So we have to fill holes and put some fiberglass down to prepare the wood boat floor surface for paint. Glad to see this floor is coming together, working with fiberglass, expanding foam, and wood has been fun, but we are glad to be done. In a future boat, we get we know that this …
Laying Fiberglass Down Filling Holes In Boat Floor EP #33 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
Installing floatation foam in the floor of our boat, not only to help float the boat after an impact to the hull but makes the floor structurally stronger. We do a little experiment and we pour a little foam in a cup to see how much it does expand. We didn’t think the Liquid Urethane …
Install Flotation Foam In Boat EP #30 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
We are making custom speaker plates to cover the ugly holes cut into the boat for 6x9s that were placed in a horrible location. Not only were these to remove the car 6x9s that were rusting, staining the boat gel coat. They were to install smaller speakers the would be waterproof and last for a …
Custom Boat Speaker Plates EP #29 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
Inventory Of Missing Parts For Mercruiser that the mechanic lost. This is turning out to be more challenging and expensive than we thought it would. It is like they take a part, then type marine on the front of it, then double the cost. Also, there are many flavors of this 3.0L engine to choose …
Inventory Missing Parts Mercruiser 3.0L EP #26 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
The engines out, the Stern Drive off, and the engine is ready to be shipped to the machine shop Xcessive Engines for a rebuild. It should only take about 2 weeks to get the engine back, and if Xcessive Engines has engines in stock they ship out right away. I guess it being summer their …
Stern Drive Off, Engine Out, Rebuild EP #13 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
We go over why the new head didn’t work on our engine, now going to do a full rebuild on our boat engine. Keep on digging and find more things that need to be replaced or repaired on this 2004 Bayliner Bowrider 175. For this boat we would really love not to spend over $5,000, …
Boat At Shop, Our Plans After EP #14 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
A lot of Rot in this Bayliner Bowrider 175, we are cutting out and digging out all the soft spots Boat restoration gets bigger the more we dig and discover, but we think we are up for the challenge. We hope to learn from this project as it fits well with our bigger dream. It …
Remove Boat Floor, Lot Of Rot EP #7 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
So we found a boat that will fit in our garage, for $1000. This smaller boat will let us learn how to before we try our hand at larger vessels. I get to work on the mechanics, Danielle gets to make it look good. Follow along as we restore this 2004 Bayliner Bowrider 175 breathing …
Brand New Old Boat EP #1 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
