2112

AND MAN IS IT SWEET...It is bigger than I imagined, all kinds of room for 2 men to stand up and share the lights. The engine, wow! Whisper quiet, in idle, I have to look back to see the pea stream comming out of the engine to see that it is in fact actualy running. With the engine tilted up I was drafting in about 7 inches of water, just barley bumping the bottom as the fan pushed us along...can't wait to get some good weather and days of to go hunting.

Hurricane Ike ripped us a new one.

Murphy's Law

Have to wait until I get home to see the pic's, Can't view them at work but congrat's on getting the new rig. Can't wait to see a couple of reports out of it. :toast

Five Prongs Of Fury

Thats a fine lookin' rig.:bowdown There is gonna be a lot of fish lose their life to that rig. Looking forward to hearing and seeing your first reports!!!:letsdrink

X-Shark

That really is a fine looking ride. Where did you buy the hull?



Tell use about your light's.

FlounderAssassin

Nice looking rig!!! looking forward to seeing some reports out of it!

Gnwdad

I'm jealous! That is a fine set-up.

seacapt

Very nice! Let us know what you think of the boat, I've talked to the guys over there that build them and they look like serious flounder killing machines.

Mike aka FishWerks

Yep that is a sweet rig. Question, should the fan blade have a guard? Also, tell us more about the boat and lighting. Thanks in advance.

2112

Let me answer a few questions.

I would like to have a cage over the fan but shrouds drasticaly reduce velocity of the pusher fan. Its actualy fairly safe. Only a complete moron could walk into it and then he would have to be a very tall moron. The biggest danger with my fan set up is to have a catastrophic failure of the blades and parts went flying and someone happened to be standing in the wrong place, off to the side of the turning fan.

I make sure to tell everyone for this reason to not stand dierectly on the side of the fan when its running.

The fan is awesome. It sounds cool and develops good pushing power. The days of push polling are a thing of the past for this old back and arms.

The boat came from Krestas Marine in Edna, Tx. The hull is a Alweld 1870 SSMB commercial model. It is a tunnel with sponsoons. Has a 20 gl tank.

Motor is a 60 hp 4-stroke yammy hi-thrust. It is very quiet. At idle, it is hard to tell if it is running or not. It will smartly jump up on plane with a full load and 4 adults.

Fan is a 13hp 4-stroke Honda with a 3 blade composite propwith remote controls on the forward deck.

Electronics are a Garmin combination GPS/fish finder unit. It does a lot of cool extra stuff like telling the moon phase, overhead times and tide times and heights for the body of water I may be in. Stereo is a Poly Planer marine with a panisonic, marinepowered sub-woofer and 2 Bazooka marine speakers. It cranks out.

Lighting is what it looks like. Incadescent light bulbs but these are different than what one would find in their home. These bulbs are 12v, 100wts, ruff service.There are 6 of them pulling 50 amps. The fan has a GM alternator that pushes 100 charging amps into the selected battery. There is a back-up battery and a on-board 2-bank charger

I have been pleased with the lights, they work a little better than I anticipated. They have a huge spread and what looks to begood penetration.

I need some days off and some good weather to check it out good. Hurricane Ike really tore up the upper coast. Curfews every where, you have to show a ID that has you address to get into most coastal places, etc. It may be some time before I can give any gigging reports. The one night that I had a chance to take it out was blown out conditions but the boat seemed to be drafting in 7 inches of water with 4 adults and the lights spread was about a 15 foot radius so I am looking forward to a night when all the stars align and the Flounder Gods are smiling upon me.

Thanks for the cool comments.

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Death From Above

Man.........that's a flounder barge! Can't get over how wide it looks. What are the steps on the stern for? Are they on both sides of the motor? I've never seen anything like that before.