They're Baaaaaack

signal charlie

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Pandemic Pod Tetris - We had planned a move this Summer, and in prep we shipped a Pod of Fish to Virginia last September. Move is postponed, Pod rental expensive, so we recalled the Pod. It came in today and there was a little reunion today for ZSA ZSA, WINNIE, ZIP, MADISON, SMEDLEY and ZIP. And a lot of Carriage House Flotsam washed back ashore too.

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Lesson Learned, lines stretch. I should have braced ZIP with a cross brace, she sagged down onto MADISON's swivel cam cleat and the truck must have hit a few bumps. But now we'll get to share a post on How To Install a Dutchman aka Graving Piece. ZIP needed a Leak Test anyway, she was taking on a little water. BTW the hull is 3/8th inch plywood.

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ZIP's bottom was hiding a secret that we discovered back in 2016, she had a nice little dutchman repair sometime in her past.

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ZSA ZSA jumping ship.

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Sunfish Shack at capacity.

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Luckily the Finishing Dolly was available since WAVE was finished last week, ZIP will roll right into rehab. WINNIE led the parade.

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SC, despite the damage, those are some nice boats... and the Sunfish Shack is awesome, LOL. :cool:

As a former OTR truck driver, let me add that the truck will ALWAYS hit bumps, particularly in road work, and even the heavy-duty suspension can't protect some objects that get hurled about inside the wagon or trailer. Securement & padding are important. A good example of 'migration' inside a rental truck: in a fairly recent move, I tossed two bikes atop the pile of furniture and whatnot in the cargo compartment, and after hitting what must have been a hundred bumps over 1350 miles, those bike pedals had scratched up EVERYTHING in sight, LOL. The blankets I had thrown down for protection were displaced by movement, so the metal pedals gouged & scratched up some furniture... one pedal wound up putting a hole in a cardboard moving box. Luckily, none of the damage was critical, and I was able to hide it by placing furniture a certain way or tossing a Mexican blanket on top as a tablecloth, LOL. :D

Some of those bumps I hit back in the day while hauling freight in a 53' wagon, I'd swear on a stack of SKATEBOARDER MAGAZINES that those bumps were at least a foot high, LOL... :eek:

Even my air-ride seat would get hammered by those bumps, moi being tossed around as if I were on some carnival ride... and I'm not exactly small, pushing 200 lbs. or so. Crazy bumps out there, believe me, can't stress enough padding and protection for cargo, and proper securement too. ;)

CHEERS!!! :rolleyes:
 
Coastal, I was only kidding myself thinking some lines would be enough, I put them in a metal box with zero padding. It was Florida September 115 Heat Index when we loaded them, and we were in a hurry. I might have at least thrown some type of cushioning between the boats. We also go a small gelcoat rub on MADISON. The boats got payback though, they tagged the floor of the Pod. WINNIE left a streak of Valspar Whipped Apricot down one side and CHIP left TotalBoat WetEdge BlueGlo White down the other side.
 
Haha, those color streaks will add character, LOL... next folks who rent the pod will think some "artiste" worked on masterpieces inside, AYE? ;)

I can hear 'em now: "I BET THOSE WORKS ARE HANGING IN THE LOUVRE!!!" :rolleyes:
 

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