Joe's 95 Ski Nautique Project

Hey Joe,
Last summer I picked up an EFI 351 out of a truck to use the block. You can have the 2 bbl throttle body, the upper and lower intake and the fuel stuff if you want it. I'll NEVER use it. I've been thinking about trying to use the serp-belt pullies on the 86 - maybe?       

Minimal progress on this boat, certainly no danger of it showing up at green lake. It is definitely a 95. I have about 20 hours of sanding into removing the bottom paint at this point and basically done with it except for the spray relief pockets. I have removed all the deck hardware, carpet, rubrail, and decals and need to pick up some gelcote to fill in a few chips and some chine damage before sanding/wetsanding/buffing. The gel is pretty rough at this point but I have no doubt it will come back to pretty.

We were wondering when the flower pot was going to receive a little love there Joe haha.. Looks like you have your hands full with the Sportsman and now the SN... Ready for a long winter huh??

Moj'

Yeah well I am trying to justify procuring some additional space.. so getting a few projects going doesnt hurt the cause. Besides this is the first year I havent had to build a new engine for the 83 in a while so I have a little extra time... and I am still hoping for a few wetsanding volunteers to show up over the winter and want to make sure they have plenty to do...     

Send them by the way of my 86 once you've given their sanding arms a good work out haha.

I hope to strip that thing down over the winter and do some sanding. Maybe starting as soon as Christmas when I'm home?

75 Tique wrote: [ If I'm not mistaken, Joe's priority project is related to that yellow pan next to the 95....then the Sportsman and then the SN.

Wonder if he has a trailer for it??

I see pictures of Joe's barn and all I can think of is Joe walking to his shop like Roy Underhill. Hey thats an idea for a new show "Boatwright's Shop" with JoeinNY

Interesting Marty but expensive!

Joe, what's that stuff all over the bottom of the hull? Did you take that thing muddin'?

Got the Champ in the shop now !! Keep posing photos of your work on old yeller !!

JoeinNY wrote: Some peoples shops around here look like the set of a cooking show! ;-)

I hear you brotha, I must have half a dozen extension cords laying on the floor to run the halogens off of so I can get a few hours at night in my dungeon. Bonus is they double as heaters. All plugged into one 20 amp line, it's a bitch varnishing in the dark when I trip a breaker.

[QUOTE=JoeinNY]
Some peoples shops around here look like the set of a cooking show!

I guess some are too busy cleaning to get anything done

On a side note Joe can you post a picture of your cutoff wheel and where you got it?

I have learned that you should always have more than one project going at once, otherwise when you have time to work you will be waiting on parts (or the money to pay for them), or when you have parts you won’t have time.. when you need to do outdoor work it will be raining(or cold), and when you have to be indoors building an engine it will be beautiful outside. Unfortunately without a climate controlled shop there are never enough fiberglass days in a spring or fall, and if you only have one project a lot of those fiberglass or paint days you finish your layup or your paint in an hour or so and then you have nothing left you can work on till it dries. But if you have two boats that need work you can easily move back and forth. Not to mention the ability to buy supplies in bulk.. not just to save money but to save time in ordering. I usually figure it is a good week (non-summer) if I can get 15-20 hours of shop work in.

The yellow boat is one of these

http://daytona.craigslist.org/boa/3348427273.html

A seriously crazy contraption.. I don’t really like the black in the interior or over the chrome pieces but you get the idea. The one I am working on has a Volvo Outdrive and a Holman Moody 351w … instead of the generic repower.   It is the number one priority because it has an owner waiting for it and I promised him he would have a working boat before I had two (or three) working boats.   

This is my trusty lowes brand (task force) fiberglass cutting device… it aint pretty but it has outlasted quite a few grinders now and still cuts through fiberglass like butter – twice as fast as a good cutoff wheel and considering I would have used a hundred of them or more by now quite a bit cheaper.   I am sure many others work as good or better.. I just haven’t had the need to try them yet.



I was hoping marty wouldn’t notice the banners until I got the corner of the other one put back up.. no excuse on that at the moment considering I have some rolling scaffolding stored right under it at the moment…

I certainly wouldn’t mind a dust free environment for painting, varnish, gelcote, etc.. but that will have to wait, I am not going to put a paintbooth in a rental.. as it is moving all the stuff I already have in here out of this place would require quite a few trips with a heavy duty trailer. (No word on how many of them would go directly to the recyclers).

Thanks Joe always good to have first hand experence. I have seen those but didn't know if they were any good or not.When I did my console work I just used a jig saw and went through several blades on that small project.

Just a Winter bump. Came across this thread on a search, but any updates?