let's see your water toy

[GRD]

I'm in a slightly different place with the boating world.
I have a 1979 Cobra SS and am slowly refinishing it.
My wife is currently recovering the seats and I've taken on a major project of Power Polishing the boat. It was extremely oxidized and will never look perfect but it's a lot better than it was (all the water marks were removed).
Once that is completed we are dong some more work to the interior.

Photo #1 - Cobra in the water
Photo #2 - Before the 8 hours of oxidization removal with power polisher
Photo #3 - After polishing, windshield removed to polish dash and gauges.

In photo three the sunlight and trees are reflecting in the paint. I figure I've got about 30 more hours work on the polishing part.

Looks much better bugs!

 

[barefooter]

Wow, Nice Boats, Barefooter... I Like Your Boat In Vernon Too.... Both Are Beauts!!! When Ya Ridin' With Rene Next??

Ya- that Brendella is a sweetheart boat, even for 15 years old. Only problem with her is with 3 kids, the wife and the hangers-on - she was getting a bit small. Plus she had lost about 3 mph since she was new, and was getting a bit slow for front wakes for me without trimming her up and losing the wake shape. Lose 2000ft in elevation to the Okanagan, and boy - it picks that 3 mph right back up!

Won't be out sledding again this year. I will likely see Dare Ya sometime in August when we are out at Vernon

 

[SLEDBUNNYRACING]

Not yet, it takes about 10 minutes to pull the windshield so I'm going to leave that project for another day. Need to get the seats back in first...lol...Windshields are form $700-900 used so it ranks low.

Does Look A Lot Better, Bugs!!! Did You Consider Putting The "copper/orangy" Color Window Tint On The Windshield?? Some Of The Mazdas Have That, And Looks Real Kool... Its About The Same Color As Yours.... We Have One In The Shop Right Now...

 

[SLEDBUNNYRACING]

barefooter, I've had this boat for 3 years and have become quite fond of the old girl.
Had the motor checked over in the fall. Compression is good and they didn't have to do anything to it. Hopefully I get a lot more hours out of it
I'm looking for a "Bow" fuel cell to better distribute the weight.Other guys tell me that makes a huge difference.
Raymond really wants to "Live The Past" and have me pull him up...the boys 250-lbs so it would be a good tug...but what the heck.

Summitric and Getrdone...thanks, it's a lot of work but worth it...even if it is for pride.

Cheerz

Sledbunny:
Boy - do I remember those old Cobras - especially with the straight 6 Merc's! We must have put a 1,000hrs on our old one - between skiing, fishing and barefooting at Wizard and Pigeon. Sure could have used and about 200lbs of weight in the nose - boy could you get some bowrise out of them lugging a skier out of the water!
Doesn't really matter what the boat looks like - just that it gets you wet!!

 

[barefooter]

A bow mounted tank on one of those things would make a huge difference. You are going to have to do it with a fuel pump I think. We tried with just a longer hose, and the vacuum wasn't sufficient to draw the fuel from the front of the boat. I know guys did it with a built-in tank and a fuel pump (as those boats were pretty popular in their day) - but for a bunch of 16 year old kids who just wanted to ski - well that was just too much work!

 

[SLEDBUNNYRACING]

I've found one that is about $400.00 (inlcudes fuel pump) that I may look at and there is one in Eastern Canada that will work but it a private sale. Guys I've spoken to say it's an entirely different boat with the fuel up front.
One of the issues is installing it and the other is meeting the specs for having fuel on the water.
I'll keep you infomed.
I'm off to the lake...cheerz.

A bow mounted tank on one of those things would make a huge difference. You are going to have to do it with a fuel pump I think. We tried with just a longer hose, and the vacuum wasn't sufficient to draw the fuel from the front of the boat. I know guys did it with a built-in tank and a fuel pump (as those boats were pretty popular in their day) - but for a bunch of 16 year old kids who just wanted to ski - well that was just too much work!

 

[jeremy]

just picked up another boat. used to buy from the states, but got a great deal from shipwreck on a 2008 20 ffot fourwinns with tower and all the other add ons, tandem trailer, 5.0 with efi that puts out 265 hp so it goes good, but with only 4 hours haven't seen what it'll top out at. will post pics later

 

[SLEDBUNNYRACING]

jeremy, I'm guessing about $50,000...looking forward to the photos

 

[snochuk]

campion allante 565 with tower and all the good stuff, a step up from my maxum

Ouch.....I just bought a Maxum

 

[SLEDBUNNYRACING]

While you guys are on the water enjoying your Rides I'm still rebuilding mine...it's sort of like restoring an old car..anyway I've completed re-wiring (bigger job than I expected) and now were doing the interior. Added inside panels that didn't exist when I bought the boat and now the very talented wife is recovering the seats...before and after....not bad Eh?

 

[jeremy]

i forgot how to add pics????

 

[jeremy]

here is a few pics, i hope that i did it right

 

[rusty]

Very nice job sbr. I'm not sure i would have put the pic on here. You may have found a evening project for her to do once others see the work she does. Very nice indeed

 

[SLEDBUNNYRACING]

Oh yea Jermey, those photos make me feel much better about my little boat...lol...

 

[jeremy]

thanks, but the only downer is since i bought it the weather has not been so nice so as i sit here at work listening to people talk about the current tornadoe warning, maybe a new boat wasn't be best choice!!! maybe should have gone with the storm cellar

 

[SLEDBUNNYRACING]

weather and fuel prices make the sport a bit of a downer.

 

[jeremy]

also starting to wonder about my choice of black truck and black boat, looks cool as hell, but what a pain in the but to keep clean

 

[SLEDBUNNYRACING]

black is beautiful....and always dirty...lol

 

[tekimsbro]

1984 searay with a 350 small block chev yes it.....eats.......fuel

3rd pic at Shuswap lake?

 

[jeremy]

Nice, now i don't have to go to any of the other forums where people brag who's boats bigger, better etc. So who all has boats on the site post em' if you got em'

hey showtime, who are those girls in your pic??
and where do you go boating??