Well some fun stuff this week. I welded up a rod holder for the transom at work while "on break" .
I've always wondered how much work it was to polish out 316ss to mirror or near mirror polish. With only about 2.5 hours in time the holder is getting to blingy level
are you leaving yourself a way out for servicing the engine with the panels that are either side of it? I left what I though was enough room in my Bayliner, but it sucks doing anything below the manifolds as tight as I have it. The only good thing I have going for it is I can lay down on the...
This season I've added a few things and got around to polishing the old girl. I'm adding more rod holders and just installed a 9.9hp kicker motor. I even added some storage for long items that should be handy and declutter the deck a bit more.
It looks as though I never made good on the pictures from last season and here in getting ready for this one. We took the old girl down to South Carolina for some fun on the brackish water the ocean was to much for a run out. I put the boat on my triple trailer for that trip and made it down and...
Its in the garage and gutted now. A little bit of work at a time you know. I've been thinking of adding a pocket tunnel to this hull for shallow running.
Productive day today. Removed the outboard, Popped the cap off, Removed the transom and rest of the floor in the rear. If keep working like this in gonna have to give myself a raise. I power washed the entire hull out and removed all the snarf left over inside. Anyways the hull is in the...
Can't speak for your boat, but mine did fine on the 1800 mile trip I made to the coast and back. My engine bracket was 34" long I braced the transom to the stringers with some angle iron in a triangle shape.
Those additions to the stern underneath could be a issue. Maybe they aren't letting the bow rise enough to expose the tunnel and instead the tunnel is sucking the hull down the faster you go. Sounds like your already removing them though it'll be interesting to see how it works out.
All the old floor and foam are in the bed of the truck ready for the dump in the morning. Fiberglass resin came in today time to figure out where we are working on it at. I thought about using the carport, but garage has heat and a TV
I did a Spectrum aluminum 1950 that was a 4cyl OMC Cobra I/O a few years ago. I constructed a aluminum bracket that added about 300lbs of buoyancy it was only a floation aid while the boat was below plane.
I added a 92 115hp Mercury 2 stroke to it.
The things that I learned right away...
The transom view of this boat looks photoshopped. I've never seen anything like it before, but that happens a lot as I explore more.
Have you thought about trying a bolt on hydrofoil for the cavitation plate? It would be considerably less involved than trying to get a trim tab in there. Just...
Next up the deconstruction. The old boat has been carrying more weight in waterlogged wood and foam than it should have ever had to. The fact that it had touched 40 mph with the amount of weight it was pushing one could only guess it'll do 80 after the refit.
