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  1. 88BLiner

    When you're not fixin' boats, what's your real job?

    Re: When you're not fixin' boats, what's your real job? I have been running an aquarium set up and maintainance company for about three years now, but recently it has been kind of slow. My friend and I are now trying to start a second company doing tree work. Here is a funny picture of my truck...
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    1988 Bayliner Cobra 1800 restoration.

    Re: 1988 Bayliner Cobra 1800 restoration. Alright fellow iBoaters, this post is for my progress on April 26th. If you have been keeping up with my thread you know that I just got my transom ripped out and I think I am ready to begin sanding on the port side of the boat. I have decided to...
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    1988 Bayliner Cobra 1800 restoration.

    Re: 1988 Bayliner Cobra 1800 restoration. Okay, I am back to post yesterdays progress. I think it was the hardest part of the tear down so far. Removing this transom was an all day battle to say the least. That rotten transom was so tough I was thinking to myself that the rotten wood seems to...
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    1988 Bayliner Cobra 1800 restoration.

    Re: 1988 Bayliner Cobra 1800 restoration. Okay, I am back and ready to show last Sundays progress. The first thing I did was to cut the knees off of the main stringers and also some of the other complicated looking stuff away from the transom. Here are some pics of this. In the above picture...
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    1988 Bayliner Cobra 1800 restoration.

    Re: 1988 Bayliner Cobra 1800 restoration. Hello everyone, I know it has been a couple weeks since the last time I posted but I have been very busy. I have gotten some stuff done on the boat also. Fist of all last weekend I cut the tops of the port side stringers off and removed the wood in the...
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    1988 Bayliner Cobra 1800 restoration.

    Re: 1988 Bayliner Cobra 1800 restoration. Real quick, here is a picture of all the bags of foam.
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    1988 Bayliner Cobra 1800 restoration.

    Re: 1988 Bayliner Cobra 1800 restoration. Hey guys, I was supposed to work today but the job feel threw, so I got to get some work done on the boat. I actually think that I got a lot done today but it also seems like the more I get done the more I find that needs to get done. Any how, the...
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    1988 Bayliner Cobra 1800 restoration.

    Re: 1988 Bayliner Cobra 1800 restoration. Alright guys, I am back to post the rest of the pictures of my progress so far. First of all, I got the wood covering the fuel tank off by unscrewing about 30 screws. Or should I say breaking the heads off 30 screws and prying the wood off the tank...
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    1988 Bayliner Cobra 1800 restoration.

    Re: 1988 Bayliner Cobra 1800 restoration. Alright fellow iboaters here is the update of the work I did on the boat today. The first thing I did was take a piece of pvc pipe and take samples of all that foam, and to my surprise it is all dry.:D This is probably due to the fact that it was all...
  10. 88BLiner

    1988 Bayliner Cobra 1800 restoration.

    Re: 1988 Bayliner Cobra 1800 restoration. Okay, Here is what I did on the first day of the tear down. After looking at the boat for about 30 minutes that I was going to mess something up or grind a nice big hole in the hull, I finally came to my senses and thought "how much worse can I make...
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    1988 Bayliner Cobra 1800 restoration.

    Re: 1988 Bayliner Cobra 1800 restoration. Hello all and thank you for the welcome. Okay, so here are some before pictures of the boat. I think that I uploaded them correctly, if not someone please let me know if they do not show. I took some of the upholstery also but they got erased from my...
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    1988 Bayliner Cobra 1800 restoration.

    Hello, I just wanted to introduce myself as a new iboater. I have been reading this forum now for about 6 months and have been trying to register but was not able to because of problems with AOL. But anyhow I am a newbie to restoring boats which is why I have been on this site so much but I have...
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