hull extension in progress with pics

[oops!]

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Going up there on March 25th to maybe the 29th. Hope to have a few beers. I'm buying and can also do a little work if needed. Invite Tackle as well. Will have to find your new shop. Hope everything is going well.

Have a great day,

Rob.

a little work?....beers?.....now you are in trouble....roflmao !.....
cant wait.....! its by the ogopogo welcome to kelowna sign......)but its a long way from kettle valley.....(not too far from my first shop)

Hey Oops! Glad to see that you are back in business with the boat. I saw a little ditty in Castanet too...is that you? Sounds like the one and only Ward!.......i didnt see any castanet thing?????can you link me to it or pm me the detailes?

Anyway, glad to have you back and looking forward to the continuing saga!

.i didnt see any castanet thing?????can you link me to it or pm me the detailes?...

but we need to chat bud...



tackel....im at the shop tonoght working and listening to the rockets last game on the radio tonight......bring beer!



to all my buds.....i was away this weekend.....ill be posting the update tonight with the pics....

cheers
oops

 

[oops!]

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by the way......

tackel.........


congratulations on your promotion !

 

[zach103]

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Woo Woo Hes Back>> Im Pumped!!!!!!

 

[jcsercsa]

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HAy Brother REALLY ????? PIC'S ??? LOL I just went and looked its been since Nov,12 2008 ?????

You got it all painted , Didnt yea ???

I was out on mine for a couple hours toninght !! Wanted to tex but didnt get that far !! John

 

[ne7800]

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We want pics, we want pics, we want pics. lmao

 

[drewmitch44]

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we want pics we want pics we want pics we want pics we want pics we want pics we want pics we want pics we....................

 

[jcsercsa]

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by the way......

tackel.........


congratulations on your promotion !

OOOHHH YEA CONGRADS THERE Tackel !! John

 

[oops!]

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You got it all painted , Didnt yea ???

awww.....now i feel all bad cause i aint done nothin since i last posted....!!!

ok......im uploading to photo bucket right now....i answered everybody elses posts before i did mine.....so.....if i dont fall asleep....(its 2 am here)....ill finish posting the update tonight.

 

[SuzukiChopper]

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Tease!!!!!!!

 

[jcsercsa]

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awww.....now i feel all bad cause i aint done nothin since i last posted....!!!

ok......im uploading to photo bucket right now....i answered everybody elses posts before i did mine.....so.....if i dont fall asleep....(its 2 am here)....ill finish posting the update tonight.

OOOHHH MAN brother I was pickin on yea , Didnt mean to bum you out !!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry !!! John : [

 

[Mark42]

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Hey Oops! good to see your back on the boards. Was getting tired of not seeing this thread get updated.

 

[jcsercsa]

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PIC"S, GOOD GOD MAN WHere's the PICS ??? LOL

 

[Yar.]

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.i didnt see any castanet thing?????can you link me to it or pm me the detailes?...

but we need to chat bud...

If you go to Castanet and search "boat werx" you will see what I mean! Just a coincidence???

I will PM you other info on a chat

Cheers, Yar.

PS: Get that long beastie thawed out and get to work!

 

[oops!]

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If you go to Castanet and search "boat werx" you will see what I mean! Just a coincidence???

BAAAAAA HAAAAA HAAAAAAAA !

you dont miss much do you!!!.....

 

[Yar.]

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I was going to bet eating my shorts on that one.......

Good on ya!

 

[oops!]

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ok.....where do i start.......

first of all.....do to certain "financial" situations, im sharing a shop with a buddy of mine....he does the motor work....i play with the glass.

here is a pic for tackelwasher and yar.

the above business isn't mine....but the owners and i have been friends for years.....(they used to get my mail and i used to get theres).....so its funny we now share a common yard!

it was a real tough winter here in kelowna........and its still not over....this is about the first good day that i could actually move the boat....
but first i needed to rescue it from its hiding spot!

and here she is in her new "playground"

that black senga is a coustomers boat my bud is working on.....

ya see that tarp there????.....well it had over 500 lbs of ice in it.....the tarp was barley hangin on.....i was wondering why it seemed soooo heavy when i was towing it over..

once i had backed it into the shop.....it was time to thaw it.

 

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there was sooo much ice in the tarp....(long story....but if you want something done right.......) it took a total of 3 days to thaw the boat......first the tarp.....with a hammer and chisel i broke off massive chunks of ice and loaded them on to a cart and wheeled them out into the empty lot beside us......(the chunks were so big that i didnt want cars or trucks to hit them)......finally with the chisel and the help of a siphon i finally got the tarp off........

only to find a totally waterlogged frozen solid boat!........the tarp had leaked and filled the under deck with water....it froze solid !

so....out came the hammer and chisel......and gallons of hot water......it took over night.......but i got it thawed........

i was worried about the damage that the ice would have caused under decks.....(to my wonderful stringer job)......but nothing.....every thing is solid and not even a slight glass crack.......the stringer glassing held perfectly.

......while the boat was thawing.....we were working on a 24 footer....an older campion....we did a transom replacement.....

this is the boat after its finished.

this is greg doing final hookups....

that campion had a liner in it that we had to cut back to get at the transom.....that whole job start to finish took about a week and a half...(that includes pulling the motor and re-installing it after the transom was finished.)

 

[oops!]

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by the way......dont mind the camera date.....ill get it set one of these days......(spinner bait nut used ta get pizzed cause of that date thing....lol)

any how......here she is in here new home.....all warm and toasty.....

you can really see in this shot the immence legnth of the vessel.....every one that sees it really cant beleive its soooo long.....lol

now.......one of the great delemmas is to figure out what to do next......i still havent got the transom cut out......but motor instlation is a few weeks away.....so what to do?

i decided i would start to build the interior seats.....and the rear bulk head...

the rear bulk head is the "dividing line between the motor compartment and the passenger area........this simple peice of wood....took over an hour to cut and fit.....it was crazy...!

this bulk head will be fiberglassed later and also i will be adding sound proofing.

do you see those small stacks of wood?

those were used to figure out the seat height.......i remember when i was installing the stringers.......i was deciding if i wanted to lower the deck height by 2 inches or so..........well......that 2 inches is a lot when sitting inside the boat!....

the trick is to make the seat high enough that it is comfortable....but not so high that it is unsafe to sit in at speed.....(the passengers can be ejected out easily if the seats are too high)...

a final height of 9 1/2 inches high was decided.

the game plan here is to create a mold for the seats.......then gellcoat the mold....then glass them and pop the mold......

so the first thing is to make the mold.

this is the 9 1/2 inch riser portion under construction...

if you look closely in this picture.....you can see a "lip" this is the bottom of the seat base........this is the "lip" where the seat will be bolted to the deck

these are the seat bases and the actual seats ( remember....this is just a form....not one inch of this wood will be in the seats or the boat for that matter).

ill have more updates for you later....its allmost noon here so i gotta get back to the shop........

more to come......

cheers
oops

 

[JaSla74]

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Glad to see you back on Oops. I'm sure many of us were over due for a fix

 

[jcsercsa]

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OHHHHH I Feel Better Now !!!! lol

Its great to see her !!!!!!!and all nice a warm in her new home !!!!! Too cool buddie !!!

Man how could you let her fill with water ???? You just want to see if she is water tight from the inside didnt yea ??? hahahaha

Allright there buddie , its about time !!! I can see the small smile on your face now !!!!John