New Float Tube, FF and Rack ready to go.

I got my Float tube and decided to build me some attachments with hidden FF wires and Gopro mount. I can't wait launch it this weekend woot!   

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Very nice! ...excellent choice on the tube. Great work on the rack!

Great setup!

That beast is ready to float nice work.

Thanks for the comments! Also I'm using 3 cell 6amp hobby lipo battery for the FF, that should last me for few days.

Nice clean set up

Looking sweet!!! Good luck on the voyage. I think I've been a good boy this year. So I put a GoPro camera on the top of my Christmas wish list.   

WTG on the setup!!!! looking sharp!!!!! like the GO PRO mount   man this makes me want to stay home this weekend and work on my go pro mount! good job man!!!

Tony G

I musta missed something, but how do you mount the Go Pro? I love the little race car propulsion in #3. Must fly....LOL

Renegade wrote:I musta missed something, but how do you mount the Go Pro?   I love the little race car propulsion in #3.  Must fly....LOL

I saw that also.... Lmfao!!!!  

The set up is SWEET THO!!!!

That RC car is my trolling motor lol
Im actually thinking of a way to put two RC boat motors on each side of the tube so I can ride free back after hard day of peddling. Maybe I can hide the motor inside the PVC.

I'm going to mount the gopro to the ill clamp hehe

Great job in decking that tube out. You're going to have a great time on the waters.

Well almost didn't have a report and had a heck of a time fighting the current today. I started of around 9am and rode the fun current hitting bunch of docks but no love. I didn't realized how fast the current was moving and in just few hours i was already near the yacht club so I preceded to fishing along the wall but i soon released that was BAD idea. The current was moving me out of the harbor so fast I was struggling to move forward let alone keep my position so I had to scale the wall holding on to cracks on the wall and inch my way out. Man that was scary, I don't know how you guys fight the current but took me almost half a day trying to get back to launch site. Along the way back I managed to break my skunk and got few Lizard fish. Overall it was awesome weather around high 70s and great work out. Mental note: need to get trolling motor ASAP   

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Ugly ass Liazrd fish
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If you're not expecting it, the current can be a real pain in the butt. Glad you made it out ok.

yeah that current can be a biotch!!! i was out there with a bud and it did the same....fought it for about an hour or so and finally pushed us out lol....i was about to just say eff it, let it take me out and ill call the coast guard lol....anyways way to break that skunk WTG.....where did you launch from?

tony G

Betcha wished you had that race car...LOL Glad you handled it

Fishingdachronarch201E7 wrote:yeah that current can be a biotch!!! i was out there with a bud and it did the same....fought it for about an hour or so and finally pushed us out lol....i was about to just say eff it, let it take me out and ill call the coast guard lol....anyways way to break that skunk WTG.....where did you launch from?

tony G

So what happen after you got pushed out of the harbor? Yea it was kinda scary and people on boats are looking at me holding on the wall lol! I have bruises on my feet peddling for non stop for hours. I'm seriously getting a motor.. Oh i launched off ocean where the basketball park is. That was the longest mile going back. I had to earn every inch of that water going back.

It's just a matter of time on the water, your legs will get use to it. Also, you'll start to learn the different currents that different harbors can produce. Based on that you can make educated decisions. Huntington Harbor can be the worst for currents.

Most importantly, don't fight the currents, use them to our advantage. If you see that your trip is going to start on an outgoing tide all you have to do is change your launch point to be further inside the harbor. That way you just let the tide push you out and since you launched further inside that means it won't push you all the way out. Then wait for the tides to change and it'll push you back to where you started. If you're starting at an incoming tide just reverse the steps and park at the mouth of the harbor and let it push you in.

Yes I was looking into the current condition going out but I was miss calculated how fast it would carry me out, so it was bad timing. It was hard to see people with rental pontoons passing me and then passing me again after they have reach the end. LOL

fastxturtle wrote:

Fishingdachronarch201E7 wrote:yeah that current can be a biotch!!! i was out there with a bud and it did the same....fought it for about an hour or so and finally pushed us out lol....i was about to just say eff it, let it take me out and ill call the coast guard lol....anyways way to break that skunk WTG.....where did you launch from?

tony G

So what happen after you got pushed out of the harbor? Yea it was kinda scary and people on boats are looking at me holding on the wall lol! I have bruises on my feet peddling for non stop for hours. I'm seriously getting a motor.. Oh i launched off ocean where the basketball park is. That was the longest mile going back. I had to earn every inch of that water going back.

We ended up at the mouth of the jetty dead center and fought it for about an hour and finally we got sort of pushed towards the rocks and we stuck to the rocks and paddled all the way back but yeah little scary...youll learn   , cuz i know i have its been the hard way but ive learned lol maybe i just need better fins....