Boat Restoration Story (with pix in photo gallery)

Sunbeam lodge · 04-17-2006, 08:02 PM

Great job!
How about a before and after picture?

RI Swamp Yankee · 04-17-2006, 10:00 PM

Now That is a boat. She is beautiful. Fantastic job MAXUM

Dave R · 04-18-2006, 08:46 AM

She came out spectacular! Ought to give another 36+ years of good fun. Looking forward to seeing her on the lake.

MAXUM · 04-18-2006, 11:25 AM

I wish I had more "before" shots, unfortuantly I lost a bunch of them due to a computer crash at home and it's shameful that me a computer geek by trade did not bother to have any backups running. Anyways, to give you an idea, the hull was faded to chalky pale blue, the interior was missing most of the sprayed in speckle coating which over time and use chipped off. The wood was pretty much missing all of it's finish and sun faded to grey. A bunch of the floor boards were coming apart, the side trim boards were split and faded. The molded seats on one side were split and the fiberglass was de-laminateing. Most of the rigging on the mast was trashed, all but two cables need to be replaced and many of the mounting brackets were missing rivets. The trailer was all rusted, the only thing that was worth keeping was the frame axle and leaf springs, everything had to be replaced and the stuff I kept was all sandblasted primed and painted. She's by no means perfect more work could have been done had I chosen to be really fussy but after all it's going to be used not put on display in a museum. Other thing to was I set a budget for this project and believe it or not the total cost spent including new sails ended up just shy of $1500.00.

I'll probably take her out on Winni a little bit, but truth be told her home port is over on Lake Wentworth.

04-17-2006, 10:00 PM	#2
RI Swamp Yankee Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: North Kingstown RI Posts: 688 Thanks: 143 Thanked 83 Times in 55 Posts	Now That is a boat. She is beautiful. Fantastic job MAXUM __________________ Gene ~ aka "another RI Swamp Yankee"

04-17-2006, 08:02 PM	#1
Sunbeam lodge Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Meredith/Naples Florida Posts: 367 Thanks: 135 Thanked 50 Times in 26 Posts	Great job! How about a before and after picture?

04-18-2006, 08:46 AM	#3
Dave R Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,985 Thanks: 246 Thanked 744 Times in 444 Posts	She came out spectacular! Ought to give another 36+ years of good fun. Looking forward to seeing her on the lake.

04-18-2006, 11:25 AM	#4
MAXUM Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Kuna ID Posts: 2,755 Thanks: 244 Thanked 1,942 Times in 802 Posts	I wish I had more "before" shots, unfortuantly I lost a bunch of them due to a computer crash at home and it's shameful that me a computer geek by trade did not bother to have any backups running. Anyways, to give you an idea, the hull was faded to chalky pale blue, the interior was missing most of the sprayed in speckle coating which over time and use chipped off. The wood was pretty much missing all of it's finish and sun faded to grey. A bunch of the floor boards were coming apart, the side trim boards were split and faded. The molded seats on one side were split and the fiberglass was de-laminateing. Most of the rigging on the mast was trashed, all but two cables need to be replaced and many of the mounting brackets were missing rivets. The trailer was all rusted, the only thing that was worth keeping was the frame axle and leaf springs, everything had to be replaced and the stuff I kept was all sandblasted primed and painted. She's by no means perfect more work could have been done had I chosen to be really fussy but after all it's going to be used not put on display in a museum. Other thing to was I set a budget for this project and believe it or not the total cost spent including new sails ended up just shy of $1500.00. I'll probably take her out on Winni a little bit, but truth be told her home port is over on Lake Wentworth.