1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

[Baylinerchuck]

I agree with the others. Nice job doing this right!! It takes some extra effort, but well worth the investment!

 

[Broaters]

Hey, we're still alive and now that Covid-crisis is getting calmer in Belgium we're back on the boat trying to finish asap to enjoy summer on water this year...
We did some mechanical rebuilding before going back to the hull, struggled a lot with the lower bellows on the gimbal... but we managed to reassemble everything!

So the older one drew a transom drilling template and created a drilling tool to be as perpendicular as possible and the result is almost perfect !

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After this we just put some extra protection against water by glassing the hole and adding epoxy in the screws holes.







We just grinded and cleaned the inner and outer transom so we can mount the gimbal for good...
The hole was then a little bit too thigh because of the fibers + gelcoat layers.

I'll post it later today because I don't have any pictures atm.

 

[JASinIL2006]

Looks like you are back to making good progress!

What part of Belgium are you in? My son spent a year in Charleroi as an exchange student. He loved his time in Belgium.

 

[Broaters]

hey

We are from Liege. it's an hour+ drive from Charleroi.
glad he loved Belgium, we try our best to be a fun country

 

[Broaters]

So here it is finally mounted on the transom !






I don't know if we are the only ones who struggled A LOT with this seal ?

We tried to glue it a little bit with marine adhesive sealant so it sticks in place (keep on dreaming...)... at last one was pulling the gimbal from inside the boat and the other one was sliding his hands between the gimbal and transom to fit the seal in his slot. The sealant helped to prevent it from moving, we added an extra layer between the seal and transom prior to mounting... it was messy but in the end, the seal was in place!

I don't know why they don't produce those premolded ?

Another question come from the anode bolts... there are no seal between the bolt and gimbal, the plastic O-ring in the blister is for the anode itself accordind to exploded views :

So theoretically speaking, there is no sealing between the bolt itself and the gimbal? We weren't sure that water won't infiltrate, even if it's ultra tighten. We added more sealant to prevent this from happening :



What do you guys do for this issue ?


and that's all for this session...
Next 2 sessions will be, bringing the motor and the motor mounting structure to the shed.

 

[JASinIL2006]

hey

We are from Liege. it's an hour+ drive from Charleroi.
glad he loved Belgium, we try our best to be a fun country

He used to take the train to Liege all the time. Belgium looks like a lovely place; we hope to get to visit someday!

 

[Broaters]

He used to take the train to Liege all the time. Belgium looks like a lovely place; we hope to get to visit someday!

Liege is where the party is, that's why :very_drunk:

 

[Broaters]

hey guys,

any feedback on the anode bolts sealing? we found some literature that show a gasket which seems logical to me.
anyone ever did this with marine Sealant? we used Sika 291i.

thanks for helping

 

[mickyryan]

i used sealent as well not trusting the gasket alone, mine hasn't leaked yet

 

[Chris51280]

there is another rubber washer that will seal. I also added some sealant just to be sure I wont have a leak. Just sealant will not be enough