the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

[Bwana Don]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

hey Don--- i was trying to see if i could get some power generation out of all the rotting stuff in the fridge, but no matter where i stuck the jumper wires, the camera wouldn't power up. y'all should be careful what you wish for....soon enough, i'll be back to hogging the forum with my excessive pix of minute and boring tasks (tm) soon enough. still no battery for the Oly but i'll see if can get the other camera to power up.

Just bustin' your chops. Glad to see your moving on the boat. Any and all progress is good.

GA, I have a dear spot for John Delorean in my heart. Awesome car guy, questionable ethics but awesome car guy. GTO & Pontiac RIP.

 

[barato2]

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not much progress on the Holiday lately. cutting and fitting the 2" L-channel which will form the base trim around outer edges of console and also serve as addtl bracing to hold it down (console is also going to be bolted through 3/4" base plate), plus endless watching epoxy dry. cutting 45s for the corners of the bracing freehand with a jigsaw has produced some, ahem, interesting results. i think i'll have to paint em white just to hide the JB that will be required to fill gaps at corners......


oh, and looking for camera battery. my inner bottom feeder rebels at dropping $40 to replace something that i know to be in a 15x15' area.....

i've now Officially admitted that it ain't gonna be ready for the Memorial day trip, so i'm temporarily shifting gears to prep of portabote and stuff for that trip. culling the lures; i can't really fish 250+ lures in a week. i did get down to taking only 11 rods. Looking at my old pics and jonesing bad. i hope to pick up a 4/0 Senator that a local guy is selling on CL in case the marlin are in by then.

also did a little tinnie resto: scrubbed and repainted my camper shell, both to look slightly more respectable to officialdom on both sides of border and more importantly, to keep it from getting hot due to bare alum where the PB had rubbed old paint off roof. shiny white! maybe it will move me to go ahead and paint the Holiday. so i'll show up at US border on way back north with recently removed seat and skidplate bolts, and smell of fresh paint. think i'll get sent to secondary?

 

[GA_Boater]

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You and Dozer should compare border entry/re-entry stories. I bet the northern checkpoints aren't as bad as the southern ones you use. You may get the waterboard treatment with all those signs of being a bad boy.

 

[barato2]

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yeah, it's funny....the Canadian border guards used to be famous for being PITAs, but now i think the US border folk have far outstripped them. one time a dog hit on my truck at border so they pulled everything out [brave folks....]. the story ended with the handler straining to pull the dog away from my big sub sandwich, which i make up to use the last of my vegies cheese etc that i'm not sure i can bring back. so in a way the dog did find the contraband.

WOOHOO!!!!! found the camera battery this AM as i left for work. on the OTHER side of the hull from where camera fell; they must put a heck of a spring in those Olympi.

so tomorrow (as distinguished from manana) i'll have pix of the completed console base. lots of clamping, trimming aligning, drilling, more trimming there but it mostly came out OK. cept my L-channel was too short and i had to scab in a 2" patch. definitely gonna have to pint this one white to hide the JB in corners! tonight i'm going to use rotary burr to grind out some of the stray fiberglass and places where it didn't make corners tightly, then load more epoxy in.

anyone have any suggestion on where to find mono in 100+ lb test sizes?

 

[GA_Boater]

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Did the sub get confiscated? :lol:

Pix are acomin', glad you found the cam battery.

Academy carries Sufix Mono leader, probably needs to be ordered.

Good old Amazon 100-400 test: Amazon.com: Berkley Trilene Big Game Monofilament Leader Coil: Sports & Outdoors

Both are listed as leaders. I never needed line that big.

 

[barato2]

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no, and it was pretty good too. ate it for next several days. but every time i go through that same tiny border crossing (Naco, AZ), the same guy tries to give me grief if he's on duty.

thanx for info on mono. yeah, for leaders and rigging squids and jetheads for trolling. i really have dreams of getting far enough out this time to have a shot at the billfish and bigger dodos.

 

[InMotion]

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Ok... I know I've been out for the a multitude of days... but your going to Canada??? What get tired of the sand storms and decided to go for snow storms instead??? Looking to come to a country where NHL hockey arenas are full even when the team is in dead last? Decided to boat where the word water is predicated by the word "salt"??? It is a fair jaunt to Canuck land from where you are.... mmmmmmm???

Ps --- glad ya found yur batt...!

Jimbo

 

[GA_Boater]

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no, and it was pretty good too. ate it for next several days. but every time i go through that same tiny border crossing (Naco, AZ), the same guy tries to give me grief if he's on duty.

thanx for info on mono. yeah, for leaders and rigging squids and jetheads for trolling. i really have dreams of getting far enough out this time to have a shot at the billfish and bigger dodos.

Are you dreaming of a Puerto Pe?asco sleigh ride like Ahab? With a better result in warmer climes, of course.

 

[barato2]

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naaah....not Puerto Penasco. that's still basically the CO river delta up there, and it's essentially been sterilized by years of overfishing. too shallow and sandy; nothing to catch there cept undersized triggerfish and spotted sand bass. good luck getting one of them to tow even the portabote! i usually fish out of San Carlos, near the large city of Guaymas. great natural harbor and the mountains drop right into the water, so it drops off really deep there....the Guaymas Trench is over 6000' in places, and i commonly troll past one spot where it's 56' deep about 10' off the rocks. here's a pic heading out of the harbor in early morn flat seas:

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it's a great hurricane hole and the winter layover for lots of cruisers in big sailboats from places as far as London (UK, not Ont.).

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[GA_Boater]

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I remember that Starchief pic from an earlier posting. Ingenious conversion from I/O to O/B. I also see a lot of money floating in the harbor and I would love to cruise past them on the way to the fishing grounds.

 

[barato2]

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[barato2]

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GA, that's not even the expensive row. the really big stuff----50-70' Bertrams, Hatteras and Viking sportfishermen....lives near the exit. good luck competing in tournaments against those.........and we won't even get into the guy with the 30' center console with over 1000hp on the stern who can make Baja in an hour

 

[InMotion]

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Looks awesome man... beautiful area... I guess somewhere I was read you were heading north... musta had too much pollen in my head!

J.

 

[barato2]

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i can relate to that pollen issue. spent one whole day last weekend unable to work due to allergies. interestingly, going to San Carlos also does wonders for my allergies; apparently i haven't developed sensitivity to Sonoran desert fauna (yet).

sensible folks WOULD be heading northfrom El Paso in late May, not south. but no one ever accused fishermen, esp this one, of being sensible. certainly not my wife...... and there are those marlin............... one of my dreams, before the portabote gets supplanted by one or the other SC, is to get a pic of a billfish being released from it. to dreeeeeeam the impossssible dream...

 

[dozerII]

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Those are some great picture Bruce, but it's way to hot for this fat Canadian down there.

 

[GA_Boater]

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Don Quixote in the starring role in the "Old Man And The Sea"

 

[barato2]

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you're kind. more like Don Pendejo in the starring role in "Loser catches a few scrawny barracuda after spouting on the internet"


OK, we got the photo backlog dumped onto computer; where to start?

here's another hunk of Lone Star, about to become a bilge pump base

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completed base ready to snap pump into place. the other black thing is auto switch, as this one is going to be wired to switch on either automatically or manually

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[GA_Boater]

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Hey - don't sell your fishing short. A caught fish is a caught fish, even skinny bacarudas. :joyous: I heard they taste just like chicken,

 

[barato2]

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A 1-pic photo essay on why you should drill out the hardened epoxy in your 1/4" transom bolt holes, instead of just hammering a bolt through to bust the plug loose:

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Finishing the transom cap:

forcing the flat 1.5" bar inside the curve of the transom cap and clamping it in place helps take the bow out

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then we beat the side edges flat again with the trusty hammer



finally, showing what it looks like with an L-channel “rain hat” over the low area.

 

[barato2]

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back to the console.

Here you see the countersunk 10-24 screws for bracing and bulkhead supports.

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Now we have the 1/4" Starboard cut into strips and screwed to the bottom, to space it up off deck, and the 2" L-channel which will serve as trim and base reinf getting fitted

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as noted, my freehand-cut 45s at corners came out a bit free form

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more of the fitting process. The trash bags and dead HF drill are serving as counterweights to keep it from tipping over

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