Boat I bought to restore

vegasphotoman

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isnt it amazing how many pople will burn thousands on a boat,,,then leave it undcovered! in snow rain wind and dust...flippin stupid..

speaking of covered boats.....my brother actually might have been an innovator, when we lived in St CLair shores, in about 1981, he started a boat cover business shrink wrapping...as you know SCS has boatloads of boats...anyways...never seen wraps before 1981...and I worked at BROWNIES on the Lake as a busboy, so I was in the marinas between work and fishing for bass.......anyways....sending some warm Vegas weather your way! lol
 
25thmustang

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Truly an inspiration!!! Can't wait to get going on mine again.

Where did you get the Cherry Veneer? Looks awesome!
 
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robthompson66

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Once again, thanks for all the kind words everybody!

zach, I do have the old gauges btw, what's up?

Anyways, I haven't been on in awhile...busy..with work thank god.
Also, my only computer had some sort of hard drive malfunction and I finally got it up and running about 2 minutes ago and thought...I should see how everyone's doing at Iboats..

As for the boat. she's almost done. I still have to put the instrument panel in, but that is going to be almost last.
I think I have some finished shots, so I will post them tomorrow when I get a few more minutes.

I have the compressor set up almost done, but tomorrow I am going to make a bracket assembly that will hold the tank and the compressor unit. I am going to make it tomorrow in my welding class...The welding lab at school is quite a machine shop and the instructor is pretty cool, I help him around the shop and he helps build or fix pretty much anything I can throw at him.

Awhile back I bought a new AFI 1000 wiper motor off ebay that somebody dropped and broke the mounting ear off of. I took it to class and the teacher used his plastic welder to make a new mounting ear, and a little spray paint later, the motor is like new again.

Well, I'm getting soooooo excited that April is almost here!!!!!!!! The boat is going in on the 15th!!!!!

I will definitely take some video and upload it


Later

Rob
 
zach103

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well if you have a chance and you can get a pic of the tach i may be interested i helping pay for you rebuild :)
 
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betayv

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great rob almost there, beautiful boat...
 
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robthompson66

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betayv said:
great rob almost there, beautiful boat...
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Thanks! I haven't been around lately but it's almost ready to go in the water. I'm not in the building anymore, its now at the marina. I had to get out of the building I was in because we rented the space. I am going down there Friday, then she'll go in the water the last week of April!

I'll post new pics soon!

Later

Rob
 
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robthompson66

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Hey everybody!, long time no post, I know but have been busy getting the boat in the water. I finally got it in yesterday and took it for a short cruise and after a few small adjustments, all was good. The boat got up on plane quickly and rode nice.

Here are a few pics... I will take some video next week of the motors running and getting up on plane as well as cruising by the Ambassador bridge.

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That's the marina owner Len, he's a nice guy, got the boat ready yesterday morning. The old guy at the helm is my dad, he was as excited as me!

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Out on the water

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That's a shot off the swim platform of the Grose Ile bridge

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Another shot of leaving dry land


Well, that's if for now, I will get some more pics this weekend.

I wanted to thank everyone at this forum for all the help and kind words, this project was a big exhausting one and wouldn't have been possible without it. It also provides good reading material as well!

Later
Rob
 
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SBTOM

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Wow, looks great! Congratulations
 
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betayv

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great feels good to be in the water NOW is time to enjoy that boat....
 
sprintst

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Damn man. Looks amazing and done right as well.

Have some fun for us...
 
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robthompson66,
Congrats, on the the splash. The boat looks awesome.
Don't know what else to say.
Great job.
Bob
 
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robthompson66

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Thanks everyone! I am planning on going there this Friday to spend some of the weekend and get everything organized and go on some short cruises. I will take some more pics then..
Hope everyone else is making good progress on their boating projects!



Rob
 
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robthompson66

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Well as with boat restorations, I will probably never be completely finished...Here are some pictures of the air compressor that I fabricated for the air horns. I TIG welded the frame system together and tapped threads for the tank and the compressor to bolt to the frame with.

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Tomorrow, we are going to stay on the boat, so I am going to get some more pics of the inside and outside of the boat.

Hopefully some good ones of being out on the water.

Rob
 
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Beautiful resto what's that larson website they were talking about in the first few posts?Doing a 1985 19' delta cuddy info appreciated.
 
sprintst

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Nice compressor work. I can't see anyone getting in your way with those babies blaring.
 
vegasphotoman

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WOW Rob! congrats on the splash!

where that pic of the Ambassador bridge! lol

how bout one of the Belle Isle Yacht club marina! hehhehehe

must have been scary movinig that beast around at the marina on dry land....thats the thing with REAL big boats...they arent meant for dry land what so ever! they want WATER! congrats again and if ya get a minute post them vids on youtube....FUN FUN! just in time for summer and walleye fishing! (ps perch too!)

ps that air horn setup is insane! make sure no one is in frt of that when ya blast it...it might remove some clothing from the air discharge lol :p
 
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