Thanks! It's sold as 'outside corner trim' at the big box stores, 1.25" outside and 1" inside; the added insulation and such required 1" deep trim.
The way I've redone the headliner is probably 10 times the work of just going back with hull blanket/carpet, but my nearby lake I wanted to test...
I pretty much finished the overhead of the V-berth minus the trim ring for the escape hatch; I purchased a used aluminum hatch trim ring on ebay I'll have to cut down and weld back together, but I'm saving up welding projects for one long weekend.
The windows are trimmed with PVC, and I sewed a...
I added a stay/shaft support to mine after hearing stories of trolling motors breaking off at the mount and/or damaging the fiberglass from choppy seas. It also helps on bumpy roads when trailered.
Where the alcohol stove once was in the galley, the PO placed a plastic bin that looked unsightly and didn't cover the entire hole. I replaced it with an inset cabinet/bin out of stained 1/2" plywood with an acacia cutting board top.
I finished fully insulating the cabin, which allowed me to run a space heater more effectively in some frigid temps last week:
I also made up my mind on how to tackle the V-berth's overhead. I glued many small plywood furring blocks in strategic spots to help bypass some of the compound curves...
The fore deck hatch/emergency escape I remade early in this project developed a crack in the glass last year from the hole I drilled in the glass; it was a single crack that I could live with, but last spring, the glass sprung more cracks after some weather changes. Instead of ordering new...
I have a couple Echomap Ultra 106SV units. Bass Pro/Cabelas has them at $1000 with the GT-54 transducer. I like the touch screen plus buttons for when it's choppy. The GT54 reads bottom well at speed for me until about 250 feet deep, and the Sidevu is okay until about 100 feet deep at 460kz.
I bought a roll of 1/4" PE foam for the same purpose. It's a decent insulator, closed cell, and relatively inexpensive. I'm just using Dap Weldwood to glue it to the hull.
I've still been working on the Bayliner, just been tackling some elbow grease projects I hadn't completed. The blue gelcoat matching on the port side from a year ago had an issue on the last coat where the temperature dropped too low and never completely cured. I hoped it would harden more if I...
It's been a while, so I thought I'd share a little update:
My 70s era bay boat was beginning to show wood rot, and the heavy square tubing steel trailer also rusted to the point of being unsafe. I've had a functional boat all my adult life, so a working boat takes priority over my projects. The...
I mounted a 500W Bluetooth speaker bar on my center console. It's a wired connection for power, but it's plenty loud while running at speed and is much less invasive than installing a stereo.
I bought a 316 stainless bow eye off Amazon that was a close fit to the original. I had to squeeze it together slightly in a vise to get it to fit though. Make sure that the other hardware with the eye such as nuts and washers are the same metal to prevent galvanic corrosion.
