Looking good Cap

Thanks! Headed back over there now, hopefully we can make some progress!

Boat build is on our wish list too. One day man, one day.

Its time for a progress report!

Please

Ok, I'm headed out the shop and I'll take some pictures!

Ok, not much progress this week, I’ve got strep so I’m taking it easy and the guys are just finishing up details we missed or put off. I went over to the tower shop today though to see how the top was going. They have a form drawn up on the floor, and have started bending tubes and have the outside of the Ttop welded up. I am excited, they gave it a little bit of crown, and I really like how it looks so far.

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Here are two different angles, I couldn’t decide which one was better so I’ll post both. This is their plywood they screwed to the floor and drew out the legs. The red part is where the base that will hold the top up. The top is going to be pretty big, I think it’s like 9.5 feet long and I made it a bit wide as well. We are going to have multiple anchor points on the floor around the console, and then on the console itself.

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I need a day or so more to finish up not being sick, and then we are going to hit the boat hard and finish it up. I’ll keep going by the aluminum guy in the meantime to show his progress, he’s done a couple of other tops and towers here, and the guy is really creative and I have high hopes for a nice finished product.

A couple more tubes got welded in. I really like the thick tubes, the smallest tubes we are using in the top is 1 1/4, and the legs we are going with 2 inch, I’m excited to see the progress! It was about double the price to use the thick and larger tubes, but I really like shiny poles in boats, and I thought it was worth it. These larger sch 40 tubes should give me years and years of good looks, and great shade! I always thought the skinny tubes just look cheap, and had an old boat that every wave we hit we were always welding on the tower. I think these will hold up nicely!

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And it’s dirty, but it’s finally where it goes. We got all the new motor supports built, welded painted and installed, and the engine lines up great.

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But then we also had our first big problem. And it looks like something I’m just going to have to live with. Here’s our new motor box. Looks like the captain is just going to have to swing his legs over to the side while driving as the old box with the foot rest didn’t have the clearance. Not the way I would have wanted it, but it doesn't affect the fishing or boat performance, so it's not a big deal...something to improve on the next one!

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That top is going to be slick.

Not much to show on the boat, we are making the door for the bathroom right now, just sealed the foam edges with resin and we are just about to spray them with GelCoat.

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And then we have some T Top pictures. They have the top almost done and are starting on the bottom now. I always like to offset the rod holders because it hurts like crazy if you get hit in the head with them, so that's why we made them a hair higher. It would be hard to hit the tube, but the perfect wave could happen, and the tube isn't as bad as the tip of the rod holder.

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And then here's an action shot of the guy starting to prep one of the legs!

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Looking good.

I’m finally recovering a little bit from a mean case of Strep. Everybody in the shop got it, but since I’m not from here I guess my body wasn’t ready and it really wiped me out. But now finishing up my second round of Antibiotics, I think I’m ready to start work again :) Today we prepped all the hatch lids for the floor, and the door to the bathroom, and the modified motor box and sprayed them with GelCoat. I think this is our last spray on the build, but we’ll see if I missed something.

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This is the door to the bathroom:

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And then I went by the tower shop and they have the top welded and one of the legs welded, and the other side almost built. They are really making progress. The top is going to be the most expensive part of the boat I think, we’ll have about 6K tied up in it when we’re done, and that doesn’t include the outriggers.

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Tomorrow I have to go pick up a crate of corecell PVC foam for my ocean master, but Saturday I’m hoping to really hit the boat hard and start installing easy things, like hoses, steering wheels etc, so I should have a good progress pic on Saturday!

My body is ready!

You may have stated it in earlier post, but how big is the top?

I don't remember exactly, but it's like 9ish feet long and is about 6 inches narrower than the boat.

Well, we moved the boat over to the welding shop to finish up the tower. I like how everything turned out except the motor box, but the funds are done and it’s gonna have to do the season like this. We finished up tons of little details though. .

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And I think the tower guys are doing a cool job with the tower. It’s almost ready to weld on.

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Getting a keyway put in the rudder and that should be on tomorrow, It’s getting really close! Almost there…

that tower is gonna be nice

It's just sitting on there right now, they are building the feet, but I thought I'd post a picture!

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so the motor cover is what you will be leaning on while driving?

Yeah, it's actually pretty good just sitting on it on the side by the front, gives you a good visual and the wheel is going to be right there. I'll probably put a pad up the whole top, I think that the back is perfect to wear a fighting belt and reel in 500 pound Marlin as well. :smokin:

Nice lines. You and your crew did a real nice job.

:D

Been a while since the last post, been lots of smaller things that aren't picture worthy, but we overall there has been lots of progress made. We got the electronics box on and we have the tower on, and all the electronics are wired up. That's a new Furuno 1870 GPS/Sonar and then a bluetooth Sony radio, some Fusion 6.5's and then the new VHF. I am still waiting for the gauges, I have a tach and a temp that I'm going to just put in tomorrow while I wait on the cummins panel. We still have a little to do, the sunbrella top is due to be finished on Monday, and then we can put on the Taco Outriggers and the antenna. We got all the bilge pumps hooked up, battery installed, perko switch, shifter and gas hooked up, steering is all hooked up and rudder is in.

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Here's a couple of outside shots, we're in a new boat yard that's a bit more secure as we have all the high dollar stuff on the boat now.

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Still have to get the name on the side, paint the bottom and polish the sides out, not in that order. The boat also needs a good cleaning, it's super dirty. And then lastly we'll paint the floor and see if it floats. Almost there...

Thanks for the updates. Looking great.

Well, we sanded off the flotation line, so I had to stick it back in the water to get the float line again. It floats about half an inch below the corners (chimes?). This was full fuel and motor and everything except ice. The ice chests will go in the back. It was very level, the front of the boat is a little closer to the water than I would like, but the boat floats really high and I think it’ll fly.

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We had to redo a couple of hatches in the floor, after we painted them they were a little tight, so we’ve been opening those back up and going to repaint those. You can see in the pictures the pink around the hatch openings. Then on the outside of the boat, we went around the outside with 600 grit, we still need the 1000 and then the buffer.

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We also found a surprise! I was checking all the fluids on the motor and the tranny, and the tranny was full of milk! We had to take that apart today, all the bearings are good though, it looks like on one of the last two trips this motor did on my 32 footer, the tranny cooler ruptured. So that has us stopped until I get a new one in, I have the tranny all cleaned up on the inside with fresh oil and installed again. I also noticed quite a bit of play in the turbine on the turbo, so I have that off as well and I’m going to get a new center put in it while the cooler is on the way here.

Tomorrow we are going to do the bottom paint. After I shot these pictures, we got the bottom all masked off for where the bottom paint goes, and we got under there with some 80 grit and orbital sanders and got it all sanded down and ready to paint. I’ll post some more pictures when the bottom is blue!

Where do you sit to drive? It looks like the motor box is right up against the console unless you didn't have it where it actually goes in the pics.

Yeah, that part is tough. It's actually not bad just sitting on the motor box and putting your legs over to the side. We originally had a step there, but the motor was a little taller than we originally planned and we had to take it out. I'm going to leave it like this until May as the boat is very booked up, and then in May we are going to figure out how to make it more comfortable for the captain :smokin:

From this.....



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To this......

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Yall have done an excellent job!!! Here's to tight lines and smooth seas.

I was a bit worried about some of my tipsy customers falling off the front of the boat into the water, so we put a pretty cool rail up front to keep everybody safe!

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And then since I haven’t gotten my new cummins gauge panel in and apparently it’s lost in the mail, I built a quick gauge cluster with just the tach and the temp so I can run the boat and see what it does! For those of you who don't recognize that tach, that is one of those Aetna digital tachs! I love Aetna tachs because they give you your trolling rpm within 5 rpm, so when you find the sound the fish are looking for you can reproduce it over and over easily after hookups. :)

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We faired out the floor today, and then put down two coats of gelcoat on the floor. All it needs now is the non slip coat which we will probably do either monday later in the day or tuesday. Monday morning we are going to building the exhaust riser, and then there isn’t much left. I”m waiting on a tranny cooler but I will borrow one if it doesn’t get here this week and we are going to see how this boat does in the water. We got the bottom painted as well, but I forgot to take pictures and we covered it with plastic so we didn’t get any compound on it while we were buffing the sides. More pics soon, hopefully in the ocean and then hopefully soon with fish in the boat!

Almost done

Soo close. I'm waiting on a transmission cooler that I sent "fast" shipping here, and then I have to pick up the turbo from the turbo shop, I had them put in a new center, and then I'll get to test it out! :eek:

We'll need some video of the maiden voyage!

Yes sir, will do!

No pictures to show, as today was a LOT of work, but we got it in the water. I took it up to 20 knots, we were running 1800 rpm. Prop curve on a cummins 210 at 1800 rpm is 4.6 gallons an hour. So a 20 knot at 4.6 gallons an hour beats my original 20 knots at 5.5 gph goal :) I was going to take it fishing tomorrow but the temp gauge won't work, I'm going to get that fixed tomorrow and then get some shots of it running hopefully and post some up here. It runs a lot flatter when I put people up in the front, when everybody was sitting on the box watching the gauges, it ran nose up in the air, but with harol and Mike sitting in the seats up front, it ran pretty level. I didn't get it running and try it out until 5pm, and we are still getting night rains here, and today around 4:30 it was a nasty storm. So that 20 knots at 1800 was in slop as well. More pictures soon,

Not the best quality, but here is some running video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mra1I2PkOZY

Well, with the first "Quepos 28" in the water, I needed a new project! So, here it is. We are starting with a 1991 31 foot Ocean Master Center console, and we are going to finish with a super light weight, 31 foot Ocean Master Express! Here's the thread for you guys that want to see a lot of work go into fixing up an old boat!



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possibly the best thread on SC!

Any updates? New pics?? How has she fished so far etc.

Finished product!
 

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Here's a cool picture of the boat, I haven't had a chance to get a whole lot of outside of the boat pictures. The boat is not square with the camera, so it looks a little shorter than it is, but the background is so pretty I love this pic! I plan on getting one of those DJI drones in November, so I'll get more cool out of the boat photos, but I thought it was appropriate to at least get one nice picture of this boat fishing at the end of it's build blog!

Here's a nice snook it caught last week as well:

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That guy must have learn to take fish pics in Texas

Mostly Louisiana. I went to high school in Slidell and then off to LSU. I moved here from Houston, but in Houston I spent all my days washing cars, so most of my boating experience and fun came from Lake Pontchartrain and the Pearl River / Honey Island Swamp areas.

You sure it wasn't one of them Houston guys that told you to make sure you stretch your arms all the way out?? LOL

He held it out a little, but that sucker is heavy so it wasn't too far ;)