77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

I'll be swapping out some of the nuts and bolts holding the brackets to t-nuts and bolts as they will be hard to get at when upholstered.

I'm probably going to stick to the same color combo with white tops and metallic blue sides and piping.

The boat deck will be white so I need to get some color in there or I'll go snow blind.

Tomorrow is gunwale supports with speaker holes cut. Monday is supposed to be nice so it will be epoxy day.

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Finished up with the t-nuts on the brackets on the seat bases. With upholstery there will be no way to get at them so t-nuts is the way to go.

Tomorrow epoxying of the bases and gunwale supports. After I cut the speaker openings that is.

I'll cut the openings in the front of the gunwale supports for the front speakers but I'm wondering if I should cut the rears in this cross sectional piece in front of the engine right under the doghouse.

 

[Triton II]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Great job on the seat bases SST. They look bulletproof. Has it stopped raining?

TII

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

It did today. Should be ok tomorrow and the day after. Should be good enough to finish with the epoxy work on the bases and the last sheet around the engine.

I'm going to move the boat on my driveway to see if I can pick up the pace Once the gunwale supports and bases go to the upholsterer my garage will be half empty.

PS I sat on the seats a couple of time and they are tanks. All 3/4 inch marine as that is what I had left over...

 

[Triton II]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

It did today. Should be ok tomorrow and the day after. Should be good enough to finish with the epoxy work on the bases and the last sheet around the engine.

I'm going to move the boat on my driveway to see if I can pick up the pace Once the gunwale supports and bases go to the upholsterer my garage will be half empty.

PS I sat on the seats a couple of time and they are tanks. All 3/4 inch marine as that is what I had left over...

Cool, glad the weather's being kind to you. Talking of tanks, I remember a very long time ago (well, early 80s if you must know) going to Cold Lake up near Edmonton for a Maple Flag exercise. A bunch of A10 Warthog guys were also flying there and got tasked with attacking a few tanks on the target range. Their report in the debrief was hilarious - they'd completely wiped out the tanks - their conclusion, "if you want to drive tanks and stay alive, don't make them out of wood!" Your Canadian troops had run out of decommissioned real tanks to use as target practice and built the wooden replicas - they were reduced to about 2,000,000 splinters each.. They were mightily po'd with the Hog drivers destroying them all on day one.

TII

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Cool. That's a long waay from your neck of the woods. I went to an air show at Cold Lake a couple of years back. I'll have to see if they do it again this year and check it out.

I may actually go do some lake trout fishing there as well. The lake is about 100 metres deep. http://www.fishalberta.com/02Season/ColdLake/coldframe.htm

It would have been cool to watch the A10's take out their targets...plywood or not. From low level and a couple of hundred miles an hour a target is a target I guess

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Hey. Any one need any blue styrofoam sheets.

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Little by little. Plugged the holes in the stern with Starbrite alum epoxy putty stick.

Also got the last sheet of plywood around the enngine riveted in, glassed and epoxied.

Also a shot of my beat up flame arrestor.

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Here;s some of the holes plugged from the transducer, etc.

I'll be going over top with a piece of starboard and 5200 to run a pitot sender for the speedo. The rest just might be from inside the hull with a in hull transducer.

 

[Triton II]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Cool. That's a long waay from your neck of the woods.

Yeah mate... but I'm better now!

That fishing site looks terrific... the only things I was fishing for all those years ago wore skirts!

Hey, nice work on the boat... won't be long now!

TII

 

[BobsGlasstream]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

sprintst,
Good to see you are still moving along. The boat is looking good.
Keep the pic's coming.
Bob

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

I don't blame you. You can catch fish anywhere

Beautiful pic on your signature. Looks like I need to do some fishing down under

Yeah mate... but I'm better now!

That fishing site looks terrific... the only things I was fishing for all those years ago wore skirts!

Hey, nice work on the boat... won't be long now!

TII

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

I'm trying. Hopefully the next pics will be more interesting. With any luck I'll do ding some wiring of the lights and Durabak work.

sprintst,
Good to see you are still moving along. The boat is looking good.
Keep the pic's coming.
Bob

 

[jasoutside]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

The deck is in, great man!

That filling job to seal up the transom, is that on your super nice finished paint job? AAAkkkk! Are you going to just do some touch up on er?

Cheers man!

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Yeah. I'll see if I can drop it off at some point for the dude to respray the repaired area.

I'll need him to mix up some touchup anyway as I'm sure using it as a fishing/everything boat it will need it.

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

More rotten weather coming. Snow to the south of us but none predicted here.

More researching getting done. I think I may buy a Alumaducer in hull transducer. Shoots through alum with no loss and have all the adaptors to connect to any brand fish finder

We'll see if they are full of ****e or not. Seems like good reviews out there but none first hand.

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Opened up the box with the 83 dash in it. Looks decent. The guages still read in the overheat range.

I'll take some decent pics but these are from the blackberry for now.

 

[nowback]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Opened up the box with the 83 dash in it. Looks decent. The guages still read in the overheat range.

I'll take some decent pics but these are from the blackberry for now.

that looks just like the tach that I need!
I think I could use the ig switch as well.

you were talking about the Alumaducer who sells them? anyone local?
and how much i looked online a bit but didnt see prices.

matt

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Not sure if the Alumaducer works well yet. The jury is still out on that one.

I'll look at mine next week for sure so I will have spares for sure.

Looked at these dive ladders today and am looking at bolting one of these on. Quick release, break away, floating and good for 400 lbs. Some of the other ladders looked cheesy but these things are solid as he**. They are Garelick dive ladders. Mounted high enough away from the water line and are designed to be used with backing plates inside the transom. Perfect for the beefed up area I set aside for it to the right of the leg.

http://www.garelick.com/prodcat.php?subid=AB02

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

I saw the alumaducers on e-bay for 100 or so. Note sure yet but that would cleanup the stern area and I hate transom holes.

that looks just like the tach that I need!
I think I could use the ig switch as well.

you were talking about the Alumaducer who sells them? anyone local?
and how much i looked online a bit but didnt see prices.

matt