just get out here. We can run either. Or both. :D

I've been informed we will be out in September, see you then!

Nice find, you will probably find as much fun in it as RWD. I too have a second boat and find we have just as many good times with half the aggravation as the Cig.

lol for sure!!!

I’ve always loved whalers since I was a kid. Probably just as much as offshore boats. Looking forward to having some fun on it. Keeping it in the harbor so itll
be easy to jump on and go.

Wow, fantastic choice and it sure looks that the father son team did some heavy lifting restoring it neatly. Sad the fellow's father passed. My younger brother

has been looking at a sub-20-footers for our stretch of SoCal, and a budget of max $20k. Told him 17' Montauk or maybe even a 1996-1999 Outrage II.

I'm also a fan of the old SeaCraft 20 models, Seafari, Sceptre or the regular open version. Small ocean capable boats are *****in'. We'll see what he buys.

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if I was more serious about fishing I’d get a 21-22 outrage. Even one of the old emergency boats. Things are built
like brick sh*t houses.

Whelp. Finally got the gun out to cali for the first time since buying it. All
ready for some
good summer running in the big blue. Drug the whaler to havasu to
get rigged and picked up RWTD.

RET 2 GO

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Nearly 30 years of sticking our boats onto our tiny street. lol

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Do you have to back down the street with the trailer to leave your block, or is there space somewhere to turn around?
That's one sweet Burb in the first photo. Looks to be almost as tall as mine. I have an 04 2500 Burb 6.0 Vortec, that i swapped an 8.1 496 into. Got 15" of lift on 41.5" tires. Gotta appreciate a well built rig when i see one😉
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I don’t have to back down. I can squeeeeeze around the narrow streets.

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and yeah man, sounds like we were close. 16” custom lift on 42’s. 97 2500 burb. 12 12” JL sub wall in the back. Probably why im
def now.

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Beach Party at Tanks Place :evilb:

Nice to be so close to the big Blue friend.

Tank,

Please don’t take this the wrong way, as it’s not meant as anything negative….

Kalifornia is such a weird place. In Ohio, and likely most other places, people who can afford toys like these live in 6000sf homes on 10 acres of land. Just a casual observation.

Carry on…. :ernaehrung004:

Thanks. Brad.

That tiny house and its proximity to the coast line probably costs triple of what your 6000 square foot home on 10 acres costs in Ohio. You don’t get out much.

SecondWind,

To the contrary. That’s precisely what I was getting at. I’m not questioning or commenting on Tank’s priorities. Hell, even our 28 footer is disproportional to the house we normally park it in front of. It’s that the costs of inelastic necessities, like real estate, are just ridonkulous in Kalifornia. I had a model boating buddy from Fremont. After making and shipping some connecting rods and pistons to him, out of morbid curiosity, I Zillowed his house. It was a tad larger than mine, and was valued at literally ten times our home’s value. It’s just nutz….

Thanks. Brad.

Damn....you're real close to the beach! Nice!

Make sure you talk to the Po-po so you don't get hassled or ticketed! :D

Yes you have to be loaded to live anywhere near the coast in California these days. We moved to central Illinois from Castro Valley when I was 9. Went from a 2000 square foot home to a 5000 square foot home for a third of the price. I think that contributes to having so many homeless folks around the coastline in California currently among a myriad of other reasons as well.

You can pretty much take Cali out of that and just put "coastline". Not like living by the coast here is cheap, and the house is just one MINOR cost.

that’s beach living man. Small houses generally, piled right up on top of each other. Tight roads, no parking, dealing with vacationers and tourists etc etc. but it definitely has its benefits too lol

But make no mistake. We are not rich. I’m a blue collar working class guy. But we do ok and we’ve definitely been blessed too. Have thought about cashing in and taking the money and running to build some crazy big nice house on acreage somewhere but it would be tough leaving this area permanently. We have a little bubble here. All the **** you see on the news we don’t really deal
with where we live. Crime, vagrancy, politics, etc.

the area doesn’t exactly suck, if it did, we’d be out.

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anytime! We have hosted many an OSO or RDP bro. Always an open room. :D

So, when we bought the boat it was beautiful, like over the top nice. So nice I didn’t even want to use it (joking, kinda). One thing that wasn’t so great was the trailer. It’s a 99 pacific steel trailer custom built for the boat. It’s never been in the salt so it’s actually structurally in good shape. I thought at first I wanted to have a myco or CTS or Evolution aluminum made but then nearly threw up when I saw the quotes. And the custom trailer place we use wanted nearly that much to fully restore the pacific. I put new disc brakes and tires in it for the tow out. I figure at this point I’ll just keep it without spending too much money on it, because it’s going in the ocean. Three weeks ago had a bunk break so I just had them put all
new bunks on. Figure with dunking in the salt I’ll get 4-5 years out of it like I did my last steel trailer I used in the ocean.

so, the point of this post. The paint was chalky and that bothered me. I deep dive into YouTube and discovered two ways to deal with it. One is a cutter type wax for single stage paints. The other is burnt linseed oil.

I did the cutter on one fender and I gotta say, it’s work. But came out pretty good.

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then I used linseed oil on the other fender. A lot easier but I’m guessing won’t last as long. But man it looked good so I just did the whole trailer in it. lol. We’ll see which fender lasts longer.

surprisingly the linseed oil
doesnt leave an oily residue. It dries which kinda surprised me.

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Wow looks good!! You did the whole trailer in Linseed oil?

Longer lasting version of what you did with the Linseed oil.

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funny, I saw that stuff. It’s the same color and consistency as the burnt linseed oil.

yeah. It was so basic to whipe on I just did it all. We’ll see how it does after I dunk the trailer and wash it etc

Believe it or not the oil will help protect it from the salt water as well. Just reapply it after three or four dunks and with a fresh water rinse and you will be surprised.

That’s kinda what I was thinking / hoping. Last steel trailer I had that started to chalk Up I used lithium spray grease to coat it. Worked good for extending the paint life a couple years.

Using Penetrol to make a chalked fiberglass boat shine was a common cheap fix for used boat dealers. On fiberglass the shine didn't last very long.

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added a little bling to RWTD courtesy of Lip-Ship. Thanks Marissa and Phil.

always love the custom cigarette keys they sell. I’ve had them on all our cigs. The look and feel is fantastic. It’s the little things!! ;)

For another $40 you can get the cool can.

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much to the horror of some, we dunked in the pacific today for the maiden ocean run. Ran to Ventura for lunch, out to
anacapa island but it was socked in. Couple hot laps, harbor cruise. Good day.

the trailer made it just fine too. Still
shiny!!

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Trailer cleaned up pretty good! Put some flush out thingys on the boxed portion and it will last longer, right?

lil elbow grease and a couple upgrades, thing shined up
like a new penny. I’ll put a bow ladder and storage box on in the fall.

boxed areas of the trailer? Its all c channel
steel except the hitch portion.

Even the bunk supports?

that is normally where they will rust, hard to flush them.

I used to carry one of those cheap lawn tanks you pump up and after launching spray the trailer with salt away, water mix before I would get into boat and leave.

yeah, the supports are just angled steel. No boxing anywhere.

the garden sprayer is a great idea. I just pull up to the wash and have a mixer of salt away ready to go. Feed the quarters in and spray down the trailer after launching. Then when back spray whole boat and trailer down with salt away plus flush motors with it too. I’ve been using that stuff for 30 years. Big fan. It works well.

That is great they are not boxed, if there are not bad scratches should be able to make it last, just more work.

Ocean running is great, as I live by the Jersey shore and enjoy running my 35 cig, but it comes with the knowledge of the hungry salt appetite that inevitably eats & destroys.
went through 2 sets of expensive Powerflow Plus Manifolds due to salt eating away the aluminum casting walls...at wide open running, both manifolds broke open, if I had
shut it down I would,ve hydrolocked an engine or both...until I get closed cooling I run fresh water lakes.....nothing like the ocean atop 3's ...but in my opinion at a cost.
Your paint scheme almost looks like mine ........'82 hull, but refit in '95
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Actually, I was referring to Scotty Chatham's 38' paint scheme to mine...old and confused! Lol

Product push - was told to try this white diamond polish by a few people. Stuff is the bomb!! Hit the props with it today. Easy on. Buff with soft terry cloth and then finish with ultra soft micro fiber.

can’t wait to hit motors with it.

first pic is before. Others are after.

highly recommend.

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Hi Tank - Where did you buy the polish?