1988 Rogue 2420

[alldodge]

Nice worg

 

[tpenfield]

Scott Danforth you are 'the man' . . . the cabin step mod looks great. :thumb:

 

[Chris51280]

my guess, I have about 4200 hours in the boat so far..... not as productive working a few hours here, a few hours there, etc.... as it would be in a constant 10 hour + per day.

Thats the other problem. Glassing takes time.

I envy your patience. At one point I want to use it and then just make it as good as it needs to be and be done with it. There are others that can spend a lifetime working on something and it doesn't matter when its done. Not saying you will be one of them.

 

[Scott Danforth]

I used to build hot-rods, part of me want to hammer and dolly the work flat to minimize the amount of fairing.

 

[Scott Danforth]

Buddy of mine owns an electronic company and used his label laser to make me a center emblem for the steering wheel

 

[Scott Danforth]

not in order of the work, however.....

here is the results of fairing the cabin..... including the gel kicking way too early in the 110 degree cabin on Sunday...

 

[Scott Danforth]

pulling the staples out of the cabin upholstery.

who says the 80's were not the hey day for boat building.......

according to the tags, my upholstery was for hulls 110, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 120 and there were a few pieces from other lines......

my guess as fast as the upholstry shop could toss pieces on the pile, the production line was taking them.

the seat buckets were inspected by RJ on 11/4/1987

first round, small cushions...... working late one evening, so I worked in the driveway.

 

[Scott Danforth]

Here is the work from Someday over this past weekend.....

putting a few cushions back to determine hinging the cushion over the porta-potty

 

[Scott Danforth]

in the middle of this, the admiral says...... lets re-do one of the bedrooms. The one the dogs are kept in.


so we also ended scraping the popcorn ceiling and working on that....

 

[tpenfield]

Awesome looking interior work on the boat. Your work has given me some ideas on interior mods for next year (or maybe the year after)

In all the stuff that I have taken apart on my boat, everything had the HIN number reference marked on it and they all matched . . . which tells me that Formula does some pretty good production batch control. . . . Or at least they did when my boat was built. I think my boat was only about 4 months into the 12 year production run, so maybe they controlled things pretty well back then :noidea:

I too have found myself balancing boat work with home improvement in order to ensure domestic tranquility.

 

[Scott Danforth]

so....here is a bit of the progress.....

modifying the bow cabinet to have an access door....

measure the size of the opening I want

install in boat

staple the skins on the bolsters



the upholstery shop shorted me 3 yards of material. sent an email yesterday, will call them this morning.

 

[alldodge]

Looking real good, but I thought Ted showed us all to use the dinning room table

 

[tpenfield]

Looks awesome :thumb:

 

[Scott Danforth]

Looking real good, but I thought Ted showed us all to use the dinning room table

I tried to use the dining room table....... I started moving the decorations and was promptly told..... no.

Its all I could do to use the living room floor....

 

[kcassells]

it all looks nice.

 

[tpenfield]

I tried to use the dining room table....... I started moving the decorations and was promptly told..... no.

Its all I could do to use the living room floor....

In addition to the dining room table, I got to use the dining room floor in the summer house . . . for the headliner a few years ago

 

[kcassells]

the upholstery shop shorted me 3 yards of material. sent an email yesterday, will call them this morning.

Rotten Bastards!

 

[Scott Danforth]

ok, so back to updates

here is the hit-list

Rogue 2420 hit-list
new bow anchor line	Move cabin speakers
staple back-to-back seat covers	new cabin wall
install seat base strikers	new cabin closet
staple aft seat back in place	wire cabin ceiling lights
Install aft seat back	wire radio amplifier
lube back-to-back seat tracks	Install new radio remote
finish assembling outdrive	install courtesy lights in cabin
install outdrive	calibrate garmine fuel level
wire VHF antenna	apply decal to stern
install wing-window seals	re-caulk hatch
install wing window latches	add steering wheel emblem
modify #10 screws for snaps	wax boat
install starboard side panel again	new trailer winch line

 

[Scott Danforth]

this weekends work......

basically, I sweated alot.....

the velcro extreme hook and loop I ordered to hold the ceiling panels failed.....it wouldnt hold to the fiberglass.

the PSA they use literally sucks...... they claim 1# per square inch for direct tensile load. however a 4# panel with 60 square inches of tape let loose

not as good as the 3M hook and loop tape used in nearly all yachts to hold ceiling panels in place.

so, I have snap studs in place and have some dura-snap buttons being made...... the cost is almost the cost of the dura-snap press. phuck.

 

[Scott Danforth]

the progress from last night and tonight...... finished some of the cabin upholstery.

redesigned how the cushions are retained. the factory used big fugly blocks of UHMW and teak. and the retention was iffy at best.

going to secure the cushions with spring-loaded plungers.....they will be hidden, so simply grab the cushion, pull the chord and it will come loose

https://www.mcmaster.com/spring-load...ng-plungers-7/