[Finishing touches]

Getting close there king!!! Looking great!!!

[Good boat theft story]

Yeah the sad part is that they crooks are probably out on bail. If history repeats itself they will get a slap on the wrist with no jail time.

I wish i bonded them out i would of taken ther money and then thrown them back in jail a couple of days later just to screw with them.

[trophy Rebuild-Powder Coat and wiring]

Your hard work and attention to detail is really paying off. Thats going to be one sweet ride when your done.

Do you plan to seal up the open end tubes and wiring holes in the t top? I would think a bought using white tub and tile caulk rather then 5200 its easer to work with and would come out a lot easer then 5200 if you need to add a cable at a later date.

[Trophy Rebuild-Canvas lashing]

Wow!! Looking good!!

[Caption This, Version 4]

Sh*tBucket

[Navy Fleet Week - Port Everglades]

Wiley

Do you have the bandwidth to steam it live?

[Wtb Marine A/c]

At a given temperature setting you want your A/c to run long enough to condense the water in the air and drop the humidity of the cabin. If you have an oversized unit, it will only run a short time each cycle and won't have enough time to circulate enough air through to drop the humidity before it reaches the desired temperature and shuts off, leaving your cabin damp.

FloridaR is correct. A oversized unit will short cycle and leave the humidity behind. When a home is getting AC a heatload calculation is preformed to keep such things from happing.

An AC coil will only freeze if air flow thru it is is severely restricted or it has a freon leak.

[What Are You Doing This Weekend?]

There is, but we ain't got a bilge!

I sure never found anything in the bilge that was intresting.

The sandbar however had some nice looking gals.

[What Are You Doing This Weekend?]

Well looking at the NBDC Forcast for South East Florida i will just stay home and do some home and boat maintinance.

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/Forecasts/FZUS52.KMFL.html

[Trophy Rebuild Phase 3]

I spoke to the guy hat will do the job, Unique Coating in Greensboro. He does 5 a week for a major builder. It will run about $175.00 for the top and a little extra for some holes I am going to fill and modify the leening post legs. He also will sand blast the top as prep.

Boy you sure find some good deals!! I would do it for sure at that price.

[Trophy Rebuild Phase 3]

Making good progress there king. I love the look of the powdercoat. If done right the powder coat holds up well. The first issue most see with the powdercoat is at the fasteners.

stainless screws and snaps should have a plastic or rubber washer where they contact the powdercoat to help prevent that. Good luck and keep us posted on the progress.

[Google You Sceen Name]

Wow ya thats pretty cool. Sure does bring back some memories.

[Running At Night]

Just wanted to clarify the spot isn't for running I use it for getting in the slip and figuring out what that big shadow is in front of me when its dark out.

You are one of the smart ones. i was coming in one night a few weeks ago and some yahoo had his spots on like driving lights coming out of the channel. i just stopped and waited for him to go by. I wanted to give him a piece of my mind but my wife was on board and i decided it was not worth it.

[Running At Night]

Not my boat but this is what i am doing on my world cat

[Running At Night]

Yeah that was my idea too. Figured I'd ask everyone else before I started cutting and running wires.

Its really the only answer that will work if you want to use it while underway. Not only does the chrome reflect the light back at you the entire deck is illuminated wich blinds you as well.

[Running At Night]

Alright got a conundrum here that my fried brain cells have yet to find a solution to. I've got a parker 2520xl its a sport cabin. I have a acr remote spot light mounted on top of the cabin which is great until you need to use it. Problem is with all the chrome railing on the bow the spot light reflects back and blinds you at night making it completely useless. I was wondering if anyone else had this problem and if anyone had found a good solution to it other than mine of just not using the spot light?

Relocate it to the bow???

[Mast Head Light]

That was my bad, I didn't at first read, see the part about being in the bandwidth. However, if one does a little geometry, there is a window where pucks can be mounted flush, yet still meet both guidelines of being no closer than 1 meter to the radome, as well as not being within the beamwidth, which would be 12.5deg below the centerline of the radome.

Jimmy, it's good to see you. Welcome aboard.

That was my problem the geometry did not go in my favor i had to go above the beam.

Its all good

[Mast Head Light]

Delete the post.

I am not wanting to start anything either this is just a friendly disscussion.

I got to read your post before the delete. I did a lot of research on this matter when i did my install i belive in the garmin gps manual it states that the attennas are best mounted above the radar beam. That said i know that a lot of people have them mounted below and they do work.

http://www8.garmin.com/manuals/GPSMAP3005C...nstructions.pdf

[Mast Head Light]

Ex,

Myself? I would have flush mounted the pucks to the hardtop and used a 24" fold-down anchor light t/bolted at the aft end, no mount needed...but that's just me. :1992_beer_cheer:

I believe that is a no no when you have a radar Or so all the MFG instruction manuals say.

I wanted to put mine flush on the top but researched it at the time and the general consensus was that it was not a good idea

[Mast Head Light]

When setting up my boat I looked at a similar mount and setup but i decided against it because of the height. When my boat is on the trailer the hardtop is 12'3" I needed to stay low for clearance when trailering. One small tree branch and that mast is history.

[Mast Head Light]

King, your setup looks fine. Different setups for different people.

Agreed it does look ok and will work. I was just thinking it would look more symmetrical if the antennas would have fit flush on the flat part of the mast. And it would have put his light well above the antennas.

ALL

The reason i visit this site and other forums is looking for ideas and suggestions. I believe that was kingairs intention as well. We can all see that his mount it will work however its nice to get other ideas too.

[Mast Head Light]

No I see what you mean. If I trim some of the threads off the mount, I could drop it down a bit. I am not sure how high the Sirius antenna is going to be.

My XM antenna is a puck just like the gps. I have a diffrent kinda of set up let try to post a pic. Xm is is the one on the right.

[Mast Head Light]

I just looked at the first pics again. and I don't think the flat part of the mast is wide enough to mount them flush so I think you got it right. Sorry should have just kept my idea to myself. Sorry

[Mast Head Light]

Does this look low?

No that looks fine for the light height. However I still think it would look better with the antennas flush mounted. With your setup there is no benifit to using the bases.

[Mast Head Light]

Neat idea but i would change one thing if it were doing it for myself. I would just mount the gps and sirius antenna flat. With out the base. So that the light is well above the antenna. I think it would look and function better.