In a surprise appearance REMEDY will be flying up to cold NH tomorrow to help fix some issues and perform some maintanence on OCD.

Great to have good friends to help!

Jobs on the board:

Install Toggles for Captain's chair
Replace impeller and housing
Replace gear oil on outdrive
Install new bracket for trailer fender (ripped off by dear!)
If the part is in, replace brake line and fix brakes.

Plenty of Steak and Captain shall be on hand for him!

Pics to follow!

Lite Beer and Lean Steak...
.... so you don't break the bolster again.

Totally blaming it on Willy.. He must have got scared in VA last year and held on too hard.

(insert new bobber joke here)

If I knew Drew was the traveling service guy, he could have driven here and saved me the time and aggravation!

What about the loose bolsters, were they fixed already? With the size of that list, you better call Frontier airlines and tell em the" fox got in the rabbit cage "and the captain will be out of work another day! It shouldn't really be a problem, I'm sure they can get another expert to "push" some buttons!
Steve

LMAO!!!!

No bolster not fixed..... Number 3 on the list today! After getting into the boat it appears it is only the front left bolts (only 2) that are loose.. However, if I do nothing it will just get worse.

Will get pics and post tonight!

Wow.... 24 hours really does make a difference!!!

After a bunch of rain showers, trips to Fastnall, Lowes, Napa, Calls to our fearless leader, 4 toggles, fiberglass work, silcone, new impeller, fuel filter and a some tools not usually used on a boat (at least not for engine work - pic to follow) Remedy did great work and OCD is looking and running good.

When we removed the bolster it appears we weren't the first one to attempt a fix....... For a real permanent fix we need to put plates under the floor as Chuckbeecher said, but we definately did a very good job with what we had.

(pics to follow)

The front screws had already been screwed out and toggles inserted. So those had to be removed and we used a ton of fiberglass in the front and back. We then used 4 new toggles as well. The seat is SOLID as a rock...

Remedy showed me how to change the impeller and housing and started her up... What a great sound after 8 months of hibernation..

Thanks again to my buddy Remedy the Flying Mechanic.

It was a great trip. Good to see the family and Summer Rae for the first time!! Can't believe how much Sammy is growing! Won't be long and he will be on the throttle!! After the steaks we had last nite... steaks at the compound are gonna be great this year!!

Generally repairs went well and now to see of it floats!!

Now let's see... maybe its time to work on my boat list!

Back to my regularly scheduled button pushing!!

when I test drove the boat in 2005 the owner said he had a fat friend that ripped the passenger bolster out on a trip to the bahamas, no lie

Good job Button pusher. Now go back to falling asleep at the controls

We may be taking out the AT today. Weather permitting.