Newbie saying hi and sharing p

[reyb]

Thanks for the welcome. :) I'm located in San Diego, CA.

Let's see...questions/comments:

o Yeah, it's always nice to have pics when posting and what
really drove me to post pics was the bait tank. :) I really
like how it turned out. I went fishing last week and had
just a 1/2 scoop of sardines and I think only a few died
while fishing the whole day. With the bait bag, at least
half would've died.

o bilge/rain water: So, I launched the boat that day and
when I was walking up to the dock I did notice that the
rear was sitting kind of low, but didn't think that much
of it. While going to the bait barge I noticed how the
water level of the bay was almost the same as the
floor. I opened up the rear hatch and that puppy was
full of water. I turned on the bilge(2) and escaped
capsizing the boat myself. The bilge pumps are
connected to a float, but the wire had corroded. I had
since fixed that connection, but during that fishing trip
mentioned above, which was the first time I went out
with that new bait tank, there was a lot of water
coming in from the back at time and I had to manually
turn on the bilge pumps. I thought I was "covered"
with the float connected but later on I had noticed
that the wired had corroded again, so there was no
automatic bilge pumping.

Geez I'm wordy. ;D