Here is whats happened so far. We removed the old engines and bracket, sanded the entire inside floor and gunwales in addtion to the cuddy, filled and sanded all the through hulls in the transom. We got the first coat of building primer on the inside yesterday. The bracket has been bead blasted, primed and painted.

photos below

Very cool project.

nice, glad to see someone else is bringing back the Midnights

Here is an update. We continued with the primer and did our last coat of top coat last night. The transom is done, check out the thickness of the transom. Some time this week we will ad texture to the floor (could be tricky). The Marine machine steering arrived and we started setting that up. The bracket is done. Here are some photos:

Building primer


one of the old engines


transom building primer


pretty thick transom


bracket

bracket


one of the new engines


steering cylinder


transom finished


top coat

top coat


top coat


boat taped

Oh yeah, those engines and lower units are going to be for sale if anyone is interested.

Do you have an email so I can contact you about the motors?
Thanks

Sweet project and so far it looks real clean. Best of luck and can;t wit to see the final job done. Great to keep these nice strong old CC's running.

Drilled all the through hulls and bracket mounting holes in the transom. We are going to route the steering and trim hoses down through the bracket and through the transom, so the only thing going to the transom are the two rigging tubes. We textured the hatch covers, and the Bracket and one engine are on as of yesterday, but forgot the camera. I will get some more pics tonight