Recent Project 1988 23 CC

[Trayder]

Just wrapped up the 1988 23 I was working on. As usual I am kicking myself for not taking enough photos, in particular before photos and I will get some in the water photos this weekend, I hope.


Anyhow a little history:

The boat is owned by a neighbor, he purchased it a few years ago in North Carolina, it had a 1993 Yamaha 225 and for a year it ran OK, things were amiss with the engine, lack of trust, and there were assorted electrical gremlins about. Long story short the owner was not thrilled with the reliability of the boat so he repowered it the following year with a Yamaha 200 HPDI. Unfortunately, the next year was plagued with electrical issues; the boat was literally HOT, all the brass thru hulls were eaten through and it was very fortunate the boat did not sink.

Over the winter he contacted me to look at the boat and see if what we could do, the initial job was to re-wire the boat to eliminate it from "eating" itself, and add a wash down system.

After this was done the list grew to new fittings, re gel coat the deck, new plumbing, fix innumerable gouges in the hull, and basically freshen her up and make her ready for the season.

Working on this boat was a comedy of uncovering what previous owners did to the boat and what the people who rigged the engine forgot to do.

The highlights include (2) #2 gauge lugs one Pos. and one Neg. that were stuffed with 6-8 8-10 gauge wires that went into the rigging tunnel. After following all these wires they went......NOWHERE, they were all cut at various lengths and were either sitting in the rigging tunnels or sitting on top of the fuel tank, needless to say we found the hot source.

Other item was in the transom where there were 2 plastic thru hulls below the waterline, being plastic was bad enough but what I found doctored to one of the thru hulls was a first.

At some time the thru hull was replaced but instead of replacing the thru hull with one of the same size it was replaced with a smaller diameter fitting that was wrapped in duct tape to make up the difference.

Here is a pic:




I took both the thru hulls out and filled them in here are the progression shots:

















There were also ramdom thru hulls located in places where they should not be so I filled them all in and re- gel coated them, I do not have a final shot of this but will get one if I remember:

















The deck was totally worn thrugh so I re-gelcoated it here are some shots












The bottom was painted here is a shot of Anton the "Crazy Quiet Russian" getting it done










In orer to achieve easy access to the new in line valve for the wash down system I cut out the aft section of the livewell, a new bilge pump system was added as well as the rule wash down pump on the transom ( all the holes in the transom were treated with epoxy and them sealed) The transom was solid but will likely need replacement in the next 5-6 years.