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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 SC
http://www.iboats.com/Marquis/bp/20br1286

On Jul 13, 7:29*am, "Happy" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message

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On Jul 13, 1:17 am, "Califbill" wrote:





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On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:39:22 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

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- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Even though the title says 23 ft. It's a 1977 Marquis V22-C Wahoo with
a 340 chevy engine and mercruiser 228 I/O

It's high-walled and a heavy old tub.

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On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote:
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On Jul 13, 1:17 am, "Califbill" wrote:





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On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:39:22 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

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- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Even though the title says 23 ft. It's a 1977 Marquis V22-C Wahoo with
a 340 chevy engine and mercruiser 228 I/O

It's high-walled and a heavy old tub.

So then that make you a "yahoo with a wahoo"?....cool
Someday these old Maquis boats might be collectors Items, or just land fill
material....

On Jul 13, 9:32*am, "Happy" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message

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On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote:





"Tim" wrote in message

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On Jul 13, 1:17 am, "Califbill" wrote:

wrote in message

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On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:39:22 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

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.

On Jul 13, 11:11*am, Tim wrote:
On Jul 13, 9:32*am, "Happy" wrote:





"Tim" wrote in message

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On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote:

"Tim" wrote in message

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On Jul 13, 1:17 am, "Califbill" wrote:

wrote in message

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On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:39:22 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

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-Hidequoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Even though the title says 23 ft. It's a 1977 Marquis V22-C Wahoo with
a 340 chevy engine and mercruiser 228 I/O

It's high-walled and a heavy old tub.

So then that make you a "yahoo with a wahoo"?....cool
Someday these old Maquis boats might be collectors Items, or just land fill
material....- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Yeah, probably land-fill material. But it is well constructed.

I looked around quite a bit and didn psot a picture of *one like it
some time ago, but it had been repainted and had a cover on it. I
tired to look it up again and i didn't ahve time to dig much. It's
probably still around somewhere though. * But yes, mine is a while
hull with the brown side striping, whith a large emblem towards the
back.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Well, I see my typing hasn't improved any, but my boat would take
quite a bit to restore. While in my warehouse, I accidently pushed an
empty 55 gal drum off a 2nd floor and it bent the heck out of the bow
railing and busted a lot of the braces and supports. and even though
it was well taken care of it does have it's signs of wear. But, I
bought it cheap and could afford to double what i put into it to make
it super cool. However I can't see doing that. So It will be for
function and fun and not glitter.

Like a lot of people who ahve to have the latest model car every year
or two. It seems the philosophy is that it truly isn'tthe means of
"going from point A to point B, but rather how you 'look' going from
point A to point B."

I suppose what I'm saying is that I enjoy my boats, but I can only use
them a limited season a year, and finding time to go boating is
becoming more limited per season too.

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On Jul 13, 1:17 am, "Califbill" wrote:

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On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:39:22 -0700 (PDT), Tim

wrote:

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-Hidequoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Even though the title says 23 ft. It's a 1977 Marquis V22-C Wahoo with
a 340 chevy engine and mercruiser 228 I/O

It's high-walled and a heavy old tub.

So then that make you a "yahoo with a wahoo"?....cool
Someday these old Maquis boats might be collectors Items, or just land
fill
material....- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Yeah, probably land-fill material. But it is well constructed.

I looked around quite a bit and didn psot a picture of one like it
some time ago, but it had been repainted and had a cover on it. I
tired to look it up again and i didn't ahve time to dig much. It's
probably still around somewhere though. But yes, mine is a while
hull with the brown side striping, whith a large emblem towards the
back.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Well, I see my typing hasn't improved any, but my boat would take
quite a bit to restore. While in my warehouse, I accidently pushed an
empty 55 gal drum off a 2nd floor and it bent the heck out of the bow
railing and busted a lot of the braces and supports. and even though
it was well taken care of it does have it's signs of wear. But, I
bought it cheap and could afford to double what i put into it to make
it super cool. However I can't see doing that. So It will be for
function and fun and not glitter.

Like a lot of people who ahve to have the latest model car every year
or two. It seems the philosophy is that it truly isn'tthe means of
"going from point A to point B, but rather how you 'look' going from
point A to point B."

I suppose what I'm saying is that I enjoy my boats, but I can only use
them a limited season a year, and finding time to go boating is
becoming more limited per season too.


Same here Tim, I only get out about 10 time's a season, we use our 12 foot
tinny more than the Marquis. The 70hp looper eats the gas, my single
cylinder Eska is very fuel friendly and works great for fishing the small
lake down here in SI

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On Jul 13, 11:11 am, Tim wrote:





On Jul 13, 9:32 am, "Happy" wrote:

"Tim" wrote in message

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On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote:

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On Jul 13, 1:17 am, "Califbill" wrote:

wrote in message

.. .

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:39:22 -0700 (PDT), Tim

wrote:

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-Hidequotedtext -

- Show quoted text -

Even though the title says 23 ft. It's a 1977 Marquis V22-C Wahoo with
a 340 chevy engine and mercruiser 228 I/O

It's high-walled and a heavy old tub.

So then that make you a "yahoo with a wahoo"?....cool
Someday these old Maquis boats might be collectors Items, or just land
fill
material....- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Yeah, probably land-fill material. But it is well constructed.

I looked around quite a bit and didn psot a picture of one like it
some time ago, but it had been repainted and had a cover on it. I
tired to look it up again and i didn't ahve time to dig much. It's
probably still around somewhere though. But yes, mine is a while
hull with the brown side striping, whith a large emblem towards the
back.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Well, I see my typing hasn't improved any, but my boat would take
quite a bit to restore. While in my warehouse, I accidently pushed an
empty 55 gal drum off a 2nd floor and it bent the heck out of the bow
railing and busted a lot of the braces and supports. and even though
it was well taken care of it does have it's signs of wear. But, I
bought it cheap and could afford to double what i put into it to make
it super cool. However I can't see doing that. So It will be for
function and fun and not glitter.

Like a lot of people who ahve to have the latest model car every year
or two. It seems the philosophy is that it truly isn'tthe means of
"going from point A to point B, but rather how you 'look' going from
point A to point B."

I suppose what I'm saying is that I enjoy my boats, but I can only use
them a limited season a year, and finding time to go boating is
becoming more limited per season too.

Same here Tim, I only get out about 10 time's a season, we use our 12 foot
tinny more than the Marquis. The 70hp looper eats the gas, my single
cylinder Eska is very fuel friendly and works great for fishing the small
lake down here in SI- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Agreed. For a quick hook-up-and-go tot he lake for some tubing etc,
the 18 ft. Chris Craft /140 hp Mercuiser fits the bill. Now for a long
serious river cruise the Marquis in the boat to take. Bigger, rides
better, much more room and if a person doesn't jack with the throttle
a lot (Like tubing and skiing) It's really not bad for it's size. The
30 ft pontoon is a holiday family outing float. the 85 hp "seahorse"
has proven it's plenty thirsty. But it pushes the barge pretty well
and that includes, coolers, grill various goodies, with 9 adults and a
sack full of kids.

On Jul 13, 7:29*am, "Happy" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message

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On Jul 13, 1:17 am, "Califbill" wrote:



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On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:39:22 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

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...quis922729.jpg

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

"Tim" wrote in message
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On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message

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On Jul 13, 1:17 am, "Califbill" wrote:



wrote in message

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On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:39:22 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

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...quis922729.jpg

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$

On Jul 14, 10:28*am, "Happy" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message

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On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote:





"Tim" wrote in message

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On Jul 13, 1:17 am, "Califbill" wrote:

wrote in message

.. .

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:39:22 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

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.