Ozbow

Rod
Thanks , just waiting to try it out , thinking of going fishing and crabbing in it next week down Sandy creek , crabs still seem to be on , was down the Sandy straights on the weekend , had to deliver a bow to a mate and do a little crabbing , we got our limit no problem

David

Bret thanks Well I finished it some weeks back but my wife has been on holidays so we've been out and about a bit , not much time home and definitely not much time on the computer so here are some finished pics http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w10/dawallace45/P1000667.jpg http://i172.photobucket.c...

Rod

Beautiful , good one

David

Rod

Bloody beautiful , love the Wenge

David

Well in amongst the other stuff I've been doing I've pretty much finished the Float boat http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w10/dawallace45/P1000465.jpg The Gunnels are on http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w10/dawallace45/P1000469.jpg http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w10/dawallace45/P1000472.jpg ...

I used to shoot heavy bows [ 70-80# ] and never had a problem for about 25 years , had extremely thick calluses on my fingers , buggered my shoulder bad and couldn't shoot for a year or so and then started back with out the calluses , with in a month I was getting the numbness you describe , it is n...

Good onya Otis , all the best to you and your wife

PS , like your dog

David

Rod

Don't need a cabin , although I do often think of building a houseboat

But do have to admit that my wife wants me to put in padded folding boat seats

Jeff

How many clamps ? don't know for sure , but how ever many I have it's not near enough , really do need to get a lot more

David

Well all the coats of epoxy have been finished , I've started putting in a bit of framing to hold the deck and the seats , if I'd gone to 9mm ply instead of the 4mm stuff I'm using I could have got away with less framing but it will still work out light http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w10/dawalla...

Happy birthday gentlemen

John

Got to admit that I'm a big fan of the .45 , before the new bloody pistol laws always had a .45 Colt and a .45 ACP

David

Jeff

He should be looking hot , it gets to be about 50*C in that little shed of his , the only place I know that makes a sauna look cool

David

John
The plans come from http://www.boatplans.dk/boat_plans.asp?id=34 , my particular set come from a mate in the USA who bought a set and never got around to making it and so sent it to me so that he could see one built

David

Well I turned it over to fiberglass the inside , first up was to cut the glass to size and lay it in place ready to epoxy http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w10/dawallace45/P1000438.jpg A closer view of the glass in place http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w10/dawallace45/P1000439.jpg Glassing finis...

Rod

you do remember what I was telling you about hunting from a canoe being productive

David

Rod

yeah and it's going to be just big enough to fit you in too

David

Jeff

yeah it is a nice creek , I always enjoy going there

Steve

yeah , just cut off pieces of poly pipe , I put one inside the other to give them more strength

David

Well finally got around to ordering more epoxy and some glass cloth and I must admit that I've been a bit slack with it , haven't been home a lot so progress has been slow http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w10/dawallace45/P1000373.jpg I turned it over so I could have another look and just placed th...

Rod Soap may be a alien smell but it's not strong , most men sweat when they hunt and that is a extremely strong smell , especially if they haven't used soap in a few days , man smell is the smell of a predator and most beasties know it means danger , I wouldn't hunt any where near the mate because ...

I just use a plain unscented soap or a antibacterial soap , I used to hunt with a guy who figured that not using soap would give him a edge when hunting but the human smell is the smell of a predictor and not using soap tends to make the smell even stronger , I figured it was very counter productive...

Happy Birthday Jeff

David

Steve

Yup , more like a walrus , but if it's any consolation to you back before I got broken I weighed in at 92 kg and could bench press 120 kg , now of course I can barely bench press 30 kg before my left shoulder folds up

David

Steve Yeah , that's definitely not me , that is my neighbor from up the road and he's more than 10 years younger than me and while we have the same hair cut we definitely couldn't be mistaken for each other , I'm about a 1/2" taller , a bit thicker set and a lot fatter than him Fillets , where ...

Yeah , know what that's like but I'm now down to 103 KG and still loosing

David

Rod

It's 15'9" long , 35" wide and 13" high , built to the plans with 9mm ply it should come in at about 41 KG , mine should be much lighter , should draw about 4" with two men on board [ 200 kg ]

David

Rod

Yeah , I'm thinking bow fishing

David

On another post I said I'd post the progress of the Ozark float boat , I haven't done that so far so I'd better start , didn't know where on Ozbow to post it but seeing as how Boat building is a traditional craft I figure I'll post it here unless Jeff has a problem with it Well the Float boat has be...

Steve The boat was originally about 100 Kg when I first built it but a year or so ago I added the rear deck and extended the front deck so there is the extra weight of a sheet and a half of 12mm ply and about 6 pine studs , don't really know for sure what that would weigh but would take a guess at a...

Rod Thanks , I'm happy with the way it turned out , Otis Yeah it's definitely bending more closer to the fades than the one with the taper but it feels good and as I said when both are put into a jig and pulled together not much difference , of course it could also be that I was only pulling to abou...

Otis

yeah two different bows , the top one is all parallels and the bottom one has one taper , strangely enough when I mounted both them in a jig and pulled both strings at once there appeared to be very little difference in their bending curve ,

David

Heres some full draw pics for Rod http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w10/dawallace45/P1000334.jpg http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w10/dawallace45/P1000337.jpg Some kayak and such pics for Steve http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w10/dawallace45/P1000342.jpg http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w10/...