Trailerable expedition boat

[whatcharterboat]

We've been using OEM Mitsubishi or Isuzu senders in the fuel tanks ( so the clients can get easy plug in replacements) but they cost certainly cost more than the BEP unit. If your tanks have a constant shape (ie paralell side) then it wouldn't be a concern anway.

Being ultrasonic would be another plus because they don't have any moving parts, I suppose.

[Mickldo]

Mick Have you actually seen an Arneson surface drive in a boat before? Other than a high speed race/pleasure boat, anyway?. Look like they could be trimmed up to get in shallow but all the ones I've seen have had high speed "cleaver" style props so I wonder why they aren't used more on offshore fishing platforms.

It probably wasn't an Arneson surface drive but I did see a large (15m-ish) Catamaran with twin surface drives down at the boat harbour the other day. It didn't look like it was a real "high speed" vessel. I was chatting to another guy on another forum and he put me onto these. He used to have one on one of his fishing boats.

[whatcharterboat]

Mick Going over to the thread about refrigeration on your camper.

[Mickldo]

We've been using OEM Mitsubishi or Isuzu senders in the fuel tanks ( so the clients can get easy plug in replacements) but they cost certainly cost more than the BEP unit. If your tanks have a constant shape (ie paralell side) then it wouldn't be a concern anway.

Being ultrasonic would be another plus because they don't have any moving parts, I suppose.

We get the VDO units for a good price. All of our tanks are a different size but they are all pretty much the same shape. Rectangular tank with the bottom shaped to match the delta pad.

The no moving parts is a good point of them, as is their plastic construction (for the electrolysis factor on the alloy boats).

[Mickldo]

Mick Going over to the thread about refrigeration on your camper.

John, I am going to bed.

I will catch up with that thread and you tomorrow. Later.

[whatcharterboat]

I will catch up with that thread and you tomorrow. Later.

No worries. Have a look when you can. I have a big weekend planned so maybe won't be back here till Mon or Tuesday night. Have a good one.

[Mickldo]

OK, I have been promising some pics of the 6m Centre Cab we did. Well I finally grabbed a couple of the pics from work.

[Mickldo]

Some more....







You can see how the centre cab has the walkaround deck on each side. I won't have this, I prefer the conventional half cab. By having a half cab you gain extra room between the seats where you walk through to the cab. You can still walk around to the bow but it is up on the gunwale instead of down in the walkway.

You can also see the roller shutter door we use to save room in the cab.

[Mickldo]

If I fit a diesel (not if, when) I can push the transom back a fair way. On the outboard models you need to leave room to allow the motor to tilt all the way up. With the inboard the back of the transom can be pushed all the way back and the motor will mostly hide in under the transom.

Here are some pics of an inboard diesel we are building at the moment at work. It is a 7m with a Yanmar 6BY260Z.

[whatcharterboat]

Awesome work. For what it's worth Mick, I'm a real inboard fan too.

The 8 metre cats we did for the Army had all the radio masts, radar and GPS antennas on a S/S frame that hinged and was able to lay back on the roof for when you were in transit. A couple of big wing nuts and it was ready to go. That's another thing I think you should consider.

A 6 meter boat is going to sit pretty high on the trailer and want to take out a few trees along the way. So you might have to consider this carefully. Certainly more than you would do a standard model.

Noticed the big winches. The Army trailers big recovery winches too. Maybe 8000lb connected via some double insulated twin O B&S to an Anderson plug at the back of the unimogs. Sure I have some pics somewhere. We built 8 of them for the Special forces to use a support vessels for RIB training.

Looking at the way they sit on the trailer I think that gooseneck idea which could incorporate the winch post would work well too.