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    Proper way to wire a kill switch on Thunderbolt IV

    Hello guys, we are currently towards the end of rebuilding our 1987-88 searay 20 Seville CC. existing wiring was a mess with several layer of abuse and we decided to start fresh from the OEM engine and boat harnesses and to get rid of all the extra wiring. Engine is a 5.7 Mercruiser with a...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    So here it is finally mounted on the transom ! I don't know if we are the only ones who struggled A LOT with this seal ? We tried to glue it a little bit with marine adhesive sealant so it sticks in place (keep on dreaming...)... at last one was pulling the gimbal from inside the boat...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Hey, we're still alive and now that Covid-crisis is getting calmer in Belgium we're back on the boat trying to finish asap to enjoy summer on water this year... We did some mechanical rebuilding before going back to the hull, struggled a lot with the lower bellows on the gimbal... but we managed...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    here is the summary of the last work on the boat. the gelcoat is nearly finished on the inside of the boat, only the transom and the area where we will need to install the battery and trim pump are not covered yet. Thats what scarried me :-), it was already curing and we tried to smooth it...
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    Mercruiser 5.7 - noise from the front of the engine

    Hello guys This is our first post in the engine section so a little background. We are rebuilding a 21ft searay cuddy cabin link in the signature for those interested. To power the boat we have rebuilt a Merc 5.7 magnum. The engine was first started last year after rebuilt and then stored as...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    One point that we keep turning around and around is the transom flatness. It seems that our clamping was a little weak and the inner grinding of the hull was not perfect either. we ended up with a littler concave shape on the outer face. I used the Mer riser spec and draw 2 vertical lines in...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    The 2 next sessions were about applying the first coat all around and the second coat where the initial one has setup. More tricky as we initially though due to the amount of gelcoat to be mixed, the fast cure time due to the temp and the confined space to work at 2 people in the boat without...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Initially the side walls of the cabin were covered with some light gray carpets that we ripped off during the demo. we have not decided yet how they will be in the end. so for now we cleaned the remains of glue and are gel coating the entire cabin. eventually some light at the end of the tunnel...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    After some trials and discussion with the supplier we found the culprit of this non adherence: we are using a polyurethane primer on the wood before laminating. This must be covered while this is still tacky to the touch but due to late hour on the seats work session we glassed them few days...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Next work session was a big throw back and a serious hit to the moral. We started to trim the excess of CSM from the seats with a oscillating tool to avoid excessive dust from the grinder and the glass layers just peeled of the wood... :-( This happens to several places but not all of them...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    There was a heavy rain period around June and the drain/sewer of the warehouse did not worked ok so we ended up with a lot of humidity in the work place and... a very nice smell of ...rats I guess they came from the flooded sewer and found a very comfortable spot in the old carpets and other...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Time for the seat bases to go in. we wanted to glue them after the complete glassjob of the floor with the idea to create a uniform barrier between the seats wood and the deck wood. it was not done like this from factory but we considered it a reasonable upgrade on a durability standpoint. We...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Hello guys Long time no post, I'll try to catch up with what we have done since May, we have been somehow busy, tired, under motivated... we are still doing one work session a week instead of 2 or 3 as we should. time to speed up as summer is already started and we would like to get on water...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    we finished grinding the engine mounts from the glass spikes. we added some extra layers for peace of mind and finished with one wrap of CSM around the edge. the result seems ok on the port mount but we waited too long before doing the same on the starboard and the glass was too hard to apply...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    We have been glassing the engine mounts this week. not an easy job... not enough room, tiny spots, blind work for the inside;.; We did what we could. it is still messy but we will grind it next time and put more glass as needed.
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Hello everyone, It has been a long time since our last post, here is an update from our last work. Since the floor was completed we have put more work in getting it flat and smooth before glassing. the result is pretty good. we used a quick cure fiber filledcompound to fill the gaps. it is...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Hello folks It's been a while since we did not post any update. Project is still going on but we are really slowed down by the temperature here. Since the last post we completed the deck above the fuel tank and finished foaming and pluging back the rest of the floor. the fuel tank cover was...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    We worked on the tank area yesterday. the glueing of the cleats seems fine we still need some minor grinding to finalize it. amazing how many time we need to use this tool in boat restoration ! we re-inforced the wood pannel by adding some wood on the vertical grain as suggested by KC. only...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    A bit of progress yesterday evening... The gel coat in the tank area seems finaly cured. I guess the best help in this was heat. maybe PVA helped also hard to figure it out as both were applied at the same time. We applied 2 coats of black PU paint to the tank to protect it from future...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Hello guys, hope you all had a nice end of the year break and wishing you all a happy 2019 year. Hopefully full of splashes :-) We tooked a couple hours to clean the space from all the junk pieces and it took quite some space in the car (EU car are smaller than US one :-) ) The supplier...
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