Another SN followed me home!

Vic, do you have side pipes on your trailer? I definitely know about riding up on a bunk or fender on the steeper ramps, but the guides shouldn't allow you to get off center by more than a few inches, not sure how you get turned completely sideways.

CBR, that post should score you a lot of points at home!!!

Damn auto correct!

63 Skier wrote: Vic, do you have side pipes on your trailer? I definitely know about riding up on a bunk or fender on the steeper ramps, but the guides shouldn't allow you to get off center by more than a few inches, not sure how you get turned completely sideways.

"63" last season I loaded and unloaded without guides. They had rusted at the frame and my machinest friend built me new ones. It took time though he had to work it in on his CNC bender. It is better now but the guide's are not tight to the boat and still allow it to get somewhat crossed up. The wind and hurry and load due to high traffic in and out the ramp makes things hard.Also the ramps here are at a very shallow angle. My front tires on my trk is like four feet from the water when backed in to load.

forvicjr wrote: my machinest friend built me new ones. It took time though he had to work it in on his CNC bender. It is better now but the guide's are not tight to the boat and still allow it to get somewhat crossed up.

Vic,
Maybe he didn't bend them in as tight a radius as the originals? The originals were 1&1/4" scd. 40 pipe bent with a heavy wall bender most commonly used by electricians.

forvicjr wrote: Ive welded them once and ground them down smooth and they cracked again beside the weld.😡 so now they have some give to them.

Vic,
Maybe you shouldn't have ground down the weld? There's nothing wrong with leaving a good weld unground. I noticed you don't have a prop guard on your trailer. They add rigidity to the rails. Also, some of the CC trailers had gussets welded from the main rails to the cross members at the fenders. What did you weld them with and what prep did you do before welding?

Swim deck in progress, made my own aluminum brackets, super heavy duty.
Wood is red oak for now. First I made a plywood one, used that as a template to make the oak one, plan to make it from teak once I get better at this. Since these years didn't originally come with swim decks, the measurements and angles are all different from my 90 SN and 88 BFN. Transom curve is very pronounced and compound.

Test fit, pretty good even before routing edges and sanding. This is removable with 4 bolts, so it fits in the garage with the trailer.

Trying to see where the instruments go, and the spot I thought was original will be obscured by the observers seat back. Anyone know what was the stock set up? This photo posted by another member doesn't show an observers seat in the way.

Perhaps he has a different observers seat.
This seems like the only location that will work.

I made a plexiglass frame for the speedometers, and to cover all the extra holes from the second helm location. I painted the backside red up to the level of the dash, clear above that.

I've been laid up since my last post in March, bad back. Finally got it corrected surgically 6/2/15. Suppose to wait 6 weeks to do anything, but yesterday and today I worked on getting the engine running. Long story short, it runs great, but has a bad water leak from a broken end plate on the exhaust log.. Plus another on the bottom rear "L" connector, rotten steel pipe.. I'm pretty happy it starts and runs with easy fixes..