www.strizzy.com
Heres my "scoop", Im a 21 year old bored civil engineering student, who has slaved at a marine repair shop for 5 years running. My whole life has always been outdoors in one way or another and basically always had to do with boating, and, well water. My parents have a nice boat (03 182 Chappy SS) and seadoo and so on. I have always wanted my own powerboat after going through my sailing phase (sunfish>laser>hobie 16>nacra 5.0). Just being a full time student didn't allow me to afford such pleasure. At work I was always rebuilding all these crappy auction boats that had rotted everything. It was fun work but I just started getting sick of making my boss so much money while getting paid peanuts. Just then this boat came in. A '93 Crownline 182 Closed Bow with a 5.0LX (4 barrel!!). So we got to talking and for all my "hard" work and a little bit I got to take home this super clean (showroom condition basically) Crownline.
So the deal with this boat is.... rotted motor mounts, stringers and floor. I had figured it would take me 2 weeks to finish it. Well somehow coming home from work, to continue working didnt really always sounds like a fun idea. All in all it took about 8 weeks to finish. Finishing up the day that I had planned to go back to school (close!!). Here are a couple pictures along the way and the rest can be seen at the link.
close up of my stringers, if thats what you want to call that...
rebuilt up to the ski locker
motor mounts
floor in and glassed.
lookin good!
www.strizzy.com
Heres my "scoop", Im a 21 year old bored civil engineering student, who has slaved at a marine repair shop for 5 years running. My whole life has always been outdoors in one way or another and basically always had to do with boating, and, well water. My parents have a nice boat (03 182 Chappy SS) and seadoo and so on. I have always wanted my own powerboat after going through my sailing phase (sunfish>laser>hobie 16>nacra 5.0). Just being a full time student didn't allow me to afford such pleasure. At work I was always rebuilding all these crappy auction boats that had rotted everything. It was fun work but I just started getting sick of making my boss so much money while getting paid peanuts. Just then this boat came in. A '93 Crownline 182 Closed Bow with a 5.0LX (4 barrel!!). So we got to talking and for all my "hard" work and a little bit I got to take home this super clean (showroom condition basically) Crownline.
So the deal with this boat is.... rotted motor mounts, stringers and floor. I had figured it would take me 2 weeks to finish it. Well somehow coming home from work, to continue working didnt really always sounds like a fun idea. All in all it took about 8 weeks to finish. Finishing up the day that I had planned to go back to school (close!!). Here are a couple pictures along the way and the rest can be seen at the link.
close up of my stringers, if thats what you want to call that...
rebuilt up to the ski locker
motor mounts
floor in and glassed.
lookin good!
www.strizzy.com
