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89 Starliner Factory Refirb

No news or any news is what we want to see!

I'm thinking my 219 Persuader might just travel down to Bucyrus and get the once over:

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Just got these today @ 3:10 Central Time

Do you guys have your calendars set to remind you to post?! lol...I've been trying not be a pain in Kip's butt. He sent me these this afternoon. The floor is installed, and feathered in, but still needs to be glassed in. After that it's Pirelli flooring and snap in carpet.

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Make sure to have them spray the bilge in white splatter coat while the boat is apart! It will sure be easier on the eyes and easier to work on than the black!!
 
those pictures look so familiar. i remember when ours were rolling in. your floor must have been in decent shape. they took ours out all the way up an did some stringer work if i recall. i will say that the boat feels as solid as the day we first launched it 25 years ago. too many memories to give it up and buy something new.

no, no reminders set. just really wanting to see the finished product! we got our bilge area coated with black and white splatter. looks awesome. are you just sticking with the pirelli flooring or are you going to get some snap in carpeting? does the pirelli get hot in the sun?

i'm really wanting to see that new 250 hanging off the back of this beast! we are still in the hunt for a new OB and i'm pushing for the e-tech but dad is leaning towards the yam. hoping a picture of yours sways him!
 
The floor was in pretty good shape, but soft around the edges of the ski locker. I did not want the ski locker back...I've never used it in any of my boats.

There was a used 250 SHO on BBC the other day. Lot's of pics. Looked pretty sweet.
 
the area around the back of our ski locker was shot...well that and the fact that the driver's seat had pulled completely out of the floor! with you having an 89, which is what ours is, i have, probably too much of, a vested interest in your boat. my goal is to find one very similar in color to dad's and run them together down the river around 70! i know the newer pulses run faster, but the lines of the older liners cannot be beat in my opinion.

kudos to you for your patience on the refurb. i'd be all kinds of antsy, hell i was and it wasn't even my boat. growing up on the water must have that effect on us!

ps, thanks for the link to the motor. looks like a solid deal
 
Sam
I went without the locker as well. Looked way cleaner and was more solid and felt bigger. Say do you know if they glassed the underside of that floor? I hope so. Mine was bare wood when I pulled it out. It rotted from the inside out. The Checkmate floor has always been their Achilles heel.

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Mark said:
Sam
I went without the locker as well. Looked way cleaner and was more solid and felt bigger. Say do you know if they glassed the underside of that floor? I hope so. Mine was bare wood when I pulled it out. It rotted from the inside out. The Checkmate floor has always been their Achilles heel.
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The optimist in me says...I hope so...the realist in my says...I doubt it. It was one of my first thoughts too.
 
JT Patroni said:
Providing they don't put a limber in the cross member that is in front of the tank.
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Actually, you are right. There is an opening in front of the fuel tank. Personally I would fiberglass that shut, make sure there are no through-floor perforations and the area will be water tight. I have noticed that one of the worst areas in Checkmate floors is around the front seat bases. The water goes in the screw holes and starts rotting the floor.
 
Looking good Sam.....can't wait to see it back on the water w- the new engine!

Coop and I noticed something unique about my 69 CM race boat. Someone (CM?) cut a 4" x 8" vent between the stringers up under the front deck. As a race boat, it had a hard life but the floor and stringers were solid. The vent allowed air ventilation from the front all the way to the bilge under the floor.
 
Sam I am said:
I see they've already marked out the seat bases too...at least the hole patterns.
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Right. I didn't notice. I wonder if they are drilled or just marked.

I had a new floor done locally on my Diplomat. There was a drain pipe that used to run from the ski locker back. They left it in. After only 5 years the floor was soft and I tore it up to discover the the pipe was dumping bilge water under the floor and the stupid thing was rotting again. I was sort of ticked off and had to do the whole thing over. That was 10 years ago and it has held up fine now that it stays dry. Kinda not rocket science.

I would be surprised if Checkmate hasn't figured out what it takes to build a solid floor, I bet Coop knows what they are doing now days, In fact he probably built your boat in the first place. So it's his fault the floor didn't last. You should make him fix it on warranty. ;)

I'm looking forward to the finished product like everybody else.
 
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