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| Macatawa Bay Boat Works Premium Restoration |
| New Project - updated Tuesday, March 16, 2010 |
| 1961 Chris Craft 19' Continental |
| A nicely preserved 1961 Chris Craft Continental 19' has come to us for restoration. It will receive a Macatawa Bay Boat Works new "no soak/no leak" 3M-5200 double bottom, the hullsides will be reattached with 3M-5200 and refinish along with the decks and interior. |
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| Above is a factory photo of the boat from the 1961 Chris Craft sales brochure, below we see the boat prior to restoration. |
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| With the interior and hardware removed and the hull frames temporarily supported, it is time to roll the boat over. |
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| With the boat carefully rolled over, we remove the old bottom and then get the boat framed up and level. This boat is structurally very well preserved. |
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| With the frame work solid, cleaned and sealed up, the keel and chines reinstalled with new stainless bolt and 3M-5200, we begin fitting the marine plywood inner layer (below). |
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| Below, we see the start of the outer bottom of solid mahogany planking |
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| With the new outer bottom planking installed, we now fill the screw holes. |
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| After filling the screw holes, we have faired the bottom in by grinding and sanding, now it is ready to be sealed. The wood looks so nice sealed up it will be hard to cover it with paint! |
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| after sealing up the new bottom, we are painting it the original color of copper bronze |
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| Below we are chemically stripping the varnish and paint from the original hullsides. |
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| While stripping the hullsides we have found some areas of wood deterioration that will need some repairs. |
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| With the varnish and paint now stripped from the hullsides, we are ready to pick the bungs or wood plugs over the screws and remove the hullsides for reassembly with the marine adhesive 3M-5200. |
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Macatawa Bay Boat Works
297 S. Maple Street Saugatuck, Michigan 49453
Phone: (269) 857-4556 Fax: (269) 857-4218
e-mail:
sales@mbbw.com
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