SpectraPat
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Welcome! Very nice project, if it's a factory hardtop engine cover I believe that was pretty rare! Please post pics as yo go along...we all love to see em built!:thumbup:
Great looking project, I wish you luck with it. What are your plans for I?
Here we go Pat! Get that damn kitchen done so we can have some real fun, a little wet sand and polish will make her shine like new. There's still time to get it running for summer, or we can just have a driveway float party for now.
yes drive way party in deed!!! any help don't hesitate to ask, i'll be there!!! let me know if you need help installing the bimini top..... oh I might have a boot for you too!!!
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Thanks! I've done many driveway parties, great fun. On the really hot days i've been known to use the sprinkler for effect. Stereo blasting and neighbors wondering "who is the redneck" haha
::beerCool boat, a 20 is on my bucket list of boats for sure. Speaking of redneck driveway party. When I was first getting my Sanger ready, I was siting behind the helm enjoying a drink one night after work. My dad was washing a car or something in the street and I must ave been zoned out, because the next thing I know My dad yells "look its just like you're at the river" and proceeds to hose me down. One the memories I will always hold close
Sitting around today after yesterday' knee surgery and found some old pics of my first boat. I also found a picture of the 1st Spectra we road in as that young married couple. I was mistaken, it wasn't a 20, it was a 19. Still the memory is clear on how nice that boat rode compared to my 16' Regatta. (that's Parker Dam in the background, circ. 1980)
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That's one of Barry's projects. I wish it was mine! Not quite in the budget 💰💰💰💰383! how about the blown motor in the background??
Do you need a turn fin with an outdrive?? I hope not I didn't put one in mine lol. Looks like a fun project!![/QU
I don't know? I've seen some other Spectra's outdrives on RDP and they have them???
383! how about the blown motor in the background??
If you look closely at the one I removed, you can see it was tabbed all the way along the top. I can't remember if it had tabs on the back side or not?
I tabbed the new one both sides, all the way around and then covered any exposed wood with cloth and resin.
Everything I was told by the experts was that you can be sitting on the bottom of the hull with your stringers and bulkheads, but to always leave a gap to the sides 0f the gunnels and the underside to the deck so you won't leave an impression to the surface.
You can use some 1/8 cardboard scraps as spacers while you tack the piece in place, then pull them out when tacked up and tab it all in.
I remember that when I set my front bulkhead I used wood shims, like the kind you use for installing door frames in houses, I put those all around the sides and top and it kept it in place while a couple tabs were setting up.
Surprised that there are no gunnel supports. Also no evidence that a turning fin was ever installed. Did they make some 20's with no fin??
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Do you need a turn fin with an outdrive?? I hope not I didn't put one in mine lol. Looks like a fun project!!
Finished removing bulk heads and checking all the stringers, No delamination I'm still going to wrap the stringers with 1708 before I install the new floors. I'm also going to lay 1 layer of 1708 in the engine bay to clean it up before painting with Bilgecoat. My concern is the way the front bulk head was tab in. This must have been a "Friday" boat when it was on the assemble line (if you are old enough to remember that saying). I guess it doesn't matter, it held for 30+ years.
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Everything I was told by the experts was that you can be sitting on the bottom of the hull with your stringers and bulkheads, but to always leave a gap to the sides 0f the gunnels and the underside to the deck so you won't leave an impression to the surface.
You can use some 1/8 cardboard scraps as spacers while you tack the piece in place, then pull them out when tacked up and tab it all in.
I remember that when I set my front bulkhead I used wood shims, like the kind you use for installing door frames in houses, I put those all around the sides and top and it kept it in place while a couple tabs were setting up.
I also have removed the trailer and I'm converting it to a flat bed that I sold to a guy at work for his toys. Nice thing about the old trailer is no "V" in the center rails. Just cut off the bunks, add some angle and wood and "presto", you have a flat bed.
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