hopingatsby
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Hi all! I have recently come into ownership of a 15' 1964 Starcraft Jet, previously owned by my grandfather who used it largely for fishing. The boat hasn't been in the water for nearly five years and is in need of some love and care. I have plenty of photos that I will begin to post, as I have the Transom out now and am slowly progressing. I am referencing Lakelover's restoration project as it's what I have in mind for this boat and I couldn't be more grateful to have such a detailed guide to reference, he really did a great job!
A few disclaimers and a bit about myself, I am a recently happily married 27 year old from the central valley (south of Fresno) in California, and I have largely been glued to the computer the majority of my life, whether for work or fun. Considering this, I do not really have the skills or knowledge to do this project on my own (yet!)...I can change my car's oil, brakes, and I think I could manage to put on a new tire or two if the need arose but other than that I have little to no experience restoring anything besides a computer. I am not very familiar with the proper terms, tools, or anything related to a project such as this, so I apologize in advance for any mistakes or poor assumptions made on my part. I look forward to reading any constructive criticism, advice, and/or suggestions!
With that being said, after reading thoroughly through Lakelover's and other members guides on this forum for similar starcraft models, I think am up for the challenge! Fortunately I have a great mentor, who from hence forth shall be known as "The Wizard", that is graciously letting me make use of his tools and keeping the boat on his property while I restore it, and of course helping me along the way...I consider him the official supervisor and brains of the project and am very grateful to his patience in teaching me so much already that I never had (or regrettably passed up) the opportunity of learning when I was younger.
For starters, I stupidly forgot to take pictures of when I first picked up the boat from my grandpa's house...one of the trailer tire's needed to be replaced as well as fixing the trailer brake/tail lights so between that and the excitement I forgot to snap a few photos. I did manage to take a short video that I will try to post that sort of shows the 'before' I removed the rotted plywood flooring.
The video is a bit large to post here, so here's a link instead (hopefully that is okay to post?): http://videobam.com/GsFsF (unregistered videobam does have ads unfortunately, so my apologies..I was just looking for a quick way to upload it but if this isn't appropriate please let me know and I will upload to youtube or veoh or elsewhere)
From there, I removed the plywood flooring which was in bad shape...my foot fell through in one spot! The foam beneath the plywood was also in very poor shape, crumbled up I am assuming from water damage. My grandpa also had glued on many other spots of foam/wood pieces where he'd place all of his fishing hooks, I was able to remove most of the remaining bits of glue but some of it refuses to come off. I am going to try to carefully scrape it away unless I come up with an easier way. There of course was lots to clean up, but it hasn't received a good vacuuming yet so even in some later pictures there is still plenty of dust/debris lying around.
This last weekend we removed the Transom after some trial and error, but it wasn't nearly as difficult as I had expected. I suppose the hot and dry central valley weather helped. We had some trouble getting the drains out, so we smashed them up to get the Transom out, but we'll end up replacing them anyways on the new Transom. There is a bit of corrosion and electrolysis beneath the Transom but it doesn't look terribly bad. I am curious what the best approach to remove the electrolysis is? Am I able to scrap it off? Would some sort of baking soda mixture help? Scraping and cleaning up will be the next goal I think. I did find the same can of paint stripper that Lakelover used (in the orange can!) and also got some googles, chemical resistant gloves, and a good respirator for paint stripping/painting just to be safe all at Home Depot. We'll need to remove the rest of the wiring to the controls and steering as well.
After having a bit of trouble uploading images, I used imgur.com instead and uploaded the entire album. Instead of posting 130+ pictures here I thought I will just provide a link to the album directly, and as take more pictures post them separately or just add to the existing album.
Here is the album set:
http://imgur.com/a/pEFNl#0
A few disclaimers and a bit about myself, I am a recently happily married 27 year old from the central valley (south of Fresno) in California, and I have largely been glued to the computer the majority of my life, whether for work or fun. Considering this, I do not really have the skills or knowledge to do this project on my own (yet!)...I can change my car's oil, brakes, and I think I could manage to put on a new tire or two if the need arose but other than that I have little to no experience restoring anything besides a computer. I am not very familiar with the proper terms, tools, or anything related to a project such as this, so I apologize in advance for any mistakes or poor assumptions made on my part. I look forward to reading any constructive criticism, advice, and/or suggestions!
With that being said, after reading thoroughly through Lakelover's and other members guides on this forum for similar starcraft models, I think am up for the challenge! Fortunately I have a great mentor, who from hence forth shall be known as "The Wizard", that is graciously letting me make use of his tools and keeping the boat on his property while I restore it, and of course helping me along the way...I consider him the official supervisor and brains of the project and am very grateful to his patience in teaching me so much already that I never had (or regrettably passed up) the opportunity of learning when I was younger.
For starters, I stupidly forgot to take pictures of when I first picked up the boat from my grandpa's house...one of the trailer tire's needed to be replaced as well as fixing the trailer brake/tail lights so between that and the excitement I forgot to snap a few photos. I did manage to take a short video that I will try to post that sort of shows the 'before' I removed the rotted plywood flooring.
The video is a bit large to post here, so here's a link instead (hopefully that is okay to post?): http://videobam.com/GsFsF (unregistered videobam does have ads unfortunately, so my apologies..I was just looking for a quick way to upload it but if this isn't appropriate please let me know and I will upload to youtube or veoh or elsewhere)
From there, I removed the plywood flooring which was in bad shape...my foot fell through in one spot! The foam beneath the plywood was also in very poor shape, crumbled up I am assuming from water damage. My grandpa also had glued on many other spots of foam/wood pieces where he'd place all of his fishing hooks, I was able to remove most of the remaining bits of glue but some of it refuses to come off. I am going to try to carefully scrape it away unless I come up with an easier way. There of course was lots to clean up, but it hasn't received a good vacuuming yet so even in some later pictures there is still plenty of dust/debris lying around.
This last weekend we removed the Transom after some trial and error, but it wasn't nearly as difficult as I had expected. I suppose the hot and dry central valley weather helped. We had some trouble getting the drains out, so we smashed them up to get the Transom out, but we'll end up replacing them anyways on the new Transom. There is a bit of corrosion and electrolysis beneath the Transom but it doesn't look terribly bad. I am curious what the best approach to remove the electrolysis is? Am I able to scrap it off? Would some sort of baking soda mixture help? Scraping and cleaning up will be the next goal I think. I did find the same can of paint stripper that Lakelover used (in the orange can!) and also got some googles, chemical resistant gloves, and a good respirator for paint stripping/painting just to be safe all at Home Depot. We'll need to remove the rest of the wiring to the controls and steering as well.
After having a bit of trouble uploading images, I used imgur.com instead and uploaded the entire album. Instead of posting 130+ pictures here I thought I will just provide a link to the album directly, and as take more pictures post them separately or just add to the existing album.
Here is the album set:
http://imgur.com/a/pEFNl#0
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