Had a good summer, only thing i added was an in dash depth finder. Now it’s in the garage and I have a list of stuff to do.
Interior:
-Possibly 2 more speakers, only has 2 now. Or just upgrade those existing ones? It has a JBL Marine head unit already.
-Cuddy door issues. I absolutely hate the doors. For starters when open it blocks a speaker, and other side makes the step going to deck tight. Regardless there gone! What options do i have? I was thinking a snap-on cover for the door that I could roll to the left. Like a tano cover on a truck concept. Or find nice trim to go around the door and leave it open? I like the open look, doors are never shut.
-new carpet on the ceiling/sides, what’s best method?
-reupholster seats in the Cuddy - ill have a pro do them…
-remove the glue on seats where it use to say Capri. I’ve tried it all! Any ideas?
-also is there anything I can do to prolong the life of flooring? A sealant that goes over carpet? My last bayliner rotted out and was a nightmare to fix. I always have towels down where you walk just to help.
ALSO: anyone know proper way to get boat on stands so I can remove trailer? I’d like crc to paint it for me, as well as powder the wheels (they don’t know it yet…ha)
I have jacked my boat up in the rear to reset it in the trailer before. There’s a few ways of doing it most tell you to not remove the trailer tho. You should be able to get the trailer painted even with the boat on it. The boat should only touch the bed rails which are fabric anyways.
Boat will sit comfortably on three boat jacks with two placed under the rear stringers and one under the front of the keel. Did it all the time. How do you think they are stored in marinas when you have no trailer?
When I was 16-20 working at Alpin Haus I must have lifted hundreds of boats up to 35’ with a big ass fork lift with 2 heavy duty straps to make a sling to get them off trailers and onto stands. In fact 75% of the new delivery boats were not on trailers, just sitting on the back of the tractor trailer bed. I would sling them, take them off the bed and either put them on trailers or on stands. Some big fucking boats worth as much as my house, sitting on what looks like cheezy ass stands… but its all in the engineering and they are stable as hell.
Like 10Sec said, there is a right and wrong way of doing it.
Doing it without a forklift is sketchy to say the least. There isnt a way to safely jack up the ass end, support it somehow and then pull, out the trailer without risking the ass end stand or what ever from tipping over.
Your best bet is to what ever you are going to do with the boat itself… winterize it and have the marina sling the boat off the trailer and put it up for the winter on stands then bring us the trailer… come spring time have them put it back on the trailer.
edit: yep sure is. Coolstorybro coming: My buddys dad still has one from the 70/80’s with a SBC inboard. 65mph boat, total death trap. Same hull that set the record for the longest boat jump or something like that back in the day. Trim that bitch up and it would wheelie about 10 oclock across the lake. LOL mad fun boat.
If I dock the boat next season like planned ten the trailer ideas are out. However if not, I will get the boat off somehow. The marina next to my house said he’d lend me the jacks, so I’m golden.
Thanks nick. Pulls it like a champ to. After lift/33s the hills require next gear down than before but awesome regardless. Stock 3.73’s help tho. Stay tuned for the for sale ad tho, need something bigger.
