F-Ribs And Sibs - Inflatable Boat Community

I like a bit of metal detecting myself, and I would like to combine a day of boating with beach-combing and metal detecting. The trouble is that since the interesting times of Vikings, Jacobites and 19th Century shipwrecks there have been a couple of nasty world wars and a lot of practising with unp...

That's exactly the type I use! Well done.

We just had a brilliant weekend up north, fantastic weather and a bit of fishing.

Haven't a clue. I'll try to get a photo but my boat is miles away, don't hold your breath...

DSCF6396aR.jpg DSCF6395hdr#r.jpg DSCF6392a#r.jpg DSCF6391a#r.jpg A Canadian canoe is a lovely boat for still waters, but in wind they just catch the wind like a sail and you get blown away. I take an electric trawling motor (with deep-cycle caravan/boat battery) as used by trout fishermen to get me...

I fitted launch wheels to my Honwave 4m, but the inflatable tyres soon perished and the valves corroded. Also the thin tyres would sink into gravel, sand or pebbles. I overcame this by removing the wheels with their inflatable tyres, and fitted solid plastic wheels with broad flat, solid rubber tyre...