MERRY CHRISTMAS ANIMALS. Let's see what you got?

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  1. Mohtrucker

    Mohtrucker Light Load Member

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    Got a new transmission for my truck
     
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  3. tommymonza

    tommymonza Road Train Member

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    What kind of boat and what area you boat in ?
     
  4. REO6205

    REO6205 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    36 foot salmon troller. Wooden hull, double ender, built in '46. It's been in our family a long time.
    We fish mostly from San Francisco north into Oregon.
     
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  5. spindrift

    spindrift Road Train Member

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    Wooden boats...nothing takes a wave better.
     
  6. REO6205

    REO6205 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    LOL...Or aggravates you quite as much. Years ago my uncle who was a commercial fisherman all his life said
    "If you have a wooden boat and you can't find something to fix, repair, patch, sand, paint, or replace, you're not looking hard enough". He was right.
     
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  7. sealevel

    sealevel Road Train Member

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    A local boat builder in my area most famous quote was,"if 5200 doesn't fix it, a stick of dynamite will".
     
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  8. Brettj3876

    Brettj3876 Road Train Member

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    BOAT

    Bust. out. another. thousand. haha
     
  9. REO6205

    REO6205 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    I looked at a boat a couple of years ago on a pre-purchase inspection. Wooden hull. The windows in the wheelhouse were trimmed with pine and the wood had never been properly sealed. The owners answer to the inevitable leaks was a good heavy bead of 5200 around the windows. He'd also sistered some ribs using dime store plywood and...you guessed it...5200.
    He'd spray painted the engine, probably the oldest Chrysler Crown gas pot I'd seen outside of a museum, red and hadn't masked anything so it was easy to see where he'd put 5200 around a couple of thru hulls afterward.
    The bare wiring ends twisted together and taped with blue masking tape was a nice touch too.
    The five gallon plastic jugs full of gasoline next to the unshielded and unsecured batteries was the end of the inspection for me.
    We already knew that most of the hull planking was gone, the stem was repaired with 2x4s held together with c-clamps, the keel had been repaired twice and needed a third, and enough ribs and deck timbers had given up that she was hogged.
    The owner wanted a COI on the boat. He had visions of chartering out to sport fishermen. Not happening.
    I recommended demolition. The insurance company, the Coast Guard and local port authority agreed.
    Even 5200 couldn't save that boat.
     
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  10. Flat Earth Trucker

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