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Have you run it since with the Johnson 25?

Well, I'm between rainstorms today with about 8 hours in the clear, so I dried the boat first with towels and then with a heat gun on all seams. I masked it, and then mixed up a quart of paint with 4 ounces of the non-skid compound. It looks like very fine white quartz sand, mixed with a light...

I imagine any good company would resolve that in good faith. If they don't respond properly, just politely link them to this thread.

Thanks LDUBS. Well one very commonly used oil based enamel is Rustoleum. I do use a lot of that for various projects/machinery. A little canola and Dawn and brushes are like new after. Also most spar varnishes and one part polyurethane varnishes are oil based. I use zspar Captains 1015...

The trailer isn't twisting the boat. There's no engine mounted and no weight in the boat. It shouldn't twist even if the bunks are off. The twist is obvious if you visually compare the deckline on the left to the deckline on the right. Notice not only the fact that the left side is higher, but...

This is going to get me in trouble because it's going to get a lot of other people in trouble, but here goes....... When nobody is looking, and you have enough time to get away with this, you can clean oil based enamel paint off brushes in your kitchen with three things found there: 1.) salad...

I'd like to hear what other people do about boat covering. I don't have a shelter under which I can park the trailer. My past experience with tarps is they need to be on a peaked framework with rafters otherwise they sag and collect water. For winter storage that's fine, I can build something...

I'm ready to paint the inside to the original paint line whenever we get 24 hours free of rain. This has been the summer of rain here. The original paint job was green zinc chromate with non-skid compound in it. I've got a vintage can of anti-skid compound with the label dated 1957, which was...

With that removed, I had access to the full bottom of the boat. I vacuumed it, and then gave it a good scrubbing with Mr. Clean.

I cut out the middle thwart today. It was the only way I could free it and the flotation tank underneath, as both were jammed under the hull support cleat.

Did a thorough cleaning of the carb again, this time polishing the float valve seat, and pulling all the jets out and carefully rodding the orifices. Motor is back together and running great in the tank. We also had days of rain from Henri, but today the sun is peaking out, motor is running...

Well I took the Crestliner for a spin on a local pond today. The first five minutes were great, started first pull, idled perfectly, reversed fine, and slowly ran up the RPM in forward until full throttle, the boat planing nicely. \ But on throttling down, the motor died and thereafter it was...

Nice work Gregor!

Seat carpeting stripped. Motor on. The motor now has a cleaned carb and new water pump, and changed lower unit oil. Starts first pull and there's a good jet of coolling water. Full tank of new gas and oil mix. We're pretty much ready to go. I need to strip those old reg numbers off, and hang...

The forward seat also seems to have been moved. It is both higher and further aft than the original location. It's also, strangely enough, made of aluminum, with a wooden top. I don't believe the aluminum part was original, and I wonder where it came from. I think the seat may have been moved to...

ThanksGregorV! Between rain storms today I stripped the carpeting off of the existing wood seats. I really don't want to sit on water-soaked carpeting for the maiden voyage -- that will be tomorrow if the rain holds off. I don't understand why somebody would want to put carpeting on wooden...

Thanks Weldor, I'm going to be using cherry for the seats. It's wood that I cut and milled myself -- I built a bandsaw mill about twenty years ago. Cherry is a lot more rot resistant than just about any other wood I have locally, the cost is nil (for me) and it looks just like mahogany when...

I'm planning a simple upgrade of her present condition -- basically new seats, inside bottom paint, and maybe some some rod holders and basic storage. I'd like to keep it simple restoration style. I'm definitely a fisherman, though so it needs to be a working boat rather than a garage queen. Not...

Hi Tom, I've built and lived aboard a 31 foot houseboat in 1989, and traveled 1700 miles down the coast in it and across Florida, and lived onboard off and on over a ten year period. Many of the boats you picture are similar but about half the length (and probably 1/8 the displacement). I've...