MyS bound 310 EC is stuck at the border

gtyeegtyee Member Posts: 168 ✭✭✭

Did my sea trial on Tuesday in Toronto and then a four hour boat skills course, boat is like brand new and runs out perfect. Great day on the water and boat was being loaded on a semi to Chicago Thursday at 8 am so I cleaned all the glass and put all the canvas away for the ride. Spoke to transport co at noon and were at the US border with a paperwork glitch. Needless to say it was put on 'administrative hold' and wasn't released until Friday! Due to Michigan laws you can't tow a wide load on Saturday or Sunday,and Monday is a holiday so I wont see the boat until Tuesday which really sucks as I have for sure two days worth of buffing and waxing prior to launch. Hopefully its in by Memorial day. A real disappointing set of news but on the positive side the boat is awesome with low hours and gen set only has 1.6 hours on it. When I get done detailing it will be better than new.. MT really knows how to set up a boat beautifully and those 350 mags run out real nice. Happy holiday to you Canadians and my wife and I loved Toronto but the malls cost me a bit:)!

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  • Black_DiamondBlack_Diamond Member Posts: 5,439 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not a holiday on Monday this week in Mich, next week yes. 

    Should have had screaming deals at the mall, 40% just on currency alone!

    Past owner of a 2003 342FV
    PC BYC, Holland, MI
  • Michael TMichael T Member Posts: 7,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ....hey gtyee, sorry I missed you in T.O......... all that paperwork pita stuff will be a distant memory when you get her out for a run out of home port. As BD says you should have ripped the mall up with that American currency LOL! :-)
  • Michael TMichael T Member Posts: 7,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @gtyee, how do you like the Premium  Axius with the DTS throttles and Skyhook?
  • gtyeegtyee Member Posts: 168 ✭✭✭
    Love the Axius, did most of the parking on the sticks but the Axius makes life a lot easier. Boat will be here Monday night and dropped off early Tuesday am where my buffers and wax will be waiting, hope to splash it by Thursday.
  • Michael TMichael T Member Posts: 7,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Excellent!
  • minnesotaminnesota Member Posts: 67 ✭✭

    Congrats, it must be a steal with the low CDN exchange rate

    2008 280 EC
  • raybo3raybo3 Administrator Posts: 5,617 admin
    @gtyee good luck with your new ride. Post some pic's when your done with detailing.
    2002 342 Fiesta Vee PC Point Of Pines YC Revere MA. popyc.org     raybo3@live.com
  • gtyeegtyee Member Posts: 168 ✭✭✭
    Got the boat dekvered this morning at 7 am. Worked on it all day, the hull had lots of scale on it and the rest needs a good buffing as the boat just sat in the water all year and was never used. Hull pics attached.
  • gtyeegtyee Member Posts: 168 ✭✭✭
    The first was a 102 year old boat!! Spent 8 hours on the bottom and Stern drives and prop and trimtabs  look brand new. Have all new magnesium anode I'll replace tomorrow. Will start buffing at 7 am and for sure all day job, then was on wax off!!
  • Robs_232Robs_232 Member Posts: 212 ✭✭✭
    LMAO, that is hilarious. MT what the h*ll?
  • Michael TMichael T Member Posts: 7,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2016

    HahaHaHa...@gtyee, man I LIKE your sense of humor - reminds me of Steve (Handy) on the forum.

    Good for you@gtyee - beautiful clean-up work. That's HOW my baby should look!!!!!

    As for the idiot who bought it after we owned it, if I ever see that moron (he works at Ontario Power Generation in Port Credit) I'll kick his a$$. That friggin sh*tbird - I get around, he better run if he sees me coming! He swore he'd look after it. If we ever meet I'll look after him for sure. I'll put that di*k right on the ground!

    Okay, I feel a bit better now. At least that moron didn't have it during the break-in (I hate that term) of all of your main components. Believe me 100% I was OBSESSIVE with all of it. There may have been some cr*p on the hull and drives when you got it but that baby was treated like a princess by us - at the crucial stages of it's early life! 

    Please keep the pictures coming. It hurts but in a good way! I really have great memories of skimming across the water in that baby! LOL

    What?.... No shots of the engine compartment with those 350 Mags......shame!!!!!! 

    P.S. Maybe it is a good thing that it just sat in the water unused. That way that dipsh*t didn't get to do anything stupid with it. Maybe a silver lining to all of that! :-)

    P.P.S. Just noticed something in the last picture....when I ordered the SS fender holders they sent the flimsy ones. I sent them right back and insisted on the HD SS fender holders. @gtyee, it was ALL done right!

    P.P.P.S. Just noticed from the first pictures of the cleaned hull - the trim tabs were installed on the 310 with the "wings" facing down too (like the 360) that's probably why they bite so well!

  • NavyCTRCNavyCTRC Member Posts: 303 ✭✭✭
    Beee-yooot--a--full!  gtyee, great lookin boat there, what a transformation from the before pics!  LOL! 
  • Michael TMichael T Member Posts: 7,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @gtyee, what marina is it at and will it be staying there? I'd like to google the marina.
  • 212rowboat212rowboat Member Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    those outdrives wouldn't have looked like that....... if they had showers... just sayin'....  o:)
  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,075 mod
    Yeah, but showers would ... hey wait a minute, you're just trying to stir it up!
  • 212rowboat212rowboat Member Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    not me!!!!  >:)

    beautiful rig, gtyee!!!  you're going to have a great summer and many more to come!!! 
  • Michael TMichael T Member Posts: 7,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It will be nice to see my former EC 310 and EC 360 (the "twins") side-by-side if the guys can manage it this summer. That would sure draw a crowd at the slips!
  • frodo13056frodo13056 Member Posts: 212 ✭✭✭
    edited May 2016
    @gtyee - beautiful boat! Where are you harboring this season? I was in the Chicage harbor system (Diversy harbor) for 3 seasons before moving down to Hammond harbor. From your pics, it looks like you are launching at Chicago Yacht Works?
  • jbschmalz23jbschmalz23 Member Posts: 219 ✭✭✭
    Beautiful boat! I thought the upgrade to a 280 lay summer would satisfy me for a long long time from the Larson 250 I had. Seeing that 310 ha the wheels turning! My wife says this forum is a bad influence for me!
  • gtyeegtyee Member Posts: 168 ✭✭✭
    Bottom and one side done. Used Maguire's comppung for the heavy cut then 3 m finesse then 3 m glazing compound, then I will wax with 2 coats of Trewax paste. I'm real tired and sore but happy I didn't buy the 360!!

  • gtyeegtyee Member Posts: 168 ✭✭✭
    Ill be at Diversey harbor this year as two of my kids live by there. Mt I haven't got to the motors yet but soon. Also been talking to Brian and will hook up soon.
  • gtyeegtyee Member Posts: 168 ✭✭✭
    boat is at Crowleys yacht yard and they have been great to work with as I get there at 7 and work till 8. They set me up in a nice stall by the door and actually let me power wash it for 2 hours prior!
  • raybo3raybo3 Administrator Posts: 5,617 admin
    those outdrives wouldn't have looked like that....... if they had showers... just sayin'....  o:)
    Highly doubt that. Most of that corrosion is in the water at all times.
    2002 342 Fiesta Vee PC Point Of Pines YC Revere MA. popyc.org     raybo3@live.com
  • 212rowboat212rowboat Member Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I highly doubt I was being serious when I typed that....  B)
  • raybo3raybo3 Administrator Posts: 5,617 admin
    Ahhhhh got it...... My bad.......lol
    2002 342 Fiesta Vee PC Point Of Pines YC Revere MA. popyc.org     raybo3@live.com
  • gtyeegtyee Member Posts: 168 ✭✭✭
    Set to launch at 1:15 tomorrow. Still have to finish up loose ends. Replace the anodesas that boat must of been next to a power plant. Drives look perfect and boat only had a 1/4 inch chip which I fixed w gelcoat. Today 6:30 till 9:30 PM. Boy would I like a white boat!! LOL
  • The Main ExchangeThe Main Exchange Member Posts: 280 ✭✭✭
    Looks great good job!

    2007 300 EC, 350 Mags, B3's, Table Rock Lake, MO

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