John: Well hello Richard!
Richard: Hey John thanks for having me back.
John: Aw man, it is my pleasure. You know I was
speaking with Jeff Lichterman, the owner
over at Albury Brothers boats.
And he was telling me that the
majority of the deck hardware and the lights
is Perko. And I figured you know, what the heck.
Let's bring the expert, the true expert - you,
on to the program to talk a
little bit about these two different categories.
But I see that we have some different cleats
here on the table.
These you might be familiar with.
These are put out by a company called
Accon Marine, and these are the
pop up cleats. We've installed these
before on the program. On our
21 foot Seabird project boat,
and that worked out well.
But the lines of the Albury
Brothers boat and just the style of
the boat doesn't really...
...kinda, you know
go that way, with me, personally.
I like the traditional look
and you guys are making some beautiful
cleats here. What are some of the different,
first off, materials -
that you're using for cleats.
And then let's talk about sizes
and kind of how you kind of size up a cleat to your boat.
Richard: John we have cleats in three different types
of materials that are either aluminum,
chrome plated, chrome plated bronze
or chrome plated zinc.
John: Okay now I'm going to be boating
you know, most of the time in salt water.
Does one particular alloy
kind of uh,
lend itself a little bit better to salt water or
are they all for salt water and fresh water?
Richard: They're generally for all types of environments.
The chrome plated bronze will hold up
a little bit better, but there also
going to be a little bit more expensive.
John: This is a 23 foot boat.
What size cleats
are on this
pretty heavy 23 foot boat?
Richard: Albury brothers is actually using all
three of these that you see here.
They're using the six inch cleat for their
mid-ships for their spring line.
They're using the eight inch cleat for their
stern and combination for the hawse hole plate.
And the 10 inch cleat on their bow.
John: Okay now this is a
hawse hole or hawse pipe.
Your dock line goes down
through the hawse - okay,
and it goes to the cleat.
And this is usually in the stern
of the boat. And,
it's a very clean way
to tie up the boat.
Richard: Correct.
John: Let's talk about navigation lights
and before we begin what are these here?
Richard: John these are stern light mounting bases.
And they range in a variety of
styles for different poles
that are out on the market. Ones with threaded
collars vs eccentric collars and it also
depends upon the rake. But what's unique is we've come out
with a new product. This happens to be
an LED white all-round. But
it has an adjustable head,
that it really doesn't matter what the angle of the base is for you.
The pole also includes dual collars,
so it also doesn't matter which base
you have. So whichever base you have you throw out
the collar you don't need and...voilà!
John: At the head, kind of when I was
introducing you to everybody, I saw
that you were setting these down
on the display table.
These are step pads
but they're special.
Talk a little about this.
Richard: This is traditional step plate that we
manufacturer but we made an alteration to it to
include a little LED to illuminate
the step plate at night.
John: This is a light right here.
Richard: Correct.
John: Let's talk about courtesy lights
and you guys have come up with something really clever.
I want to show everybody that.
Richard: This is a traditional courtesy mount light
for the deck.
What you're talking about is this light
here which this mounts on a center console.
And it's a standard courtesy light.
If you turn it over, it has clear back to it.
And that also will illuminate the
inside of the center console at the same time
off of one one light.
John: You've got to be kidding me!
So I don't have to run two lights?
Richard: No.
John: Okay or draw on my battery with two different sources,
we can do it all through one light.
Man that is a great idea!
Oh I see that we have some fills,
and wow these are really sharp! Is this new?
Richard: Yes. These are new color coded versions.
And we're filling an international standard
that says red is gas,
green is diesel,
blue is water and black is waste.
So it helps better identify which fill is on what part of the boat.
John: Now there are traditional fills
and there is also vented fills.
And, I've been doing a lot of research,
and I'm really kind of leaning
towards one of those vented fills. Because
it's real cool for the environment and I am
an environmental guy.
Richard: There are a lot more environmentally friendly.
This is a sample of one of the vented fills.
John: This would fill the fuel tank,
this would be your vent. It comes right back into the cap.
Richard: Correct.
John: What is this right here?
Richard: That's an accessory mounting ring that helps
raise the fuel fill off the deck.
So that it prevents water intrusion into the system.
John: Aw man that's a great idea.
I'm going to definitely use that.
Hey Richard! What I want to do,
is right now I want to take a quick time out. Okay?
But when we come back I want to move down to
your place. Down in Miami, Florida.
I'd like to try to get Wolf Hennig back on
the program. And maybe he could
show me how you're making these
fuel fills. I'd think it would be pretty cool.
Richard: I'm sure he'll be more than glad to help you out.
John: Awesome! Hey, we'll be right back.
Richard: Thank you very much John.
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