Cracka wrote:G'day Adam,
I checked your album, the boat is looking awesome mate. I really like the light blue kiwigrip, its sets the boat off nicely. No doubt it will be kinder on the eyes in the bright sun as well.
The console looks good in its home, are the plates in front of it for cooler tie downs (hows that, I'm even talking like you blokes now, we call coolers eskies down here).
Yep, that is exactly what the plates are for. The cooler holder brackets will be mounted there to hold the 94qt cooler that also doubles as extra seating up front. The console will be hinged using detachable hinges to the battery box so that I have good access to the wiring and batteries under it. also, an aluminum grab bar will be mounted to the console.
Cracka wrote:Next time your at the boat, and if you remember (you probably know off the top of your head anyhow) what is the length and width of your cockpit, bulkhead to bulkhead, gunwhale to gunwhale (inside) .
The cockpit length is 7.5 feet, but I do not know the total width and this also varies according to point. I will get the width measurements for you this evening at three separate locations, aft, center and forward, inside to inside.
Cracka wrote:I just noticed the drains in the rear bulkhead, do these run to a sump with a bilge pump do they.
These drains run to the compartments behind them and then to the bilge which will have two pumps installed. One automatic with float control and one manual (in case I really take a lot of water). Originally, I was going to run these drains out the the transom using thu-hull -> hose -> ball valve -> hose -> thu-hull, but after pondering on it for a while and reading postings on this forum, it was decided that there was no way I could make this deck self bailing as the boat is just really too small.
For those that are interested, here are some pictures of the kiwigrip I put on last night.
The blue kiwigrip matches the Sterling Ice Blue really well.
Not perfect, but not bad either.
Yep, the Kiwigrip applied to the rear seat is not quite identical on both sides. Too late now to do anything about it though.
