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Greetings... Here is a link to a thread that I initiated in 2016 about changing out water tanks. I used Ronco tanks and the thread has several pictures of their facility and the process for installing ports. I got in a lot of trouble back then from the forum about my method of anchoring the...

Actually not so much... she was a beauty and I enjoyed her very much but sold her in September 2016... she may have been sold again since then. Turned out she was too much boat for me. I have since then purchased a 2007 Catalina 250 sailboat. I havent been on this forum since the sale so this...

Folks... Your quick and helpful responses are overwhelming. Its appreciated... Carl

Ok, so now I'm liking the contact cement... would contact cement fill those deep gaps?

I think I'm liking your recommendation as the west would give you a few minutes to move the sheet to fit where as contact adhesive would lock as soon as the sheet makes contact.

Hi All: Need advice as to surface prep of damaged ply in advance of laying a Formica sheet. The plan is to lay a sheet of white Formica on the surface of the helm - but as visible in the pic - the surface is irregular perhaps due to historic water damage. What surface prep is necessary to lay...

I'm liking that SEMCO sealer... When I sanded the deck I made the first cut with 60-grit - then went back across for finish sanding with a 120-grit - then applied the semco... something of a mistake... the surface in the areas with efficient 120-grit sanding are pretty slick. On the fly bridge...

May I suggest that FF is partially right... up at the bow where the "pattern" of the individual "planks" curves to meet near center-line - the teak is a wide single plank... Notice that I sanded through the faux caulk line... Maybe i'll grab a sharpie and pen-in the caulk lines - I wont be...

From your stated intentions... trade everything for a sailboat.

Great trip report. 7 to 9... 9-seconds... Did you or the crew have to contend with sea sickness? Carl

Hello Aquabelle... Yes, I had to deepen several linear feet of the grooves - which is not that much. I used a razor knife along each side of the groove and then used the (sharp) caulk removal tool to carve out the wood. While ugly and porous, Satori's decks were in decent condition. Did not...

Finishing up on top... I ran a bead of white TDS 440 around the entire edge of the teak deck. To me - this completes the "membrane" effect... It was so obvious that in the previous condition the water would run aft along the side of the fiberglass flybridge wing as aft is downhill - and as it...

And the chase continues - but beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel so to speak... Friday was spent taping and caulking the remaining third of the flybridge deck and Saturday was for re-sanding and sealing. The next step - and likely the final step for me is to run a bead of...

Here is mine... Cant really speak to its costs or benefits as i have about 1 hour paddling time in the thing... and that was a few years ago. one thing i did not like during that hour was the water dripping on me from the paddles - but i suppose that is endemic of all kayak paddles... Folding...

Here are photos of an interesting boat I spyed back about 10-years ago in San Pedro. Never took a super close look at it but I thought it looked pretty clean. The name may be Frank K. Perhaps its already been posted here or someone knows of the boat???

This is part of the new world order - right? West Marine kills mom and pop chandleries... Amazon Prime kills West Marine? Or is there room in the marketplace for all to coexist?

I was afraid someone would ask... it's not a paint formulated and/or marketed for use on a recreational boat... The white stuff is a Kilz knock-off primer and the gray stuff is a glossy enamel. OK, mentally prepared for the lectures that using anything not purposely formulated and priced for...

I see a ladder going up there... maybe a little stainless tuna-tower style flybridge could happen... Sorry, no solution for the sidedeck problem. Boating is such a wonderful hobby - interesting vessels discovered all the time.

Satori has now come to have a dry bilge - that being the case I thought I would hop in there and repaint to make it a little cleaner looking... No big deal - just thought I would share the pics.

Sorry D... should have explained... those tapered areas are actually teak pieces... i was just too lazy to cut the masking tape to fit... so when I tooled the caulk into the adjacent grooves - the excess smeared across the unprotected teak. When I do the final sanding those areas will be...

I did learn something... That nasty TDS 440 caulk that gets on your hands when peeling tape comes off like (weird) magic with a Lysol wet-wipe...

Another Day and more progress... Work on the flybridge continues. Now on those narrow side decks... Normal stuff now... getting into a rhythm of the work: razor knife the old caulk, use Teak Decking Systems tool to remove old caulk; use 60-grit paper on orbital sander with vacuum cleaner...

Captain... Would you happen to have a picture of the 453 in your boat... posting the pic would be appreciated. Carl

Heck, you could not purchase a two bedroom house of that size and quality of finish for that asking price... somebody will be saying thank you to the previous owner for a long time.

Hello: It would be appreciated that someone with an old Taiwan trawler reply with the type and source for the missing latch for my laz hatch... Perhaps you have one laying you around you would be able to sell? Carl