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Not yet but in the plans. Got an alloy cut down 930 rig with it.
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Got 4 liters of epoxy hibuild primer which according to the paint shop should have done three full coats wet on wet. .. almost managed 1.5 ha ha. .. I think he wasn't factoring in the cockpit, cabin and decks.
Have to do it all again I guess!
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It's still kind of the weekend isn't it?
Convinced Kelsey to come give me a hand to level the old girl up and sort the waterline out. Man the laser made short work of the whole deal! Plenty of time for a pint at the Wade afterwards ha ha
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Looking good KM
Glad to see I'm not the only one whom has positioned the outer prod tube as close to deck height as possible!
A lot of boats seem to have them further down which moves them away from the grunty gunwhale/hull to deck join. I was going for maximum strength while not giving away too much anchor locker and front berth headroom...
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Ok, less important life type stuff has robbed me of a couple of weekends of what should have been yacht based toil, but we are on the verge of undercoating the 830 now...
Prod tube fitted and faired, stem all cleaned up and toerails made, glued, glassed and faired... getting really good at this sanding lark now ha ha!
Going to jack and chock the hull in the cradle one night this week to ping the waterline, bit of masking and dusting/wiping down then three coats wet on wet of highbuild epoxy primer thinned only just enough to use as a filler coat will be going on cabin, decks and topsides this Saturday. The really neat thing is I then get to sand most of it back off
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Initially I would have agreed but we are going to have one that folds out to the opposite side of the stem to keep it clear of the prod.
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Ok another weekend done and dusted. Received the new carbon prodder and tube from Jason at Kilwell during the week so first priority was finding center-line of the boat and rigging up a long alloy straightedge with string line coming back to where I needed the prod to retract without using up too much of the space my anchor locker or front berth.
Once I had that sorted and triple checked that when 2 metres out the end of the prod was still on the center-line I set about making some holes.
Firstly in the newly reinforced bulkhead/anchor locker back wall and then rather more carefully in the hull.
It's not until you have to make a nice tidy elliptical hole in something expensive that you realize you have no idea how to mark it out!
In the end I cut an approximate angle in a piece of PVC pipe of the same diameter as the tube, and spent a while grinding it down till it lined up properly. I then scribed around it and went at it with drill and jigsaw. Much grinding and sanding later and it was good to go.
At the same time I finally got stuck into the proboscis that has been bugging everyone since we picked the boat up, too long to be pretty and too short to hang a code zero off so out came the saw!
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All's supposed to be fair in love and war, however the same can't be said for Cedar core Ross boats ha ha. Two weekends effort
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What is it?
It's a modified Ross 830 with a retractable bulb fin keel. Hoping to splash around Labor Weekend all things going well!
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After much stalling I finally got my hands on the new toy.
Dad's Hiab truck and my bosses big alloy trailer from his Southern Fizz boat and a few willing hands and the process actually went pretty smoothly!
She has been out of the water for 20 years, and is pretty much a new boat looking forward to a fresh start on life
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Will do!