Carpet in

Those with good memory here will remember my long-term project boat. Today I finished getting the carpet installed. I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. Tomorrow I'll work on getting the seats installed.





Kevin

That looks factory new. You're getting close!

WOW !!!!!!

You have been doing great work. Looks like you will be on the water this summer.

Man that looks NICE!

I got the interior put in today. I still have a lot of alignment / adjusting to do to make all the stripes align and such, but if you want to see it I've posted some photos on my blog:

Interior

Today I borrowed a home made prop puller from a local marine place (a great shop in the Everett area) and got my first experience in removing a propeller. I'm fairly certain it was the OEM prop, so it's been on there 21 years. I cranked on the puller something fierce and like suggested here I heated it up. It didn't work at first so I rotated the puller and cranked it down again. I read the forums some more and decided that I needed more time with the torch. So I heated and heated and heated... PING! Off came the old prop. It was fun. I had to wait for a while for everything to cool down to touch it. I installed my 422 (surprised how small it looked) and then puttered around with a few interior items before trying to install the swim platform.

That metal tab in the middle - is that supposed to touch the platform? I can't get the platform all the way down before it hits the rubber seal across the back. The platform wood does not touch the little L-bracket in the middle and the brackets don't "bottom out" either. Is this good or bad? The swim platform is the right one, but it is from another boat. I can post some pictures if that would help.

Nothing is easy.

Most boats I've seen didn't have the middle bracket touching the platform. Don't worry about that. The other brackets should bottom out. Drill a fresh set of cotter pin holes if needed.

I got the carpet from an upholstery / fabric supply place that my cousin uses for his shop. It is called Keyston Brothers Link, and they are a true wholesale fabrication industry shop. That is, they are set up to service shops that do upholstery work.

KRoundy wrote: I wonder what that little bracket in the middle is supposed to do?

It keeps the load on the brackets going the way it is designed to, if it's not there and you stood in the middle it would put a twisting load on the brackets. That might not break them, but if it moves them enough the platform wouldn't come off.

Those jars are holding my glue. Unless you work in a well-ventilated area the effect of breathing those fumes is similar to the effects of a jar of shine... :)

I think I will shim that little bracket with a piece of wood or something. Maybe I can find a small piece of teak somewhere to screw into the bracket. I'm not sure the platform will flex much because the fit against seal is so tight, but I am all about having too much support / redundant systems. Perhaps my Aerospace background is showing.

Some adhesive backed rubber aught to do that job too.

I'm not very familiar with NWZ hulls, so I don't really understand what all is going on here with that gasket and lip but nonetheless I would want my 2 main brackets absolutely bottoming out. You can shim the platform on their brackets too if the teak itself is stopping you.

thats not his boat do you need a pic of mine?

That picture there is exactly what mine looks like, minus those awesome chrome dual exhaust tips. What I notice there is that the L-bracket in the middle is below the level of the rubber seal. So, how does the platform end up resting on the bracket?

For the third ***************ing time the platform does not hit the middle L bracket