1989 Saltare - My god Spock, what have I done???

Nice upgrade to yours btw. How much up/down travel do you have on your Bennets & how does the boat respond?[/QUOTE]

I haven't measured it yet. Only ran it once on water. When I lower it down all the way it really get crazy out of control. I raise it all the way up and it seem to put out a normal wake, but can't seem to tell yet if it can help the wake for wakeboarding. I know you can't put it down much. I need to work with it some more, maybe the actuators need to be mounted higher? I have to take some pictures of travel and see if it look normal to other people.

Why don't we have pics of the engine and side profile of that shiny boat yet???

I'm impressed man. I see me asking you a ton of questions in the future.

sybr has been very light with the pics all along the way...I think he used to be an automotive engineer in a former life. Maybe someone can swing by his place and get some "spy photos".

o.k. - I'm busted. Actually the only boat I own is an Old Town canoe & I'm just really good with Photoshop.

Actually, most work's been done in the garage & not much room or light for good pics. Plus I've been solo on most of this & picking up a camera's the last thing on my mind while resin's kicking or I'm done for the night & trying to get back to the family. I can try to take more along the way, but you'll ruin my big "ta da" finish. Sorry, guess I'm just not that photogenic.

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Originally Posted by sybrmike

Sorry, guess I'm just not that photogenic.

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Who said anything about mugshots of you, we were talking about pics of your boat...lol

Slacker! Nothing but excuses. ;)

Sybr
your bow repair looks flawless, what did you use to blend the repair and how did you match the color so close. I have a similar repair on my new project and would love to hear what you used....It looks great!

You definitely don't want me muggin for the camera - even unfinished, the boat is much better looking.

Flawless? Hardly! - here's a few better pictures of my first (and worst) attempted batch of gelcoat matching that I used at the bow and two deep gouges on the rear corners. The first is the horizontal line at the corner (the big light spot is the flash reflection). The second is the bow point next to the rubrail. Too gray, with not enough brown.

The rubrail covered most of the bow repair & the others are pretty minor (to the point they don't show up too well on the camera - a little worse in person). Don't see either when in the boat. After sanding/compounding/polishing, the surface contours and finish look real good, just the color looks lighter. My other bad color match was after clearancing the hull at the shaft log exit - but no one will ever see that one. The 15-20 others are much better & you have to know where to look in the right light. In total, I used almost two of the big 4 oz Evercoat repair kits.

Oh, and Haugy - this one's for you. Hard to get much room for a good pic with a 24 footer in the garage, but you get the idea.

It's good from about 5' away. Any closer & you can still make out where the stripes were in the black (difference in surface height, not color) & a few places that weren't deep enough to bother fixing, but too deep to comfortably sand/polish out.

Maybe Okie can borrow OldMan's spy photo lens used in his thread, but you may not see much in a drive by - I'm keeping this one locked up in the SYBR Stealth Skunkworks. ;)

SOMEONE SAY SPY?? Im ready..sybr lookout! I busted Dustys New 2011 I mean 06 24' before it even hit water.:twisted: