Luvit's boat improvements

[Luvit]

10 hours ago, ellicat said:

Have you considered hiring a bigger compressor ? Might quicken the process.

Yes.  I don’t think it is worth it. 

$70 for 4 hrs for a similar size to mine. The step up to the bigger one is steep price hike. 

At least having one at home l can do an hour here and there when I have a chance. Hiring one for a minimum day is a quite an expense.  

I’ll just do little by little, bit by bit

[Drop Bear]

12 hours ago, Luvit said:

No Typo, 3/4 to go. 

Nearly got all the antifoul off.

Still in the process of the first sand with 240 grit, then 360,600,800,1000,2000 extra cut compound then final polish. That is how l have done the bow. 

A bigger compressor would have been handy. Do 15 seconds of sanding before waiting a minute for it to reach operating pressure again. 

Not worth changing now I’m this far through. 

I have one you could borrow. 

[Luvit]

19 minutes ago, Drop Bear said:

I have one you could borrow. 

Thanks Robbie,

I'll give you a call today to discuss.

[Luvit]

Thanks to Robbie offering to lend me his compressor I have finally got to the end of the Antifoul removal.

Here are some before and after shots of the work done. Some photos will be double ups from within the post but, seeing how far it has come is quite satisfying.

 

 

 

Original boat before my modifications and after.

 

 

 

 

[ellicat]

That's a great job you have done, mate.

I bet you can't stop looking at her.

[Luvit]

1 minute ago, ellicat said:

That's a great job you have done, mate.

I bet you can't stop looking at her.

Thanks @ellicat

Or touching her  

[benno573]

only in the most inappropriate of ways i hope.

now that you are at a point where you are happy, i guess the next thing is to get out and use it again and again and again!

[Luvit]

 

3 minutes ago, benno573 said:

only in the most inappropriate of ways i hope.

now that you are at a point where you are happy, i guess the next thing is to get out and use it again and again and again!

Of course,

Normal life gets in the way of my fishing life.

[jon]

Good job looks like a whole new boat. How big is your fuel tank?

[Luvit]

300 litres under floor.

Can carry 100 litres down one side of the walk around in 10x 10 litre jerry's. Could carry 200 litres extra if I needed. 

The good thing is they are easy to transport and don't take cabin or fishing deck room.

Gives me a range of 500km. 

[kmcrosby78]

Awesome job Wayne, must be very satisfying. Enjoy using her  

[Drop Bear]

500km is 

On 19/03/2019 at 2:01 PM, Luvit said:

Gives me a range of 500km

How many km do you do when you fish Sykes? 

[Luvit]

250-300km average 

[aussie123]

It's not hard to rack up a few miles when fishing off 1770.

I just did a trip about 2 weeks ago and we did 530km for the 3 days.