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• oscar1 Member Posts: 757 ✭✭✭

  March 2022

  Pic of the back plate I made to support the hardtop.

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• YYZRC Member Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 2022

  You are a mensch! Thanks @oscar1

  2008 350 EC on Georgian Bay

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• Michael T Member Posts: 7,227 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 2022

  @YYZRC.....no it wasn't too bad but he had a barn with several big overhead oak beams and used straps wrapped with cotton. They installed the hardtop of my 2014 EC360 at my dealership as it was shipped from the Rinker factory on a plywood skid. It went on pretty fast too. It took 4 guys to line it up but they didn't scratch anything. Biggest concern was to not damage any of the pre wiring for radar and a sat tv.

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• YYZRC Member Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 2022

  Fascinating @Michael T - I wondered how they handled shipping boats with hardtops.  The skid they built is pretty impressive, I bet on it's own it would be $1000+.  It is 2" plywood.
  

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• Michael T Member Posts: 7,227 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 2022 edited March 2022

  @YYZRC.....Yes the cradle is very impressive. This is my hard top - trucked with the boat on the same truck from the Rinker factory to Ontario for installation on my new (at the time) 2014 EC 360. That cradle was very well built.....just like the Rinkers!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Michael T Member Posts: 7,227 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 2022

  @oscar1....AWESOME work from you - as usual. That was pretty much exactly what my friend did.

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• YYZRC Member Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 2022 edited March 2022

  aero3113 said:

  @YYZRC I don’t think I have any pics.
  
  1 on the thermostat housing
  1 on the cool fuel module
  1 on the distribution tube
  2 on the raw water pump 
  
  Am I missing any? There are quick disconnects for the lower block drains but that drains out the distribution tube plug.
  
  

  It was the second one on the raw water pump I missed. Thanks again @aero3113
  
  

  I also got the poop tank installed today. That was a treat. Shimmed it a bit on the port side so that the poop slides to the outlet. Yum. 

  
  

  
  

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• aero3113 Member Posts: 9,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 2022

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  @YYZRC , I can post the pic of when my hole saw fell in the waste tank again if you want 😂

  2008 330EC

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• YYZRC Member Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 2022

  That's one of very few scenarios where I imagine the Admiral would be happy about me purchasing a new tool.

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• YYZRC Member Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 2022 edited March 2022

  Got the hardtop plates back from the powder coater. @aero3113 I thought you would appreciate my custom Ring camera mount plate!
  
  
  

  
  

  Here’s hoping I don’t catch any randos on my boat this summer. 

  
  

  I also had one made for my spreader light. 

  
  

  
  

  
  

  @Willhound I used Powder Tech in Barrie. Nice folks. 

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• LaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 7,745 mod

  March 2022

  I like it.  Call it the "Rando-B-Gone Mount"  and put 'em on Amazon. 

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• aero3113 Member Posts: 9,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 2022

  Very nice @YYZRC !!

  2008 330EC

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• YYZRC Member Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 2022

  LaRea said:

  I like it.  Call it the "Rando-B-Gone Mount"  and put 'em on Amazon. 

  Sold along side the triple wide rolls of “toilet paper”

  2008 350 EC on Georgian Bay

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• oscar1 Member Posts: 757 ✭✭✭

  March 2022

  YYZRC,  Very good idea, It look great
  

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• aero3113 Member Posts: 9,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 2022

  YYZRC said:

  LaRea said:

  I like it.  Call it the "Rando-B-Gone Mount"  and put 'em on Amazon. 

  Sold along side the triple wide rolls of “toilet paper”

  😂😂

  2008 330EC

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• YYZRC Member Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 2022

  She’s up!
  
  
  

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• aero3113 Member Posts: 9,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 2022

  Looks great @YYZRC !! 😎⚓️

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• oscar1 Member Posts: 757 ✭✭✭

  April 2022

  congrats, it look super...

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• goalie59 Member Posts: 346 ✭✭✭

  April 2022

  That looks awesome. Really changes the look of the boat. 

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• YYZRC Member Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 2022

  Looked pretty slick with no arch!
  
  
  

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• YYZRC Member Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 2022 edited April 2022

  I've been toying around with ordering some significantly larger (5" height) stainless steel RINKER emblems; I think it would modernize the boat.  I've had quotes in the $300 range per side.  I would size the Rinker logo appropriately and it would face forward on both sides (the armchair graphic designer in me hates that Rinker didn't do that originally...)
  
  Thoughts?
  
  
  

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• aero3113 Member Posts: 9,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 2022

  @YYZRC I had @diggin2day1 originally do that with my arch plate covers. It looked off to me so I kept it the normal way.
  
  
  

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• YYZRC Member Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 2022

  I agree when the logo is on its own, but next to the lettering I think it looks wrong!

  2008 350 EC on Georgian Bay

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• aero3113 Member Posts: 9,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 2022

  I agree 

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• YYZRC Member Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 2022 edited April 2022

  New canvas partially up. Got the mount fabricated for the Hurley H3O+ 

  
  

  I had a custom mount made for an antenna to replace the stupid cable TV connector as well. I don’t want the antenna on the hardtop as it will interfere with the solar. 
  
  
  

  
  

  Launch on Monday!

  2008 350 EC on Georgian Bay

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• YYZRC Member Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 2022

  Made some domed decals to replace the old-school looking ovals. 

  
  

  
  

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• mattie Member Posts: 1,276 ✭✭✭✭

  May 2022

  @YYZRC Those turned out awesome.
  
  A bit ago I found this company on the web that does domed letters & registration #'s.
  If we ever decide on a name......
  
  https://domedlettering.com/
  
  
  
  

  246BR, 276BR, H310BR current

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• YYZRC Member Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 2022

  That site and https://www.domednumbers.com/ are shockingly cheap for domed decals!

  2008 350 EC on Georgian Bay

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• goalie59 Member Posts: 346 ✭✭✭

  May 2022

  Very nice, sometimes it's the small things that make a big improvement 

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• YYZRC Member Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 2022 edited May 2022

  She floats. Need to work on the shadow left by the old 350 emblems. 

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  Post edited by YYZRC on May 2022

  2008 350 EC on Georgian Bay

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