Thread: Boat setup - onboard necessities

Originally Posted by No.3

You got a picture of your container with the ruler in it? Having trouble picturing this in my head but actually sounds like a neat trick. Some of the inflatable jackets have a tough outer sheath that opens up and lets the inner bladder inflate, I've found those to be better than the folded single skin type. A lot of them are annual service, some are 2-yearly and a lot cheaper than others. I have about 6 or so inflatables here including a couple of fully waterproof self inflating jackets, much prefer those to the foam ones. If used regularly the foam can break down in them and they lose bouyancy but it usually isn't that obvious by eyeball which is not ideal!

I need to make another 1 as the original got left sitting on the trailer mudguard and ran over, I'll get onto that tomorrow and take a photo.
If you imagine a sturdy bucket cut in half lengthways and then a ruler stuck to what was the inside wall of the bucket with the bottom of bucket now the headboard or measuring device. I then trimmed the ruler and bucket to the 30cm mark so that it's very easy to see if the v of fishes tail is overhanging