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MarkB said:

Ian said:

rasbury said:

I swear I have never understood how a boat stays up on those little pedestals,  or they don't go right through the hull with the weight!

I never understood the physics of buoyancy and why my boat floats yet if I drop a brick in the river it sinks.

Oh that's easy. Your boat is full of air.  If it was just one big cube of fiberglass, it would sink to the bottom of the lake.  But if you fill that fiberglass with enough air, kind of like a balloon, it will float.

That air is the air in the cabin, engine room and deck.  Now if something happens and all that air is displaced by water (say due to a leak, or water coming over the transom), then you sink again, because the air is gone.

Sounds similar to lightbulbs not emitting light but sucking dark. It goes black when full of dark.

Since this is what have you done to the boat ..... this year! 

Installed a new 17-inch TV screen in the Hardtop ( Was missing when I bought the boat)
Installed quick disconnect for the VHF Antenna and put a new antenna on.( got broken in winter storage) 
Installed the table my son made for the boat in shop class.
Had the starboard Drive rebuilt chew forward and reverse gears (but the boat had this issue before I got it.... I just made it worse but it would still plane up to 40 mph easily)
Put on drive showers as I like to push the boat once in a while and it was recommended by the drive rebuilder.  
Lastly waxed it twice this year .... because it's Rinker Black Gelcoat    Had a great year though the boat did work great can not wait for next season! For my third season with the boat in 2023.  Plan to add NEMA sensors on the fuel tanks so I can see them on the MFD, also plan to get a rudder sensor and maybe trim tab sensors just so everything works on the MFD.  

 

SimcoeRinker400 said:

Was blocks last year on the keel 😁!!! @Liberty44140 your boat looks great too.   Does yours have the aft cabin or the couch?  

Thanks! I have the couch, pulls out in to a nice queen bed. It's interesting I know the boat came with an aft cabin option but I have never seen one online, pics or ad's for sale, with the aft cabin. It would be nice to have, that was the one sacrifice we made choosing which boat to buy, but we have no kids so really no problem for us. t would really take away from the large living space as the walls came out in to the cabin for that option. It is nice to sit on that couch, feet up on an ottoman, and watch a movie on a cold night  

I went all new transom plates.  Really don't want to show the bill.     But to be honest piece of mine.  Also, I bought mine from Bam Marine in FL and it saved me like $7k instead of paying the crazy markup ones up here. I also got to clean and paint the engine room as neglect of  14 years of gross bilge stained the bilge and the moisture caused the black crap everywhere.  The shaft seal thing is a band-aid for the future of replacing the transom plate.   That was in 2020 when I got the boat and inherited these problems.  The boat has come a long from then. Remember some transom plates had the soft aluminum issue too so you can put the shaft and bushing in it but give it a few years and it will be loose again and leaking.

I had the steering pins done a few years ago when I purchased my boat, did the bellows also while it was apart. Here’s the invoice for a baseline price. This was for the drilling out method.