I know its not a jet, but thought i would share what i have been up to lately. Besides, Im bored and need something to do!
 My Spectra makeover project. Provided, i can figure out how to post pictures from my computer!
81 Spectra 20, 260 Merc IO I have had and used this boat for a few years, but has been appart and sitting asside, while I was building other boats and finnaly getting back to it.

I purchased My 81 Spectra 20 back in 2010, for $3000. After using it for two seasons I totaly love the boat,but it does needed some TLC.
The gell is in decent shape for its age, with the exception of a couple of spots up front on the lower hull, and a few stress cracks on the upper deck and I do like the colors, so the gell will stay for now and maybe get a cut and buff.
The boat needs to be updated with new gauges and interior and hardware. It has a bench in the front ,that I hate,so it will be converting the bench to buckets for the front.
One thing that has bugged me, is that when hitting rough chop, the boat feels kinda loose and not as solid as it should, so I started with ripping out the carpet, to see what was going on with the floor.
Here is a couple shot of what it looked like when I brought it home.




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Ok, so when i got the interior out and the carpet riped up off the floor,the wood was resin coated but did not apear to be glassed in at all.




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I had a pretty good trickle leak comming in thru the transom plate ever since I have had the boat. It is ok for the day trips because the pump keeps up, but it was preventing Me from making the over night camping trips. I pulled the engine out so that I can see the transom plate and inspect the condition of the transom itself.






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when I got the tank out, I found the area to holding quite abit of water.


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Well after getting things cleaned up, I found some disturbing news. I found some delamination, inside the tub that holds the tank, on the port side stringer.
The glass is delamenated at the base of the stringer where it meets the bottom of the hull and the stringer is loose from the hull. The damage is contained to the inside of the belly tank well.

It was not My intention to do a full restore on this boat at this time, it was just supose to be a facelift. I want to be able to use the boat for a couple more years before doing a full on restore, so I am going to attempt to repair the loose area of the stringer by injecting under the stringer with epoxy and grinding away and relaminating the glass.




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interesting "studs" with the turning fin... great progress.  man id love to have a belly tank.  how many gallons is it? 

I used the old bulkhead, as a template, then cut out the new bulkhead.
I then resin coated the new bulkheads and skinned them, with a layer of CSM and woven cloth.




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I cut out the new floors and got the bottom sides covered in glass.




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Floors, tabbed in.




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Shit Hal, I'm glad you're keeping this to a minimum and only doing a little face lift.   You've been a busy boy.  This is very close to the same hull I'm doing, only mine is a Sleek Craft.  Love these cruisers.  Good Job buddy!

The tank was originally sitting on a bed of upholstry foam and then expandable foam all round. This time I decided to bed the tank with some rubber foam padding that we use at work. It will give a nice firm but soft cushion between the hull and the tank. I left some space between the pieces ,so that water will not get traped and can run out of the drain hole, which i added, that was non existent, before.

I set the tank in place and centerd it up and wedged it, so it would not move. I had to weight one end down because it was rocking a little. once the foam gets in there it will take up the space and remove rocking.

After that I started putting in the expandable foam allaround the void between the stringer/ bulk head and the tank.




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got some goodies! New Autometer marine chrome gauges and bezels. It will be a 100% improvement over the old Faria gauges.
New ano steering post also.




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