Water Engineering

How to Build a Custom Pontoon Boat

When in the water you need to stay afloat whether you are swimming or boat riding.

While there are multiple types of boat, pontoon boats can be an efficient way to take a ride in the water. They are efficient, fast and reliable.

Typically, a pontoon boat is any floating device that is buoyant enough to float itself and the load it is carrying.

You can buy a pontoon boat. That’s great. But you can customise your own, and it is easy.

Reason To Have Custom Built Pontoons

If you have a strong belief in your style, then having customised products won’t be an issue.

Simply put, you need a floating structure that vividly reflects your personality. So going the DIY route is the only viable solution.

Completing the project gives you satisfaction, and helps understand the process. Again, it gives you the opportunity and flexibility to customise the pontoon boat to your specification – suit your interests, needs and desires.

Building the Boat

Buying a Kit or Going Full DIY

The primary thing you need to be aware is the amount of guidance you need to build a standout pontoon boat.

Whether you opt to buy a full kit or go the DIY route, you have many options. And all of them need direction. Good advice is looking for a pre-designed kit, especially if you are a beginner.

Again, they are a cheaper alternative. Even so, choosing the right kit isn’t easy. Read catalogues thoroughly before settling on the kit.

Then select the model and aesthetics (panel colours, graphics, fence and accent colours).

Choose the engine

Since you will be cruising the waters, you need an engine tailored for the marine environment. There are multiple types of engines. They vary in size, shapes and models.

Consider what you need from the engine before setting on one. Is it speed, horsepower, performance, durability or all of them?

Standard engine options include:

Inboards: great for bigger boats
Outboards: this is the ideal choice for pontoon boats. They have fuel efficiency.
Sterndrives: features both outboard and inboard features.

The engine horsepower must go hand in hand with water activity.

Hull Selection and Construction Materials

What design impresses you? Remember, significant construction material and hull have a great impact on your boat. The hull must suit the size and intent of the use of the pontoon.

Major Hull types you can use are:

Semi Displacement: they are narrow for enhanced performance at both high and slow speeds.
Medium Displacement: they push water aside as they move. Therefore they offer minimal propulsion.
Heavy Displacement: they are comfortable; thus, suitable for long-distance cruising
Planing Hull: they skim along the water surface; hence suitable for speeding

Interior and Exterior Design

Consider comfort, functionality and personality. You need interior elements like drink holders, grab rails and comfortable seating.

If you make a pontoon boat with curved corners, it becomes easier to handle it at higher speeds than those without curves.

But if you need your boat to look stunning, use a sculpted exterior structure with a bit of surface texture. But, the surface finish should not be too rough – causes the boat to drag.

Use a wraparound windshield to broaden your field of view.

Test Drive Your Pontoon Boat

Be the captain – experience all aspects of your boat such as boat handles, how quickly it gains momentum and fuel economy.

If any issue arises, do not hesitate to look into custom built pontoons built by experts.

3 weeks ago • Water Engineering

5 Reasons Why Personal Protective Equipment Is Important

Safety is one of the most important factors for skilled laborers and day laborers. Each year, many workers meet untimely demise due to such hazards and the absence of protective equipment (also known as personal protective equipment i.e. PPE), or the failure to comply with the established safety protocols. This equipment exists to ensure the safety of workers against safety or health risks posed by the workplace.
The purpose is to limit the exposure to such hazards when physical prevention measures are not an option. These hazards can range from anything such as a wet floor to falling debris including everything in between. Wearing safety equipment sydney such as eye gear, helmets, respiratory protection amongst others provide great safety for workers. Here are the top reasons why wearing PPE is important for you.

Physical protection

Unfortunately, every one of us has got one set of organs which we don’t want to damage. Wearing safety equipment such as hard hats and other things can put the situation in your control. You might be a very responsible worker but you cannot say that about everyone else working with you. Therefore, you must remember to always wear PPE to ensure that you don’t end up putting yourself in danger and losing wages in case of a mistake committed by anyone else.

Reduced liability

One common hindrance faced by workers’ compensation lawyers is with the decision by an individual to not wear any safety equipment, even though they were provided with apt equipment by their employer. This makes the liability for a workplace injury much more of a nuisance.
Wearing all the equipment you are provided on the job is the best way to make sure that if any injury does occur, your employer will be forced to absorb it fully. Even for those quick jobs, you shouldn’t ignore PPE.

It increases the quality of a workday

Every worker should consider PPE as a support system for the required job. While it may put stress on you physically, the provided equipment helps minimize risk to a great degree. Items such as weight belts help you avoid strain on your muscles and keep you in an optimal state to continue working.

Protection from hidden hazards

Feeling fine at the end of the day does not mean that you have protected your body successfully. Exposure to dangerous chemicals and other materials can have a long-lasting impact on your body, for which the symptoms may surface quite later in life.

Protecting your eyes

Not wearing any PPE for the eyes can be a very stupid decision, like any substance, no matter if corrosive or not, can pose substantial harm to your eyes when it comes in contact.

5 months ago • News, Water Engineering

Ridracoli Dam and Porto create an engineering company to design the great water works

The water source company of the Romagna municipalities (which also runs the Ridracoli dam) and the Ravenna Port Authority will put their forces together to create an in-house engineering company, the ‘Acqua Engineering Srl’ , to which to entrust the design of the great works concerning the water, both marine at the port, and those of the aqueduct for the Romagna area and the hinterland. Among these works also another great mountain reservoir, comparable in size to Ridracoli? It is one of the hypotheses. To raise the protest for the creation of this new company is the Forlì-Cesena WWF, according to which the action is preparatory to an investment plan up to 500 million euros to build 7 mountain reservoirs.

The WWF: “No to new invaded”

WWF environmentalists oppose the plan. “This is the old idea of the emperor of the waters Giorgio Zanniboni, who said ‘An invaded for every river’, it is an old idea of it retrieved after 30-40 years”, attacks the president Alberto Conti. The WWF challenges a project that “destroys biodiversity”. “We only talk about GDP but not about the climate inversion that is already underway and for which water supply is in crisis because it is not raining much. Creating new reservoirs for a sky that doesn’t give water is a baggianata, while the problem downstream is aggravated, with a risk of desertification in the plains thanks to numerous dams upstream,

”continues the WWF representative Stefano Gotti. The priorities of the panda association are instead resource saving and network improvement to prevent dispersion. In particular, in the viewfinder there would be a dam in the locality of Le Gualchiere, near Bagno di Romagna, the latter estimated at 18-20 million metric tubes of water capacity(Ridracoli has 33 million, ed), but also other smaller reservoirs. Those already announced last December by Romagna Acque as a study hypothesis are in Modigliana-Tredozio, Acquacheta (San Benedetto), Cella (Bidente-Rabbi).

And again: “It is not up to Romagna Acque to plan new water sources but to the Region with its water protection plan, which does not foresee anything of the kind either today or in anticipation. Romagna Acque must aim to rationalize the use of its sources, with the water interconnections between the various territories of its competence, to remote technological control of all sources of sources, and to contribute to the maintenance and safeguarding of forest cover, especially along the riparian strips of water courses. To increase water supply, the best solution is the reuse of sewage treatment plants for re-irrigation purposes, a reuse credited by in-depth scientific studies. The corresponding amount of water in the CER, thus no longer used for irrigation purposes,

Environmentalists: “New society hidden in drawers”.

The criticism is also moved to the new engineering company, judged a “waste at the expense of the tax payers, a waste, given that for the projects there is already the Agenzia del Demanio”. The memory also goes to a previous company with similar functions, the “Alpina Acque, which was liquidated by Romagna Acque with significant costs,” protest the environmentalists. The purpose, for the WWF, is “to condition the Region in the Water Protection Plan with a project on which the regional councilor Paola Gazzolo has already said to be against the environmental associations”.

Attack also to the iter, since the creation of the new company “is encrypted, there is no public documentation. Romagna Acque has published a notice on its website without giving any publicity, giving time until February 16th, and therefore a term already expired, to make observations “. For the WWF, in short, it is “a distortion of democracy: if there are projects, draw them out of the drawers and open a public debate”, explains Conti, who also protests for a denial of access to the documents.

9 months ago • News, Water Engineering

Water supply failure: inconvenience to Buti “

Acque SpA announces that, due to an unexpected failure on the distribution network in the Municipality of Buti, which took place yesterday evening, today, Friday 6 September, a water interruption is underway in the streets of Vecchia delle Vigne and Don Minzoni.

The technicians, who have been present since late yesterday, are continuing the repair operation, which is particularly complex.
To limit the inconvenience for the inhabitants, a replacement water supply service with tankers located in via Vecchia delle Vigne has been active since yesterday evening .

The restoration of the service, scheduled for 12 noon, will be accompanied by phenomena of clouding of the water destined however to disappear in a short time.

Apologizing for the inconveniences, Acque informs that for any further clarification or update it is possible to contact the toll-free number 800 983 389.