I must like punishing myself

[Bryan A.]

Originally Posted by billythekid

ha alright atleast someone is looking at it!!!

I know how you feel, I'm watching too, and taking notes.

Just finishing up fairing the transom on mine and ready for primer so I can move onto cutting the deck out.

[bobbert]

Great work!!! Keep the posts coming! Always learning something new here.

[Miles Offshore]

And another one watching too, doing a great job too. Im contemplating putting a big screen navnet in mine but we will see what the admiral has to say about that

[Boatboy6]

Speechless

[FAS]

I'm on it too....respect your work, great picts also....everybody's watchin !

[billythekid]

ok ok good. just wanted to make sure it was worth posting still!!!


I did a little filling and grinding this afternoon, I cleaned the garage with my workers for the last hour of the day as it was a mess. It amazes me how much garbage you produce restoring a boat.

anyway I used the pastry bags and took a pc of it to show how they work. by now you know, I get messy with putty and fillers. I am like a little kid!

these bags make it much more controllable on how much to apply.

[billythekid]

it was also time to put the console back in the boat for some measurements and to get feeling if I was missing anything. I am happy with the way it looks , livewell height along with the console and leaning post fit the profile of the boat.

next up is a little more tabbing, scuppers, and cut some holes for stuff. I am also gonna build a panel in the console to cover the livewell.

[Old'sCool]

At 18,000+ views people are watchin'! Keep up the good work and keep the pics coming

[billythekid]

got some work done over the weekend

it was time to do the scuppers, decided to go out the side of the of the hull.

I used the long pilot bit, to scallop the floor for a drain. I used a 2.5 holesaw bit.

once I bottomed out I used the air saw to cut the piece out, I then proceededto core the balsa out from the inside. once that was out I cut and fit mat to the hole and wet out everything around it.

once that set I ground the goobers off and back filled the entire hole with dynaglass and smoothed it out. I let that set and drilled a 1 3/8" hole from the outside to center the dynaglass from the first pilot bit.

other than that I have just been tabbing and dry fitting everything I can.

[billythekid]

well it was time to put the boat on the trailer, so I made a call to a friend with a crane and it made very easy work getting the job done.