Hellooo All,
I am so glad to finally be on this forum. You don't know how much help and inspiration you all have already been.
My name is Mike. I'm on the Great South Bay, Long Island, NY. and this is my boat. It is a 19xx MFG Westfield. Now when I was a kid on a flat bottom plywood clam boat with an ancient 18hp evinrude digging clams i thought these boats were the "bomb" when they zoomed by.
I saved it from the encroaching bamboo and dragged it home. The trailer is solid and now blocked up. The boat was leveled and all trailer supports checked for good solid and even bearing of the weight. Most of the lose gear was chucked then a leaf blower was brought in. The ants were relocated to another state approved site. Vacuumed then washed so I didn't get filthy everytime I touched the thing and the kids could climb in.
Hardware has been removed and saved. But I got no MFG emblems - waaah.
The transom had been butched-up then beefed-up all in a hacker method. The steering linkage was threaded from the wheel to the engine location behind the cubby side panels with a chop chop here and a chop chop there. All the fiberglass edge trim was petrified and I removed 3 sets of canvas cover snaps.
The transom was removed in a day. Great post of you folks having already done it help loads. Being a master carpenter helped too as well as the wood to be removed being a dead ringer for peat moss. Will post pictures of the finished transom evacuation and the tools I made soon.
I will be calling on you folks alot. I got a million questions but I want to see if I've done this photo bucket thing right. I downsized my pictures but apparently at /- 500kb they are still to big so I went to Photobucket. Which is preffered by you guys?
peace
Mike
http://s956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/miketrix-mfg/
I am so glad to finally be on this forum. You don't know how much help and inspiration you all have already been.
My name is Mike. I'm on the Great South Bay, Long Island, NY. and this is my boat. It is a 19xx MFG Westfield. Now when I was a kid on a flat bottom plywood clam boat with an ancient 18hp evinrude digging clams i thought these boats were the "bomb" when they zoomed by.
I saved it from the encroaching bamboo and dragged it home. The trailer is solid and now blocked up. The boat was leveled and all trailer supports checked for good solid and even bearing of the weight. Most of the lose gear was chucked then a leaf blower was brought in. The ants were relocated to another state approved site. Vacuumed then washed so I didn't get filthy everytime I touched the thing and the kids could climb in.
Hardware has been removed and saved. But I got no MFG emblems - waaah.
The transom had been butched-up then beefed-up all in a hacker method. The steering linkage was threaded from the wheel to the engine location behind the cubby side panels with a chop chop here and a chop chop there. All the fiberglass edge trim was petrified and I removed 3 sets of canvas cover snaps.
The transom was removed in a day. Great post of you folks having already done it help loads. Being a master carpenter helped too as well as the wood to be removed being a dead ringer for peat moss. Will post pictures of the finished transom evacuation and the tools I made soon.
I will be calling on you folks alot. I got a million questions but I want to see if I've done this photo bucket thing right. I downsized my pictures but apparently at /- 500kb they are still to big so I went to Photobucket. Which is preffered by you guys?
peace
Mike
http://s956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/miketrix-mfg/
