I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22

[ezmobee]

Re: I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22

How is the floor.

Duuuuuuuuuuude, you gotta at least pretend to have read the thread!!!

 

[paparoof]

Re: I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22

How is the floor.

Here's the short version:

It was rotten.

It's rock solid now.

 

[paparoof]

Re: I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22

Just stopped by the closest marine shop to my house to look for a different used prop, explained my situation and they sold me a different thrust washer - much thinner and flat on the inside flange to meet the entire hub. Looks perfect to me, but will have to hold off on judgement until I can see how it fits tonight. Fingers crossed!

 

[64osby]

Re: I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22

Good luck with the hub and really glad to hear you have a rock solid floor.

 

[GA_Boater]

Re: I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22

Floor is rock solid, holds up better than the prop. Yikes! Hope the thrust washer does the trick, PR.

 

[paparoof]

Re: I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22

Yeah it did do the trick! Well, mostly. The prop fits much better, gets down into the flange of the gear case. The blades still ticked the anode some, but 30 seconds with a grinder took care of that.

No, I didn't grind the prop blades, the anode. They're *sacrificial* anodes right? Got a pic, but left it at home. I'll try to remember to upload it tonight.

 

[paparoof]

Re: I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22

Got to go out on the St. Croix river (the border between Minnesota and Wisconsin) yesterday for some sturgeon fishing. Got no sturgeon, just a couple sheepshead - but I wasn't really fishing much. I was playing with my boat.

We tied up with my buddy's boat and the fellas fished while I crawled around in the cabin. Came out the hatch and got this picture.

Then came all the way out of the hatch and went fishin for a little bit myself.

Today I met up on Lake Minnetonka with losdinspace and chuckndiscs for a mini-get-together. Posted this one up on the other thread too.

 

[Bwana Don]

Re: I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22

Very cool paparoof. Nice to see you guys having fun together.

Didn't somone's with just give birth?

 

[GA_Boater]

Re: I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22

Yeah it did do the trick! Well, mostly. The prop fits much better, gets down into the flange of the gear case. The blades still ticked the anode some, but 30 seconds with a grinder took care of that.

No, I didn't grind the prop blades, the anode. They're *sacrificial* anodes right? Got a pic, but left it at home. I'll try to remember to upload it tonight.

PR - Sacrificial anode :facepalm:

Good to see you having fun boating, fishing and meeting up with some of the Mob.

 

[jasoutside]

Re: I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22

Cool stuff right there man

 

[Triton II]

Re: I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22

Looks like a great day out on AmyAble PR. Very cool photos!
TII

 

[CheapboatKev]

Re: I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22

Now for a little serious business. I left out a detail from last night's story and the guilt is killing me. But if Kev can fess up to launching his boat through the air into a field, I can fess up to this:

I wrecked my "spare" prop last night.

Bought another on CL today and it doesn't fit.


:facepalm:


Read the embarrassing details here:
http://forums.iboats.com/showthread.php?t=513653&p=3480176&viewfull=1#post3480176

Thoughts? (I mean besides "ha! ha!")

Hellll PR...Dont let that lil scratch get ya down..That is nothing to be ashamed of!!!

 

[Brenn]

Re: I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22

You have to have gotten one of the cleanest and nicer boats to start with than just about everyone here who has one.Still looking myself wish me luck.

 

[paparoof]

Re: I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22

Very cool paparoof. Nice to see you guys having fun together.

Didn't somone's with just give birth?

Yeah chuckndiscs has the littlest Starmada member for now.

PR - Sacrificial anode :facepalm:

Good to see you having fun boating, fishing and meeting up with some of the Mob.

Cool stuff right there man

Looks like a great day out on AmyAble PR. Very cool photos!
TII

Hey thanks y'all. I can't tell you (but I think you all know anyway) how happy it makes me to have gotten to actually use the boat before putting her away this year.

BTW - for the record, WOT, four full-grown men onboard, with big coolers and fishing tackle for a small army, 35 mph (GPS). Still no tach so I don't know the RPMs yet. New video coming.

Hellll PR...Dont let that lil scratch get ya down..That is nothing to be ashamed of!!!

Oh, I got over it pretty quickly. Specially now that the $35 replacement prop is clearly doing the job just fine. At this point I look at breaking that prop as more of an initiation than anything. Course I'm still not quite as initiated as you

You have to have gotten one of the cleanest and nicer boats to start with than just about everyone here who has one.Still looking myself wish me luck.

If by clean you mean lack of dirt and grime, I'll argue with you. If by clean you mean the hull and hardware are in relatively decent shape, then I'll agree with you. There are no serious dents in the hull, no nasty corrosion, just some light pitting on the transom skin and the starboard side where I found the dead squirrel.

I did find about a 3" circular welded aluminum patch on the bottom up by the bow, underneath the cabin port side seat so something interesting happened there once, but I don't know what and the weld looks great and it doesn't leak there at all and I gluvitted the hell out of it anyway, so it doesn't scare me in the least.

The plan in my head for next spring is to continue the reassembly, finish the wiring (ugh), buy seats and fuel tanks, and test the 1970-something Husqvarna sewing machine I just inherited to see if its tough enough to sew marine vinyl.

Then start thinking about maybe, possibly stripping the outside of the hull and going bare. Now that I've seen a few examples here of how badass that looks, I just can't get it out of my head. I've already got a grey interior. I would follow the same exact paint scheme it has now, but everywhere it's white right now would be bare aluminum and the areas that are blue today would become black. The damn boat already looks like it's wearing sunglasses, then if I paint that part black and tint the cabin windows, are you kidding? Oh my God that would be the awesomest thing ever.

Ooooh - would that make the cabin overheat in the sun though?

 

[jasoutside]

Re: I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22

That sounds like a ultra cool paint scheme to me buddy

Bummer she is being put away for the year. At least ya had some fun this summer

 

[paparoof]

Re: I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22

That sounds like a ultra cool paint scheme to me buddy

Yeah I thought of it all by myself with no influence from anything I've seen anywhere else ever. And it never gets windy on Lake Superior.

Bummer she is being put away for the year. At least ya had some fun this summer

Ain't no bummin' going on here. My goal this year wasn't to finish it, my goal was to gets the kids, wife and dog into it and splash it. And also to see how fast it goes. I did those things, so I couldn't be happier about it.

I am however, very much looking forward to the spring. I do sorta have a goal of getting it into Superior next summer (only as long as I'm ready to do it safely).

 

[barato2]

Re: I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22

yes, i think that paint scheme would heat up fast in the sun. do they have sun up there? and i'm not sure the "Men in Black" look would go with the boat's name....but think how cool y'all could look with matching crew cuts and Terminator sunglasses

 

[paparoof]

Re: I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22

yes, i think that paint scheme would heat up fast in the sun. do they have sun up there?

About a week every summer it goes to about 110 then the next week the lakes are frozen again and the skies are grey.

... and i'm not sure the "Men in Black" look would go with the boat's name....but think how cool y'all could look with matching crew cuts and Terminator sunglasses

Yeah I thought about that too. If I named it after her, I kinda gotta let her pick the colors don't I? Don't worry, she doesn't go for pink. She actually really likes the blue that's on there now.

 

[GA_Boater]

Re: I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22

You did it right PR. Got her floated and used her some. Now you know what to fix, change or leave alone. A good plan, bud. Now about the paint, you kinda got locked out on that by naming her after Amy. I think she has dibs.

 

[paparoof]

Re: I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22

You did it right PR. Got her floated and used her some. Now you know what to fix, change or leave alone. A good plan, bud.

Oh for sure, that's gonna payoff as I start making interior layout decisions and such but let's not pretend that I'm really clever enough to have done it for that reason.

I just couldn't wait any longer to try her out! I'm the guy that buys some new electronic gadget at the mega-store, then sits in my car in the parking lot playing with it because I can't stand to wait till I get home!

Now about the paint, you kinda got locked out on that by naming her after Amy. I think she has dibs.

Yup. You guys are spot on there. She gets to pick colors. She's better than I am at that stuff anyway. This last winter I painted and "re-did" our basement music/family room while she was away as a kinda "look I did something!" surprise. Guess what color I painted the walls?

You guessed it - grey.