SimplyOrange
New member
My jet boat is rounding the corner to completion so I finally had a chance to spend some time on my cat. I recently changed the reeds, lapped the reed blocks, replaced vacuum lines and fixed a fuel leak that was causing one of the motors to run bad, now they run like new.
So this past weekend I got in the interior with the intent to mount fuel separators, new composite battery boxes and redo all of the bilge wiring, while looking at the interior I started to nit pick and I decided I really was not happy with the boat, I want perfection.
I removed the seats, and pulled up the carpet where I found solid dry wood. But there is only 2 layer of resin and it is worn down from use and starting to peel. So I decided I would fill all the holes in the floor, fiberglass the whole floor with epoxy resin and matting/cloth and paint it with rubberized floor coating (yellow with black splatter). Then I’m going to remount new seat shells on aluminum brackets for a clean look and get rid of the heavy wood lounge chairs. The interior sides will be vinyl wrapped.
I also removed the hotfoot and raggity mounting board and am going to install a custom built fiberglass center console with 4 lever top mount offshore controls that I have. While I was under there I noticed the rats nest of a wiring harness. So I started carefully removing that and found that it had been rewired 2 times over its life and nothing was ever removed. So I labeled the wires that are needed and removed ½ of a 5 gallon bucket worth of wiring. I will rewire it later when I install the new gauges.
As always my plan is to keep it light and sleek
I will post parts here that I plan to use, I shop around and always try new items and great prices and ill post them here as I do.
Items gathered so far:
Steering wheel
Epoxy resin
Fiberglass matting
2 composite fuel separators
2 composite battery boxes
Battery selector switch
Offshore controls
10 gang fuse panel
Foot trim switch
2 shift cables
So this past weekend I got in the interior with the intent to mount fuel separators, new composite battery boxes and redo all of the bilge wiring, while looking at the interior I started to nit pick and I decided I really was not happy with the boat, I want perfection.
I removed the seats, and pulled up the carpet where I found solid dry wood. But there is only 2 layer of resin and it is worn down from use and starting to peel. So I decided I would fill all the holes in the floor, fiberglass the whole floor with epoxy resin and matting/cloth and paint it with rubberized floor coating (yellow with black splatter). Then I’m going to remount new seat shells on aluminum brackets for a clean look and get rid of the heavy wood lounge chairs. The interior sides will be vinyl wrapped.
I also removed the hotfoot and raggity mounting board and am going to install a custom built fiberglass center console with 4 lever top mount offshore controls that I have. While I was under there I noticed the rats nest of a wiring harness. So I started carefully removing that and found that it had been rewired 2 times over its life and nothing was ever removed. So I labeled the wires that are needed and removed ½ of a 5 gallon bucket worth of wiring. I will rewire it later when I install the new gauges.
As always my plan is to keep it light and sleek
I will post parts here that I plan to use, I shop around and always try new items and great prices and ill post them here as I do.
Items gathered so far:
Steering wheel
Epoxy resin
Fiberglass matting
2 composite fuel separators
2 composite battery boxes
Battery selector switch
Offshore controls
10 gang fuse panel
Foot trim switch
2 shift cables