Va Beach v20 project

[Kracker Jack]

Here's my bow cap temperally put up on so I can mock up my inner rail. I do a lot of wreck fishing and in shore live baiting while anchored up so as you can see I made the bow as narrow as possible so I can drop anchor from the step up platform. One thing I can't stand is when its a little snotty and you have to get up on that freaking bow deck to throw anchor. My brother said " your taking away from that Carolina boat custom look by not having a big deck up front" so looked at him and laughed and said looks ain't everything!!!!!

[Kracker Jack]

Here's another petpeev that I can solve while I'm at this point. Every factory boat I have ever owned has had a hole in the anchor rope locker that is only like 1/4 to 1/2 inch in diameter. And get easily blocked and clogged by debris and ultimately filling rod locker up with 3 or 4 inches of nasty a$$ water. So I drilled mine out 1 1/2 inches and then filled edges with thickened resin and milled fibers to waterproof upper level deck core.

[macojoe]

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

Thanks!! But I not sure 10" screen is big enough??









who really wants to look at 3 screens at a time??

[Kracker Jack]

MJ, is that touch screen also? I look at some of these new units and think back to the loran c searanger days and laugh. Some of these units now even have engine gauges on them now meaning all you need is the monitor on the dash!!!! Unreal and very very cool.

[macojoe]

this is the 4000 series, you need to go with the 5000 series for touch screen. I did not want the touch because i commercial fish alot and did not want fish gut hands on the screen all the time!
IA remember fishing with nothing and it was something to get a corpus! then the loran, and my first gps was a handheld, no charts, we have come a long way!!
this unit was $2000 at the boat show a few years back, with radar, sounder, and gps. I an very happy with it!!

[Union Laker]

Originally Posted by Kracker Jack

MJ, is that touch screen also? I look at some of these new units and think back to the loran c searanger days and laugh. Some of these units now even have engine gauges on them now meaning all you need is the monitor on the dash!!!! Unreal and very very cool.

I remember the old dayz too.

I found some old rolls of paper from my old SITEX Graph Depth finder. There were some nice marks on there from the old Salmon Slammin dayz

[Kracker Jack]

Originally Posted by Union Laker

I remember the old dayz too.

I found some old rolls of paper from my old SITEX Graph Depth finder. There were some nice marks on there from the old Salmon Slammin dayz

yea my dad had an Seaking paper graph bottom machine. It was high tech for that day and time.

[Kracker Jack]

So I decide if I'm gonna do this boat then I'm gonna do it right the first time. Even though the hull is built like a moose I also decide to recore the half rotted core ply on my console. I cut from the top because I'm gonna glass over the whole top anyway. Iwill then flip it over and patch those steering and control holes from the bottom with some progressive patchs of CSM.

[RidgeRunner]

On the glassing of the console/recore, sounds good to me. I need to do the exact same thing with my raised casting deck.
BTW - It does get interesting trying to stand up there while trying to anchor.
Love the anchor locker drain too. Small details make all the difference. Whaler's anchor locker drain was like 3/16" inside diameter, it stayed plugged up. On the Wellcraft, I stepped up to a 1" drain with the Perko Chrome vent over the top.

[Kracker Jack]

Hot coated the pre cut core material and thickened the left over resin to fill voids around the top of console (always take advantage of what you have mixed,it will save you a lot of resin in the long run)



I then let the hot coat kick then mixed my thickened resin and applied with 1/4 inch notch trowel.



I then put my core ply inplace and smushed it around to get an even layer of thickened resin between the ply and console skin. A big mistake I've learned is squeezing to much resin out of the bonding surface. Always keep a thin layer of resin in there or you won't get a good bond.