I was a ball of fire today!

[macojoe]

I started out just wanting to get the new samson post mounted and just kept going!!

I still have some clean up to do But It is looking much much better!!

Here is the old cleat, the rod under neath roted off years ago, and I felt that is was to small as I leave my bow rope and anchor chain on it all the time.



So my cure for this was to yank it out and add this!



I moved the post back to be able to reach better, Gee what happened to the 1" hole from the old cleat??



Then I finished the old holes from the now missing bow rails



Then I have aklways hated this stupid Aluminum strip, its ugly, makes all kinds of noise!!

Also note all the holes from years of people adding different things. There were many many more but I forgot to take before pic, this was a old pic I had from before.



So I removed it sanded and filled all the holes to get this.





I will take care of this area later, there is a old light bloted there that has not worked for a long time! But you can see the repair of the rest here also.



Now I was left with a clean and sanded gunnels, but I needed to finish it off some how, After talking to CB I bought this stuff and it worked great!!
It is like a row of aluminum staples covered in vinyl, easy to work with!! And looks great!



And here it is installed!! Got to clean the boat a little, got some rubber marks on the side from the rubber mallet.

Thats my son the helper today!





Well thats it for today!! I still have to wire the rear light and the Tac, But I am pretty much done for now!