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  1. rheagler

    Before and After Pic Parade

    Re: Before and After Pic Parade Before... After.... Winter projects: Finish stripping paint Paint New dash Replace benches in cabin Replace transom Repower if budget allows
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    Show us your tow rig

    Re: Show us your tow rig Here's my '01 Cherokee with the Starchief. This was taken on 1st launch day.
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    Got me a Starchief

    Re: Got me a Starchief Took out the Starchief for the last time of the season yesterday. Over winter I will fix up the cabin, paint and change the seats. I'm not 100% happy with my low budget quasi pedestals. I will most likely go with original style folding seats. I like the idea of maximum...
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    Got me a Starchief

    Re: Got me a Starchief I'm happy with the cruising speeds, and it's fuel usage so far. What I forgot to mention though is that with such a low pitch prop, the low speed handling is pretty squirrelly. As in it's pretty hard to go slow and manuever in a strong current, which is typical for the...
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    Got me a Starchief

    Re: Got me a Starchief I took most of yesterday off to get ready for the catfish tournament and got a few small things done. Added a couple rod holders, got stuff together for a portable livewell, reconfigured port side seat, altered the bimini from my old boat to work on the Starchief. But the...
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    Got me a Starchief

    Re: Got me a Starchief More paint stripping. I have one side done above the spray rails. So far I've put in a total of about 4 hrs and probably 1-1/2 qts of zipstrip. The weekend weather forecast looks pretty grim. I hope they are wrong.
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    Got me a Starchief

    Re: Got me a Starchief Started stripping the paint. ZipStrip works great. I want to keep the boat operational as long as possible, so I'm going around the rubrails for now.
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    Got me a Starchief

    Re: Got me a Starchief Ducky12: Thanks for that info. That looks like what I want. If I had seen that a couple days ago, I would not have made my low budget pedestal seat mount. I'll see how it works out and maybe I'll get the Garelick one over the winter. Stacraftkid: It sounds like the...
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    Got me a Starchief

    Re: Got me a Starchief Bad news is that the boatramp was still clogged up today and there was still too much junk floating in the river for my comfort. The good news is that I got some more stuff accomplished on the boat. The new mahogany door is now installed, I got the first coat of varnish...
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    Got me a Starchief

    Re: Got me a Starchief Thanks. The top track for the sliding panels is still there. I just wasn't sure if it was original. I'm leaning toward new sliding panels, but I like your idea of the curtain with snaps. I'm making a new cabin door from mahogany recycled from a boat I built in the 80's...
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    Got me a Starchief

    Re: Got me a Starchief Finally got some work done on the boat in between bracing for the hurricane and working. Got the controls hooked up,all new wiring, gauges and switches operational and new side panels in place. Most of the wood in the cabin is ok, just needs a good cleaning and painting...
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    Got me a Starchief

    Re: Got me a Starchief I've got floor. I have lousy pics, but I do have floor. Finally got everything together and started at 11am, put in the last rivet about 3:30. At first I was thinking to just paint the floor, with some anti-skid stuff added, to save weight. Now I'm starting to think...
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    Got me a Starchief

    Hello all. I picked up this '67 Starchief last weekend and finally got some time to work on it today. The hull is in very good shape except for the faded cracked and peeling paint. The floor is shot, as I'm starting to believe is the case for all old boats. Anyway, today I managed to tear out...
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    Jeep Oil Pressure

    I have a 2001 Jeep Cherokee 4.0 6cyl that I bought new. It has 87000 miles on it and I have never had a serious problem with it. I usually change the oil and filter every 3500 miles, but on occaision I have stretched it to 5000. Recently after driving for 30 minutes or more at normal highway...
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    Glassmaster Resurrection

    I spent most of this weekend cleaning up the Glassmaster I picked up at a yard sale last saturday. The motor fired up without too much of a fight one night last week so the weekend was spent cleaning and figuring out what it needs to be "waterworthy". The boat does need some floor repair but I...
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