TIMS powered trials
Finally, the Kingston rain stopped (John Bell won't believe that) and
we got around to some powered trials of the TIMS Towboat and Sharpie
bow unit lashed together with a 9.9 at the square end this afternoon.
It performed far batter than I'd hoped, and completely quashed my
fears of a horrible, square boat flop. Hmmmmm, I wonder how an 8 foot
beam model would do??????
Only lashed, with a pair of frapping rings, on the upper cleats, she
easily lifted onto a plane with my "demure" 230 pounds at the tiller.
There was NO appreciable snaking effect, and only a little bit of
vertical play between the two units. Which can be seen in the shots.
I'd been afraid she'd be unmanageble at anything over an idle speed.
But she spun away at well over 12 knots (wish I'd had a GPS) wide
open, turned fine, backed across a 12 mph (18 kph) sidewind, and had
NO problem with the 1 foot chop this generated in Kingston's inner
harbour.
I also tried Timmy The Tiniest Towboat under power without the bow
unit and that was very workable too. But to plane her I had to use
the tiller extension and move my mass towards the centre of the
vessel. I'll add a bolt on Jon Boat bow extension for operation alone.
The batteries on the digital were recharging, but we got half a dozen
nice shots on a disposable, which I splurged the extra buck (heck,
it's only a Canadian buck!) for the one hour service on. I'll scan
them tomorrow morning at the office and post a link asap.
By golly, I think the dang thing will work....
Bruce Hector
http://www.brucesboats.com
Hastily slapping a metal drilling template together to make precisely
aligned bolt holes for an even more ridgid TIMS.
we got around to some powered trials of the TIMS Towboat and Sharpie
bow unit lashed together with a 9.9 at the square end this afternoon.
It performed far batter than I'd hoped, and completely quashed my
fears of a horrible, square boat flop. Hmmmmm, I wonder how an 8 foot
beam model would do??????
Only lashed, with a pair of frapping rings, on the upper cleats, she
easily lifted onto a plane with my "demure" 230 pounds at the tiller.
There was NO appreciable snaking effect, and only a little bit of
vertical play between the two units. Which can be seen in the shots.
I'd been afraid she'd be unmanageble at anything over an idle speed.
But she spun away at well over 12 knots (wish I'd had a GPS) wide
open, turned fine, backed across a 12 mph (18 kph) sidewind, and had
NO problem with the 1 foot chop this generated in Kingston's inner
harbour.
I also tried Timmy The Tiniest Towboat under power without the bow
unit and that was very workable too. But to plane her I had to use
the tiller extension and move my mass towards the centre of the
vessel. I'll add a bolt on Jon Boat bow extension for operation alone.
The batteries on the digital were recharging, but we got half a dozen
nice shots on a disposable, which I splurged the extra buck (heck,
it's only a Canadian buck!) for the one hour service on. I'll scan
them tomorrow morning at the office and post a link asap.
By golly, I think the dang thing will work....
Bruce Hector
http://www.brucesboats.com
Hastily slapping a metal drilling template together to make precisely
aligned bolt holes for an even more ridgid TIMS.