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11-24-2012, 10:41 PM
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Its not necessarily the room you need for giant fishing, more the ability to fight they easliy...Put the rod in the bow and chase them down!
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#2
11-25-2012, 10:31 AM
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Strick, I am very impressed with the size of the deck on the boat. What a dancefloor. My bro in law and I used to fish a CC model and though it had enough room for us, I remember dancing around the engine box and console to get at stuff. It is quite the consideration to leave all that room.
Shrimpin, Looked at the cuddy and decided it was pretty small for sleeping. I love the overnighting idea but the cuddy may be a bunch of cumbersome space for me. I would just fill it with junk and then have to empty it onto the deck to catch a wink. I tend to bring along quite a bit of extra stuff. Heck of a thought though, even doing a single overnight you'd get two days fishing on one days gas. So here's what has happened: I spent Friday night searching the classic here and found a couple good "sceptre to center console" projects and was completely inspired. Unfortunately for the Bourne Landfill, I had the spare saturday and a sawzall. What have I done, day one of ownership and already sliced and diced. The boat will beceome a center console. Ill get pictures up asap. Thanks for all the input Im sure I am going to need it to get through this project.
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11-26-2012, 02:42 PM
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i rec. tuna fished with mine loved all the room. it is hard getting up on the bow to drop the anchor especially if rough seas, i would always climb up then have someone pass me the anchor. the cuddy is to small to ever sleep in and i easily filled it with gear. the boat rides amazing tho and i was in some scary sh*t. having the cuddy was good for when i was out when it was rough it kept my gear dry and the waves just washed off the bow.
that boat was my baby and i loved it but i would never buy another cuddy seacraft due to the small cuddy and getting up on the bow
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#4
11-26-2012, 10:20 PM
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Pics of early carnage.
Below gentlemen is the rough boat with no cabin. Everything got a steam powerwashing and cleaned up quite nicely. The mercruiser 888 anchor that was in the bilge is on its way to the scrap yard tomorrow...! Going to go very thorough on the boat before I consider power.
More to come...
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#5
01-08-2013, 01:07 AM
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New Transom for the 23' Seacraft
Started into the project, will get more pics up as soon as possible but here are a few to start:
Dug out the transom which of course was rotten (why the boat was available in the first place) and also the engine beds. Never have I seen such saw dust as in the engine beds. Good for a laugh though. Here is the new transom laminated from the outside- has two layers of 3/4 MDO ply using all epoxy and biaxial cloth. Fillers I used were a mix of cabosil and 1/16" chopped glass fiber. Was able to remove the hull cap and slide it forward, making it very easy to install the new plywood by sliding down from the top. Boy I'm getting excited: Another: Here is a donor boat/ motor/ trailer I picked up. Never liked a searay... time to cannibalize!
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#6
01-18-2013, 08:40 AM
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Final layer hits the transom...
Finally... The last layer has hit the transom. This is the fifth layer of glass. All 1708 biaxial/ stitchmat combo and epoxy. I would approximate the glasswork is 1/4" thick.
In the last pic Chance, you can see how I wrapped all the edges onto the hull sides and bottom- not too much, just 3 1/2 or 4". I just wanted to tie into the sides if even marginally. I've got more progress pics- i need to get them off of mine and my buddies phones (i'll figure it out someday) easy to take the pics with my phone. PITA to get them off. This transom is so strong it is almost ridiculous, when you knock on it it sounds like you are knocking on a piece of granite. Though I suppose it should, there are five gallons of epoxy already in the transom. All thats left to do is fair in with some epoxy filler and we are ready to paint the hull!
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#7
04-21-2013, 09:12 AM
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Coring the hull cap/ making the CC conversion
Last night, my nephew, brother in law and I spent some time prepping the hull cap for fiberglass (which happens later today). Here you can see the "mold" that was created from above.
First order of business was bracing the mold from side to side and front to back while on the boat using 2x4 8' and 16' screwed thru the hull cap from above, then we pulled the cap, flipped and started grinding... Pretty soon it will start to look the part. Pilothouse is coming along nicely as well.
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