COME ON CRACK, POST SOME PICS FOR US HERE!!!

I stay away from THT...update us!!

This was the 6th rainy weekend in a row for us up here:sad:

Congrats on the parts score. I know how it feels. I have been on craigslist and hitting the fleamarket every weekend. Paid off good. Got hydraulic steering for $75, needs a couple parts. Got a crapload of csm and a big roll of woven roving for $50. Now I am looking for trim tabs! Sounds like you made good progress on your hull work. Keep us posted and get some pics up!

Kracker your the reason I landed here with my Franken V Project you do some good work. I am a painter as well never rebuilt a boat as far as your VA - V.

I cant wait till we get some spare time to pull the engine &out drive to get after her. Keep up the goodwork I am where you were @ the beginning.

Glass Up That transom Put a sea drive on it you have 2 perfectly good 135 Rudes' with all the work & strength you have added she would fly.....:clap:

Kinda nice to out run a squall in open water... I was contemplating a sea drive & a single 300 on mine...:hi: But there I go thinking again.....

Great job once again just got thru the whole thing.... almost...

Edit: I see you sold off the other Rude' But you got the Dual controls.

old sea drives are a dyeing thing, they were a good idea at one time but parts getting hard to find!
Brackets are the way to go now!

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UL I thought about doing a seadrive in the beginning but decided not to due to the guys on this forum. The added "dead weight" and lack of accesible parts steered me away. With the experience and confidence I have gained from being apart of this forum I'm not scared to do a bracket in the next couple years. But for now I'm gonna stick with my single 135 and a traditional outboard setup. By the way welcome to the forum!! These guys on here are awesome and will give you a wealth of knowledge. There truelly are no stupid questions on this forum, just ask and somebody will help.co

MJ is that a sea drive or a.bracket? The one in the picture is what I was thinking of. Thought the extra couple feet would be more stable

Thanks KJ with your skilled work I figured just grab a micro
lam beam and have one fabbed up in a few days.

So what is the difference in a bracket vs. A sea drive. It was back in the 90.s since I was out on my buddies 25 Dusky. He had 2 Black Max 225's on what I thought was a sea drive. Might have been a bracket. Either way it flew in the back country down in the Keys.

The extra couple feet back there made a big difference out off shore.
Made a nice swim platform for snorkeling, good to keep everything out back and out of the way.

Thanks for the welcome.

Let's see what your ideas are for a bracket. I found a Black Max up here for a bracket. I had thought you still had the twin 135s . For as heavy a boat a 135 better suited for a 17' Checkmate. JMHO.

Check my photo bucket for a video of a 64 Tempest with a 600hp 383 stroked we built. I will get a link. Up in Caseville on lake Huron.
Wish I had the V up here with me. Just picked up a 69 Mach I.

UL - the above picture is a 'Stainless Marine' bracket on a V.

A Sea Drive was built by OMC for a few years. It has the "bracket" built into the lower part of the motor

SeaDrive:

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Right I thought the Brackets were sea drives .I hate those Bracket only way to go I thought the bracket was the sea drive. I like them can't believe I thought for the last 25 years Brackets were sea drives..

Thanks for the old schoolin...

Hey Kracker you ready for some primer yet? I jjust got a 2 gallon kit from SPI

Barry has free shipping 2 part Epoxy 1-1 mix. I will let ya know how she lays down.

Now what all is the best top coat?.....What were you thinking , :beer:

Union, there's a lot of DO IT YOURSELF paints out there. The sides of my outer hull are gonna be Interlux perfection in a fighting lady yellow color, my bottom is gonna be a interlux VC performance EPOXY, My inner hull I'm tossed up on but I'm leaning towards rolled on gellcoat, giving the boat a work boat finish inside. I have 2 gallons of interlux epoxy primer already. I'm working on the boat Saturday and Sunday I have been working 70 hour weeks lately so I've been kinda busy at work.

Finally working on the boat today. I really wanted to go fishing,the puppy drum are snapping right now. I set and glued the last part of my inner rail today and I'm gonna glassind them up tommorow. Next will be glueing and setting the top cap and then glassing over the whole cap to rail structure. Im really looking forward to fairing and slicking her up.

By far the most challenging layups I've done so far!!! Tight radias with multiple inside corners and tabs. I can't wait till these inner rails are done.

I also recieved a bonus today, I traded some spreader lights for a vhf radio and a raymarine rc420 chartplotter today!!!!! It was one of those situations were my buddy wanted spreader lights and he had what I needed, he's happy and I'm very very happy with the trade.

Come on Kracker, youre holding out on us....give us some PICTURES!!!

:time:For some picts. Devil is in the Details...

It worked!!!!!!!! I can do pictures!!!!! Wooo hoooo!!!! Game on.

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As you can see I had to cut relief in the inner rail to get it to conform to the lines of the boat. Before I glassed the inner rail I'm hotcoating and letting it gel,then I come back with thickened resin and filling in the relief cuts and then applying my cloth and all wet on wet. This I thought would bring back the structual integrity of the wood.

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More pictures.

Looking good Kracker! I really like the rail. Good thing on the relief cuts without them its possible to pull the boat to fit the wood rather than vice versa, and that is not good. Dont forget you can always come work on mine. :hide: I cannot wait to see yours done. :clap:

Kracker, I just had an idea. How about extending your gunnel cap 3" past the outside of the hull with a 2" downward carling? Like the Carolina Skiff and the big Cape Horns. Should help with spray and give you more piling protection.

Boat is coming right along....lookin real good man....keep it up.

Shes damn sexy already!!

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Here's one from lastweekend when I was dry fitting and fine tuning the cap ply.

You are doing some excellent work there! The devil is in the details and you get 'em licked! Love the pics!!

Kracker, the more I stare at your pictures, themore I want it! You are getting me motivated to get my sons V project going again!!

Drag, its been a long itchy road to get her to this point. And I still have a long way to go. But its gonna be a cool boat.

She is coming out great we had our first frost up here looks like 4 weeks of Indian summer in store for us up here in MI.

With the budget are you going to paint her or Gel coat her?
I am getting my Epoxy Primer today we will see how it goes.

Nice work on the pictures KJ :pic:

"Your eat-up with that boat aren't you?" ROFLMAO at that comment your neighbor made a while back. Excellent fortitude to press on my good man.

Ridge,I'm just ready to get her done and get her wet!!!!! I'm motivated at this point so I'm gonna gonna take advantage of it. I took a break there for a while to move into new house which is good because I was getting burnt out on the boat. Now I'm ready for round 2!!!!!!

Looks like your in the home stretch, almost ready for Tuna Time!

Is it bad that I passed up a wreck fishing trip tomorrow to work on my boat? Even my buddy looked at me today and went "are you serious!!!!! You ain't ever passed up a fishing trip before"

Tomorrow I am going to build the last piece of inner rail which is the inner radias of the forward piece of cap. I'm gonna fabricate the rail in the morning then glass in the after noon.

I have also decided I'm going flush mount my fishfinder and chartplotter in the console. Meaning I have to build up a dash on top of my console. So I will be pondering around with that tomorrow.

Keep at it dude.. you're doing great!!!:clap:

Git r done Kracker! I am still in the denial stage of mine.....

get her done then there's plenty time to fish!! then they will want to go with you all the time!

I did a starboard thing for my flush mount, I know you must have a better way but its a idea, works for me.

I have the black plex glass for it but have not added it yet, it will have a bar going across it with a lock, keep honest people honest.

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MJ wow!!!!! That is one heck of a unit!!!!