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Post by scubadiverbob on Dec 7, 2006 19:24:03 GMT -8
hey, nice pictures everyone! Nice looking boats to! Mine needs restoration. the hull is in excellent shape .... everything else ?? (what is still there). Like I had said in VDH I got to get it a new gas tank (I'll probably go with the ones with the liner built inside that collapses to prevent gas fumes), I need a marine oil pan for a chevy 350 and a marine radiator, (though I've thought of going outboard to make more room for scuba gear), new seats, ect.
Got to get a job that pays more than I'm making now ... I sale credit card / atm services right now (used to repair atm/pos terminals; now selling them; I can beat almost all companies on processing fees and other charges - anyone want what I'm offering - e-mail me at scubadiver_bob@hotmail.com) I might be getting a second job fixing copy machines. It'll take a lot to fix my boat and live.
Hey, put up more pictures .... we get to know each other more with pictures (a picture speaks a thousand words).
Robert
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Post by nemrod on Dec 8, 2006 2:20:55 GMT -8
Duckbill, the 30 horse Evinrude---is that a Sport Twin, if so it is prized?
Yes, the image is a side scan, my sonar in this pic is sending a beam out to both sides but in deeper water it can overlap at the bottom. Thus the image is often seen slightly different on both sides---the boat path is the center line and the arrow at the top is the boat position at last echo. The most recent depth is shown in the corner and as we are moving up slop it is actually showing more shallow than actual depth
What you are seeing is the Zebulon Pike, a paddle wheeler in 90 plus feet of water. It is also 90 feet long and about 40 feet wide. It has three decks and you can barely make out the fake smoke stack, it was actually diesel powered. You can penetrate the thing a swim around in it.
No, the bull did not get eaten but I clobbered him with the paddle and the lid to the ice chest. He got in the boat and then we got out. Coaxing him back out was interesting as he was all in a fuss.
Note that Tom's Tiger Bait is of LaPlace, La., ours boat is Nemrod of West Monroe, La. Ok, two from Louisiana ;D.
Nemrod
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Post by pearldiver on Dec 8, 2006 7:53:56 GMT -8
Those are some dandy boats you guys... And sometimes a girl loves boats too! This is (was) my 1956 - 26 foot steelcrafters. I installed a new Mercury 350 Chevy inboard. She flew at the top speed of 38 mph and generally went through the waves instead of over them. All steel hull, and a homemade dive platform for wreck diving off of in Lake Michigan along with side scan sonar. What a boat.
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Post by nemrod on Dec 8, 2006 10:20:43 GMT -8
Well, that is different, I bet that took some paint to keep up and spiffy. I saw one of those one time. What are the GPS coordinates? LOL.
Seriously, do you still have it?
Nemrod
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Post by pearldiver on Dec 8, 2006 13:11:23 GMT -8
It is cute, isn't it? No, I don't have it anymore. Believe it or not,.....What happened was..... The Coast Guard Auxillary bought it and revamped the cabin a little, and used it to rescue boats out on the lake. This boat could pull a barge and if another boat hit it, it wouldn't even make a ding. It was about 1/8 inch steel mix of some kind that wore out drill bits. It took about two or three bits to drill a hole in the steel. To paint a steel boat there is a product that is like rubber which actually sticks to the boat with a chemical action. That is the base coat over the steel after it is cleaned, then there is the regular paint. It was pretty tough paint. Here is the picture (I'll have Linda put it on so give it a minute) The top photo is sandblasting, and the bottom photo is the orange rubber paint. The dive platform I rigged up with Jeep hinges to fold up as we motored, and fold down when diving. Of course you could weld anything to the boat, so it was fairly simple. My brother happened to have a diamond aluminum sheet just the size we needed, and that was our platform. The side windows were broken out, so I made new ones out of plastic. I took a torch and heated up the plastic and bent it to form around the frame, then screwed it in the frame. The Coast Guard Auxillary added more to make it a water tight cabin and then their stickers were on the boat. It looked very proffessional. They kind of begged me to sell it to them and so .... I did. It was in Racine. Some of you guys live out there, maybe take a look!
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Post by nemrod on Dec 8, 2006 14:03:22 GMT -8
LOL, I thought that when you said "was" that it might have sunk being made of steel! It would make a great dive site! Pearldiver I have to say that you are quite the character, who else would have a 1/4 inch thick steel boat? I was gonna claim salvage on it--lol. Maybe next time look into those concrete boats that are made by using chicken wire and cement. I saw one of those go down so fast that fish had to jump out of the water to get clear. I guess the chicken wire rusted out or something.
I like that thing, to bad you sold it.
Nemrod
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Post by duckbill on Dec 8, 2006 18:22:47 GMT -8
Duckbill, the 30 horse Evinrude---is that a Sport Twin, if so it is prized? Nemrod The model is called the "Bigtwin Lark". Unless Evinrude made some after 1972, it was the only year the 30 HP was made.
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Post by nemrod on Dec 8, 2006 20:03:51 GMT -8
I have a Fast Twin and a Big Twin and a few others back in the hanger like a Martin 7.5 which had cam driven poppet valves much like Orbital technology. Hey, check out the book "The Old Outboard Book." It is a good reference for old outboards, a bit of Americana soon to be lost. I love outbaords, I don't know how you people live with that inboard stuff and those horrid cannot decide I/O drives--lol.
Nemrod
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Post by pearldiver on Dec 8, 2006 20:31:04 GMT -8
That's funny. We did have it set up if the boat sank how we would grab our masks and dive overboard. I would think that if that boat sank. It would go down pretty fast and there would be no time to holler 'May Day'. The inboard or I/O seemed better 7 miles out in Lake Michigan. When the waves are 10 feet tall, it's a little easier to fix any problems if they occur, plus I didn't have to worry about sharks eating my boat.
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Post by admin on Dec 17, 2006 18:41:41 GMT -8
Here is a boat I've had since 1980. It's a 1951 31 ft Chris Craft Express cruiser. It's all wood- mahagany and oak and it has twin 6 cylinder Hercules engines. It is advertised to do 32 mph! I hope to restore it before I die (and it may be close). There's nothing more beautiful than a mahogany Chris Craft and nothing that takes more upkeep! Dan
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Post by OystrPir8 on Dec 17, 2006 22:45:16 GMT -8
What a cool boat!! That is going to be beautiful - although it looks like someone took it out for a "three hour tour" if you know what I mean...
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Post by pearldiver on Dec 19, 2006 7:29:22 GMT -8
Dan, That's a beautiful boat. I'll get my tool box and be right over.
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Post by OystrPir8 on Dec 19, 2006 10:29:09 GMT -8
Hey - Id love to see what the inside looks like!
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Post by nemrod on Dec 19, 2006 11:10:58 GMT -8
It looks exactly like the "Cabin Cruiser" dive site in Table Rock--lol.
It is beautiful, that will be a great boat--heck--it already is.
Wooden boats are a lot of work. In 1962, my dad found a 19/20 foot Lyman Lapstrake. Over the next couple of years he completely refinished the boat. It was all wood with mahogany and strip hull with all wooden components and brass and stainless. The bow was sharp and the aft bottom was rounded and the stern actually rolled in a touch right at the top. Most such boats were inboard but this one was a rare outboard. It got a Johnson 75 which shoved it along at about 35 MPH. It was kept on a trailer to keep it from sinking and each year had to be considerably reworked and the upper decks sanded and varnished. It was not a cruiser, it was an open boat. We used it in the Gulf and also lakes and rivers. It was a great old boat until it was rearended by a teenage girl in about 1978. We nearly sank once out Keaton Beach and the engine decided not to start so we could not dump the water, there was no bilge pump. Well, it finally started so we did not drift to Cuba but we never went that far out again, about 30 miles out. It was a great dive platform for me and a beautiful boat. But, I don't want another wood boat, no thanks, lol, it was slave work keeping that thing up and going. Get this, between each strip of wood was cotten string. In about 1970 it got another rebuild, the cotten string was removed and the strips were inlet and we used new fangled silicone sealent. It leaked much less after that. Notably, my dad also had a 15 foot fiberglass ski boat on the dock behind our house. This one did not leak and required little upkeep.
Nemrod
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Post by admin on Dec 19, 2006 11:35:25 GMT -8
James- do you have any photos of the Lyman? Gayle, I love the steel boat you had- we saw some great footage of it in your home movies at Wazee. I still think steel makes the ultimate hull for boats over 25 ft. I want a steel sailboat someday...
The Chris Craft was a Lake Superior boat all of it's life until it was donated to the Minneapolis Sea Cadets in the late 1970's. They decided it was too big of a job for them and so they sold it to me. The hull is pretty sound- it needs some transom work and the cabin rebuilt. Inside, there is a "stateroom" in the bow. a head to the starboard and aft of that and a galley aft of that. This model had a built in fire extinguishing system- two C02 bottles pointed at the engines with a switch at the helm. Years after I bought this boat, I bought a 33 ft Chris Craft Sedan cruiser for parts. I paid about $200 for it and parted it out, screw by screw until I ran out of time and then cut the hull apart lengthwise with a skill saw. I hated to destroy it but it was too far gone. I did get lots of parts including a spare engine/transmission, lots of good wood and a 5 gallon bucket of brass hardware.
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