The COLREGS stipulate Rule 21(b) Sidelights: Sidelights are red (port side) and green (starboard side) lights than shine in an arc of 112.5 degrees from straight ahead to a point 22.5 degrees abaft the beam. You may get a Puddle Pirate Auxiliary with a hair up his ass to take a closer look at night but as you say you don't intend to run in lowlight or dark I wouldn't be too concerned either. Project is amazing. Keep up the pics!

Well we made it near the end of the year and time is at a premium, I did however carve out a couple hours today to work on the boat. Finished the rub rail cleaned up the drain plug and organized exhaust parts. Tomorrow morning I'm going to West Marine for a few fasteners then seal and install exhaust, drain plug and a plug in the water pick-up. Hopefully get a chance to throw in trans oil, hyd steering oil, gas and its ready to fire. I'll update tomorrow with progress.

Here is the weekend update!!!!!! Drain plug and the old flush plug (POS) are in, exhaust on, exhaust trim rings on, remaining water lines on, oil filter adapter on, trans. oil in, steering hyd oil in. Then I towed it to gas up, threw 10 gallons in and came back to power up the fuel system and check for leaks... all good, picked up fuel and no leaks. On the hose it went, engine guy said my current flush configuration would not work and as he has been the entire build.... was correct, I'll leave that for later this week to find a solution. Anyhow I said "well the moment of truth" hit the key and it didn't even make one revolution BAM fired right up! Let it run for about a minute 'cause I didn't want it to run too long in case it wasn't getting enough cooling water.
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Great job man!
I'm stoked for you.

Thank you, it has been super fun and I like to think I learned some cool stuff along the way. Almost done, I think a 30-35 footer would be nice ;o)

Ha Ha I just looked at your engine thread. Holy crap!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDdFWReaRsw Sound is a little wonky, my phone doesn't take to kindly to loud recording situations.

Looks very nice

Very Nice

Thanks guys. Worked on the flush kit today so I could feel comfortable letting it run on the hose. Fires up at the touch of the key and I worked on getting the hyd steering system lined out, ran out of oil before I got too far, grabbed more tonight so I'll get back at it later this week. Video still sounds like it has a popping sound but it's just the cameras microphone.
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:)

Had a real short window of opportunity tonight so I worked on the steering for an hour trying to bleed the system a bit, not done but 1 hour closer,Should have some free time this weekend so looking forward to getting a few more tidbits taken care of.

You only have a couple weeks to get ready for the NYD run! Hope to see you out in the 24. ;)

Well consequently 2 years ago NYD was when I blew the engine up so it would be great to make it. I also had it over to Ryan Beckleys yesterday talking about the future stripes.

Awesome! This is a great event and Ryan is a great guy.

Didn't do much today, moving real slow due to my inexperience. I did however manage to get the trim sender wiring in, the drive oil plunger and seal in the bellhousing. I couldn't find my stainless clamps for the oil hose so I'll get to West Marine in the morning for those. Hopefully I'll get the bellhousing buttoned up, but getting the drive on by myself will be a task for sure.
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Block for the hydraulic trim lines in, bellows, oil line, trim senders and bellhousing in, drive and steering rams on. Went together nicely without incident, slung the drive off the forklift and left the strap long so I could have some swinging room. I did a dry run then stuck the gaskets and away it went. Here's the pics.
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A before and currently....
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Having an issue with hyd oil from the steering in the bilge. Seems that the pump is low when running then after running it fills and is pushing out the cap.

I love the mat red . I think its great when someone steps outside the box and does something unique .

Thanks, much appreciated.

Trim rams painted, installed, plumbed and work.
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You could probably guess what the one piece to the puzzle was that kept me from dropping it in the water today.... Yep a drain plug.
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Got some time to do some little things today. I needed hardware to properly mount the oil filter bracket, I was missing a couple fasteners for the trim pump electrics, got that done. Finished wiring the trans. and oil temp gauges. Changed the drive oil but I misplaced my dipstick so I put a plug in it for now. Cleaned the prop and the hub thingie and installed that. Glued in one of my bilge thru hulls (still need to cut a hole for the second one). And wired the electric choke. I still have air in the hydraulic steering system but I didn't run it today so I will work on that later. I'll try to find the missing drain plug tomorrow and get to the boat ramp to check everything for leaks.

It's a floater.
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Nice day for a test ! Were you able to run it , or just checking for leaks ? We were flying ( parasailing ) a good number of people till the sea fog rolled in ( bummer ) .

Just checking for leaks at the moment. The plan for tomorrow is... check to make sure the alt is charging, round up the necessary hardware to install the rest of the interior, figure out what I'm doing for a flame arrestor (fitting under the hatch) and take the boat to Ron Potter so he can check the timing. Hopefully by Wednesday I can tie up a few loose ends and take a ride around the bay, then I want to wax and clean it up for a nice ride on the 1st. and maybe a day over the weekend.

Yeah well it rained all day, sucked, I tried to make the best of it but didn't get anything done during the day. First chance I got I fired it up and verified I had a functional charging system, check. I picked up a set of stainless grease fittings and installed them into the gimbal. I cleaned all the sticker glue residue off the rubrail. I had to shorten the handle on the shutoff valve at the strainer (hitting the v-belt when operated) and installed. I also added the side vents, teak steps, and interior pieces.
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hell yea. ive got mine torn down this winter to. not as far as you went. but now im searching for time to work on it.

youve got it whooped now. i can tell the amount of time and energy that went into the all the small details and it really shows in the end. good job. you have something to be really proud of.

The hardest part is finding the time to work on it when you know it's months from being done.

Well it's raining again and looks like an all day on and off situation, no water today.

Better than the 20 degrees and possible snow up here man.:eek:
Soon you will be...... :boat:

Yea it's on point to be 80 and rain free Fri-Sun so definitely not bad.

Must get hatch actuator! Forgot how much of a pain it is with the hood on it.

Looks Great. Its good to see people saving old boats and doing a great job on the work.

I was looking for some fun thread to read through today and I found it. What a terrific job! Congrats on a nice job, enjoy!

Well ladies and gentleman, with the unexpected rain the past couple days I had a tough road ahead the last couple evenings. Working all day and fitting in parts runs when I could, then working till 10-11pm it was close..... But we made it. I had engine trouble 24 months ago on Jan 1st during the Joey Gratton Memorial fun run, unfortunately for me my time for projects is limited but we made it to this point and I was nervous but excited for today. I have no intention of running WFO for 20 miles but I did want to participate, here was the plan. Drop in at about the 2/3 point of the run, make it 5 or 6 miles to the mouth of the river anchor off with a buddy and watch them scream through. I want to put in about 11am in case I have any issues as they will leave Sarasota at noon and be to me (about 15 miles) around 12:30, well I'm running late because of a few things I had to tidy up on the boat this morning. I launch at 12 noon and we head out and it was rough when we get into Tampa Bay heading into the Manatee River, I make it to within a mile and decide to stop to open the hatch and give it a look see, well by the time I can get going we see rooster tails bearing down so we slid outside the marked channel to let about 15 blow by, VERY COOL. Fired up and ran up to my buddy, he's anchored outside the channel right near land and the boats are coming by 30'-100' off the bow. Awesome showing with around 70 participants, I ran back with no issues and loaded up head out to clean up. When I was leaving the shop I could hear everyone running through Sarasota bay so my daughter and I ran to the 10th st ramp and watched a few load up. The Popeye's Cougar was outrageous!
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I appreciate it very much, I'm stoked you enjoyed reading through it!

Awesome man! Just awesome!
All your hard work payed off, that's for sure. :boat: