Custom 1965 Correct Craft Mustang build

Gary S wrote: Good that you had easy trip,too bad about your Grandpa tho. Looks like your buddy has a 6 in his grand? Kind of makes the cruise control hard to use thru Georgia don't it? Keep us posted on your project, looks like a good one.

Yeah he was a great guy, father of 13 children! It was quite the ordeal.

The Jeep got about 17mpg to the boat and 13mpg back, not to bad. Once you when past 85 though it wanted to keep downshifting.


I left for this boat while I was in the middle of working on my Jeep so updates will be sporadic. Also, the whole trip kind of cleaned me out for cash for a bit haha. Just over 800 just in gas

I have made more progress then that but I forgot to take pics. Rudder, steering exhaust is all out.

I got my 2 quarts of cpes today along with 2 gallons of West Epoxy.

For the stringers I plan on 2 layers of fiberglass cloth, and one layer of roving. I'm going to order the cloth tonight. I will order two 25 yard rolls of 10oz cloth and 25 yards of roving.

Biax and cloth are the same material correct? 3 layers of cloth should be better than the original one layer of roving I imagine?

BTW I bought the Gourgeon brothers book, excellent read. It filled in a lot of gaps in my knowledge.

I might just be purchasing my fiberglass off ebay of all places...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fiberglass-Cloth-6-4oz-X-60-X-150-woven-roving-Grade-E-/180853188390?pt=Boat_Parts_Accessories_Gear&hash=item2a1bb0a726&vxp=mtr

Won a ski pole off eBay today, out of a century riveria, 36" tall. Perfect size! Also bought roberts 6700 carpet glue, it had fantastic reviews.

Some of the stuff. On top of the carpet glue you can see the rear eye I won off ebay, the one that was in the boat ripped out.



Chiseled off some of the original fiberglass, one layer of roven! Man they really hacked these things together! After close inspection a lot of the stringers literally had no fiberglass what so ever and they lasted almost 50 years.

The only spots I could find with two layers was where they overlapped.



Little engine cradle I made.



The boards, they are 16ft'ers. I cut off one end and had my uncle use his moisture meter on a couple of the boards, 7-8% on the faces, 10% on the end. Perfect for fiberglassing, I dont have to wait a day longer. (but I will, because I have other projects I have to finish!)

Got the steering wheel off, mostly because I was getting tired of looking at it.



Also found my 1950's mail jeep heater. Glad I can put some Jeep parts in this thing!



Looking pretty lame in the driveway, but I'm stocking up on parts.

Ah....to be young! Awesome job, Keep the work up, and post pics as you do, really cool to see this thing take (another) shape......

Decided against doing the dash for now, at least until I find some new gauges.

So until the boat show and exchange in st. Lawrence then!

Hussler wrote: Just ordered two 16ft sections of waterproof red LEDs. Its nice they come in 12v, I had to run a massive inverter on the bayliner for the 120v lighting I had last time.

Where will the lighting go?

Hi Jim,

How does the dash look under the wood panel that was added?

-Phil

70CC wrote: Hi Jim, How does the dash look under the wood panel that was added? -Phil

Essentially gone, just a big jigged oval

Hussler wrote: 8122pbrainard wrote: Hussler wrote: Under the gunwhales, the indirect lighting always looks awesome at night. As soon as I saw the word "custom" in the title, I knew sooner or later this would come up! Its a nice accent, makes late night cruises a lot nicer when you can see who you are talking too.

You aft all around white nav light doesn't work?

Bingo! I had a deflector on the bayliners stern light precisely for that reason. That way, I could have the boat lit up without the harshness

Hussler wrote: 8122pbrainard wrote:     You aft all around white nav light doesn't work? Touchy now arent we!

I don't think LED's are on Pete's approved parts list!

I can't imagine you doing all that with a 120 volt inverter on your last project, seems like a sketchy plan. 12 volt all the way!