04-27-2010, 11:38 AM
[quote flygoddess]Just makes sense! Plus, you can kick the motor up so you can actually launch from shore. Not like the old days with the donut and the float power. Trying to get in a donut with flippers on in a foot of water.
Funny stuff, that right there.[laugh][laugh][laugh]
Okay, so which tube do you license?[crazy][/quote]
[cool][#0000ff]Ah yes, the good ol' donut days. I used to laugh my (posterior) off when I watched people try to climb in a round tube with their fins on. Silly tubers. I learned early to put the fins on the ground with the fronts under the tube and then step into them, pull on the straps, pull the tube up around my waist and back in. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]BUT...that is not possible with the FLOAT POWER, as you pointed out. Since the motor extends down into the water you gotta take it out a ways to get launched. Guess that is ONE of the reasons why I never got one.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have been codgertatin' about rigging a V tube (Fat Cat or similar) as a tube tug for some time. As you point out, it is much easier to launch and beach with a craft that unhooks from the main tube and on which the motor can be tilted up. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have a few more tweaks on the system to make after the shakedown cruise. Then I will post a complete pictorial on the system...including the simple but effective frame (PVC...what else?) that holds both the motor and battery.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As I am sure you already know, I will have to register the tube with the motor attached...and it will be registered within the next few days...before it gets wet again. I can't wait to see the look on the faces of the DMV agent who looks at the picture of the craft I am planning to register. That's why I gave Sharkey a facelift...with new teeth. I hope they don't charge by the tooth.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Now I gotta figure out how to set up the wet bar and the barbecue station. Maybe a second deck for the entertainment system and the plasma TV?[/#0000ff]
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Funny stuff, that right there.[laugh][laugh][laugh]
Okay, so which tube do you license?[crazy][/quote]
[cool][#0000ff]Ah yes, the good ol' donut days. I used to laugh my (posterior) off when I watched people try to climb in a round tube with their fins on. Silly tubers. I learned early to put the fins on the ground with the fronts under the tube and then step into them, pull on the straps, pull the tube up around my waist and back in. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]BUT...that is not possible with the FLOAT POWER, as you pointed out. Since the motor extends down into the water you gotta take it out a ways to get launched. Guess that is ONE of the reasons why I never got one.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have been codgertatin' about rigging a V tube (Fat Cat or similar) as a tube tug for some time. As you point out, it is much easier to launch and beach with a craft that unhooks from the main tube and on which the motor can be tilted up. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have a few more tweaks on the system to make after the shakedown cruise. Then I will post a complete pictorial on the system...including the simple but effective frame (PVC...what else?) that holds both the motor and battery.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As I am sure you already know, I will have to register the tube with the motor attached...and it will be registered within the next few days...before it gets wet again. I can't wait to see the look on the faces of the DMV agent who looks at the picture of the craft I am planning to register. That's why I gave Sharkey a facelift...with new teeth. I hope they don't charge by the tooth.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Now I gotta figure out how to set up the wet bar and the barbecue station. Maybe a second deck for the entertainment system and the plasma TV?[/#0000ff]
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