The boat has its tarp frame up, and I am going to cover this weekend.. She looks slightly stripped with her stanchions off and the back rail and swim platform taken down. I have stripped the starboard engine of the heat exchangers and crossover (the engine is now about 250 lbs lighter!!) as well as the carburetor and water pumps. The basement looks like a used marine parts warehouse, but I am glad to have it all home..I have already reassembled the heat exchangers with new gaskets, and ground off some of the nastiest casting marks and painted one complete coat. The chrome to be plated is boxed and catalogued, and those stanchion bases that had *&^% steel set screws removed and retapped. The engine gets pulled this sunday.. and comes home to the half-finished family room (HEY I have a BOAT to work on hehehe) ... I know I'm rambling, but its a peculiar satisfaction I have to know that this is MY boat I'm working on, and not someone elses for the first time in over 15 years. Its the smell of new paint and varnish and healthy wood that makes you know your boat is coming along... along with clean iron with fresh hoses for us powerboaters..!!
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