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Side by side
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1st I needed to decide which one to rebuild. Decide on the right on a 74? Westwind instead of the 68? Crestliner. Reason being it has a better trailer, heavier glass job, larger cabin and the transom is in better condition. Any ?'s/comments e-mail tekitracker at yahoo dot com
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A little about the boats, the westwind (tarped) I picked up from a drive by, watched it all summer long and finally called the owner. He picked it up for the outdrive (now missing) and just wanted to get rid of it. Had a 2.0 ltr OMC elect shift.
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Back view both
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Back view close up
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Bought the 68? Crestliner on ebay, motor already out. Came with a Volvo AQ110 w/ volvo outdrive.
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Once I got it out of the pickup bed and on my engine dolly
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Volvo 110
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110 other side
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Engine had good compression and the bearings seemed good so I decided not to do a total rebuild just a cosmetic dress up
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Block painted
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It's a start
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putting back together
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Just have to make some gaskets (anyone know where you can get these from pls e-mail me) and finish the generator (yes I have plans in keeping the generator although I have a marine alternator from the other engine for back up.
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Starter still needs its beauty salon visit, but otherwise I'm getting there
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other side
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Out with the old
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Time to start on the Boat, first needed to get the OMC out of the Westwind
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9 ft ceilings make for a tight fit. Boat anchor (pun) is now out. Just american over-engineering.
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Tight fit
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Maybe I should have picked the Crestliner
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Needs some serious work
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The floors were rotten and the foam was saturated, once I removed all this, I thought that the fiberglass started flexing and I made the wrong choice of boats to work on. Once I got down and checked things out, I figured out that removing 1200 pounds of saturated foam relaxed the boat to the point that the saddles on the trailer were to low Plans continue. Pics to follow
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With a break in the weather have decided to get back to work on this project. I need to rebuild the transom to accept the Volvo outdrive. Need to remove one layer of 3/4" plywood.
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Still below freezing outside, this made the removal easier. The inside layer of plywood was watersoaked and rotted so with it being frozen it came off pretty easy.
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Other side
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Just some cleanup and sanding and ready to build new laywers
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Using this as a template. Starting on the outside to get a start
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Template
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Template done
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After much trimming and cussing template done. Now to lay up the new transome.
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New transome before detailed cut from the template. I wanted to make the transome as strong as possible so its made up of 2 sheets 3/8th and one sheet of 1/4 plywood with resined glass inbetween.
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transome layed up
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Transom installed)
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Finished another project am back on the boat. Front of stringers in and some ribs dry fitted
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Back at it
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Rear view
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Glassing them in
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Sea Trials
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I didn't take any interum pics but I have the I/O in and wanted to make sure things worked before I went any further, worked great planed out well. Just a little work to do on the outdrive and carbs. Now the fun part
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smaller pic for another site
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