In storage now but this link shows before with the 1977 useless Evinrude v4 140 that is now in the junkyard after being checked and the new to me 2008 300 hours etec dark blue 175hp that with the wrong prop on it turned 45 mph in the river. Now has approx 14" x 19" instead of 21" pitch prop...they were checking for max rpms and the 21" did not get it there. Have not used it yet.
Boat has been cleaned since these photos while work was being done also. Has new access to bilge port, effective bilge drains, battery, onboard 120 volt charger for driveway use, new vhf, new Garmin 541s gps/chart/sonar and new spade fuse busses for them, new fuel hoses, new spin on fuel/water filter and both saddle tanks removed, cleaned, reinstalled, new manual backup compass. Both fuel fill fittings were not flush and so they were cut and refit to be flush now as well. Lots of little things. New seats on as well. Variable passenger pedestal is now drilled, tapped and fixed as the holding piece did not work right. Nice, open cockpit for my two dogs to come along. I put gray rubber matting down for them to have footing and cushioning. The cosmetics where on the coaming at one corner there is some gelcoat cracking and it all needs polishing but that needed to be done after the work to make it more modern and functional. Will start using it weather permitting in next few weeks solo to get used to it. The guys at the shop who put the prop on it and tested it said it ran really well. I just added a pipe cleat to each side to the back of the bow railings so there is a mid ship cleat on each side for light dock lines with easy access as well. A stainless hose clamp holds the cleat to the railing. Not for storm duty but for docks works fine. Beat drilling holes in the coaming. When I picked it up in Florida the trailer needed some work, the electric winch was non functional and was replaced by the selling dealer before I towed it home and new trailer lights as well. the boat was strapped on with a ratchet cargo strap tied in knots on the trailer ends. After a 611 mile trip home up I 95 I got to work making a plan then starting it. All that's done and it has a regular strap and the cargo strap is in the trash. It comes on and off the old ez load trailer easily and all the government paperwork is long done as well. Will put the registration numbers on in the next couple weeks. Have all that but was getting tired of boat work so put it away to take a break from it for a while. I also found when I put it away that the license plate hanger was cracked so I have a new one of those to add as well. Boats take effort to get them modern. This one is 40 years old....so modernizing it was fairly easy especially since it was only simply wired in terms of electronics. All their brackets long gone and cleaned up. When I took the original trailer plate off its sticker had expired in 2003 and the Florida reg. sticker in 2005 so I would guess it sat in a shed or under cover for 12-15 years which accounts partly for the excellent hull and deck, cockpit floors condition. Cosmetics will include all new wellcraft graphics all over the boat..in the house now, compounding the gel coat and waxing and dealing with some surface cracking on the coaming and a couple areas to re glass where someone banged into something like the back of the sliding bow hatch piece and the glass cracked. Have the materials for that and will coat those areas with linear poly single coat paint when done.
My original schedule was to get it functional and in the water by fall and I'm way ahead of that. With the new motor and letting the dealer do some of the heavy work for me, it's functional now.
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It's ready to use, cosmetics to come over time
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