look what my brother and I towed home!!!!!

[horiconducker]

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No convertable for us, and sorry at this time i dont want to sell the cmc units seperate from motors, much harder to sell older motors without power trim and tilt.

 

[horiconducker]

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Well we were back at it again this weekend, during the week i got the 8 leaky rivets we had drilled out and relaced with nyloc nuts and bolts, and it passed the final leak test. We got transom cut out and test fitted in hull, will probably get to permanently installing it next weekend. Went back and forth with the idea of coating it in epoxy or not, and decided against it, boat will be stored in doors year round. I have no intensions of selling this boat, so if it needs to be done again in 10-15 years so be it, transoms in these tin cans are a piece of cake compared to a glass boat. I figured the original transom( i think it was original) lasted 30 years, well 20, it should have been done ten years ago, so i should be good for awhile.

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Next on the list was the floor, we got all pieces cut out and fitted, have to get the tank in yet before we can rivet it down.

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No, we did not cut the piece that will cover the tank to narrow, the bulkhead and braces that go between between stringers to hold the tank down are not in yet to pull the stringers together, so the center stringers are bowed out some.

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Had to see how many decoy barrels we could fit up on the front deck. Plan on putting a hinged door on the floor of the front deck, (over the area that was the isle in the islander cuddy) for a large under deck storage, will be plenty of room for all kinds of stuff under there. We cut floor piece to for the bottom of the storage area so everything is not bouncing around on the hull itself

 

[horiconducker]

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Also fabbed up some new trasom supports, the ones that tie the wood to the stingers, the originals were all cracked atleast halfway down, so i just cut them the rest of the way off. im assuming they cracked from the po running with the transom so rotten. Made them out of .125 aluminum, we have 6 total, 2 sandwiching each center stringer and one on the inside of each outer stinger.

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Yes i know the holes are not even close to being in a nice pattern, but i was just trying to avoid drilling more holes through the stringers, so i just used existing holes.

Thats all new i have on the 22fter, but i must say i am a little disappointed in you guys, with all the starcraft nuts on here i cant believe no one has seen or spotted the other tin can in one of my previous pictures, huron noticed and commented on the big glass boat in the background, but NO ONE has noticed the 16'ss in the background? Unfortunately i dont have any refurbish pics of that boat, only pics of that one as it is today. Its by no means a pretty thing, but we bought it to use for duck hunting mainly,(22fter will be used for more fishing and duck hunting) and finished it for that purpose only. Its a 72 or 73 16'ss with a 1988 70hp johnson on it. We got the boat, 70hp and trailer for $500. Bought it last fall and the transom and floor were both shot, replaced tansom and floor, stripped her out and were able to use it last fall quite a few times for duck hunting, it was a real quick gut and refurbish.

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That little 4hp yacht twin was my great grandpa's.

 

[jasoutside]

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It's amazing how much deck space can be had when you pull that top off the Islander, HUGE!

I am disappointed I didn't sniff out that SS there. Man you have that pole barn stacked!

 

[horiconducker]

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Well got a little more progress this past weekend, not as much as we wanted to, but we had to take the time to get the 70hp motors rigged up on stands to run them for someone coming to look at them, he bought both of them, so it was nice to put some money back into the pockets for once. Ended up spending most of saturday a.m. rigging motors to be sold. In the afternoon saturday we got the transom in and all holes drilled in it. Sunday we got our new bow cap all done and riveted to the hull. We also had to make a new 3ft piece of gunwale for each side upfront, islander didnt have them.

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Using a 90 degree piece of aluminum to join the top and side piece of gunwale.

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The side piece riveted in the hull. Would have really like to keep the radius of the other gunwale all the way up to the front, but i dont have access to a brake, so we decided to just make the new gunwale piece up front square and put a trim piece on the corner to finish it off. Hopefully it turns out ok.

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Here the gunwales and new bow cap are all riveted down, still have to add the trim piece along the top square edge all the way around. We just plan to put carpet on the wood crossmember up front.
Hopefully by the end off the week we can have some of the new pieces of the splash well all done and riveted in

 

[ezmobee]

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I think the conversion came out well. Congrats on selling the motors.

Marine vinyl would look sharp on that crossmember as opposed to carpet. Or better yet, replace it with a piece of that PVC trim board that Lowes sells. That's what I did with mine: http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w200/ezmobee/New Boat/DSCF2534.jpg

 

[horiconducker]

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I might have to look into that, it does look good