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11-11-2015, 07:06 AM
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From this.....
 To this......  Yall have done an excellent job!!! Here's to tight lines and smooth seas. 
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11-14-2015, 08:55 PM
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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!
 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.   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!
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#3
11-16-2015, 07:40 AM
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Almost done
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#4
11-16-2015, 08:14 AM
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#6
11-16-2015, 10:43 AM
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Yes sir, will do!
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#7
11-21-2015, 09:16 PM
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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,
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#8
11-30-2015, 10:58 PM
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#9
11-30-2015, 11:05 PM
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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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