WOW! Erik, you are clearly my equal in the craziness department! lol Great work there. Metal boats ROCK!!!
To each his own, but I'm not entirely sold on what you've written here. My formerly abandoned 46 Roamer (Al) had completely locked up, plain...
I found a fellow who's done punchwork for Weaver in Deale, and he'll work for$35/hr. I figured I'd toss some piecework at him and see how he...
"I follow your thread (it seems to have stopped?)" There hasn't been much to post on mine recently. Forward motion stopped in June when...
I installed a 35 gallon holding tank under the v-berth floors of my 1967 Connie. Tankdepot had the best prices--there's a 35 gallon tank (Part:...
homer1958, I'm curious--what's the "turbocharged" setup look like? On my 46, they took out the original 427s and put in SeaMasters, twin turbo +...
Strange...my Roamer came with 1.5" Aquamet 17 shafts, which many sources indicate are almost equivalent to 22 in strength. Musta been a lucky...
HA! Shwabbys! lol 4th of July in DC?
What was the source of those creaks and what did you do to eliminate them?
We had a good summer. Got in quite a bit of time on the water. Should have put on another coat of primer and the topcoat before taking this...
The Japanese have an expression -- There's nothing more expensive than something that was free. lol Good job on the move and the de-junking....
The boat looks great! Congrats! btw, what did you repower with?
I would think that any marine rated plywood would work fine.
On my aluminum Roamer, I used a hammer and chisel to remove the old cutlass bearings, then used a 1.5" SS flue brush on a drill and Alumaprep to...
C'mon, Art...it's not like you're working on your Roamer. What else have you got to do with your time?!? lol
The analogy I like best is that every engine has an amount of power it can produce. The faster you extract that power, the sooner you'll be...
I like the PH concept you've posted...very well-conceived. Do you plan to do it up in fiberglass?
sry, wasn't quite clear--standpipes to marelon ball valves is the way I went. Chris Craft originally used aluminum standpipes to dielectric...
My aluminum Roamer has aluminum standpipes below the waterline and I'll use SS thru-hulls above the waterline for tank vents etc. The AC raw...
NYCAP123, you must be either happily divorced or never married.:p
