Start to Finish: Building Our 50' Skater
03-10-2016, 11:18 PM
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You can get more volume by using the sides and bottom of the boat as fuel tank. It would be a very complicated aluminum tank to follow the sides, bottom and go over the stringers. The aluminum would add weight but not really any structural strength like the laminate does. Aluminum welds can crack, and the aluminum will corrode in the salt water environment.
03-10-2016, 11:32 PM
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The top tanks finished.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]552142[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]552143[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]552144[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]552142[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]552143[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]552144[/ATTACH]
Last edited by BigSilverCat; 03-10-2016 at 11:37 PM.
03-11-2016, 05:39 AM
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Great engineers at Skater!
looking awesome!
what brand electronics are in the plans?
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Great engineers at Skater!
looking awesome!
what brand electronics are in the plans?
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03-11-2016, 08:05 AM
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I am treating the boat as two completely separate boats from port to starboard. One engine will have two batteries hooked to it and 1 GPS, and 1 vhf radio and that is it. The other engine will have two batteries and all the rest of the electrical components, bilge pumps, lights, air compressor, radio, blender, ect.
This is the starboard SIMRAD system, nema and Ethernet diagrams.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]552150[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]552151[/ATTACH]
03-11-2016, 08:06 AM
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This is the port SIMRAD system, nema and Ethernet diagrams.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]552153[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]552154[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]552155[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]552156[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]552153[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]552154[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]552155[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]552156[/ATTACH]
03-11-2016, 08:26 AM
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. . . . gotta have a blender
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03-11-2016, 08:42 AM
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You can get more volume by using the sides and bottom of the boat as fuel tank. It would be a very complicated aluminum tank to follow the sides, bottom and go over the stringers. The aluminum would add weight but not really any structural strength like the laminate does. Aluminum welds can crack, and the aluminum will corrode in the salt water environment.
