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Looks good

I searched for my Original Post so I could ask you please to start from page one and revisit the photos of the progress I have made..................................................................................................................

Finally, I have finished my dinghy project!! HaHa! get your laughs!! Seriously, the last four months have swallowed up most of my spare time working on this TEN FOOT long boat, that was in such decrepit (bad) condition that I could actually afford it ($75 purchase price). The hull was in decent shape and it only needed some simple work to make it a nice tender for my Trojan F26 cabin cruiser. Little did I know that it only! needed 50 or 60 small, simple jobs to make it nearly new. These small tasks only ranged from thirty minutes to six hours, averaging around one hour each. (See where I am going!). These ranged from stripping the bottom paint to sanding the bottom, sanding off the paint on the sides, filling holes in the outer and inner hulls, to scraping and digging out the rotten transom wood, glassing in a new transom board, to replacing the bow tow eye and backing board, glassing all of it in, glassing in backing board for dinghy davits, stand off brackets, oar lock sockets, and installing them, sanding off the caulk/glue of the last owner's attempt to bond the upper and lower hull together, to bonding it back and bolting/ then riveting it together, and painting with two part polyurethane, sanding between coats, buying new rubrail ($200 with tax and freight), to gluing the rubrail on (a real bugger bear) with marine 4200 (3M Product- a Godsend to boaters). And this is just a few of the "SIMPLE" jobs that needed to be done!

Anyhoo, sometime this week I decided that I am not going to paint the upper hull, as i felt that it is not required structurally , nor in my opinion is it cosmetically necessary. Therefore the added expense ($100 at least) and extra labor would not be worth the effort. Perhaps in the future (as in next winter),I might refurbish the topsides.

MY hat's off to you guys that do "Project Boats"


Foofer B..















PS----The son of gun is SEAWORTHY!!!!!

Nice!

Plus the cost of the OB motor.

Your Jack Russell seems to love it!

looks great

I agree - looks great!

One question though about your snap davit... On my setup the dinghy has the rings and the clamping mechanism is on the platform so it is a different setup than yours, so I may be blowing smoke here....

But something doesn't look right about the clamping mechanism mounted to your dinghy. Specifically, when you pull the dinghy to your platform and hook it on it should hook fine, but when you tip the boat up on edge to carry it won't the weight of the dinghy hold the clamping mechanism open (so you are not fully locked in)?

Again, different setup than mine and if I remember correctly you modelled what you did after someone else's configuration, so I may be missing something here. But just thought I would mention it in the context of 'better safe than sorry'... You don't want one of the latches jumping off when you come down hard off a wave at 16 knots.

Maniac,

I had the same concern when I first bought the davits, but it stays on just fine. I examined the mechanics of it and used to know how it works but alas, I'm getting old and have forgotten. I think it has to dowith the rounded knob sticking up inside the track. I will check it out and let you know. Perhaps this pic will help.

foofer b wrote:Maniac,

I had the same concern when I first bought the davits, but it stays on just fine. I examined the mechanics of it and used to know how it works but alas, I'm getting old and have forgotten. I think it has to dowith the rounded knob sticking up inside the track. I will check it out and let you know.

I not challenging you Foofer - if it works properly given whatever you have set up on the platform that's cool. I just mentioned it because after you have sunk all that time and effort into the job it would be a real shame if something were to slip and blow the dinghy and/or the swim platform or your transom all to snot.

Maniac,

I did not take it as a challenge. Heck I could have screwed it up, but I think I followed the directions correctly. It is definitely made to have the eyes on the swim platform and it works flawlessly, automatically latching on when you push the davit against the eye-handsfree too.

Check out their page- it has a picture too. It shows mounting the eye on the dinghy OR on the swim platform.
http://www.weaverindustries.com/index.c ... hooks.html


These installation instructions illustrate it well.

http://www.weaverindustries.com/images/ ... ctions.pdf

OOPS - my bad. I didn't notice the pin in the middle of the hook. In the immortal words of Emily Litella .... "Never mind..."

Mine does not have so big a pin. But even so, the spring is strong enuff to resist the small amount of force the friction of rubbing along the shaft would produce.