Home-made...lets see some other home-made stuff!.

[Semi]

$12.00 of 2" galvanized rigid emt (10' stick)
$10.00 of marine-grade carpet
$12.00 of U-bolts
(Already had the treated 1" x 6")
1.5 hours


$12.00 of 1-1/4" galvanized rigid emt (10' stick)
$5.00 of 1-1/4 pvc (10' stick)
$6.00 of 2" pvc (10' stick)
$2.00 for 2" caps
$1.50 for pipe insulation (10' stick)
1/2 a roll of electrical tape to wrap insulation.
(I already had the pipe bender)
3 hours

[Reel-Rascals]

Here's what I added to my Parker 25' Sport Cabin:

Custom teak/mahogany galley with 2-burner propane stove and freshwater supply to the sink in a :

Cost = $100 materials, less stove ($125), sink ($30), drawer knobs ($7 each) but plenty of design and labor time !

Home-made Radar Mount: Bought a new helm seat base at a sportsmen's flea market for $25, added a 3" solid aluminum plug into the top, cut both at a 4-degree "down bubble" towards the bow, added a starboard top from the scrap pile, plus a rubber grommet into the rear of the tube for the cable.

Cost = $30 tops

Custom Pulpit: Just added this season ... after last Fall's collision where an errant boat hit mine while on the mooring, not 2 days before pulling her for the season :

Cost = $300 materials and labor (biscuit & epoxy construction) to have it made to my design ... full-size plans available to anyone that wants it. The 8" 3/8 316 SS bolts were $8 each ... had to order them from Washington State

Home-made Toe Rails:

Cost = My design and labor, just $20 for the mahogany stock

Home-made Custom Dash Switch Panel with backlighting and integrated Bennett trim tab switch:

Cost = My design and labor, just one piece of 1/4" thick CPG Seaboard and some black spraypaint

[Semi]

The Home-made Radar Mount is really original !

How much $$$ is one actually designed & manufactured ?

[Sea_Dad]

wow reel, you are a clever fellow.

Hey show a pic of the backlights.

[good_enough]

Here is my solution for low branches and wires on the street:

[warthog5]

That's nice good_enough. What's the boomarang thing from.

[Vectorfisher]

Rascal Im going codfishing with you we can have a fish chowda for the ride back in

[Thom]

Here's a simple Rocket Launcher I made a while back. I had the hunk of Walnut from some timber I had sawn some years ago so I simply went to a friends and planed a chunk, drew up a template on heavy paper, like it, so I cut out the wood. I already had all of the hardware but it would have gone like this, the cheap rod holders cost about $15 each. The Pedistal and seat bracket would probably cost $40. I made up the little hookholders under each side from scrap aluminum, the Gimbol, that is really more for show than any really useful purpose would run you around $25 I suppose. Nuts, bolts, and finish, maybe another $15. I like it for holding rods when trolling if there are just two of us on the boat.

http://users.westco.net/tandjlm/pics...t-launcher.JPG

[shoes]

here's something I made at home to go onto a 2450# bunk trailer I had sitting around. Cost about $11,500 not counting tailer and kicker motor.

http://groups.msn.com/bricog/tolmanskiff.msnw

[good_enough]

warthog5 - 5/13/2004 6:38 PM

That's nice good_enough. What's the boomarang thing from.

Boomerang-like thing is routed from 3 pieces of King Starboard sandwiched together for extra thickness.

[Sea_Dad]

man shoes I cant decide whish is easier to look at. The boat or the background. You're a lucky man.

[blacklabmarine]

Hi Shoes..

Good to see another person from Maine - nice skiff.* Where'd you get the plans - looks like it could be welded out of plate alloy.

You did a great job!

[shoes]

Blacklab, the boat's an Alaskan Sea Skiff by Renn Tolman. Here's a link to the book containing the plans:
http://www.xyz.net/~mgrt/

and a link to pics of the other hulls he's designed
www.fishyfish.com (follow Tolman Skiff link)

BTW, I commend your support of the Lab rescue program. I just adopted a yellow lab mix from Tennessee thru Labs4rescue.

[Steelhant]

From drawings, except engine
http://thehulltruth.net/photos/photo...sp?albumid=481

[inkahootz]

good_enough, what did you use to glue the starboard together? That looks really nice with the two different colors. I thought it was Corian at first.

[silverg]

Very nice work here gentleman.

[HOTSPOT]

Trolling rack.

$30 for the aluminum angle
6 pack for the welder
12 pack for me

[okletsfish]

Here`s a few radar mount from 1/4" al plate
Butt section or 80# Calstar Grafighter standup
LED tail lights on Loadmaster trailer

[ReelWork]

Man, some of you fellas a pretty talented! I have ideas that I would like to attempt to fabricate, but I doubt that mine would look as good as some of yours..

[scubadown]

Yeah, what do you use to glue starboard together, PVC glue?