... Ben, I went to the Capote file but there was no picture just the little rectangle with a red diagonal cross in the top left corner of the page. Is it the...
Ted , you will find the pics way down in Photos here , I was unable to upload them larger in Files , if you download them you will see them larger . I posted...
Ben, That is a neat design and worth a thought or two. It would be great to meet in our boats for a beer or two, but it will be a year or two yet. Regards, ...
Having a pilothouse and inside steering drastically reduces the possibility of a man overboard in rough weather. Brent ... enough ... check ... accompanied ......
With good side and rear windows, you can see the entire horizon without changing course, except for an area just ahead of the bow, which you can scan every two...
A door can be as watertight as the lid on a pressure cooker and would not allow a drop of water in if the boat rolled 360 degrees or got stuck on a lee shore...
You know, guys, (and girls :) Since this is a builder/designer/'idea' (and construction :)type of forum, a lot of what we discuss is necessarily armchair,...
Brent I'm assuming you mean the hatch nt the airhead. Have you built one yet? I figured I could easiy make the hatch out of aluminum like the forward one. ...
I meant the pilothouse hatch. I built the airhead. It's working so far. I found simpler ways to build it, using a cap you drop in when you are not dumping,...
Whilst using my 13 amp heavy duty grinder today to cut thru a steel post, it kicked back and caught my not tucked in shirt and put a nice graze up my ...
I don't plan to build a steel sailboat, but thought I might find information on origamiboats that could be used to develop notions for prefabricated steel...
Bill, A similar thing happened to me years ago cleaning burnt paint off a motorcycle tank using a cup wire brush in a 9" grinder. It caught in my loose shirt...
... Bill, Ted et al. (legal talk, nothing to do with cannibalism) A long time back when salaried guys wore white shirts and ties to let everybody know they...
Hi All: I too have had a couple of encounters of the not so nice with my 9"grinder.. Once with a wire brush my loose sweat shirt got caught and it wound the...
... A true macho man does not read directions, or ask for them either, because that would indicate that he either does not know what he is doing, or where he...
I had a diaphragm failure on my Guzzler pump while crossing the equator. When I took it apart I found that the manufacturers had gone to great lengths to...
Heh, Time for my safety goof-ups to be aired, now that this angle grinder mayhem thread is going! In many cases it is the wire wheel which is the deadliest,...
Cutting wheels and discs sometimes explode, throwing shrapnell out in predictable directions.. Its a good idea to avoid being in line with the wheel or disc as...
Even the baby tools like a roto zip can bite.. two weeks ago I was using a cutoff disk in one sitting in the cockpit. made my cut carefully.. succeded in...
... was ... to set ... shin ... I'm ... down ... that it ... blood out ... To avoid the dangers associated with cutting or grinding metal, consider paper boats...
I too have had my accidents with grinders through the years, none serious, but all scary and eye opening. A very good friend was using a 4" grinder with a...
some people just can't take a joke. long long ago when i was a kind of law enforcement officer, one of the guys had a fake bomb made up. 4 sticks of tnt with a...
I seem to remember something about someone losing his boat because of a guzzler. If I remember correctly he filed a lawsuit against the company claiming that...
I am not certain what everyone else is doing but I saw a paint job on a metal boat that is just approaching its sixth year and it is in A1 shape. I asked the...
Brent ..... just letting you know that leaving the anchorage right beside you in Comox had nothing to do with your "testing" of your "airhead" toilet. Gary ......
