the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

[GA_Boater]

Re: the 1967 Holiday 18 and Multiple Boat Syndrome

B2 - How long to clean up before the Admiral arrives? If she announces her pending visit. :laugh: Glad you are making inroads - On the Holiner and the virus from the Boss.

 

[barato2]

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one thing about being stuck in bed is that you have time to finally go through, review, & catalog the progress pix of boat back to purchase. highly recommeded; it's been pretty inspriing seeing all the gumption traps i'm already past.

going to ABQ to finish the security system this weekend, then hopefully next week, i can get on the exterior paint, subject to our 40+ mph spring winds. still planning on basically a "scuff-n-squirt", only using SE primer on the gravel rash near bow. it will be the absolute antithesis of the beautiful jobs many of you are doing; not even going to flip boat if possble, but tip it and paint one side at a time. keel will get scraped clean the first time i beach it, so i'm not going to worry too much about getting paint down there nice. prep will consist of quick 320 SiC scrub, then a wash with dish soap and scotchbrite, wipe with solvent, and spray. i don't want it to look TOO good, so no one thinks of it as a theft target when it's 700 miles away in dry storage for months at a time. i do need to get paint done before i go much further with the interior, as i'd rather wrestle an empty hull than one with hundreds of pounds of interior.

still mulling the idea of the underfloor tank but it's been too cold for me to want to bother going out and test fitting. i do think i'm going to be limited to the 18 gal version rather than the 25, since the latter would force me to have a hump down much of the length of the cockpit.

 

[barato2]

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JB, are you suggesting that kitchens are for something other than boat work? no wobblepop til the antibiotics are done; amazing i get anything done without the "WTF" factor of a beer in me, esp when it involves gluing stuff in place for good, with no chance to fix it if you get it wrong.
fortunately, i have plenty of advance notice when the Mgmt is going to show up......

 

[Weep'n Willy]

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one thing about being stuck in bed is that you have time to finally go through, review, & catalog the progress pix of boat back to purchase. highly recommeded; it's been pretty inspriing seeing all the gumption traps i'm already past.

They say great minds think alike.....as I have a file folder full of folders that have pics of the entirety of the Chief and I am often going through them looking over the different pics and derive inspiration for new ideas and also contemplate the task remaining to finish the project. Imbibing on a few beverages does help the process I believe except yesterday. I usually store my 30 box out in the garage during the winter and it keeps them nice and cool.......with the artic blast we have been having I opened the first one for the evening only to find it frozen :facepalm:

 

[dozerII]

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Wow love the kitchen shots, cast iron fry pan, coffee pot and tube of 5200 only at a Mob Members home.:facepalm:

Dash is looking real nice B.

 

[barato2]

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Glen, you forgot to mention the swim step bracket parts hanging from the ceiling fan, and the headlight nacelles. :lol:

but thanks, all. i feel like such a hack among this distinguished company. this boat is making me slightly (more) crazy....i go from being freaked out about stuff like fact that grain on my woodwork won't line up due to my cheaping out and trying to cut all pieces out of 1 sheet, to telling self "it's a FISHING boat, Idjit!", back to freaked out after i look at the beautiful and creative work most of y'all are doing. ironically, one of my big functions at work is being able to tell people that no, you're doing it correctly (since i've been here forever and have no more qualms)....just need to keep reminding self the same thing on boat.....that no, it won't come out perfect but it will do the job.

 

[redneck joe]

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you are my hero. My wife is gone for the week and i've kept my crap in the garage cuz i'm a scaredy cat.

 

[classiccat]

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Spray-bombin' parts in the kitchen! I'll tell ya, B2 has some MAJOR-LEAGUE-STONES!!! :laugh:

regardless...that control panel looks MAJOR-LEAGUE-AWESOME!!

 

[dozerII]

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Spray-bombin' parts in the kitchen! I'll tell ya, B2 has some MAJOR-LEAGUE-STONES!!! :laugh:

regardless...that control panel looks MAJOR-LEAGUE-AWESOME!!

You got that right BF, I just noticed the sprayed parts. Yikes I would be talking real high pitched if I tried that.

 

[InMotion]

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B2 ---- Nice work. Looking good. I like that fact that you used your gas stove to speed up the "drying process" on one of the parts there...

Progress is progress... and that certainly is progress that gave me a chuckle!

J.

 

[jbcurt00]

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I like that fact that you used your gas stove to speed up the "drying process" on one of the parts there..

I thought that was the heat treatment station :watermelon:

B: I was suggesting that although you're doing boat work in the kitchen, the kitchen is void of the normal debris of a bachelor's (if even only for a day) life when the Admiral isn't around. Particularly bottles & cans left about. :facepalm:

 

[GA_Boater]

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I'm starting to think you guys are jealous of B2's.... What's the word I'm thinking of? Oh - Mel Gibson said it best in "Braveheart"......FREEDOM! :lol: Now bear in mind, he yelled that out as he was being disemboweled.

 

[classiccat]

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I'm starting to think you guys are jealous of B2's.... What's the word I'm thinking of? Oh - Mel Gibson said it best in "Braveheart"......FREEDOM! :lol: Now bear in mind, he yelled that out as he was being disemboweled.

So if we were drawing parallels, I'd recommend that he hides that 10lb skillet (BFS)!

 

[GA_Boater]

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So if we were drawing parallels, I'd recommend that he hides that 10lb skillet (BFS)!

The BFS is an important tool! How to you think B2 weighted the console wood during laminating sessions on the coffee table in the living room?

 

[barato2]

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the living room? coffee table? :lol:
here's the inviting living room. "living" in it are too many guitar projects, the interior from the '79 Westy (going next door to furniture resto for veneering with birdseye maple) and the tankless water heater awaiting installation.

we do have a coffee table, but it's currently occupied with the giant box of exotic hardwoods for guitar backs and sides.......

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[barato2]

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No real progress on the boat since I went to ABQ to finish the Admiral’s security system. Got that fully up to speed, so she can now inspect her perimeter from inside the bedroom, day or night. May have created a monster, as she now jokes about hoping some hapless fool comes into her walled backyard so she can practice her marksmanship. Interestingly, everything seems to run off 12V with wall transformers....you could easily hook it up to batteries and PV panels for a remote area installation.

I did get the deck panels back out and was doing some test fitting on the belly tank idea. Here are a few pix to give you an idea of how well it fits between the rails. I would have to abort the idea of having whole center section of underdash vertical bulkhead be removable or at least open, since I’d need to box in the filler hose so it can’t get knocked loose.

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[barato2]

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Hopefully those show the fore-aft positioning well enough. If I use thin alum plate for the shelf underneath (I have two 2x2' sheets of roughly .090" lying around....with some 2x2" L-channel around the perimeter and square-tube reinf under the shelf, between the ribs, I think this would support the tank OK), it only sticks up maybe 1/8-1/4" (3-6 mm for those of you in the civilized world) above the level of the stringers. these shots are of aft end of tank, and the blue-foam impromptu straightedge is laying across the starboard stringer and top of tank

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that's the height at aft end of the 18 gallon tank, with it shoved as far forward as i think would be feasible. next one shows the height at about where the rear of the 25-gal version of same tank would come to:

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so I could either cut out the deck over the tank and “bridge” it like I’d been planning (Glen’s diamond plate got me thinking that might be one way to go for the bridge “span”), or raise the floor sections that sit over the tank very slightly and then have a small stepdown for the rear 2 deck panels. Any input welcome.

 

[barato2]

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oh, and i found a lost directory of pix from a 2011 Mexico trip...these pix have nada to do with SCs, but i thought y'all might enjoy some fish pix to take yer mind off the ice n snow:

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for reference, the fishbox is 24"

 

[InMotion]

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B2 -- ya crack me up man! Love the fact that you are a fair ways out from shore in the little boat and you have a boat full of fish! Just goes to show ya that it ain't the size of the boat that determines the # of fish that one catches!! Nice work there!

Tank --- that is tight for sure... looks like it will work as long as you it isn't going to rub on the hull/floor. Given your plan to hold it in place, it should work --- but man, that is a no tollerance situation there!

Hmmmm... have to think some more on the ramifications of adjusting the floor higher or creating a step and the impact to your side panels etc. If you count for all of that, should work fine what you are suggesting!

J.

 

[dozerII]

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Nice fish B2, it reminds me that it will warm up one of these days. As Jim said tight fit with the tank, could make a step up but it would have to be substantial otherwise you might just make a trip hazard. But then if it was substantial you could make that area into storage with a false bottom to access the tank, HMMMMMM