Re: 16' Nescher ski boat complete restore
Re: 16' Nescher ski boat complete restore
I hope everyone had a great new year! I did, I went out east to my friend David k's place at Lake Tinkiller. It?s about 30 minutes east of my place at Lake Eufaula. We are lucky to have so many lakes in the eastern part of the state, most manmade. I'm not sure if it is still the record, but at one time we had the largest concentration of manmade lakes. Regardless I headed out yesterday morning to help David with one of his projects.....he needed help putting a VW turbo diesel in a Suzuki Samara.....how he comes up with these things I have no clue! After a little wrestling, we got it in....fit like a glove! Afterwards they had a big party for New Years......I won't go into detail about the ice sculpture that was used to do shots!......lake people!
Here is a shot of Maxine, the boat he restored....it looked about like mine when he started! Very cool little boat.
On the way back, I stopped by my place at Eufaula to check on things. Everything was cool, which I figured it was since I hadn't heard from the neighbors. Here is a picture of my dock....I built and installed it (other than the piers) myself a few years ago.....lots of time cutting, fitting, welding...about 6 tons of steel.
Here is a shot of the lake....no wind, 45.....what I would have given to be zipping across it......ok so maybe it might be a bit nippy, but just look at the "glass" like water! There is a reason in the song "Oklahoma" when they talk about the winds sweeping down the plains! We don't get too many days where the water is this flat!
As for the cooler, I have settled on a 36qt igloo marine cooler....the only problem is that is the ONLY size I can?t find in stock locally..... I spent a couple of hours looking tonight. So I spent the rest of the evening sucking up the 100 pounds of bondo dust from the fender project and striating stuff up. While I was doing that I of course came up with a list of stuff I need....so the plan is to round that stuff up in the AM, then work on the boat. I hope to make some progress on the trailer wiring or mocking up the seats.....I down loaded the cooler dimensions.
