Insaneplmr
Cadet
- Joined
- Feb 1, 2011
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- 13
I recently bought this boat, from the links and reasearch from this forum, im thinking its a 56 Clipper. It beam is 67" and transom is 50" length 16' with a Johnson 33 electric super sea horse on it(rxe-13b). thanks to all of you who have posted before me, It made it easy to find some info.
Does anyone know about the numbers on port side transom top? 6 digits starting with a 4?
Someone had built a platform across the benches to make it into a fishing boat, I like to fish so I didnt mind, however the wood was rotten and trying to drive was crazy with a chair at shoulder height mounted in the center of the bench...lol.
I got it last week, put in some new gas, gave it a bath, bought some life jackets and so on and took it out on the delta sunday for a test run. that was an adventure, it idled out fine, got past the no wake zone and decided to open it up, for just a second, and it started poping out of gear. We went to fish and test the boat so we did just that, besides she wouldnt let me work on the boat while we were in the water...lol. It was a four hour trip, couldnt get the motor to pull full throttle and the poping out of gear got worse as the day went on.
Ariving home the trailer drug up the drive and it was then that I noticed the passenger side leaf pack on the trailer was missing all but one leaf(thank God the important one was left). The transom flexed good during the trip and looking at it on the trailer it deffinetly needs new wood back there.
Im thinking about building a tubular aluminum frame to replace the wood with, one that will cover the entire transome and not just the top half, or glue some decent plywood together to get the thickness and replace it like it was. where the wood ends about half way down the transom there is sign of a fold starting from the wood flexing, and thinking a full frame would be stronger than the wood alone.
If anyone knows where to get replacement rivits on the left coast it would be great! any other advice would be helpfull as well. thanks for reading.
I have started taking the home made decking off the boat to access the transome, will take some pics during the day and keep posted to progress
Does anyone know about the numbers on port side transom top? 6 digits starting with a 4?
Someone had built a platform across the benches to make it into a fishing boat, I like to fish so I didnt mind, however the wood was rotten and trying to drive was crazy with a chair at shoulder height mounted in the center of the bench...lol.
I got it last week, put in some new gas, gave it a bath, bought some life jackets and so on and took it out on the delta sunday for a test run. that was an adventure, it idled out fine, got past the no wake zone and decided to open it up, for just a second, and it started poping out of gear. We went to fish and test the boat so we did just that, besides she wouldnt let me work on the boat while we were in the water...lol. It was a four hour trip, couldnt get the motor to pull full throttle and the poping out of gear got worse as the day went on.
Ariving home the trailer drug up the drive and it was then that I noticed the passenger side leaf pack on the trailer was missing all but one leaf(thank God the important one was left). The transom flexed good during the trip and looking at it on the trailer it deffinetly needs new wood back there.
Im thinking about building a tubular aluminum frame to replace the wood with, one that will cover the entire transome and not just the top half, or glue some decent plywood together to get the thickness and replace it like it was. where the wood ends about half way down the transom there is sign of a fold starting from the wood flexing, and thinking a full frame would be stronger than the wood alone.
If anyone knows where to get replacement rivits on the left coast it would be great! any other advice would be helpfull as well. thanks for reading.
I have started taking the home made decking off the boat to access the transome, will take some pics during the day and keep posted to progress
