count down to spring launch

[chauzer]

no, its an f30.

[MTP]

speaking of cold it was 12* and windy as all he!! at the ski hill tonight

[TC]

Boat Show in Toronto this weekend. Then it's Ground Hog Day, then Daytona, then Easter........that fast. Good Friday off comes the wrap.

[foofer b]

Chauzer, have any pics to share? Tc, you sound like you have an exciting winter planned. Me, it's Jan. dive with the manatees in Crystal River, Feb. overnight in St. Augustine at the Conch House Marina, Scuba Club campout at Kingsley Lake, March a week in the Keys diving, and April probably stay local and fish for spanish and blues. If we can just get thru this horribly cold thirties!!

[chauzer]

here are some before and after pics of the cockpit floor and some of the outside with the flybridge on (blah). i have also redone the cabin but i don't have any pictures. got a long way to go but its coming along!


before

after


engine covers

[foofer b]

If the cabin looks half as good as those decks, it should be gorgeous inside too. I love the looks of yours. It must be huge inside. Please post some interior pics soon. Did you remove the flybridge just for transport? My 26 originally had a bridge , but the previous owner removed it. I like the lines better without it. I think it was a bit overbuilt with th FB on top.

[chauzer]

i will have to dig around. i know i took some pics of the salon but i can't seem to find them. i salvaged some birdseye maple flooring out of an old house i helped tear down, so i'm planing, sanding and sealing that to put down for salon floor. don't know how it will hold up, but it will look nice for awhile! i took the flybridge off because like you, i think the boat looks better without it. also when i take charters out its just one less place i have to worry about.
your boat is beautiful! just looking at it in the pictures, WOW!! was it repainted? that baby is bright!!

[foofer b]

It has the original gelcoat, no paint at all. Took a lot of buffing to get the hull shiny. Am planning to work on the superstructure, try to get it buffed up. Would be doing it this week, but it is so darn cold.

[MTP]

Would be doing it this week, but it is so darn cold.

you dont know cold

[foofer b]

Yeah, I know.

[chauzer]

looks beautiful! alot of elbow grease into polishing all that 'glass! heading over again on jan. 13 and 14th to get some little stuff done on the boat and get some perch fishing in on green bay (if it isn't 50 below zero).

[foofer b]

Getting so strung out I am gonna put on all my clothes(don't have enuff coats for this artic weather we are having) and Take a book and a hot toddie and just sit on the back deck on the trailer at the storage yard. Might even put a pole out!!!!!

[Obaby]

73 Degrees and Sunny here in San Diego again today. Heck Florida is under frost watch. Alaska is warmer than Texas today.. Yuk....

Since moving from New York I can leave my boat in the water all year. No more winterizing !

I commend you guys for your boating passion though !

I'll be thinkin of you guys..
Patrick
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[chauzer]

i was in florida for 3 months in 2007. worked on I 95 from miami to up by vero beach putting in cable barrier and when we left wisconsin it was -40. when we got to florida it was in the high thirties at night and it was heaven to be that warm! high was 20 here today (toasty warm). took my son ice fishing the other day and he caught some little pike but it kept him busy (high that day was below zero wind chill). you guys will be 70 and sunny again in no time!

[rossjo]

Yummy - frozen Pike.

You're not Swedish are you?