My boat is like a duck floating on the water

[Andy]

Apparently...

Comment from someone today.

I have been running around in those lovely 25-30knot nor easters in moreton bay for the yacht club the last few months. Big outgoing tides + 30knots NE breeze = a good solid 2m chop, and it is the variety of chop that is really steep and always breaks on you. Despite the solid stream of water that seems to flow directly from the bow to my head, the boat has been handling the conditions really well, and its getting noticed by everyone out on the water.

I swear the naval architect that designed the polycraft was an angry person that designed the bow to funnel water directly at your head. The water never lands in the boat, it always shoots over the opposite stern quarter.

[bbayjohn]

Are those sailors teasing you wet head Andy :)

[Dave]

Thats great to hear about the handling characteristics of the boat Andy.

It would be a confidence booster to those that own one.

Have you considered the chines mod that Bones and Geobec have done to theirs. It would be a great test for them considering the conditions you are in.

Maybe you could find a plastic welder who would be interesting in diversifying his business a bit and your boat could be the test bed for him. I.E. cheaper price...:rolleyes:

[Pirate Pete]

Some of the pics I have seen of the welding rods Polycraft supply look to me that if you used 1 as the Chine & then welded it on with another rod the Chine would be about the size of the ones on most ally boats & there for you wouldnt need to get the right coloured sheet of poly to cut them out of.

That would be then be an easy thing for Polycraft to do direct from the factory.

[Andy]

I couldn't be arsed putting in those spray rails. The boat spends (or used to) most of its time up esturies where its not really an issue.

Now if polycraft would just flatten out the bow a little and maybe rake the shearline up toward the bow it would be the perfect boat.

[Brucesta]

they need to taper the lip of the small channel on the bottom of the hull to a point, that TINY bit of spray coming into the boat when it shouldn't on a good day frustrates the f&*k out of me.

I must say even with heaps of water in the boat the polycrafts do still perform well, jealousy is a bitch aye!

[Dave]

Back in the ole days, the 70's, pretty much all the fibreglass boats had a flared bow on them.. very dry except in the worse conditions.

Ur right Bruce... its a fooken pinta!

[Mark]

Hey All,
Well lucky for me that most off the mods suggested are std on the Triumph. I have taken many different people in the boat for Tournaments @ the Gold coast and the complement is always how smooth the ride and how dry you stay. I'm like Andy and living in Scarborough I also tackle the dreaded Moreton Bay chop. Seabreeze says a lovely 10 Knot max blow with 1.0 Meter swell, and it always turns out to be a 25 Knot x 2.5M Swell on the way home. Even with the bow splash rails, coming home with a cross wind of 25Knots we ALL get wet LOL.

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[Andy]

Hey All,
Well lucky for me that most off the mods suggested are std on the Triumph. I have taken many different people in the boat for Tournaments @ the Gold coast and the complement is always how smooth the ride and how dry you stay. I'm like Andy and living in Scarborough I also tackle the dreaded Moreton Bay chop. Seabreeze says a lovely 10 Knot max blow with 1.0 Meter swell, and it always turns out to be a 25 Knot x 2.5M Swell on the way home. Even with the bow splash rails, coming home with a cross wind of 25Knots we ALL get wet LOL.

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The only way you will stay dry in that sh*t is by getting a boat with a cabin!!!

[Pirate Pete]

I have a cabin but stil waiting on the clears . . . . . . .

So I still get wet. . . . . .

[Dave]

Its not so much the spray thats bad, its being hit by the chucks of ice as they smash off the icebergs you keep hitting Pete ... (whistle)

[Pirate Pete]

Its not so much the spray thats bad, its being hit by the chucks of ice as they smash off the icebergs you keep hitting Pete ... (whistle)

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Miss Jane]

I have a cabin but stil waiting on the clears . . . . . . .

So I still get wet. . . . . .

At the moment it is so windy that it is not worth investing in the clears. Today there were even white caps in the river....................:(:(:(:(

[Luke G]

Clears are the best thing i've brought for mine!