North Beach
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Re: 89 Starcraft Mariner 210 CC Rebuild
OK folks, first off sorry but no pics today. Ran out of daylight so it will have to wait till I return from work in DC tomorrow.
As you all know the inside of this boat is a real mess. so I made the decision to break out the ole gravity feed blaster and go to work on the bilge area and hopefully all that danged carpet glue residue.
I ran some rope from the bow over the stern and tied it to the boatel and fashioned a makeshift lean to with some 6 mil poly since we're really gettin hammered with the liquid sunshine here. Rained so hard last night it woke me up a few times?????
Rigged up the blaster and started on the pile of 20/40 silica sand I got at tractor supply for about 8 bucks a bag. I used medium grade walnut shells on the LL but that was on the outside and they cost about 80 a bag shipped if memory serves me. Anyhow, since it's on the inside and I'm gonna flood coat the bilge with a ton of gluvit I figured the slight pitting from the silica wouldn't matter.
Right off the bat I had a bunch of problems with the blaster gun and lost several hours tryin to get it to work consistantly. Then I got teed off and shut it down. Gathered everything up and put it all away feeling like I'd been beat. Then I remembered I was having some problems with it on the last boat and last summer I bought another cheapo syphon type gun from Home depot as a spare. Broke it out and took them both apart and managed to make one gun out of the two. BINGO! she's aworkin now!!!!!!
I managed to get the entire stern metal and about three sections from the stern towards the bow cleaned up. The blaster is gonna do just fine on the bilge area. It still won't remove the glue fast enought to make it worth my while to use it. So, looks like we're back to the ole elcheapo wire wheels for the carpet and glue residue on the sides but I'm glad the bilge is gonna clean up with the blaster.
I'm working the next few days so I'll have to just hit it when I can.
I'll post up some pics tomorrow.
In the meanwhile, I met with my other neighbor the woodshop dude and we ordered the 5 sheets of 3/4" douglas fir marine grade plywood for the deck and casting platform. We also made the decision to order a big honkin hunk of 1 1/2" sapili (mahogony) for the transom. He has a smaller piece in his shop and I beleive it's stronger than the danged plywood and I think the boat and the 150 horse Suzuki will thank me for it
We're gonna slide a piece of stainless steel sheet material between the transom metal and wood and then install a new stainless steel diamond plate transom plate on the outside to offset and clean up the corrosion that ate thru the transom. Should be stronger than stock and look real good too.
I'm ordering two gluvit kits tonight and we're gonna keep bangin at this till other committments force us to hold!
And I'm not sure if I posted this yet but I have the metal fab guys workin on re-producing the lost cast corner bracket. I took the one that was left to them and they assured me they can make a pair that match for the boat. They should be done later in the week.
OK folks, first off sorry but no pics today. Ran out of daylight so it will have to wait till I return from work in DC tomorrow.
As you all know the inside of this boat is a real mess. so I made the decision to break out the ole gravity feed blaster and go to work on the bilge area and hopefully all that danged carpet glue residue.
I ran some rope from the bow over the stern and tied it to the boatel and fashioned a makeshift lean to with some 6 mil poly since we're really gettin hammered with the liquid sunshine here. Rained so hard last night it woke me up a few times?????
Rigged up the blaster and started on the pile of 20/40 silica sand I got at tractor supply for about 8 bucks a bag. I used medium grade walnut shells on the LL but that was on the outside and they cost about 80 a bag shipped if memory serves me. Anyhow, since it's on the inside and I'm gonna flood coat the bilge with a ton of gluvit I figured the slight pitting from the silica wouldn't matter.
Right off the bat I had a bunch of problems with the blaster gun and lost several hours tryin to get it to work consistantly. Then I got teed off and shut it down. Gathered everything up and put it all away feeling like I'd been beat. Then I remembered I was having some problems with it on the last boat and last summer I bought another cheapo syphon type gun from Home depot as a spare. Broke it out and took them both apart and managed to make one gun out of the two. BINGO! she's aworkin now!!!!!!
I managed to get the entire stern metal and about three sections from the stern towards the bow cleaned up. The blaster is gonna do just fine on the bilge area. It still won't remove the glue fast enought to make it worth my while to use it. So, looks like we're back to the ole elcheapo wire wheels for the carpet and glue residue on the sides but I'm glad the bilge is gonna clean up with the blaster.
I'm working the next few days so I'll have to just hit it when I can.
I'll post up some pics tomorrow.
In the meanwhile, I met with my other neighbor the woodshop dude and we ordered the 5 sheets of 3/4" douglas fir marine grade plywood for the deck and casting platform. We also made the decision to order a big honkin hunk of 1 1/2" sapili (mahogony) for the transom. He has a smaller piece in his shop and I beleive it's stronger than the danged plywood and I think the boat and the 150 horse Suzuki will thank me for it
We're gonna slide a piece of stainless steel sheet material between the transom metal and wood and then install a new stainless steel diamond plate transom plate on the outside to offset and clean up the corrosion that ate thru the transom. Should be stronger than stock and look real good too.I'm ordering two gluvit kits tonight and we're gonna keep bangin at this till other committments force us to hold!
And I'm not sure if I posted this yet but I have the metal fab guys workin on re-producing the lost cast corner bracket. I took the one that was left to them and they assured me they can make a pair that match for the boat. They should be done later in the week.
