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There wasn't a lot of room at the marina to take pictures, but here's a couple:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90...NewBoat003.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90...NewBoat002.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90...NewBoat004.jpg

The boat is going in the water on Wednesday. I'll take a lot more pictures once I get it in the water and pick it up. Hurray!!!

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Thats awesome!! I am jealous!!!

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CT,
Looks good ! Hey - what are those stainless plates (roughly 2-3" sq) screwed into the floor in the back of the boat .... near your transom ? I have those in my '88 and I just figured they were put in by the owner and not a stock Wellcraft thing. I have no clue why they are there.

Looking forward to your sea trial reports. I have just acquired my "re-power" (150 hp Evinrude Ficht, year 2001 w/ 30 hrs) and am very close to placing my order with Armstrong for a bracket. Cant wait to hear some performance reports from ya.

Happy boating

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Brian,

they are mounting plates for a rear bench seat. I have em too.

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That looks Sweet! Good luck and keep us posted. Pretty soon us notched guys and I/O's will be out numbered. ;)

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Well CT...that answers all my questions...MAN that looks GREAT!!...thanks for the pics...hope good weather for sea-trial Wed...let us know how it go... ;D...

Looks like ya'll got so many boats up there you gotta stack 'em on the ROOF!... :o ;D...

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Thanks guys.

Brian, fillet is spot on, they are mounts for a bench seat that goes across the transom. I still have it and it's in good shape, but I just use folding canvas chairs for extra seating when I need it.

RAP, we have no room up here on the water! Probably the same number of boats as down there but no room for them. They've got trailers and boats on the roof at that marina!

The four screws on the starboard side of the transom are where the pump is mounted for the washdown. They're putting the outlet on the starboard side just aft of the rod box.

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Brudda, you gonna have one SWEET ride come splash day... 8) ;D...

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looks good CT...I'll bet youre anxious for that first turn of the key.Really wish this weather would break, I think we've been above 70 maybe 2/3X...I think Macojoe knows what we're talking about.

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Brought the boat "home" yesterday in the gale warnings. Break in period is 10-hrs during which I can't exceed 4500 rpm and can't run at continuous rpm for more than 10-minutes. Even in a nasty chop, the boat exceeds (by feel, didn't have my GPS) previous top speed at just 3000 rpm. Highest I brought it to was 4000 and it felt great ;D! This is going to be a wonderful season. No throttle advance or even priming necessary to start the motor. Just turn the key and go! I took more pictures and will post them soon. One thing I did note is that the wheel pulls hard to starboard at higher rpm.

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looks good!! your going to love it!!

To fix the steering you will need to turnnthe zinic above the prop, tuern it in the derction that it is pulling. Just a little goes a long way!! Might have to try it a couple of times to get it right, but should be all you need to do!

Good Luck!!

All these new motors, making me jelious!! I want a new motor!! :'(

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Pipe down MJ - Your old Yammi 175 is still runnin strong! Your day will come, just hope it is later than sooner!

By the way, on your fishing pics that you recently posted, I noticed that the stress crack on the forward fish box made its way through the Durabak stuff you put on your deck.

Question - did you try to fill those cracks before applying the deck coat, or did you just put it on hoping it might fill the stress cracks? I've got pretty much the exact same type of cracks around my fish boxes. I V'd them out and filled with Marinetex, but they came back, only now they are a good bit smaller. Thanks

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Till this moment no one noticed but CB, :'(

Yes I sanded the hole deck, and then filled all screw holes, and cracks with Bondo.
I had a few and I did not want to break the bank with marinetex.

This is the only one to come back??? And I am pretty mad about it!!

I was going to and still might?? Going to regrind it and refill it with marinetex to see if that would be a better
fix? But now I don't know?

Mine to has gotten much smaller, But I am not sure I want to grind the whole thing out, or just this thin crack?

Well I will do something, I have been waiting for the rain to stop!

I will let you no if it returns again, I hope not!!

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I don't really think its anything to worry about. I just thought I'd ask. You're like me most of time - if the fish don't care, neither do I!

I've been thinking about doing something to my deck for a while and I wanted to get the lowdown on how to handle those pesky cracks! Its nice to know that most didn't come back...

Thanks,
Blue

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Oh yeah that looks sweet. You are going to love that bracket.