What did you do to your boat today

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  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 8,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Who said I know anything about anything I take apart? I use you guys to figure it out👍
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Member Posts: 4,038 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Argh...im still painting....have 6 more sets of rollers to paint under before im done.  


    I will then wet sand/polish the hull but i can take all summer to finish that a little section at a time.  

    Once my laser level arrives im removing the stripes off of each side of my hull and putting a single blue stripe at the water line.  

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  • Lake_BumLake_Bum Member Posts: 989 ✭✭✭✭
    I blew a subwoofer, and broke a Bimini support pole (twice). The crimps let loose, first the bottom, then the top. Sorta crazy it happened on the same trip, 20 minutes apart.  Things to do before next trip! 
    2000 Captiva 232 
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,073 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was looking things over on the arch and found this wonderful splice on the VHF antenna. I used a Shakespeare VHF splice to correct it, works really well. I can’t believe someone would do this to a new antenna! 



    2008 330EC
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  • WillhoundWillhound Member Posts: 4,208 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just wow! Makes you wonder sometimes. I haven't used the splice but have used the connector with the wedges like that. Worked great!
    Nothing special today. Got the tarp off, tops up, batteries in. Used a bit of Spectrum patch paste to put an initial fill into a nasty gouge about an inch long just above the water line that I think was caused when they pulled my boat last fall. No biggie. Was way too cold really for the paste, but just a base coat and I upped the catalyst. Hard to get the tops on when only 38F. Best part of the day was it didn't snow, although we might get 3 inches tonight.
    Sure was great just being on the boat and listening to some tunes, even if still blocked.
    "Knot Quite Shore" - 2000 FV270 (Sold)
    2018 Cherokee 39RL Land Yacht (Sorry...)
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  • JoeStangJoeStang Member Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭✭
    Thats a special kind of dumbfvckery right there. LOL
    2013 276 Cuddy ~ 350 MAG / B3
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  • mattiemattie Member Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭✭
    looks like the wires behind our home stereo from the 70’s.


    246BR, 276BR, H310BR current
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  • Aqua_AuraAqua_Aura Member Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭✭✭
    On the water today enjoying my new keychain and our his and hers Rinker coozies. 
    1997 Bayliner 3988
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,073 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My cousin made this to run his engine, he’ll keep the hose flowing in it.  Like it was made for it!



    2008 330EC
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  • reneechris14reneechris14 Member Posts: 3,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great idea does it have a drain. Looks to be up far enough to catch the water on the way out also.
    2005 Rinker FV342  Pawcatuck river,Ct
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  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 8,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2020
    Super muf! Wait, is that a porno?
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,073 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, it has a drain on the lower front.


    2008 330EC
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  • GMSLITHOGMSLITHO Member Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭✭
    Great ilea but your right you have to keep the hose running the water gets real hot real fast 
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,073 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yea, the hose has to be running.
    2008 330EC
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Member Posts: 4,038 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2020
     trailer wheels scotched.  Safety chains and straps in place.  Parked on a steep incline.  Ratchet strap used to slowly winch the boat back on the rollers a little at a time until the final unpainted parts are exposed.    Yes, its attached to a tree on the other end.

    Finished my last coating of barrier coat.  I will sand with 80 gritt, go over with acetone then put on the final 3 coats of vc perfomance bottom coat in those little areas. 

    Weather will be in the upper 60s to 70s so i will wait over night before doing the final paint. 

    It will be paint a coat. Wait 30 min.  Paint coat two. Wait 30 min then paint final coat.  Dry time will be approx 24 hrs so Monday after work my bottom paint is officially done minus some cutting/ buffing.



    I will then pull boat to steep hill nose down(end of my drive way) and pull the boat back up the trailer.

    For now the black of the boat is hanging about 18 inches off the back of the trailer.  I have the transom supported with blocks on the sides and middle. 


    If left unsupported it could crack and damage the hull from the weight of the motor and outdrive.


    I have a laser level that just came in today that will be used to make my water line stripe via 3m mairne vinyl tape. 

     


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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,073 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks @Aqua_Aura for reminding me!! 

    Fresh Water strainer




    2008 330EC
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Member Posts: 4,038 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That was dirty...what have you been washing on that boat😂
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,073 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @PickleRick , I haven’t used the fresh water yet. This is all from the previous owner.
    2008 330EC
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  • Aqua_AuraAqua_Aura Member Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yours is clean compared to what mine looked like. Mine was packed with what looked like rotten jello. I didn't post a picture of the inside because it was embarrassing. Glad I could remind some people though because it is very easily overlooked. I'm guilty of overlooking/not knowing. 
    1997 Bayliner 3988
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  • J3ffJ3ff Member Posts: 4,112 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hmm didn't know there was a strainer for the fresh water tank... haven't ever looked at it.. oh boy. 
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  • GMSLITHOGMSLITHO Member Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭✭
    I didn’t know their was one either 
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  • Cableguy GregCableguy Greg Member Posts: 5,028 ✭✭✭✭✭
    J3ff said:
    Hmm didn't know there was a strainer for the fresh water tank... haven't ever looked at it.. oh boy. 
    It’s on the pump. 
    2008 280 Express Cruiser, 6.2MPI, B3, Pittsburgh, PA "Blue Ayes"
    Go Steelers!!!
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Member Posts: 4,038 ✭✭✭✭✭
    no stripes
    And then stripes.   Removing using heat gun, acetone and blunt paint scraper.  Acetone and heat gun are not being used at the same time.


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  • IanIan Member Posts: 2,868 ✭✭✭✭
    Cableguy Greg said:
    J3ff said:
    Hmm didn't know there was a strainer for the fresh water tank... haven't ever looked at it.. oh boy. 
    It’s on the pump. 
    Thought that too or right next to it.

    Regards,

    Ian

    The Third “B”

    Secretary, Ravena Coeymans Yacht Club

    https://www.rcyachtclub.com/

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  • Aqua_AuraAqua_Aura Member Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yeah it was where the inlet water goes in. Just had to pull on the blue tabs and it releases some tabs may be grey. 
    1997 Bayliner 3988
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  • YYZRCYYZRC Member Posts: 5,140 ✭✭✭✭✭
    PickleRick said:

    Acetone and heat gun are not being used at the same time.

    Live a little, Rick!!
    2008 350 EC on Georgian Bay
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Member Posts: 4,038 ✭✭✭✭✭


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  • SpyderwebSpyderweb Member Posts: 915 ✭✭✭
    @aero3113 is that the strainer that comes out of this part?


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  • PickleRickPickleRick Member Posts: 4,038 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • Aqua_AuraAqua_Aura Member Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Spyderweb said:
    @aero3113 is that the strainer that comes out of this part?


    Yes unscrew the clear part from the black part
    1997 Bayliner 3988
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