bash guard

butty · 16 March 2016, 20:17

had a bit of time lately so have been finishing off some items i starting making last summer.

This is a Carbon fibre bow bash guard, it is due to the height of pontoons being perfect to fit just under the tubes at the bow...

i have a keel guard to finish and fit next.....

Poly · 16 March 2016, 20:34

So is the carbon just for prettiness? I understood it wasn't significantly better than GRP in compressive strength.

butty · 16 March 2016, 22:21

Looks and strength compared to gel coat.

the grp v carbon is all about type of cloth used and the variation in weave layup.

This is purely to stop the gel coat getting chipped and is easy to re paint.

A1an · 16 March 2016, 23:13

I luuurv carbon fibre.

I'd like one of those guards but I'd sit it on my coffee table and admire it.

Looks sweet.

Mollers · 16 March 2016, 23:18

Personally, I prefer not to drive into stuff.

A1an · 16 March 2016, 23:19

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Originally Posted by Mollers

Personally, I prefer not to drive into stuff.

Where's your sense of adventure?

Mollers · 16 March 2016, 23:23

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Originally Posted by A1an

Where's your sense of adventure?

Pointing it out to sea, not at lumps of granite and concrete.

butty · 17 March 2016, 10:20

Thanks, helpful and useful contributions there........

When you use a boat most days and are loading gear and equipment into it, dropping people off and picking up with not much time to spare in cross tides, sometime, just sometimes you come bow in, now in your sea rider its low so you would not ride up onto the pontoon, but I suffer from a higher bow, so to save my gel coat have fitted this, I take your point.

but think it's Not helpful......

Thanks

steco1958 · 17 March 2016, 11:27

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Originally Posted by butty

Thanks, helpful and useful contributions there........

When you use a boat most days and are loading gear and equipment into it, dropping people off and picking up with not much time to spare in cross tides, sometime, just sometimes you come bow in, now in your sea rider its low so you would not ride up onto the pontoon, but I suffer from a higher bow, so to save my gel coat have fitted this, I take your point.

but think it's Not helpful......

Thanks

Chill,,I doubt if there is any harm in their banter,,they probably jealous they didn't design something like that, it does look nice

otilly · 17 March 2016, 13:49

Butty, I absolutely love it! Can you make one for me too? I have the roughly the same bow.

Did you glue something to the tube as well? looks like it

butty · 17 March 2016, 15:15

When I had the tubes made and fitted I got them to put a reinforcement patch on there, it's the same as all the other wear patches.

I can make one, but has to be made on the boat so it fits correctly..... Then taken away, trimmed, sanded and painted....

otilly · 17 March 2016, 15:31

Sounds like impossible, then. Me in The Netherlands and you overthere. Oh well. I'll keep dreaming then.
Such a shame.

Poly · 17 March 2016, 15:46

i think it looks great, but I'd be just as worried (if not more) about it getting damaged as the gel - afterall scruffy carbon isn't quite as "sexy".

As a cosmetic feature I like it. For a "bash guard", I'd maybe have used some rubber - like you might expect of "commercial" boats that are driven at things.

Mollers · 17 March 2016, 16:05

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Originally Posted by Poly

i think it looks great, but I'd be just as worried (if not more) about it getting damaged as the gel - afterall scruffy carbon isn't quite as "sexy".

As a cosmetic feature I like it. For a "bash guard", I'd maybe have used some rubber - like you might expect of "commercial" boats that are driven at things.

A bowfender!

In my drinking days, there was a rather plain looking young bird who worked behind the bar at a well known Falmouth night club. One of our lot nicknamed her 'Bowfender'. Mrs M gives me a right dirty look when I spot the girl in town these days and utter, 'Oh look, it's Bowfender'.