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  1. While that's probably a bit on the hillbilly end you could probably do that and pour foam around them which would reduce weight/cost of the foam considerably. Another thing to consider is that if you're in there it wouldn't be terribly complex to install drain bulkheads through the stringers into the bilge, pretty typical on sail boats you don't fill them with foam because that has weight and not too uncommon to have pumps to move water around for ballasting so you could insert bulkheads and sealer the inside of the pocket then glue down the floors and have essentially air float.
  2. I'm in the do or don't crowd. While I buy the concept of both structural and floatation arguments I have also worked on enough boats where it was completely waterlogged, poorly installed to begin with, and not well bonded to he surface and plenty of photos of boats "with foam" taking a nap on the bottom
  3. I use the starbright but add a bit more boiled linseed oil to it, there is already a mixture of boiled linseed and tung oil in the teak oil but I find a bit more linseed helps it cure a bit quicker otherwise I have trouble keeping up with it through the summer just not enough times that the teak is nice and dry and I don't want to use the boat soon so the extra linseed speeds up the cure.
  4. When I use this technique I draw a block with a row of holes in progressive sizes like doing a tolerance test in the material I plan on using. Then I can do a dry run and pick the tolerance for my part. Same with any interface dials it in fast because it also depends on other settings in your print.
  5. Another side line of this story is that Tommy's separately is in litigation with their lender with Tommy's having sold some 20 million in inventory that's collateralized with the lender and not reporting those sales. Which while maybe not simple theft indicates that they are quite behind on their bills. The other interesting bit is that part of Malibu's claim is that their agreement with Malibu was for a 65/35 Malibu/Axis product split but that Malibu hadn't been delivering the Axis boats agreed upon. So while the focus here is on Malibu it is possible that Malibu has really cut back on production of anything lower margin for them (axis and Txi program?) Hopefully people here haven't already paid Tommy's for a boat pending delivery because I anticipate that the inventory is going to be tied up.
  6. @LK_skier run it in ASA and model two channels in the part for metal pins to be inserted from the other end sized so you can thread stainless allthread into the holes don't bother trying to thread just warm the allthread with a heatgun in your drill chuck and run them in. then you can cut those off flush with a zip disk and the plastic part is confined. I don't have a connelly so I haven't tried building these but that's my technique for brackets in cars the threaded rod is a cheap fast way to internally pin the part right through potential weak points. If there is a local olympic archery range another easy material to snag for this is their "bent" arrow shafts which are bent by a few thousandths over a length of ~28" model the hole for a very slight interference which just print a test block of holes around the size of the shaft then insert with a bit of epoxy and you have a part that is extremely resistant to warping.
  7. More like Derrick Rose going from Adidas to Nike.
  8. Do you swim out and take the temps in the middle of the course after a few passes or right there by the dock?
  9. @Mastercrafter something the syndicate team seemed to have done well this summer was support the European events, which of course was probably hard on the ranking of some of the people who didn't.
  10. @HortonThey are very nicely made as well as high end of finish as any of the other top skis. I think the Mustang would sell well here too. Mostly I was being a bit tongue and cheek about the HO april first but seriously that wouldn't be a bad ski for his kid.
  11. I mounted the 67 with some HO XL boots and my 11.5/12 foot is LOOSE in that boot. I bought a 65 hovercraft and moved thebregular bindings to this. This is the summer for 2 up pontoon hovercrafting.
  12. I'd do the carbon omni not much more $ and won't be wondering. it also comes with an adjustable fin which the lower spec does not.
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