Kern Dog

[Dajkzo]

Holy crap.....That sounds equal parts dangerous and fun.

Yeah, 50mph in a boat is like 100+ in a car. A lot of the boat crowd in the southwest are members of the century club. My boat is making around 500hp (431 ci stealth heads, xe282s cam, 10.6 to 1 CR, an AED XP 850) and it might get 80+ with more overdrive. To hit 100 you need at least 750hp. Maybe it's a good thing I don't have a hemi.........

And with boats, it's all about the bling.

 

[dadsbee]

Water is dam hard after 40 mph! My big Lund will do 53 and that's fast enough. What water does to a botched airplane landing at 90.. LOL

 

[dadsbee]

But everything can be fixed with time and $$$'s! Reminds me, I need another insurance job!

Now just how did we get here.. LOL.. KD what's going on??!!

 

[Ron H]

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Your neighbor told me you're still grinding your welds.

Didn't really need to see this...

 

[Ron H]

Second this is a steel hulled sailboat.... The woman in the picture did all the welding to build the boat when she was in her twenties... She and her husband have been around the world on the boat, twice.... And are still sailing.... View attachment 1002612View attachment 1002613

Lucky hubby...with all due respect, with her on board my sailing skills woulda evolved slowly...

 

[Dajkzo]

But everything can be fixed with time and $$$'s! Reminds me, I need another insurance job!
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Now just how did we get here.. LOL.. KD what's going on??!!

I don't know, I saw a post about welds, and then got thinking about my boat, and then you showed a wrecked airplane. It that Kern Dog's airplane? Not that it matters...


BTW DadsBee, I'm one of the developers/engineers on the Air Traffic Control Systems. I bet that landing included and "oh ****" moment. I take it you ro AP work? Nice.

 

[dadsbee]

KD's airplane would be well crafted out of wood! The story on the airplane, a long time customer, is "I felt a vibration, I had to land". Well you didn't have to do it in a panic into 3 foot waves! LOL I build airplanes, I call it the "hobby that went to hell" as I'm supposed to be running a plastics factory.

Grew up with a Seaflea with a 10 horse when I was about 6/7 and allowed to rip around unsupervised. Then a hydro with a 50 on it when I was about 13.

 

[Kern Dog]

Now just how did we get here.. LOL.. KD what's going on??!!

Did anyone keep count on how many topics were covered in just this thread ??

 

[Ron H]

Did anyone keep count on how many topics were covered in just this thread ??

I counted five, or 26...one of those..

 

[Budnicks]

I was about the same age. My family always had boats, I grew up on the Jersey Shore on the Navesink river. Someone in the boat club built an SK (eastern version of a drag boat) and took me for a ride along with my grandfather. I sat facing the engine which was a big block Ford.
Over the years I got into sportfishing and then got away from boats until I was lying in the hospital having gotten several units of blood and was told I had stage 3 cancer. I was looking at youtube and came across a video of a restored drag boat and that "SOUND". So I decided I needed something I could do while going thru chemo. I got a boat with a B-block and then got the Mopar bug and here I am, cancer in remission, back working at a job I enjoy, spending my time/money on a hot-rod boat and car. At least they use a lot of the same parts.

Congrats
Glad to hear your doing way better (remission) & back at it

 

[kiwigtx]

Water is dam hard after 40 mph! My big Lund will do 53 and that's fast enough. What water does to a botched airplane landing at 90.. LOL
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Water can be hard on boats too you know...

Especially if the driver is stupid.

 

[Dajkzo]

Congrats
Glad to hear your doing way better (remission) & back at it

Thanks.

I feel "lucky". And it would have been OK to retire, but working with a good group of people on something that gives me a little pride is priceless. My doctors & nurses know I'm lucky. My Internist says "What are we to do with you, you refuse to die?" They are making constant progress with cancer. Some folks still lose the fight. I met some incredible people on my chemo journey.

 

[BDF6]

Didn't really need to see this...

No one did. But it was in the KERN DOG thread so you should have braced yourself.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Water is dam hard after 40 mph! My big Lund will do 53 and that's fast enough. What water does to a botched airplane landing at 90.. LOL
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Did he land in the water with the gear down?

 

[moparedtn]

I was about the same age. My family always had boats, I grew up on the Jersey Shore on the Navesink river. Someone in the boat club built an SK (eastern version of a drag boat) and took me for a ride along with my grandfather. I sat facing the engine which was a big block Ford.
Over the years I got into sportfishing and then got away from boats until I was lying in the hospital having gotten several units of blood and was told I had stage 3 cancer. I was looking at youtube and came across a video of a restored drag boat and that "SOUND". So I decided I needed something I could do while going thru chemo. I got a boat with a B-block and then got the Mopar bug and here I am, cancer in remission, back working at a job I enjoy, spending my time/money on a hot-rod boat and car. At least they use a lot of the same parts.

Sounds like me with "Fred", our GTX. Mechanical critters are wonderful therapy when dancing with/after cancer.
Congrats on your remission!

 

[dadsbee]

Did he land in the water with the gear down?

NOPE! Those generally get less damage believe it or not. This was just a 90+ "arrival" and what he claims wasn't even rough water (which I don't believe). Buckled the floats between the mounting struts, lengthened the fuselage 3 " and the doors/windows were too tall to close anymore! LOL He actually taxied it to shore and beached it. I wasn't home, my son had to take the tools and trailer and bring it home. 550 hours of work to rebuild the airplane and 500 to build him a new set of floats.

 

[chtampa]

NOPE! Those generally get less damage believe it or not. This was just a 90+ "arrival" and what he claims wasn't even rough water (which I don't believe). Buckled the floats between the mounting struts, lengthened the fuselage 3 " and the doors/windows were too tall to close anymore! LOL He actually taxied it to shore and beached it. I wasn't home, my son had to take the tools and trailer and bring it home. 550 hours of work to rebuild the airplane and 500 to build him a new set of floats.

Wow, that is $10,000 at $10 an hour

 

[Ron H]

Sully should offer lessons on water landings

 

[toolmanmike]

Sully should offer lessons on water landings

 

[dadsbee]

Wow, that is $10,000 at $10 an hour

Almost a 100 grand with parts and a new float kit. I don't power up the air shear, or get out of bed, for less than $65/hr.