Hi everyone. Located your great site and am presently gutting and rebuilding as necessary a 1984 25 Sailfish. Lots of work ahead but I needed a little project
Hello from the great white north.
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Welcome Richard!
How about some pictures documenting your task at hand so we can follow along on the journey?
We love pictures here!
How about some pictures documenting your task at hand so we can follow along on the journey?
We love pictures here!
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Yes pictures will be on going. I have presently stripped everything out of the boat including wiring, fuel tanks, trim system, etc,etc,etc. and am now starting to re-rig and re-fit all systems as required. My end goal is a functioning, mechanically sound vessel that won't be cosmetically perfect. Function over form in the least expensive way. Should be interesting.
Sounds familiar. I redid my 1984 Seafarer last year. Stripped out the fuel tank, relocated a new one more forward in the boat to balance out the ride (added a new Mercury Verado 300 with power steering and DTS controls), redid the transom and made it full height, built mold and created a new gunnel piece for the gap in the transom, installed a new flotation bracket with platform, stripped out all old wiring and installed a marine DC circuit panel, all new marine wiring, new batteries and switches, new charger, new partition between cabin and helm, new helm, replaced bracket that holds center cleat on bow, designed and fabricated new anchor pulpit, new trailer....new rod holders, down riggers, and garmin and radios. LOL! Now I'm doing the trim work. If you wanted to see some of the progress..... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKY3HuZDoWwR_iSbBmZmWEkSuhFlgBwjb
I'd love to see progress pictures on your boat.
Looks great. Your list of completed items is my start list, lol. I had discovered your work while I was googling this Grady boat work stuff.
UCPA I just purpurchased a 89 Seafarer and would like to do a similar job on the transom, do you know how long that took and do you have any finished product videos? I watched all your kid's on the boat but didn't see a final view, also where did you pick up the coosa board and what is it, how was it to work with?
I was thinking of doing a simple close up with star board, but it wouldn't look that good I think.
I was thinking of doing a simple close up with star board, but it wouldn't look that good I think.
I can share more pictures and video. I can also dig up (when I return from a business trip) the coosa board info. I priced a few locations for the Coosa board. It was an item I had to pay some freight on to have it delivered.
I used West System Epoxy. I think the Coosa board is a really nice product...easy to shape and work with. And light.
It took several days of work to enclose the transom. Part of that is spending a few hrs and then waiting for the epoxy to cure.
That looks great and has given me some great ideas, that bracket looks nice and a little more gracefull looking than the ones I've looked at out here. I also found a local dealer for coosa board, more resurch to do.
I price checked several sites for various items. West System epoxy: Amazon seemed to have the best prices I could find at the time. I used Go2 Marine for several purchases (hoses, thru hulls, ss clamps, etc.). I used thefiberglasssite for 1708 fabric and such. I purchased coosa board from Total Plastics Inc. $293 for 1" 4' x 8' sheet and $234 for 1/2" sheet. I purchased 2 of each. I bought trim tabs (electric- new) off eBay. Ebay helped a lot. I wanted some nice stainless scuppers and found them at replacementboatparts.com. I found lumitec LED spreader lights for $72 each (vs $100) at boaters land.com. I checked several sites for various things. Wiring....I went online and found marine wiring. MY DC circuit panel - I purchased it online as well go2marine - paneltronics 18 circuit panel $455.