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Nickc919 06-07-2024 09:34 AM


Originally Posted by tomcei (Post 4899192)
Rock and roll man!!! Keep it up dude.

thanks tom! I got your old girl up and running last weekend with a fresh 548 also new drive so hopefully well stop breaking drives lol.

Nickc919 06-07-2024 09:35 AM


Originally Posted by vintage chromoly (Post 4899169)
Your project looks really good. Nice work!
I like the tying in of the back seat to the lower hull. Mine was tied at the corners near my battery boxes and the port side has separated (port side had minimal linear tie in).
If Inhad to do it again, I’d do something like you did.

One thing I’d consider is that the engine room gets a lot of fresh air from the gunnel vents. You have blocked that completely off, from the looks of it. Maybe drill a couple 3” or so vent holes on the sides.

again, nice work.

thank you and the side vents i filled in because they were those bulky ugly plastic chrome vents and the holes they cut were a mess so i wanted to start fresh. There will still be vents thinking naca ducts like the newer race boats had!

kreed 06-12-2024 08:53 AM

Wow, you guys do nice work! That Pantera should rip !!!! Lookin forward to the finished product, please keep the progress pics coming.

rvtransport 06-12-2024 02:12 PM

Nice project!

Montiboats24 06-17-2024 07:37 AM

holy ****, small world. I dont know how I stumbled upon this post, but I am 99% sure that was a local to me boat, used to see it out in Puget sound all the time. Amazing work! I have a picture of it on the other side of the dock from my pachanga that really shows the width differance.

Nickc919 06-17-2024 12:57 PM


Originally Posted by Montiboats24 (Post 4900795)
holy ****, small world. I dont know how I stumbled upon this post, but I am 99% sure that was a local to me boat, used to see it out in Puget sound all the time. Amazing work! I have a picture of it on the other side of the dock from my pachanga that really shows the width differance.


out in washington state?

Montiboats24 06-17-2024 03:30 PM


Originally Posted by Nickc919 (Post 4900822)
out in washington state?

Yup, olympia area. Quit taking the rare cool boats away.

DjMikeyC 08-09-2024 02:55 PM

What did you do with the original windshield? Is it available?

Nickc919 03-18-2025 08:45 PM

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...8731984dd.jpeg
Filled the hatch in
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...17e53936e.jpeg
Finally drug it back outside work got in the way and had to step away from it for a bit but we got back to it. Ton of work boat was alot worse than i originally thought.
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...8d8932481.jpeg
Testing out dash layouts with scrap wood.
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...28bc26fd4.jpeg
Made my own front and rear engine mounts because they dont make them for skinny stringer boats like this and instead of cutting one down i just made new ones
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...9446fd2b8.jpeg

Nickc919 03-18-2025 08:54 PM

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...d2fd4e369.jpeg
Bilge sanded down to prime it
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...a36db622f.jpeg
First coat of 545 primer
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...30486d809.jpeg
I was going to leave these holes because i just did not want to fill them but decided i would kick myself if i left these ghetto holes. Squared them off put a backer in it and glassed/filled them shut
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...09da5c104.jpeg
Filler over the glass layer and sanded
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...73366114e.jpeg
Heres where things got bad. Test drilled a hole in the bulkhead and stringers originally and where i drilled seemed decent so i figured it was dry. Turns out it wasnt and i already added the top bulkhead to the originally. Found how rotted it was when we went to mount the crane lifters.
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...a548bd8bd.jpeg
This was a friday night i cut it all open found how bad it really was. All stemmed from the porta potty cubby hole floor not being glassed on bottom and it touches this bulkhead so any water that sat in the hull got soaked up. So i chopped it all out cubby floor everything
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...1eb767ffd.jpeg
Decided to lay stringers further forward because originally they stopped at the bulkhead and i plan to run a ballast tank up front so it will help hold it
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...0e54768cd.jpeg
This was saturday night replaced the coring on the bulkhead with 3/4 marine and glassed that and stringers


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