1969 Lonestar Medallion

[boatnut74]

Well the wedding and honeymoon came and went and now were back to the real world. When we got back from Branson I was browsing craigslist and came across this '69 16' Lonestar aluminum boat. I have been looking for another tinny for awhile and the price was right on this one. I brought it home for $350. It has a '73 65hp Evinrude selectric outboard. The control box is broken so I will have to find a replacement or a different motor as I'm not fond of the electric shifters. The boat is rated for 90hp. The interior is shot and will need replaced along with pretty much everything else. Here is a couple cell phone pics until I get the camera back

 

[Pmccraney]

Re: 1969 Lonestar Medallion

Congrats on the wedding..glad everything went well....looks like you have contracted a pretty strong case of mbs! Like the new add... If you and jbcurt lived closer, y'all could own a vintage/project boat studio....

Chocolate thunder will always be favorite, but I like this one too!

 

[GA_Boater]

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So now you're an old married guy now. All the best to to ya, BN.

Nice looking tinny - at least the outside. Bet you finish this one before the Silverline.

PS - I think the next MBS purchase should be a camera for YOU!

 

[boatnut74]

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PS - I think the next MBS purchase should be a camera for YOU!

I definatly need one to keep track of my projects. This will be my dedicated fishing boat. It was originally a closed bow but someone opened it up at one time and did a crappy job so I will have to do a good bit of sheetmetal work to get it to look nice again.

 

[boatnut74]

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This morning I got the boat de-rigged. It is a lot easier to remove an outboard than it is to pull an IO motor, drive and transom components.

Here is where one of the PO's removed part of the bow to make it open. I havn't quite decied how I want to go about reparing this.

 

[GA_Boater]

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Some people should not be allowed to own/use tools. There oughta be a law. He left enough sharp tin there to prove oops right. Better get a big box of band-aids, BN.

 

[boatnut74]

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I think I am going to completely remove the gunwales and fab up new ones. The original ones are riveted on through the rubrail. I started drilling out rivets today but found a chisel and hammer knocks the heads off way faster. My dad does sheetmetal work for a living so fabbing up new ones shouldn't be a problem. They had carpet screwed in over where they made the cuts to "hide" the sharp edges.

 

[boatnut74]

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Here's a couple more pics from when I got the boat.

 

[boatnut74]

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And here is a few from the honeymoon. We went to a trout hatchery at the bottom of table rock dam. They said they hatch around 800,000 trout a year there. That was prety cool.

And here is one of me on the wildfire rollercoaster at Silver Dollar City. It gets up to 70mph and goes upside down 5 times. I must of rode it a dozen times. My wife went on it once and that was more than enough for her. I'm the one in the front seat with my hands in the air

 

[GA_Boater]

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Hi, BN. Having a pops in the tin business is good. Helps a lot when fixing the PO's "improvements" You can have the coaster rides all to yourself. I'll sit with your wife and talk about what a wild and crazy dude you are. LOL

 

[boatnut74]

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Hi, BN. Having a pops in the tin business is good. Helps a lot when fixing the PO's "improvements" You can have the coaster rides all to yourself. I'll sit with your wife and talk about what a wild and crazy dude you are. LOL

Roller coasters are a blast, the faster the better Fixing the PO's "improvments" will take some work but I think I can make it look better than factory.

I got the splashwell and gunwales pulled off today. I don't know how the factory expected someone to replace a transom on this if needed. The splashwell was held to the gunwales with solid rivets on each side and there was no way to get to them without removing the gunwales. The transom is actually in decent shape and should work good for a template. It measured about 1 5/8 think but it might be swelled a little to. 1 1/2 will work fine for me I'll get some pictures up tomorrow so everyone can see how this thing was put together.

 

[jbcurt00]

Re: 1969 Lonestar Medallion

Congrats on the wedding..glad everything went well....looks like you have contracted a pretty strong case of mbs! Like the new add... If you and jbcurt lived closer, y'all could own a vintage/project boat studio....Chocolate thunder will always be favorite, but I like this one too!

Fixing the PO's "improvements" will take some work but I think I can make it look better than factory. I got the splashwell and gunwales pulled off today. I don't know how the factory expected someone to replace a transom on this if needed. The splashwell was held to the gunwales with solid rivets on each side and there was no way to get to them without removing the gunwales.

Welcome to crazytown MBS or marriage, you & the newly commissioned Admiral, will have to decide for yourselves.

Congrats on the wedding, the honeymoon, the coasters, the trout hatchery, and of course the new LS Medallion. BTW: Who's Dawn Treader? PO? Daughter/wife of PO? I think you'll need to include treading in your boat name Tread Lightly & wish for a bigger boat?

If PMC could see all the carp I've been scrounging lately he'd be more right then he even knows. I still have 1 last April reveal up my SC aluminum clad sleeves and it also involves a 16footer. But keep that on the DL.....

I vote we get the 40acres, the pole barn & the mule, near say E. St Louis. That way we're fairly centrally mid-west/eastern US & all the MBS sufferers can dry dock their boats until they're ready to tear into them.

Well here we go. That's exactly what I need..... That and a home trepanning set. I'll need to make payments on this, how long will that be at $27.50/wk? I think that's part of god's country if I've ever seen it. Wildlife refuge? And it's huntable? That doesn't seem to go together, and it's a set aside area? That's buildable? Oh well, my MULE will LOVE IT!

The Iboats mob may prefer this place, at about 1/2 the price too:facepalm: So it'd only take me 1 lifetime to pay it off, instead of 2........

What is this chocolate thunder he speaks of? I may have to do some research. Ok, research done. Nice flotilla ya got going over there. I think, scratch that, I know, you win on boat count, hull length & generally getting them torn down & put back in an orderly & expedited fashion. I'm more of a geologic time frame boat rehab'er.....

I like the blue & white, and it's interesting that LS also used that upside down triangle bow plate on the hull. Congrats again.

 

[GA_Boater]

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JB - search for "Chocolate Thunder". Your glasser side might cringe.

BN - As I was reading your efforts to get to the transom and I'm think to myself why is BN going through all this. Looked at the pics again and saw a Lone Star instead of a Starcraft. :facepalm: And I figured Lone Stars are put together a lot different than SC's.

 

[jbcurt00]

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JB - search for "Chocolate Thunder". Your glasser side might cringe.

Done, & nope, some love the ugly, some don't.

I didn't read through all umpteen of BN's threads, but I'm taking it that Chocolate thunders no more? I am ok w/ that, sometimes ugly has to go away, if only to make the world a better looking place, or even better still: to give life to another project. I won't ever fault someone for doing w/ their's whatever strikes them as right, correct and necessary. I give Jas a hard time about dear old departed Thumper. But Thumper had to go, so the Islander could get a GREAT powerplant. Probably never even for a moment does it occur to Jas, but for me the Islander will always have the heart & soul of a glasser!

 

[boatnut74]

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I still have chocolate thunder JB. She's not long for this world though. With all the boats we have between the two of us we could stay busy with projects for a decade I would love to do this for a living but I would go broke in a hurry.

GA, getting to that transom was a real PITA. I probably spent 3 hours with a hammer and chisel and a drill removing those solid rivets. I should be able to get the transom wood pulled out tomorrow.

 

[jbcurt00]

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Thanks for the vote of confidence, I was thinking decade & a half

You need to move into commissioned boat work, w/ regular progress payments. Fixing them & selling them for less then you have in it & doing the work for free (?fun?) will quickly do 2 things for you: move the bank balances into the red, and you'll get the master bed (?couch?) all to yourself....If only right?

BTW: I toured a boatwork's facility recently that specializes in BIG wooden Lyman's. He's $375K into a refit:facepalm: and only 70% done. I can't imagine the work he's done & has left to do on that 38ft boat. It was huge & completely AMAZING. The brand new big twin diesels didn't help keep the costs down. The boats in the yard, that all needed some level of attention, were something to see too!


RIP Thunder, glad I met ya, sorry to see you go, but this too will pass, and surely your heart & soul will give life to another.

 

[Pmccraney]

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I still have chocolate thunder JB. She's not long for this world though

Thunder, glad I met ya, sorry to see you go, but this too will pass, and surely your heart & soul will give life to another.

[insert moment of silence].... Guess I'll have to POUR ONE OUT tonight in honor of the nappiest skank in the boat barn...

 

[jbcurt00]

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[insert moment of silence].... Guess I'll have to POUR ONE OUT tonight in honor the nappiest skank in the boat barn...

Even in tribute, in some places this is considered alcohol abuse.......

 

[boatnut74]

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[insert moment of silence].... Guess I'll have to POUR ONE OUT tonight in honor of the nappiest skank in the boat barn...

I'll drink to that

 

[boatnut74]

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I got a little more done this morning before the rain rolled in. I got 2 pieces of the deck pulled out and also got the transom taken out. The transom appears to be PT ply but there wasn't much corrosion on the inside skin of the transom so I'm not concerned Im hoping to get the new transom laminated and cut this weekend along with the new deck. I have 5 galons of epoxy that's almost a year old so I want to get it used up before it goes bad. Some of the foam was waterlogged and some was made into nest by the mice. It should be a fun to get that out along with all the leaves.I think I might invest in a leaf blower

Here's a picture of how the splashwell attatches to the gunwales. There was no way the splashwell was coming off by itself

Inner transom skin