Halmatic 24 rebuild

[Turbodiesel]

[Turbodiesel]

[A1an]

Looking good Rob

[RickW]

Slap a couple of engines on her and see you tomorrow on the water then…

[treerat]

Starting to look like a boat again!!

Let us know when ready to launch and we'll be over

[Turbodiesel]

Originally Posted by RickW

Slap a couple of engines on her and see you tomorrow on the water then…

After over a year of waiting the engines have finally arrived in the uk! Ordered in April 2021!

[GuyC]

Are you going to cut the old freeing ports back in?

[Turbodiesel]

Originally Posted by GuyC

Are you going to cut the old freeing ports back in?

What are freeing ports?

[GuyC]

Freeing ports are the one way flaps in the transom to clear the deck of standing water.

I think they are generally used where the deck at the transom is above the normal waterline. Where there is a well, which you often get with outboards, you tend to find they have elephant's trunks.

I suppose my question was how do you get rid of water on the deck.

[Turbodiesel]

Originally Posted by GuyC

Freeing ports are the one way flaps in the transom to clear the deck of standing water.

I think they are generally used where the deck at the transom is above the normal waterline. Where there is a well, which you often get with outboards, you tend to find they have elephant's trunks.

I suppose my question was how do you get rid of water on the deck.

It will have elephant trucks if needed. At the min the water is a able to flood into a water tight well under the deck which has ( or will have) twin bilge pumps fitted.

[GuyC]

[Turbodiesel]

The labour of love continues. Engines have arrived after waiting 14 months for them!
Time to get serious!

[Turbodiesel]

[A1an]

Looking sweet Rob.

[tehguy]

Nice work so far, would love to see this when it's in the water

[Turbodiesel]

Finally getting somewhere

[fastasfox]

Originally Posted by beamishken

Your not gonna say that hull was sanded and prepped where its sat in the photo?
Nowhere near enough mess unless you have a very good clean up elf

He would have done it outside if he had any sense...I reckon I took two years off my life when I sanded mine lol.

[fastasfox]

Originally Posted by Chanchan168

If I’m right, flowcoat is gelcoat with added wax to make it go off. To be honest, I’ve never heard of gelcoat being added on top of flowcoat. Flowcoat is good but it’s really hard to get a good finish as you need to sand, sand, sand and more sand to get any kind of decent finish. Your better of off using 2k poly, but as stated, get some advice from Nugent on here.

I can testify to that, you sand and sand using finer and finer grit then cutting compounds and then polish....at that point it starts to go glossy at which point you realise you can see the basecoat underneath it in parts..."dedication is what you need." [Roy Castle]

[Turbodiesel]

[Pikey Dave]

That’s a handsome beast[emoji106]