I literally pulled it out from under a tree at this blokes place, threw him a wad of cash hooked it up to the car and drove off.
Was in a fairly sad but complete state when i got her, heres a few picks of the night i got her home.




She is a 15.5ft 1979 model Flightcraft Phantom, mid mount 308. Not really the kinda boat i was looking for at the time as i dont like 308's and mid mount is a stupid idea but for the money i couldent say no.
Soooo first thing i did was give it a good wash then proceede to see if it ran, apparently it had a seized engine. Well i put a battery in it, took the fuel line off the tank and put it in a jerry of fresh fuel, cranked it over and off it went. Yay win.






Things that were wrong with it at that point were the prop shaft was #@$^%&, the coupling from the dog box was #@$^%&, and the dog box wouldent go into gear. Meh not so bad.
So i ordered a new prop shaft from a certain marine company on Windsor Road Vinyard Sydney that i wont name, and it ended up a keyway was machined incorrectly, we had to spend another couple of hours on it to get it right What made it worse is after i discovered this i emailed them twice and tried calling them five times with no reply to anything.
I also got a new copling direct from Kincad Marine Rolco, the origional manufacturers of the dog box, i cannot speak highly enough of these guys, recieved the item the day after i ordered it, great to talk to, and they know there shit. Please anyone needing boat parts contact them first. Was a welcome relief after being #@$^%& around by the other certain company on Windsor Road.
Whilst all this was going on i was just playing around, machined up some new rudder bushes out of nylon, made new floors, roughly fixed some of the ratty trim, got it registered as i had a day off, put new numbers on it, repainted the origional name on the side of the boat, fitted led tailights to the trailer, little things like that. Heres some various picks.
Cause the old rego number was painted on the side i had to think of some quick, neat and cool looking way to cover them, so did this.









Then i could see the outline of the origional name still faded into the gellcoat, so i decided to redo it...













Picks of floors i made out of marine grade plywood etc







Not sure how many picks i can put in one post so i'll stop there for now, will put more up a bit later.
Edited by Bomber Watson, 18 December 2010 - 04:24 PM.