Foam removal

Eric,Great job on the floor. Is that removeable piece of floor, your idea? And do you cut the carpet to fit that piece, or go over it? Thanks, Scott

PLBC wrote: Scott, That is how our 88 is. I believe it is "factory". Makes working in the back half of the boat way easy.

Thanks Kurt. I like that. Is the carpet cut around it. And is there a piece of trim covering the seam? Scott

I put everything back to the way it was, it is nice having that removavable floor to get at things, gotta few more things to do inside then I'll put in the carpet. the carpet wont go in until everything is complete. taking a sanity break from the boat,
I'll get back at it in when I get freed up....the hard part is done

Eric did all your snow melt yet? Ours finally did and I went by the lake and it looks pretty open to me. I would say by next week all remaining ice floats should be gone. Summer is almost here.

fresh air is always welcome at any shop. That's the only bad part about the addition to our plant, we no longer have a big door right ourside of the millwright shop.

main piece is going in today...wont be long

re-fresh

they glassed the top of the floor, it was probably 3/8 thick, there wasnt any plywood used for the floor

picture

im having flashbacks, I think i will down load all the pics i have on a cd and mail it to you, believe me it will be helpful, i probably have a hundred or so, call me with your address I'll get it down to you

when I re did the entire interior of my 78 martinique that I bought in 02 (or was it 03) I ended up taking all that darn foam out. It was waterlogged from the drain from the battery box being glassed almost all the way shut from the factory.

I ended up using the liguid wood repair for the couple of dry rotted sections, used 12 gallons of fiberglass resin, and a lot of FG sheet.

When I replaced the floor, I used plywood that I glassed top and bottom, and in the end, the boat probably weighs 500 lbs or so more than original.

That is fine since it is a wakeboard boat, and it works quite well.

I re carpetted the interior with specific boat carpet, and I had my friends dad do a custom vinyl interior. I got rid of the cheesy bench seat, and made a backward facing curved front passenger seat that can fit 2 normal sized people, and I put in a drivers seat froma Mariah that I should probably re vinyl to match the rest of the tri color grey/ light blue/ med blue vinyl scheme.

Now I need to do some small engine mods as I am certain my running issue is a leaky intake gasket. Heck its only 30 years old, I can't see why it is failing;) My awesome Gf got me a set of chrome valve covers and an edelbrock performer intake to go with my much newer 4160 carb I had a local carb guru build for me that I got last year.

the boat has always been a work in progress, but the 250 man hours I spent on it were well worth it.


I need to upload some pics, but now all it really needs after the minor engine fixes (plus probably gt40p heads since the head gaskets are 30 yrs young as well;)

I would love to put a tower on it, but the Fly High pole has worked pretty well so far.