On my day off today I had planned some fishing but it has been raining hard all day so cursing and complaining at the weather I continued the TI3 project instead.
(Accually its silly to complaint of this light rain considering the situation down in Texas and now in the Carribeans/Florida with the Hurricanes. I hope people can get to safety and that Irma settles down before making landfall in Florida. Irma is a terrible storm and there might be more of them this season.
My toughts are with all the people down there and I also sent money for charity aid.)
Today I manufactured some stainless brackets that slide onto the 25x25mm tubes for the fighting-chair mount. They will be pop-riveted to the tube. The brackets clip onto the grabrail perfectly.
I fastened the fighting gimbal under the seat and added the extra bolts/tube supports and it now sits solid and can handle the load from the heavy rod/fish.
The seat is mounted with teporary bolts (I am missing the right lenght).
I tried the chair on the kayak. Seems to work pretty good. The seat is a bit high up but if I messured it correctly there is room to lower the grabrails about 7cm without hitting it with the feet when peddaling (the mirage drive is just under the seat).
"How silly is this??? A fighing fishingchair on a kayak??? This guy must be nuts!!!"
The stainless brackets will be cut a bit shorter and I will add bungys on the ends to tie around the grabrail to keep the chair in place.
The underside of the seat mount will be perfectly flat so it will be easy to store the chair out on the haka benches when not using it. I will just strap it down with the bungys.
Well time for some dinner and some well needed coffy. I will finish the build tonight and try the chair on the water the upcoming weekend.
If there is time left over later tonight I will mount the hydrofoil fins I got for the 4-Stroke.
This might be a very good idea but it might not work very well at all?! I really have no idea.
I just have to try and see what happens!
I hope the hydrofoil will give som lift in the rear and make the TI plane a bit better. The offset position of the outboard is a bit worrying but I hope the amas will balance the craft.
The fins were $20 so its a rather cheep experiment and if it works it would be grate!
I will post the result from the test with the fins, good or bad, I can allways remove them if they suck.
All the best!!
Gustav