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  1. Sea18Horse

    Smell from head / cabin area

    I would recommend a book by Peggy Hall, "The HeadMistress" called "Get Rid of Boat Odors". It goes over all of the info mentioned above and a lot more. Cheers..........................Todd
  2. Sea18Horse

    1965 26' Owens Flagship restoration underway.

    Well I can't believe it's been over a year since my last update. my only excuse is I had basically gotten fed up with the old forum software and just kind of gave up. I only recently discovered that it had been updated/replaced. This new software seems to be much better behaved. Anyway, on to...
  3. Sea18Horse

    Rehab SportCraft 222 1983 deep V hull cuddy walkaround

    Hi Kevin, Going well. If slower than I'd like. I haven't updated my rehab thread in oh Geez, a year. I got so fed up with the old forum software that I kind of gave up. I only just recently realized it had been updated. The new software seems very well behaved. So I'll be updating my thread...
  4. Sea18Horse

    Rehab SportCraft 222 1983 deep V hull cuddy walkaround

    Oh my!!!
  5. Sea18Horse

    1965 26' Owens Flagship restoration underway.

    Update time again! Not really that much to report. Haven't put any varnish or anything on the actual boat yet. Still doing some stripping and sanding when circumstances allow. Don't have power back to the boat house yet. They're getting close, they've gotten the dock mostly re-decked. They...
  6. Sea18Horse

    1965 26' Owens Flagship restoration underway.

    Ok, so I got the rest of my supplies. I also got some Smiths CPES as well. I think I might use that on the toe rail and the rub rail. Some parts of those pieces have some checking in them. Definitely not going to use it on the whole thing. That stuff's expensive! So, ready to rock & roll all...
  7. Sea18Horse

    1965 26' Owens Flagship restoration underway.

    Lol! maybe! Tell me does this happen to you too? You research something for a while. Example; Origo two burner recessed alcohol stove, Because it seems like the perfect solution. And then when the time comes to pull the trigger........Poof! Gone! Discontinued! NLA! Or you research wood...
  8. Sea18Horse

    Shopping cart issues.

    Thanks Curt. I tried it again and I get this screen; Same thing. As I recall my screen name in the "shop" section turned orange at about the same time this all started but I can't be sure. It may have been before but never noticed. I've checked throughout my profile and can't find anything that...
  9. Sea18Horse

    Shopping cart issues.

    So has anyone else been able to order anything from iBoats lately or is it just me? If I try to add something to my shopping cart it says "Some items are not in stock" But nothing ever shows up in the little icon in the upper right corner. It always says zero. And If I click on the shopping cart...
  10. Sea18Horse

    1965 26' Owens Flagship restoration underway.

    On to more cosmetic stuff! We got the combings and the aft railing off. And the outside the cockpit areas of the boat mostly stripped of old varnished and partly sanded. The wood seems to be evening out pretty well all things considered. My plan is once it's sanded out reasonably well (I...
  11. Sea18Horse

    1965 26' Owens Flagship restoration underway.

    IT'S ALIVE! We got it fired up Saturday. As usual forgot to take any video or pictures of the shake down cruise. It ran great. sounds great. No leaks. We connected a manual pressure gauge to one of the manifolds to see what the pressure was.. My plan was to put a water pressure gauge in the...
  12. Sea18Horse

    1965 26' Owens Flagship restoration underway.

    Greetings all. Been working on the dash mostly this weekend. My partner in crime is out with the flu. I got the tachometer cleaned up and lubed. It cleaned up better than I expected. I got the multi function gauge disassembled. Can't wait to see how it turns out. I got some of that red tail...
  13. Sea18Horse

    1965 26' Owens Flagship restoration underway.

    Interesting, do you mean the nylon timing gears? Well that makes as much sense as anything. I'm sure less noise was a factor too but with the many nylon or fiber gears I've replaced with iron over the years I've never noticed a change in the sound. We got the engine back in today. We just set...
  14. Sea18Horse

    1965 26' Owens Flagship restoration underway.

    Long overdue update time. Sorry. Ok so I got the new gear and it came with Allen head bolts, whose heads were actually slightly larger than the original ones I had. 1/4" Allen vs. 7/32" and slightly larger diameter so I had high hopes. But no dice. It felt exactly as before. With the bolt heads...
  15. Sea18Horse

    1965 26' Owens Flagship restoration underway.

    Ok, I got the gear ordered last week. Hopefully it will arrive next week sometime. I found a washer that will work. It's too big around but I should be able to grind it down to size. And then I can drill the holes in it. On an unrelated note, early on I found the serial number plate on a shelf...
  16. Sea18Horse

    1965 26' Owens Flagship restoration underway.

    Thanks emoney! Well I got the sprocket and drive gear on. Not jazzed about how it's looking though. I was shooting for 180 inch/lbs torque or 15Ft/lbs. But I was only able to get to 150 inch/lbs. Specs according to the Flagship manual says 15-20 Ft/lbs. The allen bolts just kept sinking into the...
  17. Sea18Horse

    1965 26' Owens Flagship restoration underway.

    We got the bottom end all assembled yesterday. Camshaft in, pistons in, oil pump on and oil pan on. I got all the gaskets for the drive housing made up. Main housing gasket, Trans mounting gasket and the water pump gasket. I'd forgotten my allen head sockets so we couldn't torque the camshaft...
  18. Sea18Horse

    1965 26' Owens Flagship restoration underway.

    Update time again. Engine work continues. Cylinders are honed. We've got the new cam bearings in. Main bearings and crankshaft are in. They plastigaged out at between 3 and 4 thousandths and nice and even across the journals so I'm happy with that. Pistons cleaned up and new plain iron rings are...
  19. Sea18Horse

    1965 26' Owens Flagship restoration underway.

    Engine work continues slowly, Pulled the camshaft out, got most of the old gasket material scraped off and got the old steel drain plugs out of the block. I was a bit worried about those. One of them was rusted through and weeping a bit. My friend Dave was busy scraping and sanding on the fore...
  20. Sea18Horse

    1965 26' Owens Flagship restoration underway.

    Update time again. My friend Dave and I pulled the engine out last weekend. We rigged up a chain hoist in the rafters. The boat house has some kind of a lifting mechanism on a sliding rail that would slide out the door. Maybe was for lifting a dinghy? Anyway with four more 2x4s added to the...
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