Jimmy thank you for the gif you made of the first rideHere's my not so beasty beast. I don't have any good shots of it uncovered as the rain has kept it pretty covered.
And the interior that needs some work (but it cleaned up real nice)
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The South Korean Navy used to have a few tiny gunboats, looked like miniature destroyers, maybe in the 150' range, in Pusan Harbor. I always fancied having one of them.
Thanks to my super shami, I was able to pull about 20 gallons of water out of the carpet even though it was covered. The interior was meant to get wet, but it rains a little more here than simply make things "wet".
I love watching the helmsman hit the deck in that gif.
no tops came off....no care.
No floppy fat though on both of them. I am impressed how everything stays in one place on both of them.
I got to go on a tug boat in Boston Harbor. 5:45AM We moved 2 full Fuel Oil barges to Gloucester. We then wrangled the empty barges back to Chelsea. It made my weekend... No Parade on Ellery Street but the cars are parked everywhere.
I swear I saw a porn shot in a boat that looked just like that...
I was a single father paying for my college
Jealous.
I used to run barges up and down the coast with my dad as a kid when not in school. Worked out of a pier on Marginal St. in East Boston, did a lot of runs to Spectacle Island during the Big Dig, etc. Pretty awesome experience for a 10ish year old kid.
I think I know the shipyard in Chelsea you're talking about. Almost right under the Tobin?
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He did mention it was a tug boat, they might have been shooting Harbor Handjobs 12.
I wasn't paying attention but it is closer to the bridge to East Boston. Right next to where the Army parks the Dredge and the fourth of July Barges are tied up. We had lunch at the New Bridge on Washington Ave afterwards and it was awesome!
Ahh...was it on the right side as you enter the harbor, right before the bridge going to East Boston? Right next to the Mobil station? If so, I spent a lot of time there as well. Small world.
Fun fact: my dad used to pull out the fireworks barge for the 4th of July show that David Mugar sponsored...it must be the same one you're talking about. He did that a few years. He also pulled out a barge they used to film a commercial with Chauncey Billups when he was on the Celtics. Got an autographed ball out of it.
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Nope Left side by the old Massport Barge terminal. The street Mobil is on ends at the entrance to the old Mystic Canal. Where the Old boat sank/sits in the channel.
Automatic bilge pumps are your friend... spend the fifty bucks and have it installed.Thanks to my super shami, I was able to pull about 20 gallons of water out of the carpet even though it was covered. The interior was meant to get wet, but it rains a little more here than simply make things "wet".
I love watching the helmsman hit the deck in that gif.
How would that get water out of my carpet?
My neighbor asked me if it had a bilge pump, but I have no idea where I would put it.
Have you tried in the bilge?
If it floods Jimmydean could just roll it over.
What I meant was, there isn't a ton of room down there. After having it floating in the water for over an hour, there wasn't much water in there to begin with. The last thing I would do at this point is tear out the floor to put in a pump that doesn't seem to be needed. I would think if it was an issue, one of the 2 previous owners might have done it.
As far as I can tell, it's not very common to have a bilge pump in a low profile speed boat, but I could be wrong.
The automatic would help keep it from being soaked in the first place. I will say this simply, if you do not have a bilge on it now, you need one, there is no if and or buts about it. Wait till the first time your hauling ass and it shutdowns un expectedly on you and you swamp the back end and put a foot and a half of water in it in the middle of the lake. Or some asshole hauls ass past you and send a wake over the front, or you hit a wave the wrong way and dip the front end three feet into that wave.
Set the pump as low as you can, no need to actually tear the floor out, I mean the right way is to build a drop into the lowest point of the hull, but anything is better than nothing. The automatic switch just helps when you are at home and it is raining. , leave the front as hi as you can, take the plug out, and leave the auto bilge on.
What you really do not want to happen is to water log the boat itself. That take a LOT of time to clear. If it is not water logged floors will dry in half a day of sun shine.
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