Reply With QuoteBeen there, still doing g that.Originally Posted by Chimo
Now your talking.
Issues to be addressed; where to mount the genset?
I guess that will be sorted when you decide how much extra hull to add when you cut the existing one just forward of the existing transom.
The joys of modifying boats eh?
Sam was probably closer to the truth than he thought!
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Been there, still doing g that.
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I'll take two. Already got a computer on board so we are sorted for power.
Scott seen your pics un rotated on FB, that hard top would have added atlease 10k to 15k to your boats value that looks well suited to the boat, mint ride now mate
LOL. I hope so Gazza - it's cost close to ten so far. Sitting down talking to Arnold the fibreglasser about projects like this and adding up the hours etc - if you were to simply walk into a boat builder and say "do this", there is every chance you won't get change from 20K once the labour gets added.
They do look good when finished though, and lots cooler under frp compared to sunbrella even without air con.
Just don't mention what they cost.............
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Especially when the chief accountant from the financial control department is within earshot
10K Wow i never thought that kind of money would be in something so simple, they look easy to build other than the rounded glass, if i were to try to do a hard top for my big boat i think it would be either aluminum and perspex or ply/glass and perspex just to keep it light and cheap
I was going to say in that earlier post it would have added 15k+ but when u look at it what's your boat worth $35,000? $15,000 hard top $50,000 a hard top boat probably wouldn't be much more brand new
Most 6 metre hard top boats are north of 100k optioned up ready to go these days Gazza. It was something I looked at but to re-option a new boat with what is in this one would have cost a lot more - well more than the financial control department would allow.
looks sensational scott!
Looks absolutely sensational Scott, you'd be right happy with the end result !
It's the old scenario here, as far as what you've put into it to improve it and make it more comfortable, The question always is,
How much do I have to spend for a new one, and end up with the same result.
Exactly why alot of people re-build. When I found out mine had a stuffed transom, floor, stringers and I really needed a 4 stroke,
I did 180 hours the last year it was on the water, with a 4 cylinder 2 stroke, I needed shares in a servo.
SO, a new boat, cabable of doing what I wanted to do, would set me back 80K, hence, all up for me on this rebuild, including motor should come in at
around 35-40k. Of course, they all have to be done with the view that it will be a keeper, otherwise you may be hard pressed to re coup.
But, as mentioned Scott, beautiful job, it will be a great improvement in comfort for you I'm sure........
Col
Absolutely Col. Sometimes it simply comes down to "I have this much money available" - which was pretty much the case. I had a rough idea but as always with these things, stuff pops up once you get going. Overall, I'm not too far outside my anticipated expenditure. There is also the personal satisfaction from having done it yourself. Short of a lotto win or other significant windfall, this is pretty much a "forever" rig so a bit of coin every so often is par for the course - got to spend it somewhere right.
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In keeping with the sideways theme...…...roof mating roughed in. Glue it to the roof one night this week with any luck and glass nest weekend.
Is there to be stainless pipework forward of the glass?
Maybe its happening at the same time the grabrails on top are to be fitted?
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