Well here is my first post on socaljetboats. After talking to a few friends and reading over the forums I am taking the Southwind in tomorrow for new interior. Cant wait to get on the water this year. I hope Brad approves!!!!!!! I will try and post pictures of the progress and will deff put up pictures once it is done. Also the old interior is for sale. Not in that bad a shape make me an offer.

Welcome to SCJB and good luck with the interior job.... U going to keep the dog house engine cover or turn her into bench seating in the rear with a bigger engine cover? Keep us posted.. Who is doing the interior for ya?


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awesome...glad to hear shes doing well. i loved that boat.

i always wanted to do the bench with a sun deck engine compartment deal. I've seen other southwinds set up that way and I really liked it.

While you have it apart, just double check the tanks. I had them repaired, but it wouldnt hurt to check them again. What happened (long before I had it) is the tanks broke loose and the only thing holding them in was the fill necks, so eventually the fill necks on the tanks cracked. Also, on the driver side, the sidewall of the tank got rubbed really thin from the wood of the seat rubbing on it. they welded a strip of aluminum to 'beef it up' a bit. I would just check for wear...hairline cracks...etc. also make sure my fiberglass job is holding up where i re-glassed in the tanks. I had one of them (driver side i believe) break loose after i fixed it ...so I redid the glass work much heavier.

anyways, glad to see her pop back up. glad shes getting some love. Hope to see you around this summer so I can remissness with my old boat lol 

 Brad i had the whole interior out of the boat about two hours after i bought it from ya haha  I guess im one of those guys that has to take his new toys apart before i play with them. Ya i could see that the tanks had moved around in the past and had been fixed. They looked ok so i didnt mess with them much at the time. I am gona have them checked out along with some other little things. Im sure ill see ya around this summer. Riverguy Raul was great. I mentioned you and your boat and told him i had the same boat. He gave me a quote that seemed really fair even if he finds anything extra i may need to repair.

I'd like to see pics of your old interior. I'm interested. thank you.

Stopped by A1 the other day to see if they had started on the boat. I kinda had a feeling that the stinger under the floor might need to be replaced and I was right. So its getting a new stringer all way to the front and new floor. I'm going to pull the tanks and remount them myself later on in the season or in the off season next year.  damn boats!!!! Break out another thousand haha Oh well I love the boat and plan on keeping it for awhile.

Stopped by A1 to look at the boat. They have been super busy and finally cut the floor out to expose the rotten stringer. I can grab the stringer with my hand and move it back and forth about 3/4 of an inch New stringer and floor should be done by Monday and the interior should take another couple weeks. Once I get the boat back a couple friends and I are going to put in all new wiring, plumbing and gauges. So it should be damn near a new boat once it hits the water this year.

Couple photos of the bad stringer

damn, i miss that boat

Don't deprive yourself, Brad. http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lgb/boa/3730802439.html
If I was going to be around so cal longer, I'd buy this just for the hell of it. Southwind made a good hull.

i can understand your frustration.  they should be along a lot further than that for sitting that long.  i busted ass and cleaned out my hull in less than a day.  if i had 8 hours a day to work on it, it'd probably be done by now.   its one of those difficult situations where you dont want to complain and then they half ass everything just to shut you up... but if you dont say anything your deadline will come up quick and they'll halfass it anyways just to get it done on time...

Riverguy553 you posted while I was typing that up. To be honest I was hoping they would be further along at this point. Boat has been at A1 for nearly a month and you can see the progress. I guess I made the mistake of telling him I didn't need it until may. I am not really in a huge rush anyway and I am hoping that will help with quality and price. They are saying ill have it back end of the month. Ill post more photos of the new floor next week. The one thing I will say about A1 is they are very open to me stopping by to look at the boat and even tell me when to come back to take pictures.

Ya don't sweat it, mine was the same way, the first 5 weeks went super slow then all the sudden he's calling me telling me it's done. He was done 2 weeks ahead of my deadline I made. After my new floor went in he busted his butt! As far my interior it has been doing great, IV used it 3 times. The only thing I wish I would have had done was put a pocket for stuff in front of my cup holders, I really dont have no place for my phone or wallets that are close to reach!!

that CL ad is not a southwind. the entry (underside of the bow) is way too steep. the deck is wrong....unless it some weird mold. its not the same 20 cruiser i had.

Don't deprive yourself, Brad. http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lgb/boa/3730802439.html
If I was going to be around so cal longer, I'd buy this just for the hell of it. Southwind made a good hull.

Looks like a Spectra 18 to me. I could be wrong tho.