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Well, it's no race winner for sure. Me and my dads 6 meter (about 20 feet) double ender (swedish: snipa). Came with a Solo S31 engine, a two-stroke single cylinder 3hp kerosene/petrol dual-fuel engine. 500cc, 750 rpm redline. Right now there's a Solo H52 in there, two cylinder four-stroke, 5 wild hp. Both hand crank starters with magneto ignition. And yes, that's my dad using a manual bilge pump while wearing a suit.
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Giblet Plus! posted:Sea Shadow Only reason I've ever heard of this is because I remember the mission to hunt them down in USNF '94 was such a goddamn pain in the rear end, as I recall it.
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Deeters posted:Every sub I've been on also has an air of sweaty balls and I'm not sure how you get that out. I've got an acquaintance in the navy, stationed on the swedish submarine Gotland, (the one that got a "kill" on the USS Ronald Reagan ten years ago,) and as he tells it no air filters/scrubbers in the world can save you from the sweaty balls fragrance after a 7 day sortie without snorkeling. To quote some dude: quote:What nobody had warned him about was the smell. As a rough comparison, imagine your teenage son has just come home from three days at the Glastonbury festival where he hasn’t washed once. Multiply that by 120 (the number of men in a submarine crew) and think months instead of days, and you begin to get the idea.
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slothrop posted:3. Kicks it over manually using a peg that (self retracts?) I don't remember much about grandmas brother, I was quite young when he died, but I do remember his very pronounced limp. It was from when the peg didn't retract as it should one day, and it came back around and broke his fibula and tibia.
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Aluminium is anodic to stainless steel, you'll get galvanic corrosion between stainless and aluminium as well.
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I'm kinda concerned about the dead body on the right there. 
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Jun 24, 2019 15:07
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He clearly states it is, in fact, a twelve inch boat though?
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Jul 13, 2019 17:50
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One cool thing about hydrofoils is the almost complete lack of wake.
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Jul 27, 2019 17:55
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So me and dad did a small 700 mile roundtrip to buy another old old Solo inboard engine for his collection. Of course it lacked some parts and wouldn't start despite the ad and the seller on the phone describing it as "ready to drop in the boat". Still bought it. My dad was grumpy all the way home about it. 
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Nov 4, 2019 18:08
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Regular two-stroke, made for starting on gasoline and then switching to kerosene but runs ok on just gasoline (since kerosene isn't as easy to come by anymore).
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Nov 4, 2019 22:59
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A fairly common joke in the 90s among boat people here was "Do you know what AIDS and Bayliners have in common?" The answer being some variation of "if you get it you're hosed" or "no-one has ever managed to get rid of it".
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May 19, 2020 19:07
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My dads' fetish for old Solo inboard engines had us go on another road trip and this time both of the engines were, accurately, described as "parts".
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TheFluff posted:I just got home from 3 weeks aboard with my co-owners (my sister and her fiancée). Various friends came and went too, most of them stayed 3-4 days each - cruising up and down the coast makes that sort of thing possible. It was fine, some minor bickering here and there but we wouldn't have gotten the boat together if we didn't get along. Could easily have stayed out another week but it started raining again and we were almost home anyway. Nice! IMO the weather has been pretty ok all summer, despite "COLDEST JULY FOR 60 YEARS" headlines. All my boating has been postponed because of my friends' wife testing negative for corona three times but the doctors going "we don't know what else it could be so just keep retesting".  TheFluff posted:Various friends came and went too, most of them stayed 3-4 days each This helps a lot with preventing bickering, in my experience.
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Aug 19, 2020 12:07
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Crunchy Black posted:Someone please hit the MOB button I'm dying from laughter. 
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A sliced open hose of the correct diameter works pretty good for tube protection.
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Not my boat, but a fun ride. Combat Boat 90E, this one with a 1150hp Scania DI16 instead of the original 625hp DSI14. With the original engine it does 42 knots, no idea with the new one but it's fast enough although the real party trick is how it can go from full speed to stopped in less than one boat length. That does make you incredibly wet tho if you're seated up top like we were.  
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wargames posted:I just boat 
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Jan 27, 2022 18:59
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Rime posted:Cement weighs around 150 lbs. per cu. ft. So what I'm taking away from this is I should look for a boat with a tungsten ballast?
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Jan 29, 2022 20:28
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Make a little extra, pick up some bags full of "you don't need to know" on the way.
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TheFluff posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS1sJG88sRE Haha, what time? I think I drove right past you on Kungsängsbron while you were splashing, I remember seeing the crane moving and a boat going on.
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