37' Riviera Freshwater sinker, Refurb.

A few more pictures of the Stargazer.

Mr. Henning, Your post is Understood.

I've made many mistakes in My life, but I don't consider the puchase of the Seafarer to be one of them.

You also have to realize that between Myself and Mike, We have enough eqiupment (And I'd like to think Skills) to REPLATE this boat from the bootstripe down, with no outside help.


To ScotL: Yes I have before and after pics of the Trojan. I've been sifting thru 100's of boat pics from the last 7 years and will get them up soon.

Thanks, Kiwi

When I found the F-30 I had actually been looking for an F-32, which is a boat I'm very partial to, because of the classic flybridge lines. The problem was I could'nt find an F-32 that did'nt need deck/gunwhale recoreing and that's something I dont like to do anymore. So I settled for an F-30 sinker, with 2 non pickled 318's and rotten engine stringers instead.

Here are a few pics before and during My refurb, they dont show how bad it really was. They were taken after a lot of cleanup with the hotsy/steamjenny.









Both inboard motor stringers were shot.






After pics soon, Kiwi

Here are a few after and during.





What, You're expecting granite? Ya gotta love the fridge doors and latchs.

A couple more.


Without wheel and railing, it was 13' 11" on the trailer.






Here I am installing some fresh iron, the starboard motor needed a crank cut and shells, bored cyls, pistons and a simple valve job. In the port motor I kept the sunken shortblock as it was except for seals. The heads were junk except for the castings. Believe it or not, the B&W Velvetdrives never had any water intrusion after a about 4 days underwater, I changed the oil in them and ran em, no problems.





I miss that boat, Kiwi

Back to Roamers. Here's a peek at the Seafarer, from a few days ago.

We pulled the 427's out, We did fire them up, within 24hrs of pulling Her up from 63' of Tennesee river, (Kentucky Lake) water and mud, some 7 years ago. They were well oiled and still roll. I'll be tearing them down soon.









After removing several thousand pounds of mud and some hotsy work, it dont look to bad?



The engine room is gutted and the complete cockpit deck, has been removed. Under that cloud of steam, is Mike....He's the only one who can fit into the fishing waders





Can You follow this? Kiwi

I ended up over on this (non-commercial site) for this build/story, if You'd like to follow it, click the link below.


http://flybridge.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=repairs&action=display&thread=151



Kiwi