1968 Holiday V almost complete

[JCDSparky69]

Hey all long time no see LOL. Well WooHoo . i finished the outside hull paint,installed the fishing platform and mounted my down-riggers and also applied the graphics . I was gonna wait till next year to do the paint (actually I will get it professionally done next year and replace the graphics their not that expensive) . I still am have the damnest time tryring to shop vac the pine needles out of the carpet (those nasty littlle clingers) LOL. I do cover it but some how they get in there guess Im gonna have to get a fitted cover for it but I have to get the $$$ up for the new bimini top first . I just cant decide if I should get vinyl or arcrylic for the top material (hope I said it right ) so here are some pics for now . BTW If anyone is having issues not catching fish I might suggest naming your boat , I was told by a local old timer round my area that an un-named boat wont catch anything much , hope he was right cause Im gonna find out Tue night , bummer is I gotta work Mon and Tue but got Wed off and back to work for WEd -SAt .
Thanks for all the great posts and advice from everyone
JCD

 

[GA_Boater]

Re: 1968 Holiday V almost complete

. I still am have the damnest time tryring to shop vac the pine needles out of the carpet (those nasty littlle clingers) LOL. BTW If anyone is having issues not catching fish I might suggest naming your boat , I was told by a local old timer round my area that an un-named boat wont catch anything much , hope he was right cause Im gonna find out Tue night , bummer is I gotta work Mon and Tue but got Wed off and back to work for WEd -SAt .
Thanks for all the great posts and advice from everyone
JCDView attachment 155714View attachment 155715

Pines needles suck, that's why a vac has trouble. LOL How did you support the outrigger platform. It looks pretty functional to my eye. I'm putting the name on my SC right now. And I thought I was fishing in the Dead Sea.

 

[JCDSparky69]

Re: 1968 Holiday V almost complete

I will get some close ups for you but I made them myself @ work , basically I took two pieces of solid 2"aluminum round stock that were 3" in length and drilled and tapped the center to 5/8" x11 to hold them tight together and aligned properly the using aluminum rod for my stick welder , welded them together then turned them down in a lathe to a matching size (about 1.5" I think) (also I trimmed them to length on the lathe before screwing them together and welding them. I cut the bottom and top mounting plates out of 1/4" aluminum sheet to fit the areas they were to be mounted too and then I attached them to the posts with 1/4 x 20 counter sunk flat heads . BTW all Ss hardware I might add LOL I might still have the CAD drawing I made some where .