My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

[Watermann]

Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

Wet out transom... giggity.

I would rather see one of the @$$ munch Fed-Ex guys on the ground with it over his neck.

I stripped, scraped, rubbed, wheeled and sanded my dang trailer before SE, rust reformer on the leafs and 2 coats of white tractor paint with hardener. I like the sound of your plan better...

 

[GA_Boater]

Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

Touch ups should be a snap with the cold galv.

 

[classiccat]

Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

I would rather see one of the @$$ munch Fed-Ex guys on the ground with it over his neck.

Agua, Do tell!

Touch ups should be a snap with the cold galv.

Exactamundo!

 

[jasoutside]

Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

Man, your spray rail patch looks awesome, well done bro!

Yah, the West System factory is actually hardly a stones throw from my place, and I wish I could support locally -but- I buy all my epoxy from Florida:thumb:

 

[ctswf]

Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

Last year I would have probably thought you were being picky about the transom twist, but after fighting with floor issues due to plywood warp last spring I think you made the right decision.

 

[classiccat]

Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

Man, your spray rail patch looks awesome, well done bro!

Yah, the West System factory is actually hardly a stones throw from my place, and I wish I could support locally -but- I buy all my epoxy from Florida:thumb:

Thanks Jas! My next trick is to fab one that's 20x longer for my rubbed-down keel :facepalm:

Last year I would have probably thought you were being picky about the transom twist, but after fighting with floor issues due to plywood warp last spring I think you made the right decision.

Ha, I remembered that "check-deck "when I was wetting out the cloth

By chance is there a yellow/green islander with a 200 'Rude in your driveway? :lol:

 

[classiccat]

Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

UGH...heading down the street to find someone willing/able to kick me in the face...

...in an attempt to help me forget about what I just spent on hardware for the transom & trailer

 

[SigSaurP229]

Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

It is really easy to spend money on a trailer before you even know it.

 

[classiccat]

Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

Ok fellas,

puttin' the final touches on a good w/e.

The admiral hung-out in the hanger with me for a good chunk of the day.

She's starting to ask alot of questions about design...even the wheel; she loved the center console that I built for the bluefin...equipped with a big-ol' SS wheel & a Morse MT3...sweet no doubt but it would be out-of-place in a SuperSport walk-through.

So I pulled-out my fleabay score from last year (upper-left) and she smiled and said, "that looks like it's out of a 70's Camaro!"

I said, "Yeah Baby!" :madgrin:

I also spent a good bit of time meltin' plastic on the inter-web purchasing SS trailer / boat hardware. To recoup some of the cost, I decided to restore the honkin' 2-speed (with brake) fulton winch...and I'm glad I did, under the 40 years of grease/grime/surface rust is one bad mamba jamba!

before (nowhere near after :lol

 

[classiccat]

Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

I also started the finishing touch-ups on the transom skin before fitting the transom wood.

I had this idea for patching holes behind the transom wood using rivets...the issue with rivets is that you can't have a bucktail or it will interfere with the transom wood. So you can chamfer the hole, gob-up a rivet with 5200 and buck it. Then grind-off the bucktail. The aluminum will fill the chamfer.
Here's a diagram I made for a guy riveting a patch to his transom skin...same idea:


I won't be using this hole right above the splashwell drain (originally for that useless exterior plywood motor mount.):


Drill-it out to 1/4" & chamfer the hole:


after bucking & grinding:


I didn't have a 1/4 brazier rivet set so I used a flat set...I'll was going to shape it with a fine sanding disk but the Admiral shut-down the operation:


It's an alternative to buttering a piece of flashing with JB-weld or marine tex. This literally took me 3 minutes...and I like riveting so....

 

[Watermann]

Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

Oh the spending, I feel your pain buddy and it's not over either. :heh:

I like to rivet too, hmm I wonder how we go about petitioning the Olympic committee to make it a sport?

Oh yeah forgot to reply to the do tell, it was on Willy's Chief thread.

http://forums.iboats.com/starcraft-boats/my-chieftan-project-580639-15.html#post4563605

 

[Weep'n Willy]

Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

I hear ya too on the spending. Seems to never stop and there are more things I think I need every day. Thank goodness we can do some serious price comparisons on the web or these projects would cost waaaaaay more.

 

[dozerII]

Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

Great idea for filling the holes in the transom skin BF. That transom your building is going to be bomb proof.

 

[classiccat]

Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

Oh the spending, I feel your pain buddy and it's not over either. :heh:

I like to rivet too, hmm I wonder how we go about petitioning the Olympic committee to make it a sport?

Oh yeah forgot to reply to the do tell, it was on Willy's Chief thread.

http://forums.iboats.com/starcraft-boats/my-chieftan-project-580639-15.html#post4563605

Holy smokes Aqua! Fed Ex is delivering my trailer wheels I believe it was Fed Ex that delivered an auger for my snowblower a few weeks back. like you, they got the house # right...just the wrong neighborhood :facepalm:

I hear ya too on the spending. Seems to never stop and there are more things I think I need every day. Thank goodness we can do some serious price comparisons on the web or these projects would cost waaaaaay more.

You've got that right! The variations in price points is pretty shocking!

Great idea for filling the holes in the transom skin BF. That transom your building is going to be bomb proof.

Thanks Glen!! I'm hoping that 50 years from now, some guy starts a resto-thread for their arse-ugly SS, they pull this transom...and put it back in

 

[classiccat]

Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

My transom cap has some character:


It has been my guinea pig for polishing...cleaned-up pretty well with some hammering, sanding & a quick pass of sharkhyde polish:

^^^ I'll make a serious pass at wet sanding up-to 600 grit to really make it pop.

Transom Version 2.0 is glassed and it fits like a glove :thumb:


Now I have to work-up the stones to drill a bunch of holes in it

Thanks for stoppin' by! :yo:

 

[jbcurt00]

Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

Looking good BF! Transom ply does look like it's a great fit

 

[Watermann]

Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

Hey if your cap is on one piece still, I say use it. So what if it looks like Danny Trejo's face. :lol:

Ca mon, mark em, pull it and make some shavings fly~!~

 

[GA_Boater]

Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

3M 5200 is outstanding adhesive. But it wouldn't hold the motor on. Drill the holes already. Old habits dies hard! Don't stick rivets in all of 'em. :lol:

 

[classiccat]

Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

Looking good BF! Transom ply does look like it's a great fit

Hey if your cap is on one piece still, I say use it. So what if it looks like Danny Trejo's face. :lol:

Ca mon, mark em, pull it and make some shavings fly~!~

No question about reusing the Danny-T cap! :lol:

3M 5200 is outstanding adhesive. But it wouldn't hold the motor on. Drill the holes already. Old habits dies hard! Don't stick rivets in all of 'em. :lol:

I'm all out of 1" diameter rivets :lol:

The plan is to start drilling the over-sized holes tonight and hopefully get them plugged with epoxy.

The hardware already arrived from MC...if all goes as planned, things should start getting put together this w/e!

The goal is to tow the boat to a nearby ramp for a leak-check.

 

[barato2]

Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport

i hear ya on that wallet "demolition"....and some SOB locally keeps putting up a ready-to-use CC Alumacraft tinnie, very similar to what i'm building, for about 2000 less than i have in the Holiner right now....:facepalm:


that "next owner tearing this apart to restore it 50 yrs down the road" makes for some entertaining musings.....i'm sure the next owner of mine will be shaking his head and wondering "what was that idjit thinking?"