Boat Forum / Building / April 2009

I am installing a battery switch in my boat, if I want to use one of the
trolling motor batteries to start the engine.
It is a center console that is also used in the salt water besides bass
fishing.

We bought a johnboat and thought the it was oddly heavy.  This weekend we
discovered that the foam under the deck was saturated with water.  The
oddest thing I have ever seen.  After removal, the boat is easily handled by
two men.  It took four before.  So now it has no foam for ...

Here, on page 23...
http://www.icomamerica.com/support/kb/Article.aspx?Download=1265
...Icom shows four 0.15 uf capacitors in parallel acting as a DC
block / galvanic isolator in the RF ground circuit of an SSB system.

Can't find any information on this builder. All I know is that the boa
I have is a custom aluminum sloop 1988 vintage,  built in Antibes
France. He did a few then retired or quit building. Hull number lead
nowhere. This boat was seized by the US for drug related reasons. Sol

1978 Beachcraft  140 HP omc stern drive
How do you change the transom seal. I don't know where to start

Most of my glass work is small ding patches.
Mixing up, say, an ounce or less of resin and getting the
resin/catalyst ratio right (especially with epoxy) escapes me....
so I waste a lot of resin.

( From recent  rec.boats NG post )
To build boat hulls ( 30 - 50 feet length cargo /fishing/ work boats)
in plywood which resins are recommended to bond the plies/veneers
together...  epoxy, resorcinol, vinyl ester or phenol formaldehyde?

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if you are interested.
                                           Regards..Ken