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alexander38 wrote:Can't wait to paint my Engine Room.....Carver painted mine black....

Big D wrote:

alexander38 wrote:Can't wait to paint my Engine Room.....Carver painted mine black....

Black? Been on many Carvers and that's a first. Are you sure it`s OEM? What are you saying is black besides those big hunks of metal?

Allen Sr wrote:

Big D wrote:

alexander38 wrote:Can't wait to paint my Engine Room.....Carver painted mine black....

Black? Been on many Carvers and that's a first. Are you sure it`s OEM? What are you saying is black besides those big hunks of metal?

Its all the oil thats been leaking out!

P-Dogg wrote:

anyone else gotta list ?

1). Finish installing fresh water tank level sensor, right after I.....DONE!

2). Remove, sandblast, and recoat the interior of the fresh water tank with a product called Brewcoat. The sending unit screws into a female pipe thread. To get said thread where I needed it, I rolled a piece of 1/8" aluminum to fit the curve of the tank, then welded a half-nipple in the middle of the plate. When I cut the 8"x 8" hole (might as well make it big enough for a proper inspection port) in the top of the tank for the sending unit mounting plate, I discovered pitting inside of the water tank. The baffle was also broken-off of it's mount and flailing about the tank. I'll bolt that back in place with some bracing internal to the tank. Since the heat-affected zones of the aluminum weld showed an inordinate amount of pitting compared with the rest of the tank, I do not want to re-weld it. For those of you that have never seen inside of your water tank (you know who you are!), there is a square piece of aluminum that serves as a baffle that is welded vertically in the middle of the tank. The corners of the baffle are bent such that a hypotenuse about 2" long is created when the corners of the baffle are folded 90 degrees. These folded corners are then welded to the inside of the tank in a lap joint fashion. The corners are bent sharply. Over time, the sloshing water fatigued the metal where it was bent and liberated the baffle from the tank. OLD TANK WAS CRAP. BOUGHT A NEW PLASTIC ONE AS, GULP, STRIPERMANN2 SAID THAT I SHOULD DO IN THE FIRST PLACE. NEW TANK LOOKS BEAUTIFUL AND WILL OUTLAST ME. INCLUDES ABOUT 8 MORE GALLONS OF WATER IN THE SAME SPACE. THREAD WITH NEW TANK INSTALLATION IS COMING AARON. IF YOU HAVE A 3-DECADE-OLD ALUMINUM WATER TANK, YOU SHOULD BE WORRIED.

3). Fabricate a new bow pulipt with integral spotlight, bollard, and winch mount. NOT DONE. DID BUY A REALLY NICE BOLLARD FROM BUCK ALGONQUIN, THOUGH. MAY EVEN EVENTUALLY INSTALL IT BEFORE THE WARRANTY ON MY WINCH EXPIRES.

4). Buy a new anchor rode. NOPE. DIDN'T GET TO THIS EITHER.

5). Install a new winch. SEE NUMBER 4.

6). Fabricate an auxiliary console at the helm station that will incorporate the controls for my new spotlight, winch, two-station bilge sniffer, high-water alarm sensor, generator-on indicator light, and future goodies. HAH. I WISH!

7). Buy and mount a dinghy. I DID BUY A NICE 10 FT APEX RIB WITH 15 HP ELECTRIC START OUTBOARD. MOUNTING TBD, PROBABLY A SEAWISE AFTER I RECOVER FROM LAST MONTH'S $11K VISA BILL. HONEY, IF YOU EVER READ THE FORUM, I LOVE YOU.

eight). (FREAKING SMILEY!) Address security in a matter I won't discuss publicly. I CAN NEITHER CONFIRM NOR DENY THAT I WORKED ON THIS. BUT I DID SPEND A LOT OF TIME AT THE GUN RANGE OVER THE WINTER.

That should do it for this winter. In the near future, I have plans to fabricate a composite hard-top, with a bunch of integral components like fishing rod holders, lights, and an anchor light that actually meets the regs. My boat was 27 years old when I bought it last summer, and it did not have a compliant anchor light! "NEAR" IS A RELATIVE TERM.

Oh, and this winter, I eventually need to winterize the boat....

mikeandanne wrote:Cmount,I see in your pics that you have the same tilting anchor roller as I have. I just got one of those and windlass from Good----wondering how you installed yours as I have not even had chance to scope it out yet( ice and snow still)---boat looks great in the pics,hull looks like new- I will be happy if ours looks half as good--- what do you use to get the rudders and props clean?---Mike