Monday, March 9, 2009

All About Boats

It seems that I have forgotten to update my blog lately, thanks dad for pointing that out! :) Actually we have been very busy, but lately our new family boat has been what is taking up our time. We bought a 1990 Mariah 1850XL from Rawhide Boys Ranch and have been working to get it all fixed up and ready for boat season, which we hope will start in about 6 weeks.

The boat is a 18.5' bowrider for fishing and skiing, with a 175 HP Mercruiser 4.3 liter V-6. As far as we know right now, the work we have to do is mostly cosmetic. We are replacing all the vinyl, and converting the standard back-to-back seating to the much more contemporary sundeck with bench seating style. It's a little hard to explain, but I will post some pictures here as we make more progress.

Here is some of the work we did last weekend.

The new "Doghouse" Cover. It supports the sundeck on top and provides the bench seating on the front.

Halle sanding the doghouse.

Halle waterproofing the wood. I supervised.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the update.
I forgot to ask tou last night about the poker tournament> How did you do?

Todd said...

I finished dead smack in the middle, 65 out of 130. I still went out on a pair of aces with king kicker. You gonna know when to fold em' :)