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Is anyone into boating?
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Geoff
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Here is my setup for this year in Padanaram Harbor, South Dartmouth, Ma
My dinghy:
An old shot of my Hiliner:
I'm not quite sure when anything is going to be floating. Both boats are with my builder and he's not exactly being responsive at the moment. My power boat had a major amount of work done to it. The turbodiesel was removed. The engine box was replaced by a teaked-over hatch cover. I have a 2 1/2 foot hull extension / swim platform / outboard motor mounting point installed. The boat needs to be painted and I need to buy an outboard & get it rigged. I'm kind of in the middle of a kitchen remodeling project that is consuming all my free cash so this could be one of those "floating by 4th of July" years.
My dinghy:
An old shot of my Hiliner:
I'm not quite sure when anything is going to be floating. Both boats are with my builder and he's not exactly being responsive at the moment. My power boat had a major amount of work done to it. The turbodiesel was removed. The engine box was replaced by a teaked-over hatch cover. I have a 2 1/2 foot hull extension / swim platform / outboard motor mounting point installed. The boat needs to be painted and I need to buy an outboard & get it rigged. I'm kind of in the middle of a kitchen remodeling project that is consuming all my free cash so this could be one of those "floating by 4th of July" years.
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drjeff
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Nice spot for the watercraft! Know it quite well as a longtime family friend was a past commodore of the New Bedford Yacht Club and I've spent many days doing both the under sail and under power run out of Padanaram to Cuttyhunk and back
Geoff
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Who is that?
drjeff
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Anne Fortier
Geoff
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That's Fortier Boats in Somerset, right?
Hawkshot99
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Here is my setup for this year in Padanaram Harbor, South Dartmouth, Ma
My dinghy:
An old shot of my Hiliner:
I'm not quite sure when anything is going to be floating. Both boats are with my builder and he's not exactly being responsive at the moment. My power boat had a major amount of work done to it. The turbodiesel was removed. The engine box was replaced by a teaked-over hatch cover. I have a 2 1/2 foot hull extension / swim platform / outboard motor mounting point installed. The boat needs to be painted and I need to buy an outboard & get it rigged. I'm kind of in the middle of a kitchen remodeling project that is consuming all my free cash so this could be one of those "floating by 4th of July" years.
Why the switch in engines?
Geoff
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The turbodiesel system was really unreliable. It kept stranding me. It ate turbos and starters like candy. I kept having a failure mode where the accessory belt snapped. The accessory belt drove the water pump. Try replacing that in a 5 foot sea. I had another frequent failure mode where I'd get vapor lock in the fuel lines. I got really good at bleeding the injectors. I finally reached the point where I felt unsafe in it so it was time to repower. With an outboard, I can bolt on a new one in a day. I also get the damned engine box the heck out of there and pick up a huge amount of cockpit space.
Hawkshot99
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Well that would make sense then. My uncle has a 30'+ boat with twin diesels. He loves the diesels over his previos boat with a gas engine.
ctenidae
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This is why I prefer sail boats.
Geoff
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I'll probably add one to my fleet this summer if I can find the right deal. This was the first power boat I'd ever owned. I've been a sailor my entire life.
drjeff
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That would be the family. I've been on all of the models of boats they build, including their built only 1 of, 35' sloop that convinced the family that it was much easier to build powerboats than sailboats! :lol: As of the last time I was in the shop about a year ago, the mold for the hull of the sailboat is still there.
Striper fishing off Cuttyhunk in one of their 26 footers with my Dad and Brother and Anne's husband, Roger, one night in the early 90's is still my favorite fishing moments of all time, even tops the time we actually caught a few yellowfin while fishing off Block Island in one of their 40 foot models.
jrmagic
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Here is my setup for this year in Padanaram Harbor, South Dartmouth, Ma
My dinghy:
An old shot of my Hiliner:
I'm not quite sure when anything is going to be floating. Both boats are with my builder and he's not exactly being responsive at the moment. My power boat had a major amount of work done to it. The turbodiesel was removed. The engine box was replaced by a teaked-over hatch cover. I have a 2 1/2 foot hull extension / swim platform / outboard motor mounting point installed. The boat needs to be painted and I need to buy an outboard & get it rigged. I'm kind of in the middle of a kitchen remodeling project that is consuming all my free cash so this could be one of those "floating by 4th of July" years.
That is a sweet looking rig you got there. I love the lines of the more classic CCs. With that engine box out of the way your cockpit will look huge! good luck with the work. Lst year we had a floating by October season due to crappy weather and then various mechanical issues
Geoff
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That is a sweet looking rig you got there. I love the lines of the more classic CCs. With that engine box out of the way your cockpit will look huge! good luck with the work. Lst year we had a floating by October season due to crappy weather and then various mechanical issues
No clue when I will be floating. I'm trying to do a kitchen remodel and boat repower out of cash flow. I just bought $7K worth of appliances today.
I should scan the photos my builder took of the hull extension. It looks really nice. It turned a 21 1/2 foot boat into a 24 foot boat.
ctenidae
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Here's my hole in the water- 1962 (give or take) O'Day Daysailer I.
And evidence of throwing money into is:
Geoff
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I had one of those for a summer when I was a kid. I was probably about 12. It was one of those "this is rotting in my yard, if you paint it and splash it, you can use it" boats. The next year, my dad bought a beater Rhodes 19 for me to abuse.
ctenidae
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The Rhodes was my first choice, but we got a great deal on the Daysailer. Only part of one season in it so far, but we've been really happy with it. We've stripped and repainted the hull, and are working on the interior now.
Geoff
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Gotta love marina book keeping. It's somewhat lax.
I just got an invoice for my spot on the dinghy float. I'm like, err, "I paid this last September". I don't have that credit card statement and Citibank didn't have it online so I just had them print and mail me the statement.
The other outfit just got around to depositing the 50% payment I handed them on December 6th for my slip. I was wondering what the check was when I clicked on it the other day. Oh yeah....
I still can't get my boat builder to return my phone calls. I really want the sucker ready to go before Labor Day.
I just got an invoice for my spot on the dinghy float. I'm like, err, "I paid this last September". I don't have that credit card statement and Citibank didn't have it online so I just had them print and mail me the statement.
The other outfit just got around to depositing the 50% payment I handed them on December 6th for my slip. I was wondering what the check was when I clicked on it the other day. Oh yeah....
I still can't get my boat builder to return my phone calls. I really want the sucker ready to go before Labor Day.
drjeff
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Geoff
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Did you specify Labor Day of WHAT YEAR
Bastid!
This is something of a sore point for me.
That boat was custom built for me. It splashed in late-July the first season and wasn't rigged correctly until August. Over the winter, I had a teak cockpit sole built and that dragged into July, too. I got 3 good seasons and then things started failing in the turbodiesel. ...right after it went off warranty, of course. Mercury abandonded the diesel line and had Cummins take it over. My boat lived at the Cummins service center in South Portland, ME about 50% of the time for 3 years. I had the TowBoatUS guy's home phone number and cell phone number programmed in. What a disaster.
The whole point of repowering to an outboard is to run with a 5 year warranty and then repower as soon as the engine becomes unreliable. With an outboard, that is a 1 day project.
I need a paint job and a pile of dollar bills to buy an outboard & have it rigged. At the moment, my kitchen re-do is taking precedence.
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