PULCHRITUDE is launched!

[AngWood]

Dudes:

April's here, and I finally finished my big motorboat. I desined her myself and cold-molded her out of luaun underlayment. Here's a picture of her after I pushed her off (well, mostly off) the beach with my tractor.

http://www.frenchcreekboatsales.com/images/PW1345_Severn_Dragon_01.jpg

Some of the plywood started peeling up on the bottom when it got wet, but I slapped some silicone bathtub calking on her and I think she'll be fine. She's powered by a four-cylinder gas engine from an old Aries K car.

Happy April first, dudes! ;)

[MJC]

How'd you set up her gronicles?

[nedL]

:D

[Venchka]

Originally posted by MJC:
How'd you set up her gronicles?Gronicles? Everybody who knows anything knows boats in Luziana ain't got gronicles! :D

Way to go, AngWood!

[JimD]

Wow! A project that big must have been quite an undertaking. Did you ever get discouraged at just how much work it was? I bet altogether she took several days from start to finish!

[Greg H]

Did you take the engine out of the car or just build the boat around it?

[rbgarr]

LOL! You mean like in the children's book 'Mike Mulligan's Steam Shovel'??

The boat was named after the car inside. Those K-cars were such beauties! :D

[ 04-01-2004, 07:07 PM: Message edited by: rbgarr ]

[JimD]

Those K-cars were such beauties! And reliable! They would go forever. Or at least 2 yrs or twenty thousand miles, whichever came first

[AngWood]

Yes, you just open the garage door in the transom, drive in the K car, remove the front wheels, bolt the port wheel hub to a transmission coupler, and fire it up. There's a stick that I tie onto the gear shift, then pass through a hole up into the wheelhouse. There's another stick that I use to push on the accelerator.

[Jess Potter]

Man,
When I first looked at that I thought it was sitting in a blacktop parking lot. :D

[Leon m]

I hope ya got some fuzzy dice hanging in the wheel
house...they bring good luck ya know...Dude.

[Hwyl]

Originally posted by AngWood:
Yes, you just open the garage door in the transom, drive in the K car, remove the front wheels, bolt the port wheel hub to a transmission coupler, and fire it up. There's a stick that I tie onto the gear shift, then pass through a hole up into the wheelhouse. There's another stick that I use to push on the accelerator.I've seen a boat like that, actually it was a catamaran,or pontoon boat; you drove the car up ramps and there were wheels to engage the drive wheels of the car. I seem to remember steering connected to pads for the fron wheels, but this is through a 20 year time lag. It was in the Real Club Nautico in Palma Mallorca, it was well engineered, I never saw it used though.