marktore
Commander
After looking at this rig for a year off and on I finally pulled the trigger a few weeks ago. It took a while to get her home due to the snow. Here is a little background... she was re-powered 5 years ago with a Mercruiser 8.1 gasser (400hrs) at Gone Fishing Marina in Montauk, for anyone familiar with some of the boats at Gone Fishing she used to be the Suzie Too, which I plan to put back on her. All Furuno, new decks, tanks are good, new shaft.
So the plan is to give the JC a facelift addressing key items and be back in the water by June timeframe, I keep telling myself baby steps because I'm already feeling overwhelmed. First order of business is to gut the cabin and get this rug out, the mold is bad. I started peeling it today and boy the glue is going to be a problem... I am thing to sand it off but if anyone has a better idea please let me know. Other items for this year will be a new top, new electrical panel with breakers, bonding fixes, anchoring system, misc wiring, re-bed all trunk cabin fittings (everything is leaking, hatches, bow rail, etc...).
This will be a project that will take a few seasons, a little every year with hopes of fishing her in between small projects... As far as the gasser I plan to run it until it dies then move into a diesel. Here are a few pics of her on day one...
MT

So the plan is to give the JC a facelift addressing key items and be back in the water by June timeframe, I keep telling myself baby steps because I'm already feeling overwhelmed. First order of business is to gut the cabin and get this rug out, the mold is bad. I started peeling it today and boy the glue is going to be a problem... I am thing to sand it off but if anyone has a better idea please let me know. Other items for this year will be a new top, new electrical panel with breakers, bonding fixes, anchoring system, misc wiring, re-bed all trunk cabin fittings (everything is leaking, hatches, bow rail, etc...).
This will be a project that will take a few seasons, a little every year with hopes of fishing her in between small projects... As far as the gasser I plan to run it until it dies then move into a diesel. Here are a few pics of her on day one...
MT




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