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CamB25

I used fmt for my tank. I have a design drawing for twins if you need one. Great looking boat!

CamB25

Fantastic! Should be a well-used piece of the boat. Great for a swim in the lake or topless dance contest at Put-In-Bay! ( I assume that place is still wild like the ol' days)

CamB25

I'm on a phone...

I still have my template. Will send to you if needed.

Based on my gymnastics exercise, you don't need any lift to clear water at 10 inch setbaxk. Could use a fixed bracket with slight notch in transom.

CamB25

I had good luck making full size 3D models with foam insulation board from HD or Lowes and roll of duct tape. quick and easy, no saw dust I like your Padebco model. If you know what you want in the profile view, maybe you can make a giant "white board" to set on deck. Some thing that allows you to d...

CamB25

That looks pretty reasonable. What is wire in the upper part of the picture? Thru-hull transducer? Yannis - it was open and foam is cheap. The idea was to add a little flotation and ride quality in that area, since we didn't have anything planned for outboard of the stringers. Closed cell foam. Ther...

CamB25

I like the teak and swim platform! It's great that the hull is painted! My fuel tank label is adjacent to the sender/pickups, but I don't know if there is a standard for placement. I love his comment about not using ethanol! https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/bMk6NfpLRIa7pPMKhsCDPg.WZyPfCDVZbnWztR...

CamB25

I think you are stuck with a running boat!! Congratulations!

CamB25

That looks great! Do you have a "before" picture?

CamB25

Thanks! My goal is to get it wet and running for my 10th anniversary (boat project anniversary) in August. I'll probably keep it up here for fall/winter to work upholstery and pipe work, etc. Re-position cruise to NC next spring - Potomac, Chesapeake, ICW to Wilmington, NC.

CamB25

Tommy wrote:Congratulations Cam, you’ve done a fantastic job on your B-25. Why don’t you break the motor in by running her down to the NC Rendezvous on May 31st?!?

That's the plan for 2020!

CamB25

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There are many more issues but the bones are there. Part of the journey for me is fixing it all.[/quote]

It is a journey. You are wise, Grasshopper!

CamB25

Here are a set of pictures from today's adventure at the boat shed. Jackplate up, jackplate down, engine tilted all the way, baby! I have about 6.25" of clearance between the engine and the splashwell at full up, full tilt (superman pose in the pictures). Clears the waterline by a good margin. With ...

CamB25

Welcome to the darker side...outboard and a jackplate! You are downright crazy, man! Powder coating looks good, but unlike chrome on your engine, it has no performance advantage! I wouldn't add more glass to the outside of the transom as it will be a PITA to fair with no benefit. Taper grind the I/O...

CamB25

I bought my hull in 2003 with freshwater used I/Os knowing I wanted outboards, I ran the I/Os and chased gremlins for a whole lot of years. Everyone is encouraging you to run the boat, as is, for the summer. Maybe make it your "lake boat" to stay close to shore and parts stores. You'll work it out....

CamB25

[/quote]Good point. They are just so pretty in an IO or Inboard. But The inboard dosen't handle our shallow waters to my liking.[/quote] I agree. I fought the switch to an outboard for years. In the end I just couldn't see any performance advantage with an I/O, so I went over to the egg beater side ...

CamB25

Next time you are out on Lea Island, or cruising Banks channel, or running the ICW, or walking a marina in the area, count the number of I/O boats you see.

If you see one, it is likely owned by a northern transplant that has just moved to the area and hasn't had the time to sell it.

CamB25

Be mindful of the relatively short shelf life of VE resin.

https://www.fibreglast.com/product/about-resins

CamB25

Most of it was brute force with epoxy fairing compounds, but I did use some 2oz cloth forward of the gas fills to see if that would cut down on the "fill, sand, repeat cycles", and it did. CSM would not work well, IMHO. I always thought it could be done quickly with vacuum bagging, but I don't have ...

CamB25

I bet you hear the same line as I have for 10 years: "Can't you just buy a boat?"

CamB25

I agree with Yannis. The stringers form a nice plane to set a flat deck. If you want it raised, just add a spacer on top. And you don't really need bulkheads outboard of the stringers. There is no significant volume outboard to worry about. The only outboard bulkheads I used were around the fuel fil...

CamB25

That looks great! Congratulations! When I was working the boat in my driveway in the summertime, I used to get up just before dawn to glass before the sun hit the boat and things got too hot to work. My neighbors would be leaving for work, and I'd be up on the boat slinging epoxy. I got some odd loo...

CamB25

With twins, maybe? Years ago someone on the B25 board installed twins on a bracket and added a stiffening element that tied the transom to the hull sides in one continuous reinforcement. It worked well. With my "transom module" I have essentially tied everything together as one piece- hullsides, tra...

CamB25

Wow! That's going to be a tough lay up to pull off by yourself. Good luck!

CamB25

Ttownthomas wrote:Are the interior hullsides (under the gunwales) new fiberglass inserts or did you glass, fair and paint on the original Bertram glass? It looks great

Thanks. Filled and faired the woven roving. I needed to add some additional torture to my life.

CamB25

Thanks, Wayne, I'll give it a try. I tried the Corrosion X in the trigger sprayer yesterday...very messy.

CamB25

another question on the rod holders... did you leave the wood underneath the gunnels which was there to take the melamine cockpit panels? No. every piece of wood was removed. Years ago I inverted the cap and laid up 1708 on the underside, and reinforced the areas that support the cleats. It's all g...

CamB25

Ha! That's an older picture but it's all I have for now. The rod holders are in, windshield is on, etc. Most of my work now is below deck. Rod holders: I made custom fiberglass backing plates for these instead of using the Lee's plates because I had some tight spots and I had the fiberglass sheets l...

CamB25

Close - er!

Rigging is more difficult than I expected. Everything is "custom" and requires standing on my head. I warm up by playing Twister!

It will get wet this year!

https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/JX ... maAUGr7MiP

CamB25

Chris, Is there nothing available between 6900# and 9000#? Seems like a big jump. Is the 9k trailer a dual or triple axle I would avoid spring axles. Rust, rust, and more rust. I hauled my Scout to VA escaping from hurricane Florence and realized that somewhere along the way one of my springs had sn...

CamB25

Thanks! You are reminding me that I need to pick up some Penetrox. I'm in charge of the electrical work for my detached garage (yes, I pulled a permit!). The electrician doing the house told me I needed this for something, but now I can't remember....too many projects. Might be for the aluminum wire...

CamB25

If you are going with twin tanks then you can surely make use of the space occupied by the center fiberglass stringer. A gigantic center rigging tube running down the center of the boat would be great, and easier to work with than going outboard. In hindsight, now that I'm rigging, I wish I had used...

CamB25

Just a lesson learned.

Consider using the hollow stringers as rigging tubes. Saves space.

CamB25

Think twice (maybe three times) before restricting access to your bilge with splash well or live well. I am going through torture rigging this on my belly under my live well with my head hanging in the bilge. Bow thruster rigging is only marginally better crammed in between the deck and sub-deck. Th...

CamB25

Looking for a good dielectric grease for coating battery terminals, terminal strips, etc. I've used the liquid electrical tape products successfully in the past, but I want something that is translucent. Is Corrosion X still the go-to product? Spray and forget? http://www.corrosionx.com/corrosionx.h...

CamB25

WooHoo! That's great!

CamB25

Send me your e-mail and I'll forward all my dimensional measurements that you will need to build or buy a trailer. I went nuts with the tape measure. As a point of reference, I have mine set up for approximately 10,000 lbs. Sort of by accident...it came with the boat. It's an old Calkins brand- all ...

CamB25

Thanks, Bob!

CamB25

If your not planning on running it, I'm not sure a sea trail will yield any useful information other than it floats. I guess it depends on how $$ you are spending. The engines/outdrives are worth scrap prices. Everything else, probably less.

Buy it cheap!

CamB25

It doesn't seem reasonable that the boat trims on the chines with removal of iron from belly. Based on photos I've seen, if you put twin bracket outboards on a 25, the stern sits very low. The same should be true for the 31. 31 gassers float high, right? I notice that they do not show the hole shot ...

CamB25

Bob, Noticing your boot strip. From chine up, Is the stripe layout:
1/2" hull color
2" stripe
1/2" hull color
1/4" stripe?

No doubt what brand of tires you have on the 'vette!

thanks
Cam

CamB25

It's just about impossible to sand all the nooks and crannies. I used every tool in the box and finally said it's close enough. The thickened resin and glass will bridge the depressions. You could try applying a smooth fiberglass sheet https://cranecomposites.com/bp/sequentia.html I used this produc...

CamB25

Self-Created Problem...another good boat name. Hard Spots. I was very careful about how I installed bulkheads and other support structure to the hull sides. Guess what? They all print through to one extent or another. I think the only way to avoid (or minimize) is to tab in only, no glue in the gap....

CamB25

Here's the Youtube link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... dJjSyuuoyk

CamB25

I'll see you out on the north end of Lea island! Not sure what a trailer would cost. Last year I worked with a well known custom trailer make out of Florida on a new trailer for my Bertram as mine is an antique (rebuilt once already). It was $6k - $7k. BUT...despite the "custom" reputation, they wou...

CamB25

Oh no...you must be an engineer!!! I thought I was the only one! I sneaked onto the board just before the ban took effect! :-D What's your plan to lift the boat off the trailer and onto the cradle? That's the tricky bit! If that green trailer is junk, you might have an easier time modifying it to be...

CamB25

That looks like a good one! Running, driving boat on a trailer for less than $10k. Clean it up and use it this summer, then tear it apart!

You must a have BIG garage. On a trailer you'll need 30+ feet of depth and a minimum of 14 feet of width. Pretty tall, too.

CamB25

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CamB25

Looks great! Congratulations!

CamB25

[quote="PeterPalmieri"] Certainly for a shallow bay like ours the outboards make a lot of things more convenient. /quote] Shallow water is exactly the reason I went the O/B route. The intercoastal waterway is a puddle in North Carolina. I need to drop the wife off on the barrier beaches on the way t...

CamB25

I watched the video they through bolted the cleats and the nuts are on the outside of the boat Is there a way to avoid this I never liked the OEM location of the rear cleats, but they seem to work. Screws are weak for pull out strength. You could embed bolts (as studs) with large fender washers in ...

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