Project Seafari Tuna-fication

[oldbluesplayer]

otherwise known as, Back to the Grind -

Having fished my boat pretty hard over the last couple years, learning and enjoying it's capabilities, I've slowly been scheming improvements, finding things needing fixing, and wanting to make upgrades to improve fishability, and wanting to clean her up and give it a cosmetic makeover, so, starting with what she was -



the laundry list includes:
- fixing the forward bulhead, connecting the inner liner back to the hull (a discussion CSN, Fr. Frank, and I have shared) these pix show how it's seperated, creating a loose feeling in the boat - note pix are at partial repair stage-





I also have been wanting to clean off the old bottom paint, and Carla's bowrider project pretty well convinced me - so here's to the grinding -







Fishability - this boat, to pull a proper tuna spread, needed more rod holders, especially to go along with the 15' outriggers I picked up. I found the original rod holders lightly thru bolted (size 10 hardware) directly into uncored fiberglass in the gunnels, so first I did up some 3/8" core pieces, which were glassed under the gunnels, and then new rod holders installed.




so, more bottom grinding to do, outrigger holders to install, looks like I might be picking up a stand-up bimini top, I'd bet on a fresh coat of white on the bottom, and new old style Sea Craft decals for the rear sides, and the new stainless logo's mounted on 3/8" mahogany, for somewhere on the cabin sides, just aft of the cabin windows -

will update as progress dictates -

Bill