my 68 Starcraft Holiday project

[CheapboatKev]

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Looks great! After my discovery with the bottom of my FIRST starcraft , I'm gonna go by the book on a bottom coating to prevent galvanic action. I have found a guy that used to build boats (until Katrina) and he has some attachments for the bottom that keep any galvanic action from occurring to the boat by drawing it all to the attachment. I can't remember the exact term for them at the moment. I'm sure most of you guys know what i'm talking about. Of Couarse outside of saltwater, its not an issue.

Thanks Brobrad..I may get the chrome strip pieces that border the white stripe on this afternoon if I can get a few things finished up here in the office..
I believe that would be an "anode"

Lookin good kev, the stripe looks good. do you have a splash date in your head yet?

Yeah Kev she's lookin good-when we gettin her wet?

Nope..I had a date that came and went..And really being down here in SWFL....I have a kinda extended season....like 365 days basically
Actually it will be much nicer in Sept-October than it is now with the extra high heat and thunder lighting with pouring rain that we get in Summertime..These aint no SoCal Summers for sure!!

 

[Andy in NY]

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Thanks Brobrad..I may get the chrome strip pieces that border the white stripe on this afternoon if I can get a few things finished up here in the office..
I believe that would be an "anode"







Nope..I had a date that came and went..And really being down here in SWFL....I have a kinda extended season....like 365 days basically
Actually it will be much nicer in Sept-October than it is now with the extra high heat and thunder lighting with pouring rain that we get in Summertime..These aint no SoCal Summers for sure!!

well, if you want when you are ready to splash her send me a plane ticket and i'll come down for the weekend to witness it!

 

[CheapboatKev]

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well, if you want when you are ready to splash her send me a plane ticket and i'll come down for the weekend to witness it!

If I still got my bonuses like the old days..that would be doable!
You'd have to bring your camera crew too!

 

[Andy in NY]

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If I still got my bonuses like the old days..that would be doable!
You'd have to bring your camera crew too!

I went to school for radio AND TV, and my tv final i was camera/director and got an A so I think i'm qualified! Seriously though, if I could talk the wife into it i would so be there for the weekend... it would also give me a chance to see my buddy who lives in naples. maybe if i win a few hundred bucks on a scratch off i can do it...

she thinks im crazy though, and shakes her head everytime i mention "iboats" or "my iboats buddies". you have no idea what i had to agree to in order to get her to go to the starcraft get together next year if it happens...

 

[CheapboatKev]

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This is really self indulgence on my part....

Thought I'd do a couple before n afters since I am semi working through lunch here..These are really for my own enjoyment..To see em back to back on here and keep me pumped..lol

 

[Andy in NY]

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i found that looking at the before pics gave me more motivation too...



this should motivate ya here...

 

[ezmobee]

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What do I win?

 

[ezmobee]

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Andy, I really love that on the water shot of yours that you've made your avatar. Great shot.

 

[CheapboatKev]

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What do I win?

You and North Beach win the "GOT ME INTO THIS MESS" award

 

[Rickairmedic]

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You and North Beach win the "GOT ME INTO THIS MESS" award

LOL Yep same here honestly EZ's boat is still my all time favorite on here Nuttin personal Kev that includes mine . That windshield just makes it look like its flyin low even when you can see its anchored . I had BAS when I got my Starcraft and now its worse I now have SAS Starcraft aquasition syndrome LOL I was even tryin to trade my 14' cutter off on a skeery lookin 12' Starcraft the other day on here .


Rick

 

[Andy in NY]

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You and North Beach win the "GOT ME INTO THIS MESS" award

HAHAHAHAHA! I have you, jeremy, rick, bob, and the rest of the crew to blame... with all your encouragement in my first thread about weather or not i should buy it.

we can all blame each other for our addictions.

 

[Andy in NY]

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LOL Yep same here honestly EZ's boat is still my all time favorite on here Nuttin personal Kev that includes mine . That windshield just makes it look like its flyin low even when you can see its anchored . I had BAS when I got my Starcraft and now its worse I now have SAS Starcraft aquasition syndrome LOL I was even tryin to trade my 14' cutter off on a skeery lookin 12' Starcraft the other day on here .


Rick

ez's windshield is the cats meow... and i saw that you offered that guy your cutter for that little tinny... you are something else rick!


i have a plan. every time i see a cool starcraft and want to buy it, im going to take $100 and put it aside. then, someday i will have several million dollars saved up and i will come across a 21' SS and i can have the $$$ to buy and fix it. good plan?

 

[ezmobee]

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Hey Kev, I haven't seen you comment much on the proposed Starcraft get-together. Is there a chance that you will be able to make it? I know it will be a bit of a haul for you. It would be awesome if at least you, me, Andy, Rick, Bob, and North Beach (do we know his first name?) could meet. (and double bonus if Bret and the other mid-west guys can make it).

 

[CheapboatKev]

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HAHAHAHAHA! I have you, jeremy, rick, bob, and the rest of the crew to blame... with all your encouragement in my first thread about weather or not i should buy it.

we can all blame each other for our addictions.

lol..Yep

 

[Andy in NY]

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Hey Kev, I haven't seen you comment much on the proposed Starcraft get-together. Is there a chance that you will be able to make it? I know it will be a bit of a haul for you. It would be awesome if at least you, me, Andy, Rick, Bob, and North Beach (do we know his first name?) could meet. (and double bonus if Bret and the other mid-west guys can make it).

i dont think NB should go... everyone will spend the whole time drooling over "liquid limo"...

 

[CheapboatKev]

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Hey Kev, I haven't seen you comment much on the proposed Starcraft get-together. Is there a chance that you will be able to make it? I know it will be a bit of a haul for you. It would be awesome if at least you, me, Andy, Rick, Bob, and North Beach (do we know his first name?) could meet. (and double bonus if Bret and the other mid-west guys can make it).

It may be doable for me...would be a helluva roadtrip..Will depend on a few key tradeshows next year that is mandatory I attend....

 

[ezmobee]

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I just mapped it. Yeah that would be about a 15 hour trip for you. We will accept a boat-less Kev if need be God knows you've got the frequent flyer miles.

 

[Andy in NY]

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It may be doable for me...would be a helluva roadtrip..Will depend on a few key tradeshows next year that is mandatory I attend....

it would be about the same for you as it would for me... well if we do lake anna might be a few more for you... but its looking like at least 10 hours for me...


if i can do it you can too! besides, i think your wife and mine would get along great... they can sit and talk about how they hate us talking about boats all the time!

 

[CheapboatKev]

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I just mapped it. Yeah that would be about a 15 hour trip for you. We will accept a boat-less Kev if need be God knows you've got the frequent flyer miles.

lol..My idea of vacation time isn't flying somewhere, believe it or not
We all went to NM 2 years ago for Diane's cousins wedding..Gee, lemme see..security, GF terrified of flying..car rental, hotel...Was exciting for them..Same ol to me..And I fly on soooo many different airlines that I have a LOT of miles..just not all with one carrier..What I do have is Hotel points!

it would be about the same for you as it would for me... well if we do lake anna might be a few more for you... but its looking like at least 10 hours for me...


if i can do it you can too! besides, i think your wife and mine would get along great... they can sit and talk about how they hate us talking about boats all the time!

lol...they would be facebook buddies..lol..But last night she was telling me how good it looked and when am I going to take her fishing! She loves to fish and has never caught anything sizeable other than me..lol

 

[Andy in NY]

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lol..My idea of vacation time isn't flying somewhere, believe it or not
We all went to NM 2 years ago for Diane's cousins wedding..Gee, lemme see..security, GF terrified of flying..car rental, hotel...Was exciting for them..Same ol to me..And I fly on soooo many different airlines that I have a LOT of miles..just not all with one carrier..What I do have is Hotel points!



lol...they would be facebook buddies..lol..But last night she was telling me how good it looked and when am I going to take her fishing! She loves to fish and has never caught anything sizeable other than me..lol

mine bitched and complained the whole time that i was spending to much money and time on it and once she even said she wished it would burn right there in the driveway ( i thought about pointing out that its aluminum and wont burn, but i was in enough trouble )

then we go out saturday with it and she couldnt stop smiling while riding around in it.