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.....

?;^ )

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

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...

?;^ )

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"

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

I've been working on my 23' Marquis.

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

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

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

?;^ )

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

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

On Jul 13, 1:17*am, "Califbill" wrote:
wrote in message

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

I've been working on my 23' Marquis.

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

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

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

?;^ )

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

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


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

"Tim" wrote in message
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On Jul 13, 1:17 am, "Califbill" wrote:
wrote in message

...



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

I've been working on my 23' Marquis.

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

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

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

?;^ )

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

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


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


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

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

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





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.

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

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





wrote in message

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

I've been working on my 23' Marquis.

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

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

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

?;^ )

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

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

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

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

- Show quoted text -

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

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

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

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

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





"Tim" wrote in message

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

wrote in message

.. .

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.