Levitation
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- Joined
- Aug 12, 2009
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- Fluid Motion Model
- C-248 C
- Hull Identification Number
- fmlt2510f809
- Vessel Name
- Charlotte Ann
OK, winter is moving on here and only a few days to solar minimum... To while away the days of sunlight deficit (Saginaw has fewer sunny days per annum than Nome, Alaska)I am getting an enclosure for the cockpit.. There is a tent and awning company locally that has much experience with boats (this is the Great Lakes), so I stopped in yesterday... Nice folks... I had them pop up TUGNUTS on their computer and took them to the photo album to look at a few enclosures...
Anyway, the enclosure will be in Sunbrella Beige, large windows with both sunshades and mosquito screens... Roll up / removable sidewalls... Everything is done from inside the cockpit, no having to hang over the side... The canvas and the stitching are guaranteed for ten years, unconditionally... Heavy duty tubing, the thickest wall he can get, 316L stainless hardware... It will fold up, of course, for fishing (I don't fish)...
I can't tell from the photos I have found what you folks are doing about the transom door - a zip out opening?
I am wondering if making it fold is an unnecessary complication? Perhaps a fixed install is better?
Any and all suggestions will be entertained ( I do a mean softshoe routine) I want this to turn out well...
Oh, and by the time we finished going through the photos the entire crew had come over to ooh and ahh over the R25... In spite of doing canvas for high end boats at the local marinas, they said these tugs were the best looking boats they had seen... Wanted to know how I found out about them, etc...
denny-o
Anyway, the enclosure will be in Sunbrella Beige, large windows with both sunshades and mosquito screens... Roll up / removable sidewalls... Everything is done from inside the cockpit, no having to hang over the side... The canvas and the stitching are guaranteed for ten years, unconditionally... Heavy duty tubing, the thickest wall he can get, 316L stainless hardware... It will fold up, of course, for fishing (I don't fish)...
I can't tell from the photos I have found what you folks are doing about the transom door - a zip out opening?
I am wondering if making it fold is an unnecessary complication? Perhaps a fixed install is better?
Any and all suggestions will be entertained ( I do a mean softshoe routine) I want this to turn out well...
Oh, and by the time we finished going through the photos the entire crew had come over to ooh and ahh over the R25... In spite of doing canvas for high end boats at the local marinas, they said these tugs were the best looking boats they had seen... Wanted to know how I found out about them, etc...
denny-o