SV Seeker

[low bum]

He can rock those blades fore and aft with his hand. I'm speechless. Slop in the prop. And it's only going to get worse as it wears until I guess it just explodes. But like every failure, that'll "actually be a good thing" for some reason.

And scraping the bottom of that monster with a 2" chisel is "fun". He's gonna get a kick out of it he says. I guess for fun he also cleans sidewalks with toothbrushes. Doesn't he need a 100 ton Travel Lift to haul out? Those things don't grow on trees.

 

[_samwise_]

doug forgot that centrifugal force exists, when that big mass of prop meets large tolerances and starts to spin that .5 inch disappears pretty quick.

 

[WhoaTed]

Department of Redundancy Department?

Nothing wrong with ignorance as long as you’re doing something about it.

Unfortunately many US Americans aren’t.

 

[Black Sox]

I love the greeting to the "friend" by sound signal - "I am turning to Port"

 

[justsomeguy!]

Nothing wrong with ignorance as long as you’re doing something about it.

Unfortunately many US Americans aren’t.

It was a double entendre, without the risque part, which could have been construed as either between "ignorant" and "American", or "US" and "American".
Of course, if you have to explain the joke...

 

[mathystuff]

Someone should tell him about antifouling.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Who told you about antifouling? Your mom?

 

[Raz'r]

Someone should tell him about antifouling.

So - he's looking for a gear reduction as he believes he's overpropped (won't say it, but says the engine is lugging and running hot) and he's carrying around a national parks worth of hard growth, including on the propellor? AND he knows the propellor is smashing something and has since he launched? jeebus, the lack-of-knowledge burns!

 

[Raz'r]

Who told you about antifouling? Your mom?

actually, I think so. The first year we kept a boat in the water. Even though it was fresh water.

 

[low bum]

Someone should tell him about antifouling.

There you people go again with your inside the box thinking. Don't you know you can make antifouling with a gallon of house paint and 2 cans of cayenne pepper?

 

[WhoaTed]

I saw him undo the latch and thought the same thing that the guy mentioned. But as per usual, Dougie says just be careful.... sure, when the boat is rolling about you should be able to just hold that door open cause you know..... you caught your hand once in a car door so now you know better. What a buffoon. Off with the fingers....

It was a double entendre, without the risque part, which could have been construed as either between "ignorant" and "American", or "US" and "American".
Of course, if you have to explain the joke...

Yea I got it, I wasn’t lecturing just making an observation.

 

[justsomeguy!]

Yea I got it, I wasn’t lecturing just making an observation.

Yep. Ignorance can be cured, but it may take some effort.

 

[kent_island_sailor]

He can rock those blades fore and aft with his hand. I'm speechless. Slop in the prop. And it's only going to get worse as it wears until I guess it just explodes. But like every failure, that'll "actually be a good thing" for some reason.

And scraping the bottom of that monster with a 2" chisel is "fun". He's gonna get a kick out of it he says. I guess for fun he also cleans sidewalks with toothbrushes. Doesn't he need a 100 ton Travel Lift to haul out? Those things don't grow on trees.

I want to haul this ungainly contraption out at your marina please.
(OH HELL NO) Well that is interesting. Please let us see your insurance paperwork.
* pro tip, the marina's insistence on paperwork varies with the odds of inheriting a hulk that will never get fixed or launched

 

[Autonomous]

Regarding the prop rubbing the nozzle. In addition to prop slop, could the nozzle be flexing as the prop pulls water in when underway?

 

[chester]

doug forgot that centrifugal force exists, when that big mass of prop meets large tolerances and starts to spin that .5 inch disappears pretty quick.

and yet that has not occurred to Doug at all...it's just marine growtrh

 

[Rasputin22]

Nice marine railway only about 10 miles east.

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They are already practicing hauling out the SEEKER!

 

[Raz'r]

Nah, do it Minnesota style like to guy who hauled a massive mobo with a converted trailer-house trailer. booyah!

 

[Zonker]

But like every failure, that'll "actually be a good thing" for some reason.

"It's actually good news" that my propeller is hitting a fixed part of the boat and going thump, thump, thump. He must have been in marketing.

 

[sculpin]

True, just ignore it long enough and they'll shave themselves down...

 

[SPatton]

It's all good, any entertainment is better than the interminable sealioning.

Who's sealioning?