My build- 2002 SANTE - audio,interior and ballast

[saceone]

Will probably tow my baby to a garage to make the engine /vdrive water ready.. Should be a fun weekend on the road

[saceone]

hells no.

it was snowing this morning...!!! the boat is gonna stay in the garage for another week

[saceone]

what I am working on today

I usually grap the bow cushion and sit on it to cruise around on the river. I decided to recreate one so that the ladies could still use the front as their bed...

how I roll in the summertime (*with more water and less garage)


what I want to copy


tracing the outline


designing the curve


yes, golf tees,steel wire and imagination. you remove the one on the bottom and trace it with a pencil

how I cut the rough shape




worked like magic

rough shape, fitting session


fits pretty good.

now let's make it perfec-ish. 8" Richard Floor Scraper blade+vice grips+ torch...and a small dose of redneck
you can see the process, the freshly cut VS the rough cut


some more fitting


let's cut some plywood to go underneath the 2" foam


didn't have marine plywood at the shop but I had some fiberglass resin... sanded the edges and went to work



glassed both sides + the edges so I had to improvise..




what's left to do: Use styrofoam glue (what we use to stick it to the foundation) to glue the foam to the glassed plywood

more to come, upholstery to be done by the same guy who is gonna redo some of my cushions.

so far I am pretty excited about it. we'll see how it turns out.

[Texan1554]

Sweet, some great work.

[saceone]

thanks!

the glues seems to be holding pretty well! victory

[saceone]

We're expecting a decent amount of snow today..

I have mixed feelings about this crappy weather. I like the fact that I still got time to finish my project. On the other hand, I can't bring it to the garage for the mechanical maintenance. I don't feel like putting the interior (rear bench, hatch etc) back together before that's done..

[saceone]

had the boat at the dealership yesterday to tune up the engine /oil/vdrive .

they said my alternator is on its last miles, it's whinning.


how easy is it to change and where can I find one (100amp to upgrade) ? I searched a few threads but couldn't find any info. couldn't find the part on nautiquepart.com either... help!

[saceone]

http://www.skidim.com/prodinfo.asp?number=RF097009B


is this what I need?

[saceone]

anyone?

[s_kelley2000]

Have you looked into having the alternator rebuilt? I am pretty sure you can upgrade the amperage during the rebuild. I don't have any experience with this but I believe I have heard of people doing this on here before.

[saceone]

Never heard of that.. Thanks!

[G]

OK.... I know this is a old post post but since we all were talking about the wakemakers kits on here I would pose my question with it... So the rear plumbed bags work like a charm. For the front bag I pulled the overflow hose and connected it to the front bag so when the tank fills then then it will overflow in the bag, and it does pretty well. The only head scratcher I have is once the front bag starts filling, water will flow out of the through hull fitting that is connected to the tank drain pump..... So I'm confused... Anyone that has plumbed the front bag like I did have the same happen... Now it all will fill juts fine and drain just fine, just not sure why it would flow out the drain port.... any thoughts???

[DLafont]

Tu serais bon pour une annonce des débrouillards 50!! Nice work!