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I have had to dodge a few things while boating but dead cows is a new one
Sounds like you made a good choice to call it a day and get off the water.

Yeah that would be a little disconcerting. The possibility that always worried me was drifting down the river in my canoe, and rounding a corner to find a bear standing in the shallows. Happened once to some fellows we knew; they about dumped the canoe and I think all needed new underwear afterward.

Netpackrat wrote: ↑Sun Sep 06, 2020 8:14 pm Yeah that would be a little disconcerting. The possibility that always worried me was drifting down the river in my canoe, and rounding a corner to find a bear standing in the shallows. Happened once to some fellows we knew; they about dumped the canoe and I think all needed new underwear afterward.

I'm glad we don't have to worry about anything like that here.

Photos of the finished hull as promised.

While I was welding I made up a couple of handles that will be bolted onto the outside of the clamping board.


Instead of having knees in the corner between the side panels and transom I have dropped them a few inches and built them into the seat tops.


I'll stop teasing now. Here is the complete hull. I have added handles and a bow roller at the front as well as the handles on the clamping board. Looking at the sides there is a bit of a wave that I hope to take out when I install the rub rails but I did manage to remove the worst of the distortion.




Plywood seat tops to be varnished and fitted. I could have stuck with alloy but it is cold and leaves black marks on skin.

There will also be a wooden clamping board on the transom and wooden rub rails around the sides. All woodwork is cut, I just need to take to a mates place and round the edges on his router table. Not long now until it is in the water.

While I am waiting for the varnish to dry I also need to rebuild the carb on my outboard. Not running at the moment, has spark and new fuel in the tank so hopefully a carb clean, new needle valve, new gaskets, etc. will fix it.

I would bet that rubrails will take that wobble out of the bow area. Good move making the seat tops out of wood. Sitting on metal can get bad in a hurry.

It's hard for beginners to control distortion in aluminum boat building.

Here the bears actually chase you in the river. Skip to 0:25 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVuuxqZZCRg

I take it that was the Waimak? That river can go from quiet to sink your 4WD in minutes. Fortunately they record rainfall and flow. I always check it before going after Salmon. No jet boat though. Spending all my $$ on the C17.

OneWayTraffic wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 11:00 pm I take it that was the Waimak? That river can go from quiet to sink your 4WD in minutes. Fortunately they record rainfall and flow. I always check it before going after Salmon. No jet boat though. Spending all my $$ on the C17.

I was up the Waiau. It was a weird day. The Waiau was up from 50 to 655 cumecs, Waimak only up from 50 to 100 cumecs, Rakia only an extra 10 cumecs and Rangitata no change.

I've been having problems posting photos so can't show the progress but I now have the clamping board and rub rails on, just waiting for a few coats of varnish before the splash.

I've got a week off and am heading up to the bach (holiday house) tomorrow. I'll put the varnish on up there and splash tues or wed.

I sure hope you can post pictures from the splash. We hope it goes well for you.