77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

I guess it depends on your definition of cold

Check this out..

Tonight Cloudy. 60 percent chance of rain showers changing to 30 percent chance of flurries near midnight. Wind northwest 40 km/h gusting to 60 diminishing to 20 near midnight. Low zero.

Wednesday Overcast. Wind northwest 20 km/h. High plus 4. Wednesday night Cloudy. Snow beginning near midnight. Amount 2 cm. Wind northwest 20 km/h becoming light in the evening. Low minus 5.

Thursday Cloudy with 40 percent chance of flurries. High zero.
Friday Sunny. Low minus 12. High plus 3.
Saturday A mix of sun and cloud. Low minus 10. High plus 2.
Sunday A mix of sun and cloud. Low minus 8. High plus 5.
Monday A mix of sun and cloud. Low minus 3. High 10.

 

[Rickairmedic]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

LOL Sprintst go ahead and send some of that down here I need heating season to start .


Rick

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Oh you'll be busy. Most people wait until the last minute to get any work done. Hopefully that means more money for you and boat related accessories.

I dropped the boat off to have the topside painted with Endura paint in a dark blue metallic. The paint is super tough as is used for marine, oil field equipment, etc. Any extra cash will go into a custom boat cover and some upholstery work.

My other winter hobby is some target shooting so I'll look into an extra scope and mount for my M14 knockoff Norinco M305 and CZ858 to keep me occupied over the winter.

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

I got bored and started to reverse engineer my my boat jump seats in the rear and rebuild them.

I'll take the seats in to get redone when the boat comes back from painting...

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

I couldn't afford the time with all the sanding and painting and painting and sanding and the swearing.

I just got the boat back from painting with Endura paint which is an industrial tough high quality paint. http://www.endura.ca/

Here's some pics of the boat before I start to get some of the hardware on before winter. I just ordered the Perko stealth led bow light and a Jabsco 3" flange mount bilge blower which should be here within a week.

 

[bigskiohio]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

what color of white is it on the bottom

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

There wasn't much of a choice in colors for the Interlux VC perforamnce epoxy on the bottom. It's listed as V127 White. It's quite white but I'm ok with that. It may show some dirt but what can you do...

I picked it becuase it's tough and slick and I don't need the antifouling properties as it's a trailered freshwater boat. http://www.yachtpaint.com/usa//product_guide/antifouling/US_vc_perf_epoxy.asp?ComponentID=9860&SourcePageID=6778

 

[vegasphotoman]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Hi Sprint~

yeah... the ol' Canadian winter is a settin' in....uuuhg and yeah 80 F dayitme here is COLD lol in Vegas anyways...heheh nights it hits 57 degress that's around 15 C frigid for Vegas!

You got the paint on and I might way it looks gorguesemo! ( thats great by the way! )

the Starcraft is coming along nicely!....are you going with a blue/white color combo to go with the paint? or monochrome interior such as white? (for the interior as it looks kinda dark blue in the pics correct me if Im wrong)
Wow you're really doing a solid job on the Starcraft, it will be BETTER than new once completed!


Keep posting them pics!

 

[North Beach]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

I really don't like the way you have the bottom one color and the top and sides another

Seriously, DANG that boats gonna look good!!!!!

Can't wait to see it put back together

 

[ezmobee]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Paint job looks fantastic. What was your method of application?

 

[Rickairmedic]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Paint job looks fantastic. What was your method of application?

LOL EZ you gotta read the post not just look at the pretty pictures . The method of application was Checkbook . Sprinst the paint looks fantastic . All you need now is a stripe and the paint will be done .



Rick

 

[North Beach]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

EZ's all foggy in the head. He sold the Jupe this morning

 

[CheapboatKev]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

LOL EZ you gotta read the post not just look at the pretty pictures . The method of application was Checkbook . Sprinst the paint looks fantastic . All you need now is a stripe and the paint will be done .



Rick

lol..He used the roller ball pen to sign the check!! And GOOD FOR HIM to be able to!

Sprint..She looks great, I am a big fan of that type of 2 tone paint scheme...

 

[thrillhouse700]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Yeah paint looks awful compared to mine!!!!

That's a joke BTW you have to see my paint nightmare thread haha, it looks really good and good call on not wanting the headache and excessive cursing and lack of sleep due to a botched paint job.

Hopefully our last and final attempt with paint will end up looking half as good as yours. I dig the color scheme too, is it black or dark blue?

 

[Huron Angler]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Sprintst great work on the Holiday...that thing is going to be a gem when finished. Your boys probably don't realize that all of this work is more for them than for you ...look forward to seeing it completed and splashed

Have you decided on the durabak for sure? From what I've read that stuff works very well on decking.

Keep the pics coming

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Wow... You guys have been watching. Thanks for all the words of encouragement. It's the last 2 days of warm weather as it turns colds again at the end of this week. We had a dump of snow that all melted in this warm snap. We'll be a daytime high of 50 F for you boys down south.

I just got so wiped out trying to work and do the boat at the same time I just paid for the painting to get done. I was working on average 20 hours overtime a week so I just used some of that 20 hours to pay for the painting.

I spent the day taking back my unopened Interlux Brightside (dark blue), thinner, zinc chromate, etc. I traded it all in for some fiberglass cloth, ss bolts, nuts, screws, 4 - Perko 6" cleats, stuff to make the epoxy peanut butter (filleting the inside joints of seat boxes, etc and sandwiching the transom sheets, etc)

I got my rub rail hardware bolted back on today and got totally sick during the day. I just ran out of energy and felt like I got run over by a truck. I hada couple drinks last night to celebrate picking the boat up from paint but not enough to feel this wiped out

Tomorrow is the windshield and some other topside hardware getting bolted back as I'm feeling better now.

Odds are I will be going with the durabak for the deck in a light grey as the white is really white and the glare might be a bit much.

The paint on the top and sides is a is a dark blue metallic but in the sun it looks much lighter. Hopefully I can put it back together in such a way that it holds up for another 30 years and the boys will get a lot of use out of it.

I'm hoping I can forget how much work this was at times and buy a big boat next year to restore. Odds are that will be a project I'll drag on for a couple years to have more time to enjoy the process.

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

EZ's all foggy in the head. He sold the Jupe this morning

Had I known the Jupiter been done earlier this year I probably would have bought it instead of this one. I was looking for something restored at a reasonable price when I snapped and bought this one.

This boat was in impulse buy from Craigslist. I just started looking one week because I was spending too much time working and not enough fun time with my boys. I don't want them to just remember dad works all the time.

I work myself to death so that they can have anything they want but that gets old after a while. Seems they have more fun when we all play monopoly or just hang out.

Anyways it was 10:30 one night and I decided that I'd tell the wife I was jumping in the Explorer and driving 20 hours to Grand Rapids Minnestota to pick up a boat I told her earlier in the week that I needed a break from work to keep from snapping so she wasn't all that surprised.

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

I might still show up at the at the get together in VA as I've never been there. I've been through a lot of the US but there are still a lot of states I want to get to yet.

I going to stay floating in a tire tube week straight to get some relaxing in...

 

[North Beach]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

SPrint. I know from experience what a chore a large boat restore can be. Go back and look thru my thread and you'll note a few periods of frustration. But then everytime I see that photobucket video of the Liquid Limo scooting across the waves, I get a huge smile and an overwhelming sense of accomplishment.

And I paid to have the topside painted on mine. Sometimes you gotta let folks who do what they do step in and do it

Did I say good lookin boat

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

You don't know how many clicks there have been on your vids from me

I just finished looking at one again a few minutes ago where you're booking it towards the tree line and it looks like you might not make the turn.

I'll keep plugging along as once this weeks done it goes in for a cover to be made and I'll have enough time to forget over the winter.

I think I need to move down south so I can have the weather to work on some boats in my old age. I'll be 45 in Jan so it's coming faster than I thought as I haven't been paying that much attention to it.