Couple more photos

Let's go! I'm ready!


Updated the windshield and new
wheel.

Full instrumentation



302 V8 up and running




Cruising Eleven Mile Reservoir

Sea trials ( and tribulations. )

Me and Mijah


Searching for whale?



Mijah chasing waves at
Witches Cove




Beautiful Witches Cove




Well I got her in the water Monday, labor day. It started out poorly as I stopped at the shop to hook up the hose and check her out. she started right up no problem. Oil pressure good, water temp good, what can go wrong? I found out as soon as I put it in gear and absolutely nothing happened! To make a long story short the neutral safety switch ( which also shifts the out drive ) took a dump. After screwing with it for about two hours I finally jury rigged it so I could shift. About 1:30 in the afternoon I finally get her in the water. It runs good, although not as quick as I had hoped. Just gotta figure out the proper prop and that will be fine. It runs great all day until it's time to put her on the trailer. Damn tilt motor takes a shit. Anyway it's now Thursday and all the above problems have been taken care of. I'm adding a coupe photo's of her maiden cruise at Eleven Mile reservoir. Beautiful place.

Back to work.

If I want to take the old girl out this weekend I guess I'd better get my butt back out there and finish the wiring. All I have left is the fuel gauge and anchor light. Then of coarse I have to secure this rats nest up out of the way. That will take an act of congress! Lets see........ Install the seats, engine cover, fish finder, safety gear, ah shit. I think I may be up all night! Damn. I still gotta install the freakin outdrive! What the hell am I doin at this computer? Sometimes you just gotta get away from what your working on and clear your head. I think it's clear enough now. Back to work!

Can you imagine?

My brain is working in a stranger than normal way. I'm thinking about putting a thru the transom exhaust system on the boat. Man, she would sound and run so much better.

Oh so close

Engine Cover extended
5 inch's

New flooring

302 installed

As you can see a lot has been accomplished on ole Dock Holiday this week. Greg, Tad and Dee busted their chops today to get the engine bolted in, the engine harness's connected and some custom installs of switch plates etc. They also got the flooring glued, screwed and glassed! We had to extend the engine cover by 5 inch's due to the longer V8 and that is close to completed also. I have to tell ya, I am blessed to have good friends like Greg and Tad and everyone else that helped. Greg for sure has a place in heaven waiting on him. It's too bad he won't know anyone there but he makes friends pretty quickly! If it weren't for Greg this project would have taken me a month at least. Thanks to his unbelievable efforts we might just catch some fish after all! Once again thank you so much Greg. I'm honored to call you friend!

Spontaneous combustion

I've heard of it before but never experienced it. Till now. Spontaneous combustion. Ain't that the shits! Poor Greg was working on a rib for the boat when he smelled something. Turning around from his work bench he noticed a fire thru the windshield of the boat. After a second or two he realised the flames were on his side of the glass! He had the good sense to put out the flames by smothering them with a blanket. ( He's my hero ) The fire started in the vinyl bag the fish finder was in which was sitting on the dash by its self with nothing else around it. Now there is no battery in the boat, the fish finder doesn't take batteries, there was no ignition source for the fire, and neither one of us drinks or does drugs ( any more ). What could it be other than spontaneous combustion? I pulled the fish finder apart and repaired it so it works now ( although it ain't pretty anymore! ) but I had to call my buddy Robert Moriarty to make new windows for it. The heat raised a bit of hell with em! If any of you have a good explanation or theory on how the hell this happened, please, share it with us!

Time to empty the pockets

Empty feeling

Building new mounts

New ribs

New center board

302 V8 Power

Old 2.5 Iron Duke

Well I've finally come to the stage in the boats life where I've had to decide weather to keep the old girl or move up. I was leaning toward moving up until I found the deal of the century! Picked up a beautiful running 302 Ford marine engine, complete, for five large. That includes the complete lower unit which I've been looking for since last fall! In order to install the V8 we, Me and Greg Titus, but mostly Titus, had to fabricate front motor mount perch's. Well we decided since we were gonna be in there anyway, now was the time to replace the floor decking. When we removed the old flooring we found the centerboard and stringers were pretty well rotted. We have sistered a new centerboard and installed a pair of ribs to stiffen her up a bit. Greg's gonna wrap all that in fiberglass tomorrow then we can put down the new floatation foam and decking. Then we'll fiberglass over the decking, install the new carpet and install our new power. We've also replaced the complete wiring harness and added new gauges and windshield glass. Pretty much she's in better shape now than when she was new!