Welder Bob

#1

Please post up some alloy porn of what you have been doing

#2

Heck ya!

#3

I know ,I've be really bad about taking pictures. We shipped one of our 20'Sea Mule flat bottom boats to a local dredge company. I didn't get one pictures, hoping to get out to there dredge job to see the boat working. Will get a few pictures of the 34' we're currently building tomorrow. We also started building fuel tanks for Stiegercraft. Of course there non-alloy, but at least we got together to keep the work local.

Welderbob

pjay9 · #4

welderbob wrote:I know ,I've be really bad about taking pictures. We shipped one of our 20'Sea Mule flat bottom boats to a local dredge company. I didn't get one pictures, hoping to get out to there dredge job to see the boat working. Will get a few pictures of the 34' we're currently building tomorrow. We also started building fuel tanks for Stiegercraft. Of course there non-alloy, but at least we got together to keep the work local.

Welderbob

We are not going to hold it against you in this economy...glad you have the work and it is staying local and in the USA.

#5

just typed a big long post only to lose it trying to attach the picture, now you get the short version. Put an aluminum deck on top of a 35' old houseboat hull. The yard did all the smell glass work and left us with bulkheads to bolt big angle on and weld our 1/4" deck to. Now we had something to work with. Built a 10 hp hydraulic power pack(which the customer rigged ) from an old sailboat diesel . Connected the pump to the transmission with a custom coupling and bracket. The "a" frame isw about 20' tall, not my idea. A little to tall for me. The capstan on the aft deck takes up the slack chain and the "A" frame lifts the anchor moves it to the deck. A 300 gpm hydraulic wash-down washes down the mud.

welderbob

#6

few more pictures

pjay9 · #7

She looks longer than 20' or is that a differnet boat...nice work and rugged looking...should work out well.

#8

different boat, red boat is 35'. don't know what happen to text above, will fix tonight.

#9

Bob did you see the series on Discovery "Fighting Tuna"

There was an alloy sport fisher out of Montauk wondering if you know the builder of that boat

#10

The boat is either the 35' Ocean Raider or the 41' Sea Monster. The 41' was originally The Queen Bess. they were both build by Tom Carney IE Thomas Marine. The 41' was the best riding boat he every built. Last I saw it it had been sold and was in Mass for a while, then made its way back to LI. I did a little work on it when it came back here about 4 years ago. It had a pair of 71 series vovlos that were souped -up to 480 hp (now they come that way ).
I worked with Tom when the Ocean Raider was built. A pair of 300 hp Cummins . Very nice riding boat for its size. Both those guys liked to bottom fish. The hulls were a modified twist ,Great boats to sit on anchor fishing a wreck.

Welderbob.

a LITTLE WEB RESEARCH SHOWS THAT THE BOAT IS THE "OCEAN RAIDER"

http://www.youtube.com/user/BLM26CC · #11

Been wondering, maybe someone knows if "that" show is the new "wicked Tuna" just with a new name...

Or is "wicked Tuna" coming back on also?

I liked Wicked Tuna better. They just had to toss the guy in there with the big plastic clorox bottle sportfish huh?
UGH.

#12

Took a few pictures of our current project. A 34; oil clean-up boat. It is designed to carry 1000 ft of oil boom, very fast. It will have a pair of 350 hp Yamaha's. Should have it acid washed this week, Then finish the rigging,