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With the help of
BradE (thanks for the help) I was able to put the boat in the garage today. I
had to remove the weather stripping from around the garage door opening to make
it fit. I cleared by 1/4 - 1/2" on each side and eased it in. The weather
stripping is back in place and I cranked the heat up to 70 degrees to warm
things up. This is the fun part and now I can get to the big part of my project.
Things should roll along much quicker now. I have more room in the garage to
work around the boat then I thought. The garage is double-deep and the second
half is about 5' wider than the first.
Garage is finally cleared out
Just clears!
I will have to wait until the boat is removed before I install the rubrail....
Raw water washdown
install and removal of the lousy cockpit drains.
Hole drilled and waiting for the highspeed intake grate.
Intake grate and pump to be installed in the port stern most part of the boat. This should happen tonight.
Removal of the brass/bronze cockpit drains. I have never liked these because over the years they start to leak because they do not bond well with the hull. I have a proposed design in my head for new ones, but I'm open for suggestions for replacements. I'll be using Sea-Stop composite flappers to prevent water from entering the boat.
I cleaned out the coffin and compartments and the hull is finally warming up after being inside a 70 degree garage for almost two days. I'll purchase fuel hose and prepare to re-install the tank this week.
Install of the sea-strainer and seacock was very simple.
Next I foamed the original foam holes that Mako used as foam holes. I wanted to take a sample of the foam and dug these out pretty deep and did find some water, but not enough to concern me. It dried out since the temp indoors is 70 degrees and humidity is very low. I re-foamed the holes -
and then sawed off the foam "mushrooms" with a 12" sawsall blade, by hand, followed with glassing a heavy rove circles over the foam holes, followed by another heavy rove patch about 4" X 6" over the round patch to seal it - thanks to Michigan Dave for the free fiberglass rove (aka - mat).
I did a transom core sample and was not happy with what I found in the area of the starboard trim tab upper mounting area. The core is soft in this one area and while I want to fix it, I did not budget this into my schedule this winter for a complete transom job. The other big factor is I want to "upgrade" to a 30" transom, but do not yet have a 250hp outboard with a 30" mid section. The transom will wait until next year and this is making me feel better since I will have the hull gelcoated vs. Imron or Awlgripped. Matching a transom repair should be about flawless next year.
