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 PostPosted: January 7th, 2013, 11:36 pm   
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I'm posting this on behalf of my brother...I take NO credit for the project...other than picking up the boat, providing the place to work, aquiring the material list, aquiring the material, providing the contacts for trusted advice, laminating, mixing core...and my general encouraging manor.. :mrgreen:

Alright...you're getting the whole deal here so we'll start with some history...what little we do know.

The boat was brought to Canada buy a local guy as a project. He spent some serious $$ changing the boat from a race boat to a pleasure boat. Removing the bulkheads from the cabin area and having structure for seats/v-berth installed. The transom, floor and stringers were replaced at that time as were the fuel tanks. The story goes that as they were moving the boat out of the glass shop it was dropped (hard) and the resulting damage killed the project. It appears that the impact delaminated that stressed cracked the pad are of the boat. I spoke to the PO and he had no idea about core but had already spent too much to tear it all apart again...makes sense. So the boat sat...and sat...and basically was given to a friend of ours for the storage bill. Eventually due to some health reasons our friend had to sell his business/property and the velocity. That's when we entered the story.

I went to look at it and after much searching we figured out that it was actually a Velocity...but with a different windscreen. This is how I found the boat...it had probably 3' of water in it!!

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 PostPosted: January 7th, 2013, 11:58 pm   
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So we love a good project around MRS so home it came...
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Dash/Cabin entry
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and waited for 3bilgepumps to get home from out west..to start cutting....

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Once he started cutting we found a plywood core...complete with screws to ease installation. Surprisingly the wood isn't rotten...there was some water damage in the pad area but as you got up the hull the plywood was still dry.

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 PostPosted: January 8th, 2013, 12:17 am   
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He managed to get the structure/core out of the cockpit area of the boat before going back out west....when he came back..it was winter!! So...grinding outside meant no sweating!

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With all the dirty work done it was time to put it inside MRS.....

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 PostPosted: January 8th, 2013, 8:44 am   
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Looks like a nice project, twin 300's?

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 PostPosted: January 8th, 2013, 8:50 am   
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Twin 3.1L "250's"...

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 PostPosted: January 8th, 2013, 9:30 am   
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Oh, so it's an economical fishing boat in the fleet then? sory, I guess the 3.3 hpdi would be economy, nice!

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 PostPosted: January 8th, 2013, 5:34 pm   
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I have said it before.. And I will say it again. I am more pumped for this than 3bilgepumps.

I will be to the rad shop... with coveralls and a positive attitude. And ready to sand!
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 PostPosted: January 8th, 2013, 6:19 pm   
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Cool project.
I've never had it for these bigger boats but they are starting to grow on me.

How much fun is it removing dry plywood core?

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Great project..look forward to the progress.

Now will this be the fastest DOB 30ft v-hull? :lol: and will Mitchie be skiing behind it when it goes for the record on 5 gallon bay :mrgreen:

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Great rough water boat. Have you weighed the hull? What top speed are you hoping to achieve with the twin 250's

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