure you get real good purchase, you probably want to be sitting down flat straddling the hole with your drill and hole saw between your thighs before you go full send. Oh, and don't forget to have the phone recording so you can post a 'how to vid' to YouTube when you're done.
long pilot bit? my roof is fibre glass so i started small and just knurled them out. you may need a backing plate depending on where and how thick your base is.
its tuna talk and we aint catching.
I think backing plates are mandatory whenever drilling and fastening in fiberglass. That’s what I did when I built my Hourston 24 years ago
Your way does sound better if you're watching someone else do it
It seems to me your underestimating how much fuel your gonna burn and over estimating how many fish you can get into those coolers. Fuel burn and distance travelled are a lot different on the west coast, even a metre swell at 12 seconds will have you burning significantly more fuel and your distance travelled is a lot more then how far you are offshore. I would ditch atleast one guy two would be ideal and wait until there closer in.
My main sheet winches on my previous Bavaria 36 sailboat had no backing plates, didn't even have washers and nuts, just screws into the glass for Christ's sake, and I took her 1200 miles offshore!!!! Not saying that's the way to go though, that's just shoddy construction. Previous owners did 1.5 circumnavigations like that though.
Yeah, this seems to be the consensus, and I did ask for feedback... Not sure what options that leaves me though, mate's thin making truck payments, don't see a a GW 27 in his near future, and he is the keenest in the group, so I'm not ok with leaving him at the dock. Forget tuna and go for some white fish, shoot out if the weather, temp and cloro are all looking great? This feedback does have me thinking about a two man rapid shootout from Bamfield during the derby if weather looks good then, so that's an option for a do-over.
Not the most cost effective but will be way less day to day fuel but tuna fishing in the Charlottes your only 1-15 miles offshore generally on the closer end they have processing, ice and everything available and would be more feasible in your current boat
i mean, there is those magic years in bam when they are 35 miles out.
