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On Jul 14, 2:18 pm, John H wrote:

On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:57:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim
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On Jul 13, 1:17 am, "Califbill"
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On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:39:22 -0700 (PDT), Tim

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I've been working on my 23' Marquis.

It was a slow day in the shop and I could almost tell it
would
be so I
took my ford 8N out to the machine shed and hooked up to the
Marquis
and pulled it out front where I'd have easier accessibility
to
it, and
began to attack the wood rot right in front of the engine.
There's a
cross piece that's heavily damaged, The plywood floor is OK,
but this
cross piece is mush. The stringers are fine, so I got out the
small
electric chain saw and went to work on the cross piece I was
very
careful not to even nick the fiberglass hull. When I got the
most of
it removed I chipped away the rest at the bottom with a wood
chisel,
measured the distance between the stringers and cut out a
nice
piece
of salt-treated pine just wide enough to fit snug then angled
the base
of it so it would fit the curve of the hull, cut a generous
drain
notch into the board and with some angle iron, large washers
and
carriage bolts I drilled through the stringers and pine board
to
secure. Then I cut another board to fill just underneath the
floor and
angle ironed it too. Tomorrow I'll flop the resin epoxy to
the
stringers and necessary hardware.

I feel the bracing is pretty good and has increased the
integrity of
the hull with the cross member repaired.

I felt that made a better day than doing little if anything
in
the
shop, or watching the feuding in here.....

?;^ )

Mine is on the trailer tonight too. I took Mr Ed for a run on
his
private island and we yanked it out when we got back.
Tomorrow I am going after the engine and then I am doing an
assessment
on the boat.
I would really like to find a set of top side rails cheap. I
guess
Craigs list but the scrappers pretty much scoop up all of
that
sort of
thing.
I am really in survey mode at this point. The boat is 35
years
old and
20 years on a major rebuild. One of these days it will be an
Ex-Boat.

I took the boat back to storage this morning and then went to
airport to
pick up daughter and granddaughters. Husband is on a business
trip, so
she
flew up for a couple days. finished working on the boat. Had a
whine on
the 4th weekend, that I thought was u-joints. They were fine,
but
the
Spicer spline coupler was frozen. In the process, figured the
engine
needed
to be moved forward for a little better clearance at the
coupler.
so
build
new engine mounts and moved the engine forward 1.5" and a
little
lower
in
front. Was a conversion from Ford to Chevy a couple years ago.
Probably
take it out for a shakedown cruise Thursday after grandkids go
home.

looks like we might have rain settle in for all day, but that's
alright. The boat is in the dry. I pulled of the bow railing that
got
damaged .and if slow again today,t his might be a good time to
start
filling holes. and taking off some other junk, too!

Hey Tim, just out of curiosity what model is your marquis?
I found a model list at Iboats, some of the newer models are not
the old
Marquis Boat Company of Hartsville
SChttp://www.iboats.com/Marquis/bp/20br1286

I foud a pic of one.

http://www.myautomarket.com/July%20A...cs/76Marquis92...

This is like mine w/exception that mine had a large loop bow
railing
and no bimini

Nice boat,
Have you charted out your fuel stops coming down the Ohio? Golconda
will be
your last chance before smithland lock and dam then paducah and I'm
not sure
where you can buy fuel there dock side... theres a place below
smithland on
the Il side called the sand bar thats a hang out and resturant I
think, and
its close to Paducah KY, Ky fuel is always 20 cent cheaper than IL.
So let
me know if I can help with anything, marina fuel is high so if you
want to I
could help get it @ the local gas station and save you some coin$-
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Thanks Man!

I havent been able to find any specs on how large my fuel tank is,
but
I'm thinking on adding one or at least two 12 gal.Mohler outboard
plastic tanks to the dive platform off the stern. It's braces well,
and the fuel tanks can be made very secure. About like a factory set
up instead of some jicky-jack deal with some die-downs.

I ahven't really been plotting a course ... yet. But thanks for the
help. I'll probably be asking in the future.

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I mean,, what could possibly go wrong???

?;^ Q

The down river part will be a breeze, coming back up river will put a
little
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No, but I do have access to a pretty good sized Minn Kota troller
12/24 volt.

Thats what I use for a kicker but you won't get far, but surely you can make
the river bank in an emergency.

I was thinking the same thing. It won't take you far but at least you
can make it to land.