Boat Forum / Building / September 2008

I have an old Starcraft 14' aluminum rowboat with three
flat wooden seats.  The seats are old, rotting out, I
need to replace them.  They are just pieces of 1"x12".
I'm wondering what type of wood to use, the guy I bought

I just purchased a 1953 Larson Runabout. It is made out of aluminum
and has wood trim along the top edge and about a third the way down
the sides running the length of the boat meeting at the bow. The
insides have been totally stripped, ie, no seats or bow cap.

Has anyone had positive experience with fuel senders?
They seem to be notoriously inaccurate.
I've seen the type with the vertical cork, the hinged cork and the one that
has a tube within a tube (air pressure or and electric sensor?)

On my wood Tolman Skiff, I have found a couple of places where two
layers of wood epoxied together are delaminationg.  Nothing serious
but if left unfixed would lead to problems.  Basically, the directions
said to paint all surfaces with thin epoxy and then before it cured to

I have an '82 Sea Ox 20ft WA that suits my needs.  (Probably will only boat
another 6-8 years.)  Anyway, the '88 Evinrude 150hp 20"shaft engine is on
last legs and unreliable.   I'm thinking of buying a gently used 2001-2003
replacement 150hp outboard, but almost all worth ...

I'm pretty sure folks have addressed this before, but in my
ignorance, I don't find the answer.
  I'm building a Diablo (a Bolger design, plans from Payson <http://
www.instantboats.com/>), my first attempt a woodworking (not to

I have a 1977 C&C 24 sailboat that I need to sell, trade, or what ever you
have in mind. I will even consider parting it out. This boat must go. It was
to be a restoration project for myself and my father-in-law but we will
never be able to get it done. Plans and reality are just ...

I just purchased a 1972 aristocraft 19, and the owner says the fellow
he bought it from put a 1985 mercruiser 165 hp
inline 6 4.1 litre in the boat. I thought mercruiser stopped using
that engine in 1976 or so.

Today I was shocked to find that my seriously beefed up MiniCup rudder
boxes were rotten (Well, this is Florida).  So I made patterns from
the old ones and cut out the pieces.
Cutting apart the old ones I found the reason they rotted was that

I recently found out about a new system that prevents boat corrosion.
The system is called SeaBis Electrolysis Corrosion Prevention System.
This system is apparently the first of its kind that detects and
eliminates stray current and actually prevents corrosion. Once the

Anyone have any idea when the folks at Stevenson Projects will start
shipping again?  Their website says they're moving the business again,
but it's said that for a while now.
Stuart Nottingham