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So, while y'all are arguing
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..... ?;^ ) |
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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..... ?;^ ) Damn, and all I did was play 18 holes of golf and walk the dog for a few miles. You're making me feel guilty. Oh, and I fixed dinner. Bulgogi. Good stuff. If you're ever in a Korean restaurant, don't confuse kagogi with bulgogi. -- I hope your day is simply *SPECTACULAR* !! John H |
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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..... i gotta say a day working on a boat is better than a day at work... ?;^ ) |
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On Jul 12, 9:19*pm, bpuharic wrote:
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..... i gotta say a day working on a boat is better than a day at work... ?;^ ) No kidding! and a lot more rewarding too! But still. You gotta work to pay for the gas. But I figure the starters and alternators will take care of themselves, but river cruise time will be coming up faster than I can imagine, so I dont' want launch time to creep up on me and it will...FAST! So, like the old DEVO song: "Duty Now For The Future" |
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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. |
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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! |
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"Tim" wrote in message ... 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 SC http://www.iboats.com/Marquis/bp/20br1286 |
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On Jul 13, 7:29*am, "Happy" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message ... 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- 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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"Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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- 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.... |
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On Jul 13, 9:32*am, "Happy" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message .... 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. |
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On Jul 13, 11:11*am, Tim wrote:
On Jul 13, 9:32*am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message .... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message .... 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-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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"Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 11:11 am, Tim wrote: On Jul 13, 9:32 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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-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 |
So, while y'all are arguing
On Jul 13, 12:31*pm, "Happy" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 11:11 am, Tim wrote: On Jul 13, 9:32 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message .... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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. |
So, while y'all are arguing
"Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 12:31 pm, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 11:11 am, Tim wrote: On Jul 13, 9:32 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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. My MBS is not as bad as yours, but I do want a boat the size of yours one of these days, I would love to cruise the the tenn. and cumberland, Kentucky Lake and the LBL is a wonder to behold, we used to go down and rent a pontoon every summer and spend the weekend. My trihull is a not a big water boat but its great for the river on a calm day so I just enjoy the little lakes that are all around us and we love to wast bait and when we feel the need for speed we take to the Ohio and have a blast. Oh and by the way last year I never saw a asian carp on the lower Ohio but this year there every were, including the marina, asian carp will swim up in a group and just look at you as if your I sight to behold. I think bow fishing for them would be very productive in the marina's. |
So, while y'all are arguing
On Jul 13, 3:03*pm, "Happy" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 12:31 pm, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 11:11 am, Tim wrote: On Jul 13, 9:32 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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, while y'all are arguing
On Jul 13, 7:29*am, "Happy" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message ... 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 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 |
So, while y'all are arguing
"Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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 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$ |
So, while y'all are arguing
On Jul 14, 10:28*am, "Happy" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message .... 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. |
So, while y'all are arguing
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:57:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote:
On Jul 14, 10:28*am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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 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$- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. Sounds scary to me. -- John H |
So, while y'all are arguing
"John H" wrote in message ... On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:57:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 10:28 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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 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$- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. Sounds scary to me. -- John H Thats what makes it an adventure, just pull up your dress and wade in girls... |
So, while y'all are arguing
On Jul 14, 2:18*pm, John H wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:57:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 10:28*am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message .... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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 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$- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. Sounds scary to me. -- John H- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - But John...bewsides my typing skills, what woudl be scary? |
So, while y'all are arguing
"Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 14, 2:18 pm, John H wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:57:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 10:28 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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 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$- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. Sounds scary to me. -- John H- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - But John...bewsides my typing skills, what woudl be scary? Yeah but...Johnny is afraid of his own shadow. |
So, while y'all are arguing
On Jul 15, 7:42*am, Tim wrote:
On Jul 14, 2:18*pm, John H wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:57:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 10:28*am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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 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$- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. Sounds scary to me. -- John H- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - But John...bewsides my typing skills, what woudl be scary?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I mean,, what could possibly go wrong??? ?;^ Q |
So, while y'all are arguing
"Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 15, 7:42 am, Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 2:18 pm, John H wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:57:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 10:28 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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 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$- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. Sounds scary to me. -- John H- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - But John...bewsides my typing skills, what woudl be scary?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I mean,, what could possibly go wrong??? ?;^ Q The down river part will be a breeze, coming back up river will put a little pressure on things. Do you have a kicker motor? |
So, while y'all are arguing
On Jul 15, 11:37*am, "Happy" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 15, 7:42 am, Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 2:18 pm, John H wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:57:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 10:28 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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 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$- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. Sounds scary to me. -- John H- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - But John...bewsides my typing skills, what woudl be scary?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I mean,, what could possibly go wrong??? ?;^ Q The down river part will be a breeze, coming back up river will put a little pressure on things. Do you have a kicker motor?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - No, but I do have access to a pretty good sized Minn Kota troller 12/24 volt. |
So, while y'all are arguing
"Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 15, 11:37 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 15, 7:42 am, Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 2:18 pm, John H wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:57:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 10:28 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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 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$- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. Sounds scary to me. -- John H- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - But John...bewsides my typing skills, what woudl be scary?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I mean,, what could possibly go wrong??? ?;^ Q The down river part will be a breeze, coming back up river will put a little pressure on things. Do you have a kicker motor?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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 always thought I would take the down river trip and then trailer home, of course that takes some logistics but would be a real money saver and like I said the real pressure is the upstream trip. |
So, while y'all are arguing
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:42:00 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote:
On Jul 14, 2:18*pm, John H wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:57:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 10:28*am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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 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$- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. Sounds scary to me. -- John H- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - But John...bewsides my typing skills, what woudl be scary? The idea of having two containers of fuel hanging out on a diving platform. That sounds scary. -- John H |
So, while y'all are arguing
On Jul 15, 12:45*pm, "Happy" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 15, 11:37 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message .... On Jul 15, 7:42 am, Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 2:18 pm, John H wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:57:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 10:28 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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 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$- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. Sounds scary to me. -- John H- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - But John...bewsides my typing skills, what woudl be scary?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I mean,, what could possibly go wrong??? ?;^ Q The down river part will be a breeze, coming back up river will put a little pressure on things. Do you have a kicker motor?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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 always thought I would take the down river trip and then trailer home, of course that takes some logistics but would be a real money saver and like I said the real pressure is the upstream trip.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - True enough, but you still have to have someone drive your trailer to your destination port. This boat should't have any problem going up stream, though. However, I have been strongly advised to get Sea Tow insurance as well. No more than it really costs, it could be really handy if necessary. |
So, while y'all are arguing
On Jul 15, 12:45*pm, "Happy" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 15, 11:37 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message .... On Jul 15, 7:42 am, Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 2:18 pm, John H wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:57:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 10:28 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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 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$- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. Sounds scary to me. -- John H- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - But John...bewsides my typing skills, what woudl be scary?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I mean,, what could possibly go wrong??? ?;^ Q The down river part will be a breeze, coming back up river will put a little pressure on things. Do you have a kicker motor?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. |
So, while y'all are arguing
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:59:45 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote: However, I have been strongly advised to get Sea Tow insurance as well. No more than it really costs, it could be really handy if necessary. SeaTow is well worth the cost in my opinion. In addition to emergency towing they are also a great source of local knowledge which they freely share. |
So, while y'all are arguing
"Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 15, 12:45 pm, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 15, 11:37 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 15, 7:42 am, Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 2:18 pm, John H wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:57:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 10:28 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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 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$- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. Sounds scary to me. -- John H- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - But John...bewsides my typing skills, what woudl be scary?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I mean,, what could possibly go wrong??? ?;^ Q The down river part will be a breeze, coming back up river will put a little pressure on things. Do you have a kicker motor?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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 always thought I would take the down river trip and then trailer home, of course that takes some logistics but would be a real money saver and like I said the real pressure is the upstream trip.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - True enough, but you still have to have someone drive your trailer to your destination port. This boat should't have any problem going up stream, though. However, I have been strongly advised to get Sea Tow insurance as well. No more than it really costs, it could be really handy if necessary. I have never seen a sea tow rescue boat on the ohio, mostly when I go boating I am sea tow, my 40+ year old boat is a real work horse, I usally get atleast 2 bayliners and a bass boat every time I go out, my friends who own the marina get ****ed when I won't charge for the service, he said it was customary for a stranded pleasure craft to fillup there friendly neighbor hood rescuer boat with gas. On the july5th there was busted ass, out of gas boats all up and down the Ohio, out of three one person offered me $6, I told him keep it...with his outdrive hanging off the boat, I said you need it buddy. |
So, while y'all are arguing
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:59:45 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote:
On Jul 15, 12:45*pm, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 15, 11:37 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 15, 7:42 am, Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 2:18 pm, John H wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:57:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 10:28 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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 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$- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. Sounds scary to me. -- John H- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - But John...bewsides my typing skills, what woudl be scary?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I mean,, what could possibly go wrong??? ?;^ Q The down river part will be a breeze, coming back up river will put a little pressure on things. Do you have a kicker motor?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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 always thought I would take the down river trip and then trailer home, of course that takes some logistics but would be a real money saver and like I said the real pressure is the upstream trip.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - True enough, but you still have to have someone drive your trailer to your destination port. This boat should't have any problem going up stream, though. However, I have been strongly advised to get Sea Tow insurance as well. No more than it really costs, it could be really handy if necessary. I have TowBoat US, and they've come through for me three times. Check if whatever insurance you get have tow boats ported where you can use them. http://tinyurl.com/2vdvykx shows where TowBoatUS has ports. I 'spect Sea Tow has the same kind of site, but I'm feeling lazy. Oh, what the hell. Here's Sea Tow's list. I don't see anything in Illinois. http://seatow.com/about/locations.asp -- John H |
So, while y'all are arguing
On Jul 15, 4:59*pm, John H wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:59:45 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 15, 12:45*pm, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message .... On Jul 15, 11:37 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 15, 7:42 am, Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 2:18 pm, John H wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:57:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 10:28 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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 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$- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. Sounds scary to me. -- John H- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - But John...bewsides my typing skills, what woudl be scary?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I mean,, what could possibly go wrong??? ?;^ Q The down river part will be a breeze, coming back up river will put a little pressure on things. Do you have a kicker motor?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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 always thought I would take the down river trip and then trailer home, of course that takes some logistics but would be a real money saver and like I said the real pressure is the upstream trip.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - True enough, but you still have to have someone drive your trailer to your destination port. This boat should't have any problem going up stream, though. However, I have been strongly advised to get Sea Tow insurance as well. No more than it really costs, it could be really handy if necessary. I have TowBoat US, and they've come through for me three times. Check if whatever insurance you get have tow boats ported where you can use them. http://tinyurl.com/2vdvykxshows where TowBoatUS has ports. I 'spect Sea Tow has the same kind of site, but I'm feeling lazy. Oh, what the hell. Here's Sea Tow's list. I don't see anything in Illinois. http://seatow.com/about/locations.asp -- John H I'll be doing some investigating. Maybe even somebody though BoatsUS |
So, while y'all are arguing
On Jul 15, 1:58*pm, John H wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:42:00 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 2:18*pm, John H wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:57:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 10:28*am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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 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$- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. Sounds scary to me. -- John H- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - But John...bewsides my typing skills, what woudl be scary? The idea of having two containers of fuel hanging out on a diving platform. That sounds scary. -- John H Well, I don't know why that would be a problem, John. The majority of outboards have portable tanks on the inside and pontoons have the tanks literally strapped on the outside so I figure it shouldn't really be an issue. Besides the swim platform on the back is very heavily braced . At about 300 lb, I was standing on it with very little give. I would make sure the tanks were mounted very well. and I might check in with the local marina guys and see if there's any regulations to adhere to. |
So, while y'all are arguing
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:36:31 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote:
On Jul 15, 1:58*pm, John H wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:42:00 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 2:18*pm, John H wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:57:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 10:28*am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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 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$- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. Sounds scary to me. -- John H- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - But John...bewsides my typing skills, what woudl be scary? The idea of having two containers of fuel hanging out on a diving platform. That sounds scary. -- John H Well, I don't know why that would be a problem, John. The majority of outboards have portable tanks on the inside and pontoons have the tanks literally strapped on the outside so I figure it shouldn't really be an issue. Besides the swim platform on the back is very heavily braced . At about 300 lb, I was standing on it with very little give. I would make sure the tanks were mounted very well. and I might check in with the local marina guys and see if there's any regulations to adhere to. Yeah, I suppose your chances of getting rear-ended on the Ohio aren't as bad as the chances of same on I-95 between here and Richmond. -- John H |
So, while y'all are arguing
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:35:15 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote:
On Jul 15, 4:59*pm, John H wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:59:45 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 15, 12:45*pm, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 15, 11:37 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 15, 7:42 am, Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 2:18 pm, John H wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:57:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 10:28 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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 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$- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. Sounds scary to me. -- John H- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - But John...bewsides my typing skills, what woudl be scary?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I mean,, what could possibly go wrong??? ?;^ Q The down river part will be a breeze, coming back up river will put a little pressure on things. Do you have a kicker motor?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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 always thought I would take the down river trip and then trailer home, of course that takes some logistics but would be a real money saver and like I said the real pressure is the upstream trip.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - True enough, but you still have to have someone drive your trailer to your destination port. This boat should't have any problem going up stream, though. However, I have been strongly advised to get Sea Tow insurance as well. No more than it really costs, it could be really handy if necessary. I have TowBoat US, and they've come through for me three times. Check if whatever insurance you get have tow boats ported where you can use them. http://tinyurl.com/2vdvykxshows where TowBoatUS has ports. I 'spect Sea Tow has the same kind of site, but I'm feeling lazy. Oh, what the hell. Here's Sea Tow's list. I don't see anything in Illinois. http://seatow.com/about/locations.asp -- John H I'll be doing some investigating. Maybe even somebody though BoatsUS TowBoat US is the Boat US tow service. -- John H |
So, while y'all are arguing
On Jul 15, 8:29*pm, John H wrote:
However, I have been strongly advised to get Sea Tow insurance as well. No more than it really costs, it could be really handy if necessary. I have TowBoat US, and they've come through for me three times. Check if whatever insurance you get have tow boats ported where you can use them. http://tinyurl.com/2vdvykxshowswhere TowBoatUS has ports. I 'spect Sea Tow has the same kind of site, but I'm feeling lazy. Oh, what the hell. Here's Sea Tow's list. I don't see anything in Illinois. http://seatow.com/about/locations.asp -- John H I'll be doing some investigating. Maybe even somebody though BoatsUS TowBoat US is the Boat US tow service. -- John H Didnt' know that, John. Of course, there's a lot I don't know, but i'm learining... Thanks! |
So, while y'all are arguing
"Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 15, 1:58 pm, John H wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:42:00 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 2:18 pm, John H wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:57:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 10:28 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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 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$- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. Sounds scary to me. -- John H- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - But John...bewsides my typing skills, what woudl be scary? The idea of having two containers of fuel hanging out on a diving platform. That sounds scary. -- John H Well, I don't know why that would be a problem, John. The majority of outboards have portable tanks on the inside and pontoons have the tanks literally strapped on the outside so I figure it shouldn't really be an issue. Besides the swim platform on the back is very heavily braced . At about 300 lb, I was standing on it with very little give. I would make sure the tanks were mounted very well. and I might check in with the local marina guys and see if there's any regulations to adhere to. The only thing I would worry about with fuel tanks on the swim platform would be my ability to get on plane at lower speeds. |
So, while y'all are arguing
On Jul 15, 10:16*pm, "Happy" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 15, 1:58 pm, John H wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:42:00 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 2:18 pm, John H wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:57:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 10:28 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... On Jul 13, 7:29 am, "Happy" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... 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 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$- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. Sounds scary to me. -- John H- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - But John...bewsides my typing skills, what woudl be scary? The idea of having two containers of fuel hanging out on a diving platform. That sounds scary. -- John H Well, I don't know why that would be a problem, John. The majority of outboards have portable tanks on the inside and pontoons have the tanks literally strapped on the outside so I figure it shouldn't really be an issue. Besides the swim platform on the back is very heavily braced . At about 300 lb, I was standing on it with very little give. I would make sure the tanks were mounted very well. and I might check in with the local marina guys and see *if there's any regulations to adhere to. The only thing I would worry about with fuel tanks on the swim platform would be my ability to get on plane at lower speeds. I have been wondering that myself, but That's left to be tested on the local lake first. And instead of making tank enclosures, I could use the same full-tank weight simulation with bricks. |
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