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| Repower Articles |
| Tunanator - A beautiful 60' Elliott that
just needed to go a little faster |
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| The dark and dingy engine room showing the lack
of space, old technology remote-mounted V-drives, and some long-lived
903's. |
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| The start of the project consisted of rebuilding
the stringers and resetting of larger 2 1/2" shafts. I was lucky to
be able to use the services of local wooden boat building professional,
Danny Crave, who allowed us to modify the existing engine beds while improving
upon the original high-quality construction. The new main stringers were
built/modified with a combination of marine plywood, micro-lam and epoxy. |
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| After about 2 months of woodchips and dust,
we applied two to three coats of high-build epoxy primer and finished with
a high-gloss 2-part polyurethane. The new Onan 21KW's were installed cross-wise
behind the new engines, completely freeing-up the space through the middle
of the engine room. |
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| Along with the repower came
a few other projects that Randy had been wanting to do for quite some time.
The old swim step had brackets for support and he wanted the swim step to
become part of the boat. We gained some additional flotation, storage, and
a place to put underwater lights. The quality and workmanship by Danny was
very evident during this part of the project. |
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