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ziggy

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outstanding Dgut. wow, she looks great. your right too. i'm partial to your color scheme. sweet. it all looks great and you've done a real nice job.

couple questions if i may.
so what color was she originally?
is that nogahide on the sides under the gunnel? the darker lime green part that runs fore to aft.
how did you access the under side of the ft. motor mount to R&R the wood?

out of curiosity? does your boat rock back and forth pretty good in the waves when static?
how do you feel about load? do you usually take much weight with you. you have 2 batt. and i don't. when your sitting at the dock, it looks like that last horizontal line on your boat at the stern is slightly under water, mine is too.

reason i'm asking is my lag bolts are rusty under the sole, i must have water onboard. yet it appears i sit static just about like yours.

what are ya running for a prop? and do you get top end of wot spec with it? my engine isn't rebuilt.

again. i love it. it looks great. ya should be proud to cruise around it her.

like your flag pole(s) too. that's something i didn't get with mine. wish i had one on the bow light like yours.

nice job on the ski tow eye. perfect placement.

how ya like them tabs? i gotta be @ 2100 or maybe 2k rpms to plane. you planing slower than that?
i got lots of questions i guess. you've done way more to yours than i've done to mine.
 

Dgut

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outstanding Dgut. wow, she looks great. your right too. i'm partial to your color scheme. sweet. it all looks great and you've done a real nice job. couple questions if i may. so what color was she originally? - In order to rebuild my boat it took three donors, each one had a different paint scheme (red, blue, and like a burnt orange). is that nogahide on the sides under the gunnel? the darker lime green part that runs fore to aft. - that is paint, same color as the top. Inside the storage I used black carpet. how did you access the under side of the ft. motor mount to R&R the wood? - I had to cut the floor. The floor was cut from the middle seats to the transom. The only way I could remove the foam and replace the wood motor mounts. out of curiosity? does your boat rock back and forth pretty good in the waves when static? - not that I noticed. how do you feel about load? - not sure yet, it has only been the wife and I. Might take the kids tubing this weekend ad will let you know. do you usually take much weight with you. you have 2 batt. and i don't. when your sitting at the dock, it looks like that last horizontal line on your boat at the stern is slightly under water, mine is too. - I actually thought the boat would sit a little higher in the ass end after removing the wet foam and wood. It might be the batteries. reason i'm asking is my lag bolts are rusty under the sole, i must have water onboard. yet it appears i sit static just about like yours. what are ya running for a prop? - that is a question I can't answer yet. Have not researched the part number on my prop. and do you get top end of wot spec with it? - no I have not been able to, but that is partially my fault. I have only taken it out twice and babied it both times. my engine isn't rebuilt. again. i love it. it looks great. ya should be proud to cruise around it her. like your flag pole(s) too. that's something i didn't get with mine. wish i had one on the bow light like yours. nice job on the ski tow eye. perfect placement. how ya like them tabs? i gotta be @ 2100 or maybe 2k rpms to plane. you planing slower than that? - I like the tabs and removed the wail tail this week. I had to replace the water pump, the one thing that I did not do during rebuild. Lesson learned! I will need to pay more attention this weekend and let you know. i got lots of questions i guess. you've done way more to yours than i've done to mine.
 

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photo203305.jpg photo203302.jpg photo203301.jpg First outing for the year. 7/05/14..... yeah, kinda late but we've been busy.
Beautiful day on Watts Bar Lake, as the temperatures were in the low/mid 80s and low humidity.
The channel was pretty rough but we found some nice calmer waters upstream on the Clinch River side.

Will soon try out the newly acquired SMC 384 Cup prop, from Michigan Wheel, which is supposed to be close to the factory correct 15 x 25 prop that came on the 470.
 
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Capt. Susie

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Hey! It's been a while since I have been here. We were just trying to figure out when we started this project on our nineteen. After putting in a remanufactured engine block shipped from Mass, a new outdrive and a modification to the engine cover, she's been running great! Just replaced the blower switch yesterday. Thank goodness my father was a mechanic and is super handy...he has done almost all the labor! He is happy to accept a home cooked meal for his work, lol! I am going to see if I can post some pics from this phone.
 
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Just stopping in to say hello and post pics of my new to me 1971 Aristo Craft 9-Teen. I saw one of these at work for the first time and fell in love with the top. One thing lead to another and I ended out with one about a week later thanks to a random bonus from my boss. Even though I work at a Marina I'm really quite new to boats. I'm a very skilled worker and that's how I landed my job at the marina as a tech but I still have so much to learn about boats that calling me a rookie would be an understatement.

Anyway I joined the forum to ask a few of you questions about parts and how to obtain them. Also to see if any of you would be willing to share pics to show me how the factory setup some items on the boat. Mine is pretty clean but the electrical is going to get ripped out and I'm going to start all over. It's really bad and I know enough about electrical to take care of the work myself. It's also "a little rough around the edges" lol. I plan to try and get her on the water by the 4th of July weekend and then over the winter really tear into her and basically do a custom resto on her. Nothing wild but a little different from factory. Most importantly she would have everything on her addressed and redone. I plan on doing everything myself. Paint, upholstery, mechanical, electrical. All of it.

Anyway here is the way she looks as of today. My wife and our girls really helped me give her a good top to bottom scrub down today. We installed some used seats that I found on CL when I also found the top. This was the same day I bought her. Anyway enough yapping here she is and I'll be talking to some of you soon.
 

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