The downside to the clamshells with the factory spring stays is if you get in some rocking side to side with them up they can fall at any time. Either way I’m going to have to go with some motorized closures. I wasn’t able to work muck today. Got a little done..

Got some goodies today. Supposed to be all the gauges I need, incl oil temp, boost, and even tank sending units and an electric clock. Looking forward to seeing them installed.
I might be painting the bezels black, we’ll see.

Quite a few $ in that box!!!

Haven’t had much time to work on it the last few days. Been sick as a dog, then had a wedding to go to today. I think everybody’s married off now. I did a little bit this afternoon, was able to clean out most of the ditch...





Check this out. When they drilled this hole for a wire to go through this stiffener, they drilled into the wiring harness luckily the wires did not ground out over the boats life and burn the thing up.

Little more done yesterday. Got the coring cut out for the bow rail area. I cut it out of 3/4” instead of 1/2” like what it had. It’s going to be laid down neater than what they had, which was pretty sloppy.

To cover the area I cut out of the divinycell I decided to lay down some 3/4” wood over it instead of reusing the old pieces I cut out. I beveled the edges on about a 45 angle. When the headliner material goes on it’ll look like it’s supposed to be this way. I’ll hole saw smaller holes for the bow rail nuts and install small headliner colored clips in the holes.

If you remember, these boats all have cracks where the bow rail raised area in the middle of the deck meets the fairing. I will be applying about 3 layers of 1708 here and then laying down a 3/4” piece of plywood over this area, I think it will solve the flex that causes the cracks in the gel coat.