the old Don Q Rum

[Offshore Ginger]

:sifone:Hey everybody these are some of the pics of the work that has been done on the old Don Q RUM ,that was going to be cut up when i worked at Skater and might i mention that posting these pics is is very new to me so please bear with me because i have done some serious work on this boat new gas tanks , new deck ext ext and i will be posting 40 pics in all

[Offshore Ginger]

A few more .

[Offshore Ginger]

Im just trying to throw a few out there seeing you can only post so many at a time .This is a custom hatch which will serve for an easy entrance way for a portta pottie and berth that is still in the making .

[Dude! Sweet!]

Nice. Was Don Q a 46? I remember a picture of her flying in Puerto Rico, but don't recall the details.

[Offshore Ginger]

Nice. Was Don Q a 46? I remember a picture of her flying in Puerto Rico, but don't recall the details. No it is a 32 A - with a very light lay up and had a deck that was set up for F16 fighter Canopies which was beached during a race in Grand Haven Mich and has went thru some major changes like a New pleasure deck & bonding the deck to the hull , Gas tank's , Firewall ,Custom hatch ,Cockpit pannels ,tunnel supports , and the list goes on and on .

[glassdave]

well is about time you started posting pics instead of constantly stirring up chit you 'ol trouble maker :willy_nilly::D:D


post a pic of you so i can see who the hell it is that calls me all the time and rattles my cage :sifone:

[Offshore Ginger]

well is about time you started posting pics instead of constantly stirring up chit you 'ol trouble maker :willy_nilly::D:D


post a pic of you so i can see who the hell it is that calls me all the time and rattles my cage :sifone: Wait a minute Dawggggggggggggggg i think you have called me just as much as i have called you and the only reason you feel that i have rattled your cage is because your ball's are stuck on ice and if that is the only way you like to stay cool so be it , ha ha ha ha ha ha and if i post a pic do you promise to hang it on the ceiling over your bed and every nite when you go to sleep look at it as if i was a god . ha ha ha Dave needless to say you will always be a friend and i will buzz you tommorow..................... G.G.

[Offshore Ginger]

More pics of the new firewall .

[Offshore Ginger]

A few more .................................

[Offshore Ginger]

These are pics of the tunnel that needed more support and beef (glass)

[Offshore Ginger]

In my last post i had three pics and it looked like they were just to bunched in and that is the reason for deleting them .:)

[h2oMag]

Dose this pic look familiar ?? :ack2: I took this spy shot at Skater back in the day when we were having our 32' Skater EASTERN EXPRESS built. :sifone: I too always thought she was cut up !!

[lowblue320]

nice work, keep them comming.

[Offshore Ginger]

Dose this pic look familiar ?? :ack2: I took this spy shot at Skater back in the day when we were having our 32' Skater EASTERN EXPRESS built. :sifone: I too always thought she was cut up !! YOU DAWGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG it sat back there for such a long time when i worked there and it just so happens that a good friend of mine caught Pete on a good day after having lunch togather purchased the old girl waiting to be cut up and the rest is history .:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Offshore Ginger]

nice work, keep them comming. I have many more to post .

[Offshore Ginger]

A few more pics of the hatch and boat before i get into the pics of the work done on the gas tanks.

[Offshore Ginger]

Sorry guy's in my last post i posted the same pic's and that is the reason why i poofed them .

[glassdave]

Nice stuff Artie, are you working on this now or was this a past project? Keep 'em coming :cool:

[Offshore Ginger]

Nice stuff Artie, are you working on this now or was this a past project? Keep 'em coming :cool: Thanks dave i have been waiting for the go ahead to finish her it is going to get a berth , porta pottie. finish up the cockpit for the back seat area with foot rests including a back seat , a slideing entrance way to the berth from the cockpit underneath the dash , paint the bilge and cockpit and ship her of to the paint shop along with anything else that needs to be done . Dave i have seen some line drawings of the boat and ............................... G D i soon will be showing pics of the gas tank repairs within the next few days and will try to give everybody an idea of all that is involved in the process right down to the materials .

[Offshore Ginger]

These next few pic's are of the lids that go on on the top of the tanks .

[Ratickle]

Wow Artie. What a bunch of work, can't wait to see it completed.

[Offshore Ginger]

I would like to mention that doing these tanks takes a long list of materials that i purchase from Douglas Marine / Skater and the list is ..........AT Prime part A & B ,Wax Addtive ,Cobalt ,Styrene ,Fabric and the Witch's Brew (Resin) desigined to withstand Enthanol and this process is for use on Epoxy boats .

[Offshore Ginger]

Wow Artie. What a bunch of work, can't wait to see it completed. R T ,like i said in an early post this is work in process and there still is much to be done before it goes to the paint shop and rigged.:sifone:

[Geronimo36]

Pretty cool Artie!

A few years ago I was at Zul's shop. He showed me a crap load of pictrues of what I believe was his Superboat or something like that where Activator cut the bottom out and put a step in it with a #4 on the back. They made the gas tank in the boat and got some kind of green resin to seal it with. They found the green stuff because they got in touch with some company that makes the new fiberglass tanks they put in at the gas stations.

[Offshore Ginger]

Pretty cool Artie!

A few years ago I was at Zul's shop. He showed me a crap load of pictrues of what I believe was his Superboat or something like that where Activator cut the bottom out and put a step in it with a #4 on the back. They made the gas tank in the boat and got some kind of green resin to seal it with. They found the green stuff because they got in touch with some company that makes the new fiberglass tanks they put in at the gas stations. Frank , just curious when you say a few years ago how long ago was that . ha ha ha

[Geronimo36]

roughly 3 years ago if memory serves me correctly, spring of 2007 or so. I was dynoing one of my engines and picked up 100 hp with a cam change thanks to JCPERF. :)

[Offshore Ginger]

Here are a few pic's of the baffles that were made for the tank's .:sifone:

[Offshore Ginger]

Hey everybody on these next pics im trying to get the baffles to fit as tight as possible and might i add the tanks were glassed twice because i had to repair the tank's prior to glassing them with all the other materials that are designed for this type of repair .

[Offshore Ginger]

Wow, i hope that i have not bored everybody with this thread :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: and if so i apologize:rofl:

[Offshore Ginger]

More pics of the baffles and if there is a gap from side to side it does not matter because the baffles will be glassed in on the sides and bottom .

[cougarman]

Very Cool Art-man glad to see your well and keeping at it ;-)

Talk soon my friend





Jon

[Offshore Ginger]

Very Cool Art-man glad to see your well and keeping at it ;-)

Talk soon my friend





Jon Thanks Jon im still kicken for an old fart and as always still trying to make hay .:sifone: Jon i would like to talk with you also !!!!!!

[Offshore Ginger]

More pic's of the baffles and in these pic's im trying to get the correct height that is needed before i trim them down to glass the lid's on .

[Offshore Ginger]

And here they are ....................... sorry

[glassdave]

Looks good Artie :sifone:

[Offshore Ginger]

Looks good Artie :sifone:

Thanks Dave , will be ending the pics soon untill Nov .................... Artie

[Offshore Ginger]

Hey guy's just about at the end of my pic's and as you can see the lidis are glassed on and i have two more pics to show and hopefully in Nov i will have more to share .

[Offshore Ginger]

And two more .

[Offshore Ginger]

And the last pic untill i start working on the boat again in Nov .:sifone:

[lowblue320]

again, nice work.

[Offshore Ginger]

again, nice work.Thank you ever so much.

[glassdave]

Nice work Artie keep the pics coming. Do you have any pics of the whole boat? Love seeing the historical boats restored.












(you goat roper :D)

[Offshore Ginger]

Nice work Artie keep the pics coming. Do you have any pics of the whole boat? Love seeing the historical boats restored.












(you goat roper :D) Thanks Dave , and i will post pics of the whole boat somewhere down the road and if you ever run into SUE C Q let me know . :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[c12]

is this what it looked like back in the day

[Offshore Ginger]

is this what it looked like back in the day Yes that is how she l@@KED what a great pic and talk about getting some air . WOW !

[Ratickle]

That is definitely some Serious air.......

[Offshore Ginger]

That is definitely some Serious air....... Got that right.

[lowblue320]

is this what it looked like back in the day

nice pic for sure.

[Offshore Ginger]

nice pic for sure. What do you think and is that not some serious airrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[lowblue320]

What do you think and is that not some serious airrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I love it, big air.

[Gladhe8er]

is this what it looked like back in the day

OH. I thought you were re-doing the white/red outboard boat.

[Offshore Ginger]

OH. I thought you were re-doing the white/red outboard boat. No im not but there is still a lot of work do be done on this boat .

[northernoffshore]

didn't the excavator guy in muskegon have this for a while and removed the tunnel because of delamination? I think his name was Jim . It was a family business that put down under ground pipe or something.

[Offshore Ginger]

didn't the excavator guy in muskegon have this for a while and removed the tunnel because of delamination? I think his name was Jim . It was a family business that put down under ground pipe or something. Yes the tunnel was delaminated and repaired , and like i said in a previous post when i was at Skater it was going to be cut up before James W , purchased the hull from Pete ,who lives in the Spring Lake / Nunica area not far from Muskegon .

[northernoffshore]

I saw it in his shop under repair when I used to sell him boat parts. also had a 24 with johnsons. that was like 1999? or so

[Offshore Ginger]

I saw it in his shop under repair when I used to sell him boat parts. also had a 24 with johnsons. that was like 1999? or soJames got rid of that 24 and purchased another that i also did work on which now has a new nut sack on the bottom side of the tunnel , and when done will be set up with a surface drive and S/B rat motor.

[northernoffshore]

I still have some balsa from skater he gave me I use on repairs.

[Offshore Ginger]

I still have some balsa from skater he gave me I use on repairs. Thats funny and just how long ago was that ?

[htrdlncn]

Is the one they raced in Puerto Rico same boat?
http://www.deboriken.com/08-%20O%20F%20F%20S%20H%20O%20R%20E/Offshore%20%20-%20%201%20%20DE%20%204/046_.jpg

http://www.deboriken.com/08-%20O%20F%20F%20S%20H%20O%20R%20E/Offshore%20%20-%20%201%20%20DE%20%204/024_.jpg

[Offshore Ginger]

The boat that i show in my pics is a 32-A and its last race was here on lake mich in Grand haven were it was beached and then taken back to Skater were it was de-rigged along with removing the deck that was used for a new 32 hull . Hey guy from the looks of things the boat that you show in your pics is a forty Skater.

[htrdlncn]

I know Don Q had two different racecats back then didnt know if the one in this thread had raced in PR.
Im pretty sure the pic in reply #44 is from a Puerto Rico race.

[Offshore Ginger]

I know Don Q had two different racecats back then didnt know if the one in this thread had raced in PR.
Im pretty sure the pic in reply #44 is from a Puerto Rico race. Hey guy over the years i remember working on many of there boats when i was at Skater and very nice people to work with along with the crew .