Elling 350KB as a sea fishing platform?

[Gray]

Good to hear it has arrived. The pressure for the tubes is on the transom plate and the pressure for the floor is written on the valve. I limo up the tube on the underside to 4.5 bar. Where did you get those pressures from? They seem a little different to mine!!!

Here are a few pics from a fishing session yesterday.

[Oldman]

Pressures in PSI are 3.5 for Bow and side tubes, 12 psi floor & 4.5 the keel

The retailer gave the pressures above. Ive not bothered to unwrap the boat or floor yet, didnt see the point if I couldnt clear up what pressure everything should be at.
The handbook is in bar so here are the google psi conversions.

Book says 3 tubes 2.2psi normal, 3.2psi max & seller says 3.5psi normal
Book says air floor 7.3psi normal, 10.2psi max & seller says 12psi normal
Book says Keel sausage 3.2psi no normal or max & seller says 4.5psi normal

Some nice bass there, good to see your using and enjoying yours.

[Gray]

Just go by what is written on the transom plate and floor valve. I'm at work but I'm sure mine is 0.2 bar tubes and 0.7 bar floor.

[Oldman]

Just go by what is written on the transom plate and floor valve. I'm at work but I'm sure mine is 0.2 bar tubes and 0.7 bar floor.

Yes thanks, I just unwrapped the red bag and the transom does say .2 bar max which is 2.9 psi
The floor says .7 bar max which is 10.2 psi
I didnt see anything on the keel so im guessing its the same as the tubes .2 bar or 2.9 psi and not 4.5 psi like the dealer suggested.

I encountered my first problem, the floor valve had stiching coming out through the valve past the rubber diaphram so it was holding the valve open. I got the supplied valve spanner and tried undoing the valve, it went round and round (anticlock) but wasnt coming out! I removed the spanner to find the stiching had vanished inside with the turning, so I tightened the valve back up, it screwed up tight ok so tomorrow it will be leak tested I guess.

[Sibfisher]

Glad to hear your boat has arrived Oldman, on my KB 350 I have the tubes at 0.20 bar the floor because it is hot here 0.65 bar kill tube 0.40 bar as recommended by Grey, when parked up I some air out of the tubes.

Looks like you had a good days fishing Grey, 2 lovely looking bass, you will have to give some pointers on how you do it.

[Oldman]

Glad to hear your boat has arrived Oldman, on my KB 350 I have the tubes at 0.20 bar the floor because it is hot here 0.65 bar kill tube 0.40 bar as recommended by Grey, when parked up I some air out of the tubes.

Thanks for your pressures Sibfisher.
.4 bar for the keel? Thats 5.8 psi the book says 3.2 psi & the supplier says 4.5 psi and if you take the transom as meaning the keel too thats 2.9 psi
I am confused now, how did the keel get that high?

[Oldman]

I limo up the tube on the underside to 4.5 bar.

I'm going to guess you meant 4.5 psi and not 65 psi why are there bits of keel all over my lawn! Na just kiddin.

The supplier said 4.5 psi for the keel too, and reason for that I wonder as the handbook says 3.2 psi

[Gray]

Sorry my mistake.
.45 bar

you will get a feel for it after an outing or two. If it is going to be a cool day I may put a little extra in.

[Gray]

Looks like you had a good days fishing Grey, 2 lovely looking bass, you will have to give some pointers on how you do it.

I think we will have to create a whole new forum to answer that one.

We had a lot of fish on Wednesday. Lost count in the end. We trolled lures in shallow water and used jigs in 50ft. The hardest part about fishing is finding the fish in the first place. There is a lot of ocean and 99.9% of it has no fish in it.

[Sibfisher]

Glad to hear your boat has arrived Oldman, on my KB 350 I have the tubes at 0.20 bar the floor because it is hot here 0.65 bar kill tube 0.40 bar as recommended by Grey, when parked up I some air out of the tubes.

Thanks for your pressures Sibfisher.
.4 bar for the keel? Thats 5.8 psi the book says 3.2 psi & the supplier says 4.5 psi and if you take the transom as meaning the keel too thats 2.9 psi
I am confused now, how did the keel get that high?

I will be only put .22bar - 3.1psi into the keel tube next time as I think with the heat here thats plenty