So Here She is

tartuffe · #1 03-25-2012, 02:47 PM

I thought I would upload some photos of what I've done to my poor girl. She'll be lucky if she ever sees the water again.

tartuffe · #2 03-25-2012, 02:56 PM

Some more for you guys

tartuffe · #3 03-25-2012, 03:00 PM

Today was a rainy day so not much other than starting to cut down my stringers. I'm almost out of fabric, need to drive an hour to get more plywood, and gotta order some more resin soon. On top of that I still have a couple hours of grinding so it will be awhile before I post more pics of any progress.

I did get my new windshield ordered from UPD Plastics so that is worth getting excited about.

Destroyer · #4 03-25-2012, 03:35 PM

Dude...You're making EXCELLENT progress!!!

Keep up the good work...It's looking nice...and looking at some of those 'before" shots, she most definately needed what you are doing. Well Done Sailor!!!

Kracker Jack · #5 03-25-2012, 05:23 PM

SWEET!!!! Git er' done!!

tsubaki · #6 03-25-2012, 05:29 PM

Jesus, you have performed a pile more in the pictures than I've seen in a while!
"Lucky to see the water", my *** in Nebraska.
Looks good!!

tartuffe · #7 05-13-2012, 01:02 PM

I've been mocking up the conduit for my control cables, hydraulic steering and all of the electrical. I came up with the idea of running it under the fuel tank rather than cut through all of my bulkheads. I tried running 3" conduit for all of it but it does not work out so I am planning on running a 2" for the electrical and 2.5" for the controls and steering. The Controls will fit in a 2" but it is tight.

This is what we got:

The bulkhead is going where the yellow straight edge is.
The batteries will sit where the blue styrofoam is.
The access hatch is roughly the same dimensions as the two pieces of PVC.
The fule fill and vent lines will run where the grey conduit is laid out on the tank.
The bottom of the livewell is approx. 7" off the center bottom or about a 1/2" above the top of the 3/4" strip of ply.

I will fill the whole tank area with foam once everything is in place.

So what am I not considering? What do you guys think of going with 2 separate chases rather than 1 and any good ideas to seal them non-permanently?

phatdaddy · #8 05-13-2012, 01:38 PM

i would think 2 would be better than one that is packed. if you've got the room, i'd add another 1". just for future stuff.
something else you might want to consider, adding 2 pieces of 3" on the outside of the stringers, below the deck and using them as freshwater storage tanks. i have 2 6' pieces on either side of mine, below the rodboxes and it gives me 5 or 6 gallons of fresh water. i plumbed them to a pump located in the center of the hull, by the transom.

willy · #9 05-13-2012, 03:49 PM

A lot of hard work, it will come out beautiful I am sure.
I would do the two runs in three inch like said above.

tartuffe · #10 05-13-2012, 08:02 PM

I like the idea for freshwater on the boat. That would be nice to get the salt off me at the end of the day. I may try to plumb in a quick connect water tank for the bow tied into the washdown pump with a tee and valve. Good idea

and also the future conduit idea, plenty of room under the tank.

Looking down my gunnels, I only have around 2" of clearance between the cap and hull above the bulkheads until you get about half way up. Any 3" conduit would have to go through my stringer and through 3 of those bulkheads, I really really want to avoid cutting into all of that since I already have to cut the stringer for the fuel fill and vent.

Here is a pic looking between the cap and hull inside the gunnel