I Need A Shrink !

[strick]

Yesterday was the first whole day I've had to work on the boat for several weeks. Mostly I've been pecking away at it late into the evenings after work. I have been getting lots of little things done which seem to take forever to do and don't seen like much at the time but they add up fast.

The brass drain tube scuppers in this boat were removed when I got the boat. I thought I could make my own flanging tool and ruined 2 brass tubes in the process so I said the heck with it and ordered a flanging tool from Hamilton marine. Just as important as the flanging tool is a good pipe cutter. I had a fairly new cheapo one from Home depot and ruined another brass tube because the cutting wheel had a slight wiggle to it which made it travel. I borrowed Bills old Rigid pipe cutter and was good to go.



Flanging tool.



Lots of 5200



This was an easy job once I had the right tools!







Port side



I started cutting some backing plates for the tower and cleats



I've been going thru lots of beer and water




There is going to be two blowers in this boat...one for the engine compartment and one for the fuel tank compartment.



Cutting holes for the fuel and water fills








Please excuse the crappy pictures. When this thing is finished I'm going to take a bunch of high resolution photos and post a link to it.


25 feet of fuel fill hose. I have about 4 feet left over.



This little guy works well for cutting fuel fill line.






Shots of some of the teak that I have installed so far.













hatch for the step down boxes. This will be used for storage.



forward bulk head and teak anchor locker



Drain's for the cockpit. The old set up had some holes drilled thru the floor




There is a fuel tank that goes directly under this. I had 1 1/4" clearance from the top of the tank to the to the bottom of the cockpit sole. So I had to cut off the bard to make these work. What water that ends up here will have to run onto the top of the fuel tank and then into the bilge. Not my best plan ever but that the way it's going to have to be





4200 sealant These are 1 inch drains











Mandalay Bay Las Vegas Nev





thats 499 photos I've up loaded to my server so far for this project

strick