78 OMEGA CALIFORNIA DAY CRUISER FLOOR REBUILD AND STUFF

« **on:** February 20, 2011, 10:35:52 PM »

heres a little information on my boat.
its a 1978 21ft omaga california daycruiser jet boat
open bow conversion
460 ford bigblock and a jacuzzi wj pump w. place diverter
SO AFTER... many months and a few discussions with other jet boaters i decided to bite the bullet and replace my loose soggy floor
i really love my cruiser, and i had a strong feeling it was really water logged under there....seemed like in the last 2 years the boat slowed down like 10 miles per hour.....and now it was time for action! i took the cruiser to the crazy eights speed lab at the super secret location.!

brad and i started by taking out the "needs help"460 ford......drained the oil and started the teardown....stripped to the short block...waiting on the stand for some alone time.....

next we started to pull out the interior piece by piece, and pulling all the hardware off the floor...waiting for demolition day!

which came today........ripped up 1/2 the carpet to see the sorry ass floor .....some spots soggy wood, some cracked up fiberglass all cracking under our weight as we walked around the floor since the interior was out....it was ugly.....but thats not the half of it!

more to come as well as pictures of the action!

« **Reply #1 on:** February 21, 2011, 07:32:47 AM »

Great time to decide on a new look....Do you have a ski locker or coolers under seats. Get the pics up....

« **Reply #2 on:** February 21, 2011, 08:57:58 PM »

PICTURES OF THE PIRATE SHIP!

« **Reply #3 on:** February 21, 2011, 09:15:51 PM »

« **Reply #4 on:** February 21, 2011, 09:53:08 PM »

its one of those invisible pirate ships.....

« **Reply #5 on:** February 22, 2011, 04:54:37 AM »

Quote from: SuperJet on February 21, 2011, 09:53:08 PM

its one of those invisible pirate ships.....

Stealth ship.

« **Reply #6 on:** February 22, 2011, 04:53:56 PM »

no... had to resize all the pics....

ok heres some boat and engine pics

« **Reply #7 on:** February 22, 2011, 05:40:02 PM »

ENGINE removal....

« **Reply #8 on:** February 22, 2011, 05:43:10 PM »

brads skinny hoe was in my boat!

« **Reply #9 on:** February 22, 2011, 05:45:05 PM »

parlay payoff will ride again!

« **Reply #10 on:** February 22, 2011, 05:49:28 PM »

interior out ...

« **Reply #11 on:** February 22, 2011, 05:51:50 PM »

ripping up the carpet to expose the floor..... $:-\$

« **Reply #12 on:** February 22, 2011, 06:09:09 PM »

Good luck with the rebulid, know what your going through doing the same with my foat plus new paint

« **Reply #13 on:** February 22, 2011, 08:54:14 PM »

we pulled up the floor from the transom up to the dash....i'd say it was 95% rotted.....most of it was the consistency of potting mulch. The resin and glass in some areas and also the carpet were the only things holding the floor up. If there wasnt foam filled under the floor, it woulda had holes in it for sure lol.

the way we are going to do the new floor is have drainage points all over so no water can be trapped anywhere as long as he parks it with some upwards angle in the bow. It will be good better then it was when it rolled off the showroom floor and last for another 40+ years.

« **Reply #14 on:** February 23, 2011, 05:00:46 AM »

How are the stringers?

« **Reply #15 on:** February 23, 2011, 07:31:14 AM »

Do you plan on a dog house or are you going to make a hatch? With a open bow, a hatch could hide a few things and give strippers a place to sunbathe.

« **Reply #16 on:** February 23, 2011, 07:43:08 AM »

Quote from: Your Mom on February 23, 2011, 07:31:14 AM

Do you plan on a dog house or are you going to make a hatch? With a open bow, a hatch could hide a few things and give strippers a place to sunbathe.

the upholstery in the boat is in great condition and we arent going to mess with it for now....just going to redo the floors and lay down some new carpet.

« **Reply #17 on:** February 23, 2011, 07:45:04 AM »

Quote from: povertyjet on February 23, 2011, 05:00:46 AM

How are the stringers?

amazingly they arent bad at all. you can see some discoloration in the wood, but they dont flex at all. He has the 3 point mounts and I was standing on the mounts and bounced on it a bit and they didnt flex. He got lucky there.

« **Reply #18 on:** February 23, 2011, 09:00:59 AM »

MORE PICXS TO FOLLOW TONIGHT

« **Reply #19 on:** February 24, 2011, 07:47:46 PM »

getting into the floor....

« **Reply #20 on:** February 24, 2011, 07:52:43 PM »

YEP SOME MORE........

« **Reply #21 on:** February 25, 2011, 08:26:35 AM »

DIGGING DEEPER....AND UGLIER...AND UGLIER...LOL

« **Reply #22 on:** February 25, 2011, 08:31:14 AM »

and the last of them so far......hopefully dig the rest out this weekend....

« **Reply #23 on:** February 25, 2011, 08:52:03 AM »

Your into this far...why not run new full length stringers.

« **Reply #24 on:** February 25, 2011, 08:52:47 AM »

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Great time to decide on a new look....Do you have a ski locker or coolers under seats. Get the pics up....

i do have a ski locker in the middle and i love it...great for "recycled" boat sodas and other trash but it gets really nasty when oil from the bildge flows up there.....so were going to fix that problem on drainage...and no plans for any coolers as of yet....keeping the interion in tact and repairing what i can...

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Do you plan on a dog house or are you going to make a hatch? With a open bow, a hatch could hide a few things and give strippers a place to sunbathe.

im going to stick with the doghouse cover for now, and going to rebuild the little jump seats on the sides...they seemed to have taken a drownding and most of the abuse from getting in and out of the water via swim step....i already have a place for everything under the seats, this boat has great storage, everything is put away and is very accessable, one of my favorite parts about the boat!

any other questions or comments ? keep um comin if ya got um....thanks!

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