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Maiden Voyage!!! IFR, 100' & Rain!

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Captain_John

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As you may recall, I have taken a hiatus from working on the plane to refurbish the cockpit of my boat. It has taken me three weeks in all, and that is about two weeks longer than I had allotted for the project!

I know this is off topic, but the reason for doing the project was to learn about fiberglass and how it is done. This was my first attempt and I think it came out well! All in all I learned ALOT about fiberglass and had some fun in the process. Learning about fiberglass was good, besides the fact that I would reap the side benefit of having a nearly new boat again just in time for striper season here in the northeast!

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The weather was hard rain and calm winds when I woke up this morning at 5 AM. After working until 11PM last night on the bilge pump and other electrics I slapped the registration stickers on the hull and trailer and headed down the hill to the water!

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The deck came out nice and is NOT slippery when wet although the oil based paint sheds the water very nicely into the deck drain!

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The engine is 5 years old and is always a bit hard starting for the first start of the year, but she sparked to life after a bit of coaxing and I logged 1.1 hobbs time in the pouring rain this morning! The bilge system checked out fine and all the lights worked straight away!

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I do love this little boat!

Here fishy, fishy!!!


:ban: CJ
 
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