lokonn
Chief Petty Officer
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Re: 1987 Bluefin Sportsman 1900 - The Fun Begins
That draintube looks like the ticket! Thanks
That draintube looks like the ticket! Thanks
Good idea, will be using something like it. Like the cutting board idea. Will see if it is a more ''frugal'' possibility. Thanks
So the postman came today and look what he brought...a new dash panel that I found on fleabay for what I thought was the good price of $107.50. I know we got a long way to go before we get to dash work but I'm trying to acquire things as perceived opportunity knocks. Initial plan is to use gauges, switches, fuse block and harnesses. The panel itself I don't see in the boat as of yet...but who knows. The gauges that are on the boat are a little too 80's futuristic for me. I will get a picture of the later as we demo floor and consoles.
After taking things apart I will say that I'm not super impressed with how things were put together. Screw heads stripped, double screws if they weren't lined up correctly, broken pop rivits and the like. Doesn't really matter if we are going as far as we are going, but is this typical or not. Guess like in anything you get what you pay for. I had read somewhere here on iboats that bluefin was a decent boat for a time but that quality had gone down. Got our first decent cut today.I was carrying some aluminum angle to the back of the boat, stepped on a soft spot and stumbled. Had my hand on the end of the angle when I reached to catch myself the angle hit the back of the splashwell and sliced my hand. After the blood letting, Joe administered the super glue and bandage and we were back at it, though this time with gloves. As you can see from the rest of the pictures things are moving along.
Here is what was left of the interior going into the dumpster. Hopefully we will be taking the bags of foam and what was left of the floor tomorrow. Hope all is going well with your projects.
I think I'm picking up what you are putting down regarding the wood out of the equation. After seeing how the expando foam distorted the stringers I was wanting to reinforce them. Since there was no structure comining off of the stringers to the sides of the boat my thought was to rivit a 1 1/8x1 1/8 x1/8 channel to the wood re-enforced stringer, attach a 1x1x1/8 square tube to that and then rivit the other end to the rib as it meets the gunwale(?). If I was to use foam which is certainly rigid enough, I don't think I will have the anchoring strength that I would have if it were epoxied plywood. I. could just rivit the square tube to the stringer and attach other end as planned but was wanting to be sure things were stout. I have been accused over over building things in the past, but I am happy with them when they are done. Besides that I am a rather large human. Is the concern about wood rotting under deck? I thought when sealed with epoxy the wood becomes ''super wood''.
! I was planning on keeping the plywood slightly narrower than the stringer height so it would not contact boat ribs. Let me know if any of this makes sense or if it has any bearing on your thinking. Thanks for the input.
Gothcha, I forget about the weight factor. Hopefully this weekend will find me getting the last remnants of foam and carpet out of boat, and then on to some cleaning and prep for the gluvit. Still have some body work to straighten out where po backed into something at rear port cormer. Got a glob of jb weld or something there hiding damage. As long as were making forward progress life is good. Thanks again for input.
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I am assuming this is from factory and on the initial leak test they found a leak. Anybody else found messages inside their boats? We'll find out if it got fixed when we get to leak test of our own.
