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Re: What is freeboard?
Hey Cuda, if that Formula was any older it would be a Thunderbird. :D
I had a 1979 Nova 210XL that had super high freeboard like that. 22 feet long and like 10 feet tall on the trailer. :D Super high transom too. Was out in stuff so nasty in that boat that it was more like surfing than boating. |
Re: What is freeboard?
Originally Posted by CigDaze
Here's what can happen if there's not enough freeboard:
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Re: What is freeboard?
Originally Posted by noboat
Hot Boat, did you do the conversion yourself? Did you have to relocate throttles, shifters, etc or modify the helm? Any before and after pic.
Nice looking Scarab by the way! :D I have some before photos but no after. I will be pulling the boat out of storage soon . I'll try and post photos in the next few weeks in the Scarab forum. The seats are from Twin marine. I find them more comfortable that the PPI seats. The steering wheel was moved 7" closer to the seat and the throttle was relocated as well. Trick marine has a pod to relocate your throttle. I made my own seat brackets out of 2" X 6" angle aluminum. We are going to make a center console between the seats to locate the throttle in the middle so that I can have a throttle man. |
Re: What is freeboard?
Originally Posted by Chuck
Is that from the Lake Cumberland Poker Run last Sept.?
That pic looked like a Fountain. The boat from the poker run that flipped and sunk near the falls was a Nordic. |
Re: What is freeboard?
So my 'freeboard' is anything from 4' to 1'......right? I measure with one of those self roll up steel yard sticks. :drink:
For the record, I always considered it to be from the cockpit floor to the top side also. But I ain't reading no boaters 'bible' to learn otherwise. ;) |
Re: What is freeboard?
Originally Posted by US1 Fountain
That pic looked like a Fountain. The boat from the poker run that flipped and sunk near the falls was a Nordic.
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Originally Posted by US1 Fountain
That pic looked like a Fountain. The boat from the poker run that flipped and sunk near the falls was a Nordic.
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Re: What is freeboard?
Well, acccording the owners friend who just happened to be there also, it was a mechanical issue. He was trimming while making that turn and one of the drives did not trim. Amazing, the roughest, sharpest, wildest wild, and tightest turn on the lake, and it decides to malfunction right there. It's never operator error. :D
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Re: What is freeboard?
Originally Posted by US1 Fountain
Well, acccording the owners friend who just happened to be there also, it was a mechanical issue. He was trimming while making that turn and one of the drives did not trim. Amazing, the roughest, sharpest, wildest wild, and tightest turn on the lake, and it decides to malfunction right there. It's never operator error. :D
I loved that turn in the Bullet...Nobody ever hung with me there ! :D |
Re: What is freeboard?
Originally Posted by birdog
This is the Cumberland PR boat {Nordic}..It had nothing to do with Freeboard...Sometning about tight turns, steps & speed :D
I guess that's the redeeming factor on my slow azz ride. No steps, no pads, no speed. :D I can turn however I want. :D (well, you know what I mean.) |
Re: What is freeboard?
Originally Posted by fund razor
If that guy wants to flip it back up he needs to get out on the bow farther. :D
I guess that's the redeeming factor on my slow azz ride. No steps, no pads, no speed. :D I can turn however I want. :D (well, you know what I mean.) heavier line...After that it was to late.. :( Feel bad for the guy..I heard it was a new boat |
Re: What is freeboard?
42" in my 42'...more great stuff from Fountain. :evilb:
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Re: What is freeboard?
Originally Posted by rouxsterre
I think that somehow you misinterpreted my post.
First, it is clearly obvious that not ALL SF'ers have a broken shear, but a broken shear is most often found on SF'er ( for the fighting cockpit ) . . . Second, there are many 'Hats' that feature a broken shear. Look to the 44's and above. Third. Hell you can land a bluefish or a flounder from the flybridge. Your DAD's Knowles looks like a nice seaworthy hull, but I don't think you are enlightening anyone, in stating that "You want a nice high bow for bigger seas" . . . . correct. You sure don't want a 'jet-boat' profile for bluewater navigation. . . . Hopefully we are clear now. For SF boats, cockpit depth is important. You want the coaming to be above the knee to about mid thigh. Any higher and it won't give you the ability to get your knees under the gunnel and hang on while having two hands on the rod. Freeboard up in the bow is also important, to give you headroom in the cabin, w/o having to pop the deck above the sheer, giving you a trunk cabin. But you are saying you are concerned w/ the lowest point of freeboard on the boat, which should be the stern. So you would be concerned w/ water coming over the back... correct? |
Re: What is freeboard?
Originally Posted by noboat
Storm, you're right the bolsters are very nice in my 24. Like I said I haven't even driven the boat yet. But standing in the bolsters and being so high above everything feels "weird" for lack of a better word.
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Re: What is freeboard?
Originally Posted by fund razor
Me too....
I can't wait to to plot a course on my maps and cast off the ropes. :D |
Re: What is freeboard?
It used to OSO :eek:
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Re: What is freeboard?
They call it "freeboard", but remember this: In boating, nothing's free.
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