the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

[barato2]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

hey Kev--
glad they finally let you go home for a few. thanks for the good words, nicest thing anyone's said about me all day. off to the cabin this weekend so no boat work. and it looks like the Labor Day trip to Mexico is getting moved back to C-Day.

 

[GA_Boater]

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B2 - My backers are just shy of the stringer (only one in the Nassau) and shy of the outer edges. I ended up with one of the seams over a rib and trimmed the backer until the floor sat on the rib. I made the backers about 18" so I had 9" on either side for mucho stainless wood screws. I have no flex at all.

Oh goody - You have a new tin home. El Paso is going to slide south across the border from all the weight you're accumulating. Gonna have to change your name to El Jefe De Los Barcos De Aluminio y Casas.

 

[barato2]

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or maybe El Divorciado when SWMBO finds out i've towed home another large tin thing, albeit for free.....??

thanks for info on backers. will definitely go that route. fact that it's all from scrap makes it a no brainer IMHO.

no progress tonight....got to move both SCs so we can get the trailer in tomorrow night. :facepalm:

 

[GA_Boater]

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Since the trailer is free just tell the Boss someone dropped it off over the weekend. The idjit must have thought the place was a junk yard. Wait - skip that idea cuz maybe she thinks it does resemble a scrap yard. Sometimes the other half are lacking vision!

 

[dozerII]

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More tin, you win B2, good score on the trailer.:facepalm:

 

[barato2]

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well, sorta............this is the same friend who never paid me for the Mazda truck i sold him years ago. so in a way it cost me $800. but i was never gonna see that $ since i'd decided the friendship was worth more than the $.

no work on boats last night.....clearing driveway out enough that we can get 28' trailer up it, which means moving both SCs, the catamaran, and the little popup trailer plus major tree cutting. like i wasn;'t already exhausted and bloody from clearing 1.5 acres of thistles over the weekend......

did get my fuel flow meter in.....didn't realize it was same diameter as speedo and tach, thought it was one of the smaller 2 1/8" gauges. it will be hard to miss this big black thing in the midst of all the blue-on-white Faria gauges.

 

[barato2]

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had a volunteer helper show up last night:

now i see why my house has been so roach free all summer

 

[Deadwood]

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^^^^^Wire Runner!!!!^^^^^salario m?nimo

 

[64osby]

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I'd have the big shop vac out in seconds. Just looking at the pic gave me the creeps way up here in Michigan.

 

[GA_Boater]

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I hope you zoomed way in on that bugger. And I bet he didn't do any work. Just sat around giving advice and drinking the cold beer. LOL Arachnophobia II - Spidey joins the Starmada (working title), starring John Goodman as the exterminator and Matthew McConaughey n the role of Barato2, home owner and displaced ship Captain.

 

[Rainbow hunter]

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Great bait! Cut that thing up in pieces. Ought to last for a week. Or maybe even make it a nest up in the bow somewhere. If it breeds and has little ones you'll have bait running all over the ship. Wow!

 

[barato2]

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there actually are a lot of folks who keep tarantulas for pets. more likable than most of my cats. i let this one out underneath the apt/"boat house".

hey, has anyone ever reinforced their splashwell so they could climb on it? i'm thinking of adding a backer of 1/2" ply to the underside and then some supports screwed to floorboards once they're in. any input appreciated.

 

[64osby]

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I step on mine all the time. It has no reinforcement and no dents, but I'm not a heavy either.

I once did hold a tarantula in my hand. They are really cool actually, but wouldn't want to be crawling under the splashwell working blind on something. What is that thing that feels like hair?

 

[FishNmemories]

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hey, has anyone ever reinforced their splashwell so they could climb on it? i'm thinking of adding a backer of 1/2" ply to the underside and then some supports screwed to floorboards once they're in. any input appreciated.

Hey B2, I found that my sliding doors were binding due to the pounding of the waves and from stepping on the splashwell. I added an upright 2x4 behind the sliding doors, in the middle where they meet and screwed it to the floor and to the splashwell. Now the doors slide better and we can stand on the splashwell with no give or sag. I also strengthened the corner of the splashwell above the door because the original bracket was cracked on one side. The other side had been fixed by PO as it had cracked too.

Rusty

 

[InMotion]

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Yup. I re-inforced mine as well --- and added some wood on top too.... but a whole nuther story! Anyway, strong enough for a couple of adults to sit on it no problem at all!

 

[barato2]

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finally got back to working on the edging for outboard edges of first 2 floor panels (to cover the edge of the nautolex since i won't have side panels). i posted a bunch of pix on photobucket acct but here are a few:
laying out the redwood 1x6:

marking an edge line (NOT the cut line!):

i then roughed out another line that parallels this one but roughly 3/8-1/2" outboard of it, which became the cut line for the outer edge. this is deliberately a bit oversize so i can cut it to precisely fill the gap between floor section edge and hull side once i have floor down.

laying out the 2 sections (even 6" wide was not enough to follow the hull curve as a single piece):

here you can see the outer edge cut

once we had the outer edge cut, i then went along it using a speed square and pencil and marked a rough line 2.5" inboard of outer edge and roughly paralleling the outer:

 

[barato2]

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more progress:

more or less done:

final step after i clean up the cut lines with the jitterbug will be to flip these and make mirror image for the other side, then epoxy and varnish.

 

[barato2]

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couple more pix:

first the arrangement i worked out to let me saturate the end grain around my deck port cutouts with resin:

it doesn't stick to the adhesive of the blue tape so the tape makes a great "dam" to keep it where i want it and not waste resin on drips i'll have to clean up

lest anyone think i'm not a MAJOR BADARSE:

you gotta display your Real Man (tm) card before they'll sell you JBweld in this size.....

 

[Bwana Don]

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Macho Man. What are you epoxy-o-welding anyway, that is the super manly size? Why no side panels?

Every time Zach and I do something on the boat we have to grunt. Go ahead you've earned it.

 

[catfishin_welder]

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i don't hate it (grandpa was the dodge dealer in small town in Indiana, so i genetically am unable to "hate" on any Chrysler, i even said kind words about "K" cars once...), but am worried about plowing much $ into an obsolete motor with dubious parts support. it will need at minimum new control box and cables. anyone have any suggestions on where to start for Chrysler parts? if it has spark and compression, i'll probably try to keep it.

yeah, boat's an 18'.

not sure what happened on the pix...they came up OK right after i posted em but now i can't get em to open either. i'll work on this.

Several years ago I was rebuilding a 30 hp chrysler and located a place called Franz Marine...he had all the parts I needed..if I remember right he was out of Kansas City, always had fair prices and quick shipping and the parts were always as he described if they were used, that was in the late 90's so witht the economy, aint no tellin if he's still in biz but maybe worth a Google...and that old Chrysler never let me down EVER