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Projects - Glacier Boats of Alaska boat projects / Re: Bob from Olympia, 28 GA build

« on: April 22, 2025, 08:18:04 AM »

Dang, nice chinook. I sure wish we had those this far south. Looking forward to seeing how your improvements came out. I am headed out to try mine out in a couple hours.

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Boat Systems - Electrical, Electronics, Motors, Plumbing & Tankage etc / Re: fuel tanks

« on: April 02, 2025, 03:47:48 PM »

Rob, if you decide to go the custom built aluminum tank route I just had a shop in san diego build a second tank for my boat (vince at https://americantanks.net/). They did a good job, although I thought the tank was a tad expensive. It seems like they are the shop in southern california to get an aluminum fuel tank from these days.

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Projects - Glacier Boats of Alaska boat projects / Re: Bob from Olympia, 28 GA build

« on: April 02, 2025, 09:40:43 AM »

Looking good. Are you running a dedicated battery for this install or are you going to just tie into your starter battery?

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Projects - Glacier Boats of Alaska boat projects / Re: Bob from Olympia, 28 GA build

« on: March 23, 2025, 11:55:53 AM »

I am really interested to see how this turns out. Looks like a fun project!

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Blood on the Deck! (And Other Grand Adventures!) / Re: Squid, halibut, white seabass at Catalina Island

« on: March 12, 2025, 09:30:10 AM »

Thanks Bob! Greasy flat weather definitely beats getting the crap kicked out of you all night haha. I had to go back and double check, 41 was the RPM (41*100), we were doing like 25mph or so... I was hoping I wasn't doing 41mph in the fog lol, that was a super super foggy trip out. I think the fastest I have taken my boat so far is right around there (41 or 42mph), but I don't think it was WOT, just as fast as I could stomach going as thoughts of the space shuttle breaking up on reentry went through my head hahahaha

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Blood on the Deck! (And Other Grand Adventures!) / Squid, halibut, white seabass at Catalina Island

« on: March 11, 2025, 08:36:35 PM »

I finally got around to editing some footage from Lucas's and my last adventure, fair pick at some short white seabass and some halibut with all the squid we wanted the day after new years day. I am trying to make a habit of creating and posting these videos to our channel as we do these trips.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2mGVDoVsNY&ab_channel=WestCoastFishingAdventures

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Projects - Glacier Boats of Alaska boat projects / Re: Outdoor build of GA Kodiak, Orange, CA

« on: March 11, 2025, 02:46:00 PM »

Rbob - same boat but different, but the same lol... Winter projects, good time for them but a lot of work, the amount of which I conveniently forgot about while out camping and fishing.

Brian, it's probably a good thing to clarify in the plans, although I would pretty much put the onus of this issue on me for not paying enough mind to the potential for trim issues to happen as well as putting a single long tank in. If I had put two tanks like most everyone else does I don't think this would have been an issue at all, or at least very minimal, even with the vastly increased displacement of the Kodiak version of the boat. At any rate, even with my bow down trim my boat is phenomenal and can only get better in my mind. It's a bit of work to improve and dial it in to how I use it and make it a better fit for myself and my family moving forward, but it's also cool to know that I can do the work to make a difference and make it better, which isn't something that someone who buys a boat off the showroom floor has much of an option of doing. And yeah, I am definitely less prone to a wave over the stern right now, so feature not a bug right? Ultimately if I can get it closer I will be happy, it doesn't have to be perfect.

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Projects - Glacier Boats of Alaska boat projects / Re: Outdoor build of GA Kodiak, Orange, CA

« on: March 10, 2025, 03:20:30 PM »

I have been using the winter time and slow cold weather to do some of the outstanding things I needed to get done on the boat. Among them are installing the ladder that Lindy was kind enough to send my way (Thanks Lindy!!!), and finally start to address my issues with my boat trimming bow down. To recap a bit, I think a large portion of my issue is a result of having a belly fuel tank that's 10' long and more or less centered around the aft ph bulkhead, which I pushed forward to a somewhat significant degree to maximize cockpit space on my boat. I mistakenly thought that the 80 gallon bait tank I would add would correct the weight forward but the tank landed more or less directly on the CoG, so it had little to no effect on the trim of the vessel. I ultimately landed on adding another tank aft for a first step to try to correct some of the bow down trim. I am hoping that adding approximately 50 gallons toward the stern will not only put more weight there, but also have the double effect of removing the weight most of the time from the forward end of the belly tank where it pools to some degree when the boat is at rest. Anyway, I got busy with the saws and cutters, opened up the space between the stringers that I had built an insulated fish hold that I decided I didn't want to actually use after all, and cleaned all of that out to make some space for another fuel tank. I am building a fuel tank coffin around it to try to isolate it from the bilge (which is working very well for my other tank). I will connect the 2 coffins with a pipe to allow the fan to pull and vent air through them when I am filling them. Fingers crossed that this is sufficient enough to solve my issues.

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General Discussion about the Great Alaskan / Re: Knife valves for scuppers?

« on: March 10, 2025, 03:02:33 PM »

Brian, I am going to move the convo around my trim over to my build thread so I don't derail the convo here. I am really happy with how my scuppers with the tubes and these flaps worked out though, they are far better than the hodge podge idea and implementation I had for them previously.

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General Discussion about the Great Alaskan / Re: Knife valves for scuppers?

« on: March 10, 2025, 11:40:30 AM »

Rbob - I put these flaps on my scupper holes and have not had any problems with water coming in. I didn't put much of a down angle on my tubes. However, I do have a current issue I am working on correcting with bow down trim, so not sure how much these are actually blocking water from coming in due to them just sitting high up or out of the water.

https://www.seaworthyinnovations.com/shop/sw1023?utm_medium=email&utm_source=customer_notification

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General Discussion about the Great Alaskan / Re: Knife valves for scuppers?

« on: March 05, 2025, 06:36:56 AM »

I did the same sort of thing that Grady did here but instead of using MDF for a mold I think I used some purple insulating foam that I got from home depot and wrapped it in some wax paper. I think I was able to get it out pretty easy, even without cracking and breaking it out (some of the wax paper might still be in the tubes actually). I love these fiberglass tubes as drains though, like Grady says, you never have to worry about them rotting or becoming compromised. Pretty slick idea.

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Projects - Glacier Boats of Alaska boat projects / Re: GA28 in Bakersfield California

« on: February 18, 2025, 12:55:31 PM »

I just put mine in when I am going camping, otherwise I just put it in the garage. Works well for me so far, if you wanted to store it onboard you could maybe do 2 pieces so that it breaks down smaller, in which case you may be able to mount a storage for it on the fore side of the cuddy bulkhead or possibly on a wall of the hull inside the cuddy. For simplicity I just made a single piece and just either prop it up against the wall when I am not using it or just take it out of the boat altogether.

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General Discussion about the Great Alaskan / Re: EZ Anchor Puller is now out of business - plus seeking advice

« on: October 17, 2024, 09:21:26 AM »

Thanks Todd. I am actually in contact with the new company that Dan mentioned, and trying to find time to get out and get him a video of the problem happening. I definitely don't want to put the unit in power down if I can avoid it, but hoping I can come up with a solution somehow because it's really annoying when that loop of chain is flopping around. The last time I went out I did watch a little bit more closely as the rode paid out, and it seemed that the issue might be stemming from the rode being wound up too much in the center, and then the chain flopping off to the side as it is paid out. I will have to get this video though so that I can hopefully see exactly what's going on and get it figured out.

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General Discussion about the Great Alaskan / Re: EZ Anchor Puller is now out of business - plus seeking advice

« on: September 27, 2024, 08:18:49 AM »

Yep, I am aware of the motor position, just didn't want to put in the work when I received the winch because I was antsy to get my boat on the water and good seemed good enough. I did call their support at the time and ask them, specifically about the roller guide and the angle the rode was going to go across it, if it was ok to mount in that configuration, to which they said 'absolutely'. I think you could be right, I am going to add the project to my winter list of todos (growing by the day) and even if it doesn't solve the problem I think it will still be a win to reduce that angle and have a straighter run from the roller to the drum.

As for switching the wires, I don't think it's that simple for the rebel winches. Since the clutch for the free fall is integrated, unless that is disabled I don't think you can switch the motor polarity at will, as it would just free fall any time you wanted to pick it up and would be strictly power down. That trick would work on any of the non-free fall ones tho.

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General Discussion about the Great Alaskan / Re: EZ Anchor Puller is now out of business - plus seeking advice

« on: September 26, 2024, 07:49:12 PM »

Thanks Dan. Another thing that popped into my mind right now is that my winch is feeding line out from the bottom of the winch, due to how I wanted the motor oriented and to save myself some work when I initially received the winch. If I get a wild hair I may try to flip it around so that it feeds line off the top, which would involve me having to shift the orientation of the motor to the opposite way, perhaps a straighter run would allow it to do less stop and starting... Kind of grasping at hairs though at that point. I will try the UHMW trick first and see how that goes.