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A client from Lake Wylie brought in his 1986 Correct Craft Martinique today. We'll be rebuilding the carburetor and eliminating some fuel leaks, replacing the skin on his rear sun pad, and refinishing his swim platform. These quick updates will make this boat safer and add to the boat's good looks.
Now this vessel is all set to go home to her owners.
Today was water test day, and it went great! No more leaking gasoline, and the engine is running very nicely.
The carburetor is back from being remanufactured. It'll be installed this week, then we'll water test the boat and it'll be ready to return to the client.
The sun pad has been reupholstered, and reattached to its hinges. The hinges on this one were completely stripped out of the wood that the factory used when building the sun pad. The wood was replaced with appropriate marine-grade wood, sealed up, and reinforced so that the hinges will stay attached securely for years now. We had to modify the side panel in front of the sun pad so that the sun pad fit properly (the factory had misaligned it it seems). The sun pad swings up as-designed now, and looks much better with the new vinyl.
The swim platform has been refinished too, and looks great too!
The carburetor is off and being rebuilt. The rear sunpad is with our upholstery expert, and will be looking like new soon. He's also replacing the main board so that it can be properly connected to its hinges once he's finished with it.
While all of that is happening, our woodworking expert is busy refinishing the swim platform. This one is unique in that it has lots of grooves that the later platforms don't have. It'll look really nice when finished!
Here's the starting point.
It was hand-sanded, including the grooves.
And here it is with one coat of oil. It'll probably take 10 - 15 more coats before it stops soaking in, but this is a great start.
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