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  • diggin2day1diggin2day1 Member Posts: 1,331 ✭✭✭✭
    I think your little girl is saying “Hey Dad, we need a new set of Radar arch plates with those Tri-Color LEDs!”... 
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  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 8,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Aero that looks awesome. But I don't see a lot of difference in the before and after pictures of the dash. Maybe the picture of the before doesn't reflect the real condition. I'm working on getting my dash cleaned up and would love for mine to look like that. Buy gauges I cleaned up with polish and they now look awesome but the dash around the gauges is faded out. Did you bring yours back to life or did it pretty much look that way when you started. I'm afraid to use anything harsh on those panels for fear of rubbing through a wrap like material.
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  • IanIan Member Posts: 3,062 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cool. Our plan is one day bigger and not even have a house.

    Regards,

    Ian

    The Third “B”

    Ravena Coeymans Yacht Club

    https://www.rcyachtclub.com/

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  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,069 mod
    @aero3113 how nice to have a miniature super-model to help you with the boat.  BTW nice boat tied up out in front of you ...
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @rasbury , I didn’t post a before pic. Here is what they looked like, faded and couldn’t read the switches.


    2008 330EC
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @LaRea , maybe we should have an annual Rinker meeting on it?! Turns out my neighbors uncle owns it. Hopefully I will be able to get on board and take some pics. Here’s a link to it’s website, only $110,000 a week!!
    https://www.yachtcharterfleet.com/luxury-charter-yacht-23368/island-heiress.htm
     
    2008 330EC
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @diggin2day1 , I will contact you soon. Need to sell my 242 first!! LoL!
    2008 330EC
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @icoultha , that sounds like a great plan!
    2008 330EC
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  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 8,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    So @aero3113 how did you bring that dash panel back to life?
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  • halifax212halifax212 Member Posts: 560 ✭✭✭
    Great cruiser....congrats, and yes I was thinking about those dash panels as well. Restored or replaced?
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They were replaced, they can probably be brought back if anyone is interested in them.
    2008 330EC
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  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 8,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hmmmm.guess I will try something..if it screws it up I will paint them I guess...
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  • YYZRCYYZRC Member Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Huge improvement!  I just ordered a set from GLS.
    2006 390 EC
    2008 350 EC
    Georgian Bay
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  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,069 mod
    Island Heiress ... well that's pretty good.  Pretty, pretty, pretty good.  Oh, also your boat is pretty good.
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks @LaRea and @YYZRC !
    2008 330EC
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Member Posts: 4,371 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Are they cracked?  On plastic panels in vehicles ive had good luck standing down, repairing sun damaged rough spots/cracks with metal glaze.  Then id paint to match.  The big thing now is vinyl wrap.  Wood grain, carbon fiber or Armani emblems if you want to impress the yachties.   Yeti vinyl wrap for maximum resale value.  There are local sign shops that will print anyting you can think of so long as you can get the design in digital form.    My first auto restoration was a 79 trans am.  I got it in 97, finished the restoration in 2001, i was on a highshool budget. I wish i had the resources and technology the internet gives us today back then!

    Metal glaze only works for visual cracks. Another member mentioned structural repairs with jb weld. So long as you sand/prep it well that will work fine and should be plenty strong. To me jb weld isnt a good filler/patcher on plastic parts, its too hard.  Metal glaze sticks to most any prepped surface and sands extremely easily. Just don't do like me and install them with am impact driver after a few too many cold ones. You'll get to do it again! 
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The new 330 is home! It was a tight fit under the bridge but it cleared with inches to spare!! 



    2008 330EC
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
    shawnmjr said:
    Was it “so worth it”? 
    LoL, that name is going!
    2008 330EC
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  • WillhoundWillhound Member Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Don't forget to do the proper renaming ceremony so you don't anger the water gods. As I recall there's lots of toasting of adult beverage involved.  :p
    "Knot Quite Shore" - 2000 FV270 (Sold)
    2018 Cherokee 39RL Land Yacht (Sorry...)
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  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 8,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    So how the heck did you get it off the trailer and on to the stands...and how do you get it back in the water?
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  • reneechris14reneechris14 Member Posts: 3,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @aero3113 you be looking out at it all winter long dreaming. Mine comes home next week on my green lawn. Got to admit its a great lawn ornament. 
    2005 Rinker FV342  Pawcatuck river,Ct
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  • reneechris14reneechris14 Member Posts: 3,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @rasbury the center brackets pin out and swing over so you can block the keel, two stands in back pull trailer out then front stands.
    2005 Rinker FV342  Pawcatuck river,Ct
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Willhound said:
    Don't forget to do the proper renaming ceremony so you don't anger the water gods. As I recall there's lots of toasting of adult beverage involved.  :p
    Yes, I remember reading that, I will make sure it gets done!
    2008 330EC
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
    reneechris14 said:
    @aero3113 you be looking out at it all winter long dreaming. Mine comes home next week on my green lawn. Got to admit its a great lawn ornament. 
    I’m already looking and dreaming!
    2008 330EC
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
    rasbury said:
    So how the heck did you get it off the trailer and on to the stands...and how do you get it back in the water?
    He was done in about 20 minutes, possibly 15. I should’ve took a video, pretty cool how the trailer works.
    2008 330EC
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Member Posts: 4,371 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hydralic lift trailer?  


    I'd love to have ine of those laying around.  Between now and April there are tons of good deals to be had on big boats, owners wanting to dump that slip renewal!

    Having the proper tools and equipment for the job is never overrated.  


    So what's the new name going to be?
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  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,069 mod
    Man, that is a truly interesting story for a boat name!  
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  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,069 mod
    And you can be confident it will never appear on the BoatUS annual list of most over-used boat names!  (How many boats named Aquaholic does the world really need ...)
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @LaRea , very true. I like that it has a lot of meaning behind it. 
    2008 330EC
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