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vertical_edge_800
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Joined: Thu Dec 30, 2010 5:48 am
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Location: Palmer, Alaska
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 Front cast deck and pods, build pics So a couple weeks ago I borrowed my buddies boat... Hit a big ass rock with it and sank it in a remote Alaskan river. I was alone and it made for an interesting (long) night to recover it. The bottom of the boat where it meets up with the transom tore out. So I decided to go ahead and built him a set of pods (hides the damage), and a nice front deck as the other one was a rotted plywood setup. I TIG welded everything you see here  Boat runs fantastic with the pods and a Mud Buddy 27 surface drive!
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vertical_edge_800
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Re: Front cast deck and pods, build pics Some more pics as I was going along
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vertical_edge_800
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Re: Front cast deck and pods, build pics Oops.. This is about 3 minutes after impact looking for a spot to beach it, started dragging bottom and stuck in about 10" of water. Bilge pump picked a fine time to stop working. I end up cutting the foam out of a throwable floatation device and stuffing it into the hole (there was 3 throwable devices on the boat already and plenty of life vests for all you safety minded folk). After I plugged the hole, I used my rubber boot to bail the water out.
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vertical_edge_800
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Location: Palmer, Alaska
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Re: Front cast deck and pods, build pics You can actually see where the water is boiling up near the center brace on the transom. Left side.
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dillakilla12
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Re: Front cast deck and pods, build pics Mighty white of ya to hook ur buddy up with all the extra goodies after sinking his boat lol looks good!
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GDSArgo
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Re: Front cast deck and pods, build pics Did your buddy a solid patch job. Looks good bet he got over it real fast after seeing how you hooked him up
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odass
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Re: Front cast deck and pods, build pics Looks good, think my friends would have just left it...
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bayouboy
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vertical_edge_800
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Location: Palmer, Alaska
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Re: Front cast deck and pods, build pics Thanks guys- it was a fun little project. All I have is a TIG machine so some of the welds took forever to run lol
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KYmudWE
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Re: Front cast deck and pods, build pics says I cant view pics, I don't have required permission or something.
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