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Looks terrific in a 40. Yeah, the Sikkens is expensive, but a quart goes a long way. I about cried last year when I knocked over an open, almost full quart in my garage. $40 down the drain and a permanent stain on the garage floor!
 
Nipper,
I might regret using the cheap stuff but the V 20 will probably get limited time on the water next summer. However I might be under estimating the allure of the V 20 as a fun day boat and leave the Rosborough tied up at the marina.
 
I think you will be fine with it. As is evident from the pix of your work, you prepped the wood very well which is the key. Hard to beat the look of a nicely prepped and varnished teak.
 
We had a few nice days last week and got to work on the boat. Cleaned up the mold and mildew in the monkey hair. Came out pretty good considering how bad it looked when we started. Just need to go over the monkey hair with Resolve carpet cleaner to remove the stains from the glue use to apply the monkey hair to the ceiling of the V berth.

Installed the V berth teak and the teak strips for the sliding hatch along with the fiddle sticks on the dash. Haven't installed the V berth doors yet because of a crack in the gel coat. Seems the boat might have been a victim of theft at some point by the looks of the damage.

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Got the steering cable out of the boat (had to cut it at the motor). Everyone was correct..the motor will have to be removed to install the new steering unit and cable. The cable and steering unit was original with a date of Nov 1986. Looks like I'm at a point where I will have to wait for warmer weather to do the steering installation. While I have the motor off I would like to seal the transom under the aluminum trim. I removed an old transducer from the boat an didn't see any water dripping. Might have gotten lucky and have a solid transom.
 
Looks very nice Inaforty. Very nice indeed. My 91 V does not have teak surrounding the hatch like that--has a plastic/vinyl type material. Only teak on my 91 are the slides for the hatch and a couple small pieces on the dash.
 
Thanks for the compliments Nipper.
I like the teak trim in the V berth.
I have to remember to allocate time at the beginning or end of each season to sand and apply another coat of sealant to those exposed trim pieces.

I guess the ideal thing would be to have those trim pieces that hold the sliding hatch in place made out of starboard. I would imagine that would be pretty spendy though. I'm guessing you would need a full sheet of 3/4" starboard.

Does your 91 have the teak step treads on top of the gunnels?
 
Inaforty - nice work and welcome to the site. I'm in love with yours and your buddies 246's. Those are badass! You have the luxurious cruiser and he has the hardcore fisher - sounds like you two have it covered nicely!

That bench seat is 100% factory original. I know because I have one that I bought from someone on this site.

Here's some pix. The wood rotted in mine around the screws and it need to be refurbed.
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here you can buy what you need in Seaboard (same as starboard) in quater sheets I think.
I bought a 3/4 sheet fr my boat as I made all covrs and stuff from it and also the hatch sliders.

All the red dots are 3/4 except the dash and engin cover

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All this is 3/8 starboard except the one floor cover

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even the built in tackle box CB and I built was 3/8 starboard

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Blue Runner,
Great pictures! Everyone looks to be having a great time on the water. Sure is nice to look at photos like that in this cold weather. Love the one of the dog all snuggled up with a towel. That seat is exactly what I have. Do you know what year boat that seat came off of?
Glad you enjoyed pictures of the Rosborough. Have a friend that has one with the extend cabin but doesn't have the extended hardtop because they like to fish.Kind of gives the best of both worlds in a Rosborough.

Macojoe,
Holy cow!
Looks like you rebuilt that boat with starboard. Great job! Did you purchase the stock locally? That tackle center came out sweet.

I did something similar with our Parker. I built a bulkhead to inclose the V berth.
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Yeah I like the dog on the bench seat too! She's a true boat dog no doubt. Her first day at the lake at 3 months old she fell in the water twice. Both times off the dock - once was due to her seeing her shadow - seriously! LOL

That parker looks sweet! It looks to me like you like to spend a lot of time on the water.

I don't know what year the boat was the seat came off. It belonged to a fellow "TMcGovern" on this site. I gave him 50 bucks for it which made me feel like I stole it.

TMcGovern has 2 pics in his profile. Here they are....maybe you can tell what model from the pics? I'm going to say late 80's early 90's?
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Inaforty,

Great job on your boat! When can I swing mine over?

I need to do work on mine, but need to wait till warmer weather. When I had my garage built, I wasn't thinking "boat".

What did you use for the back mat on the passenger side dash? Mine is lifting up and would like to replace it.

rkc
 
naforty; the plastics can be bought in Dorchester at;

http://www.jfreeman.com/panels.html

Looks like their prices have gone up quite a bit, but I think you'll still find them cheaper than the marine retailers.
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Wow I am glad they updated the site iyt really was like 5 years old!!

Yes went and picked up all the sheets and we cut all to size in my yard.
 
RKC,
Your in laws live (or use to live) less then a mile from me. That black mat is original I believe. It was on the boat when I purchased it.
Did you check out my photos of the ramp at Sea View?
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Blue Runner,
Thanks for that info on the seat. I have a pretty good idea that the one that came with our boat is probably a factory option with it being a 1987 model.
What is the motor your running on your V 20? Looks like a 150 HPDI Yamaha?
The Parker was a great boat but we need something more geared to cruising. For the folks that like to fish it is a heck of a boat. Got to meet Robin and Linwood at the Hartford boat show and showed them the work I did on the Parker. Linwood was very impressed and liked it alot. I brought 2 Portuguese sweet breads (local favorite) for the owner of BOATS inc (Niantic CT) where we bought our Parker. He gave one one of the breads to Linwood to take home with him. I often wonder how he like it....

chumbucket and macjoe,
Thanks for the info on your source for starboard. My brother in law and sister want to enclosed the pilothouse and build a bulkhead/sliding door on their 29' Backcove. This info will come in handy when he gets started.
 
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Hi inaforty,

Yes I did see your pictures of the boat ramp. Looks like it will be a few more weeks 'till we can launch there...:sad:

My inlaws still still live there. Its the big obnoxious bright yellow house, it has my old sailboat in the driveway.

rkc
 
Inaforty - your very welcome. My motor - its a 2004 Yamaha TLRC - regular old 2 stroke. I got a great deal on it new in '05. My only complaint would be the 2 - 2.5 mpg but its been a good power plant.
 
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