Not alot of hull progress but we are making moves to keep the Hydration Break boat build moving forward. One workday this week in about 100* heat index. Spent time picking at the red bow slime with a screwdriver and needles nose pliers but forgot to take a pic. Got a bunch of it out and I am going to hit that area hard when I psych myself up to open the next quart of stripper. They let it block up the water flow under the front rib and I want to get that opened up.
Also got the sawzall out to cut out the rusted hardware on these rod holders. Going to keep my capacity plate safe for now so I drilled that out.
Went on another road trip today and scored a nice haul with two FB marketplace stops with all great deal$. First I picked up a like new Fariah Mercury Tach with the wiring harness and 5 plug all done up. This guy had a nice tin Grumman center console 16 in the driveway.
Next I headed south to MD to a guy who was selling a gas tank that's going to fit great under my floor. He thinks it's about 20-25 gallons and it had all the pickups in the back which will allow me to hook it up easily back by the splashwell.
I then realized same guy had some other boat stuff for sale. So I scored a nice SS prop for my Mercury Black Max which he had posted. Then when I got there I talked him into selling me his set of Merc controls. This guy had a few graveyard boats that he is scrapping parts from but his running boat was a '62 StarCraft 16ft that he had customized a nice center console. Not sure what model it was maybe a Falcon or Jetstar? It was a curved closed bow runabout type that had the tiny hatch in the bow and the rear gunnel sloped down a bit. So I was 2for2 meeting Aluminum boat guys which feels like good karma.
So now I feel set up for my repower with the motor, prop, controls, tach. I think the only thing I might be missing is the nut to screw the prop on need to get on YouTube probably to learn how to do that. Also going to want to make sure that I wire the battery in properly need to double check how to do that right.
Lastly part of the reason for the name Hydration Break is that I am a big soccer fan. I was at the Philly Union match last night and by chance got to hoist the teams first ever trophy during a rain delay. 2020 MLS Supports Shield
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Take care everyone.