the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

[barato2]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

got the anode installed. Since I’ll be parking this aluminum boat in Mexican marinas (read, maybe not the greatest electrical wiring and thus current leakage into water), I wanted this big honking one. What a perfect brand name! Just trying to help you Canucks’ balnace of trade. It will ultimately be held on with 1/4-20 x1.5" bolts from inside of hull, each with a permanent nut holding it permanently to hull. Then a 2d nut and fender washer will hold the anode onto the exposed threads....so it will be easy to change, subject to sawing that angle into the next one! That was a 2-saw-blade cut. Bolts are backed on the inside with 1/4"x2" flat alum bar and SS fender washers, and a bonding wire to the knee braces. Contacting Martyr to see how much paint I need to remove to get good contact....it would be great if I could just “bare it” inside the hull under the flat bar, instead of having to remove exterior paint under the anode.

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the bilge pumps are in! All that’s left to do is hooking up wiring and trimming the hoses to length after I figure out what obstructions I need to clear. I made this bracket for the 2d pump because it’s a huge mutha that weighs 6 POUNDS. Yup, more hunks o’ Lone Star...

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Here’s my trusty pump room with the two 2000-gpH pumps in place. I still may make a simple alum bracket to knee brace to hold the top of orange pump in place, so the plastic base doesn’t have to be it’s sole support when boat is rockin and rollin. after checking the voltage drop tables, i also upsized the wire to feed the things to 10 ga.

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finally......a pic of another section of Lone Star seat base that’s going to become part of my chine bracing after a bit more fine tuning of angle.

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[barato2]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

and then....the console. Where several months of my time have vanished forever.....I have HOURS just in fine tuning where I have the wire bundles mounted to minimize the chance of anything getting bumped or snagged, and in continually beefing the wire clamps

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Got the wiring more or less done. I?ve ordered two 10-gang screw terminal blocks where I can terminate the wires from bow and stern to connect em to internal wires....more for ease of connecting it all than making console removable....it ain?t likely comin back out til next resto.. This is one job that will be a lot easier w/o worrying about the tank in the way.

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I have all the gauge lighting hooked to the running light bus so I don?t need a separate switch. Then all the interior lights....inside console, under bow, under splashwell, and under seat, maybe one or 2 under gunwales....are all wired to one switch.


The dash IS set up to be easily removable....everything that connects with it has either a screw terminal or spade plug. The hot bus for the electronics (sonar and GPS) actually has TWO circuits feeding it for redundancy....one is a 30 amp circuit for when I can afford a 1000watt sonar. Likewise, most of my critical grounds are insterconnected and run multiple 10 ga ground wires.

oh, and I got the shelf for VHF moved to UNDERNEATH it so it should be far more effective at supporting VHF.

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got the old tank enclosure inside console cut down for its new purpose in life: to hold the ditch bag. The shelf on top will just be loose (located with 2 pins) and have a handle so it can be easily yanked and tossed in the event of SHTF....sort of like with the ?in case of glass, break fire? enclosures.

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[barato2]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

Finally, I found a hunk of Honduran rosewood to use for covering where the tank filler was going to go in side of console. This is nice, super dense and heavy wood and should be nice and strong when doubled to 1/4". The round hole in center is for a power outlet. This is controlled by a switch on the dash panel, and “spreader” light, actually mounted to bimini frame and pointing downward to light up cockpit, will plug in here when bimini is up.......I figure by routing wire straight down along the grab rail, this will preserve the walkaround capability. And once it’s plugged in, I’ll have the convenience of a switch.

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OK, this is about all the progress you’ll see for about 10 days. Off to NorCal with the Admiral for a week of vacation/scouting the area. the 4200 orgy will commence when i get back. See y’all soon.

 

[GA_Boater]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

You got lotsa work done, B. Have fun in the wilds of California.

 

[jbcurt00]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

Safe travels, good luck scouting for an acceptable domicile

 

[classiccat]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

The Martyr is one BFA!!!

Have a safe trip B2!

Regarding the house hunting, grab the marker you use to decorate your wounds and scroll the word "Hanger" on your wrist. This will help keep your priorities straight when the Admiral is being shown a breakfast nook, walk-in-closets, etc.

 

[barato2]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

BF...isn't that what people are referring to when people talk about their "Palmpilot"?? this trip will not involve too much looking at specific places, more just scouting for what areas we want to look in.

our issue is more that she looks at a place and sees "what a dump"; i look at it and see "POTENTIAL""here's what i could do with that" etc etc

to which she replies "is that before or after you finish that aluminum fishing boat?":facepalm::facepalm:

 

[jbcurt00]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

etc etc

to which she replies "is that before or after you finish that aluminum fishing boat?":facepalm::facepalm:

So, what she's saying is she fully supports having an SC hanger on the premises... Swweeeett!

 

[64osby]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

Nice progress.
If you keep cutting the LS there won't be anything to recycle.

Enjoy location hunting.

 

[GA_Boater]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

If you keep cutting the LS there won't be anything to recycle.

Or haul to a new fishing cabin in the NW.

 

[barato2]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

If you keep cutting the LS there won't be anything to recycle.

this is not all bad.....the stuff i'm cutting up had been lying around on the back 40 for years. basically, the LS boat came with a bunch of bench seating and i cut most of it out in the course of opening it up to be a fishing boat.

 

[barato2]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

OK, here are a few pix of the anode hookup since my blather may not be all that clear (imagine....)
the inner reinforcement bar and bonding wire (i made it red so no one would confuse it with a ground)

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the mounting bolts in place

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and the anode clamped down

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one last pic before i leave y'all in peace for a week: the transducer room (aka the scrap Starboard from the console base, which will be screwed to the transom so i don't have to drill more holes for transducers.

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[GA_Boater]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

Hope you like the area, B2. Have a good trip.

 

[barato2]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

it was HORRIBLE and i don't recommend anyone go there. ever.

and if you believe that, i have a fiberglass boat with solid floors and stringers to sell ya.......

not much land for sale, must be some source of $ in Humboldt and Mendo that causes all the rural land to be bought up ASA it hits market. wonder what that could be............ The North coast of CA and OR is definitely the land of tin boats; i saw 5 tinnies for every glasser, most with pilothouses or full canvas enclosures. Showed the Admiral the prices on the Alumaweld boats to remind her how much i'm saving us with the old tintubs. but i may need a radar for the Starchief, given the heavy fog on the ocean every day....
anyway, no move yet but i think we will be heading that way eventually.

OK, i shut up now til i have more on the Holiner to post.

 

[classiccat]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

it was HORRIBLE and i don't recommend anyone go there. ever.

and if you believe that, i have a fiberglass boat with solid floors and stringers to sell ya.......

...only if it has a fully functioning OMC W.L.O.D.

sounds promising...the Holiner might have some tin playmates!

 

[GA_Boater]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

Sorry the trip wasn't a good one, B. So when do you think you're heading to Foggy Bottom? Just remember - Don't inhale, maybe it isn't fog.

 

[barato2]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

"M'love, the fog around here seems to have a mysteriously calming and restorative effect...." surely someone has already made up T'shirts that proclaim " I went to Humboldt County but i DIDN'T INHALE".....

no idea when the actual move would be, or even precisely where, just that it's a done deal that we ARE moving to somewhere near the coast from Sonoma Co CA to Curry Co OR. definitely need to save our pennies....we looked at a place for 200K that was too far gone for even ME to consider it worth fixing. OTOH, we saw a place for 300 that was paradise on 160 acres. the experience rebuilding the cabin in NM will prove invaluable here, as i'd be completely comfortable buying bare land and building from ground up, and this is how Joe Average is going to be able to afford a nice piece of land. if we find the right bare-acreage place that we can afford, we'll probably buy it now and jusat plunk a travel trlr or mini-cabin on it so it can be paid off by time i retire, and then we can use the capital from our houses here to build a main residence and shop. otherwise, we'll have to sell everything here first to buy an already fixed up place.

 

[jbcurt00]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

Congrats on making the decision to move. I really like northern California.

 

[bob johnson]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

got the anode installed. Since I’ll be parking this aluminum boat in Mexican marinas (read, maybe not the greatest electrical wiring and thus current leakage into water), I wanted this big honking one. What a perfect brand name! Just trying to help you Canucks’ balnace of trade. It will ultimately be held on with 1/4-20 x1.5" bolts from inside of hull, each with a permanent nut holding it permanently to hull. Then a 2d nut and fender washer will hold the anode onto the exposed threads....so it will be easy to change, subject to sawing that angle into the next one! That was a 2-saw-blade cut. Bolts are backed on the inside with 1/4"x2" flat alum bar and SS fender washers, and a bonding wire to the knee braces. Contacting Martyr to see how much paint I need to remove to get good contact....it would be great if I could just “bare it” inside the hull under the flat bar, instead of having to remove exterior paint under the anode.

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the bilge pumps are in! All that’s left to do is hooking up wiring and trimming the hoses to length after I figure out what obstructions I need to clear. I made this bracket for the 2d pump because it’s a huge mutha that weighs 6 POUNDS. Yup, more hunks o’ Lone Star...

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Here’s my trusty pump room with the two 2000-gpH pumps in place. I still may make a simple alum bracket to knee brace to hold the top of orange pump in place, so the plastic base doesn’t have to be it’s sole support when boat is rockin and rollin. after checking the voltage drop tables, i also upsized the wire to feed the things to 10 ga.

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finally......a pic of another section of Lone Star seat base that’s going to become part of my chine bracing after a bit more fine tuning of angle.

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wont that mounting height, leave a lot of water that will never be pumped out via the bilge pump???? looks to be more than 1.5" this is the water that starts the transom rot going...if you cant get it out and it sits for months on end.......I tried to mount my bilge cap to a mesh piece of ss that was almost against the hull....and figures id not be sucking up the last 1/2" probably.bob

 

[barato2]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

Bob.....the orange one is mounted up high but the Rule is mounted maybe 1/2" above keel height. wonder if it would be feasible to siphon out that last 1/2" through the drain hole?

Minimal progress on the Holiner despite a furlough weekend last week. I mostly slept; think I’m still dealing with being back in the desert. Also, I got working on a couple of my other time sinks...tinnies ain't the only 50+ yr old crocks yelling for my time.

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one of which is worth more than any boat I own........

Anyhow, we did get a few things done on the barco. The LED docking lights

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arrived while I was gone, so I had to figure out how to mount them. First step involved a hunk of 2" alum angle drilled to match the holes in the mounting bracket and then cut so it doesn’t intrude in front of light.

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Lights were then bolted to the angle so they’ll look out the existing hole in hull.

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Finally, dual layers of 1/8" Lexan which will be caulked heavily and screwed to exterior of alum base, to keep the water out

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