when I pulled it out of the water I did not wash it. Then the next day it got rained on and was put in a storage building and sat for 2 months, I pulled it out and hauled it to Skater and this is what it looks like without cleaning it.

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somewhere back several pages I said something about making a "curtain" that will fill in the "triangle" between the hatch and the boat to keep water out while working on it. We made a stretchy fabric and tried a couple different ways to mount it in there and not have it fall on the engine but its not done yet.

Footrests

Back to building custom stuff.
We needed footrests for the boat and decided they needed to move several inches and tilt because of the height difference in when we have the seats up for rough water or down for smooth water. And we did not want them mounted to the floor so we made a motorized footrest that mounts through the bulkhead. We designed them so that the hole in the bulk head is centered in height so the bulkhead retains its I-beam structure and then we fiberglass around the hole to strengthen it. and the trim ring/mount will strengthen it also. By having it not mounted to the floor the carpet/seadek can be a square piece to the bulkhead instead of having to trim around the footrest, and it will be easier to clean the floor.

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Holy **** balls, that's a foot rest... you could've posted the two last pictures and said it was a new space station and I would've believed it hands down.

My boat has a pretty cool stereo..?..

This boat is on the chuck Norris level, like how chuck Norris doesn't do push ups, he pushes the world down. This boat won't have go around the world. It will stay in one spot and the world will move under it.

Awesome, beautiful, trick! Now for the irony. You just spent 40 hours building a footrest to save 1 minute of floor cleaning time and added 1 hour foot rest clean time.
It's all good, carry on.

Thanks, and speaking of Chuck Norris, a lot of the new people don't know that Chuck Norris raced in offshore for several years and he set lots of long distance endurance records. Chuck Norris still holds several long distance records, we are going to try to get Nick Norris (Chuck's son) to go with us and beat his dads record in the San Francisco to LA record.

Wow, that's ironic!

Let me know when you do the SF to LA run. I'd like to come see you guys in SF

Today I put in some JL speakers. I went with the 7" coax in the back and the 7" separates in the front and at some point I will be putting 2 JL 10" in.

This is probably the smallest stereo I have ever put in a boat. Considering I have built the loudest boat stereos in the world. For an example the yellow boat pics are my Apache cat when I was cutting it for 8 - 15" Digital Design 9500 subs. And had 8 - 2000 watt amps on them.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrhI6iPtDDA