1st I needed to decide which one to rebuild. Decide on the right on a 74? Westwind instead of the 68? Crestliner. Reason being it has a better trailer, heavier glass job, larger cabin and the transom is in better condition. Any ?'s/comments e-mail tekitracker at yahoo dot com

A little about the boats, the westwind (tarped) I picked up from a drive by, watched it all summer long and finally called the owner. He picked it up for the outdrive (now missing) and just wanted to get rid of it. Had a 2.0 ltr OMC elect shift.

Bought the 68? Crestliner on ebay, motor already out. Came with a Volvo AQ110 w/ volvo outdrive.

Once I got it out of the pickup bed and on my engine dolly

Engine had good compression and the bearings seemed good so I decided not to do a total rebuild just a cosmetic dress up

Block painted

Just have to make some gaskets (anyone know where you can get these from pls e-mail me) and finish the generator (yes I have plans in keeping the generator although I have a marine alternator from the other engine for back up.

Starter still needs its beauty salon visit, but otherwise I'm getting there

Time to start on the Boat, first needed to get the OMC out of the Westwind

9 ft ceilings make for a tight fit. Boat anchor (pun) is now out. Just american over-engineering.

Maybe I should have picked the Crestliner

Needs some serious work

The floors were rotten and the foam was saturated, once I removed all this, I thought that the fiberglass started flexing and I made the wrong choice of boats to work on. Once I got down and checked things out, I figured out that removing 1200 pounds of saturated foam relaxed the boat to the point that the saddles on the trailer were to low Plans continue. Pics to follow

With a break in the weather have decided to get back to work on this project. I need to rebuild the transom to accept the Volvo outdrive. Need to remove one layer of 3/4" plywood.

Still below freezing outside, this made the removal easier. The inside layer of plywood was watersoaked and rotted so with it being frozen it came off pretty easy.

Other side

Just some cleanup and sanding and ready to build new laywers

Using this as a template. Starting on the outside to get a start

After much trimming and cussing template done. Now to lay up the new transome.

New transome before detailed cut from the template. I wanted to make the transome as strong as possible so its made up of 2 sheets 3/8th and one sheet of 1/4 plywood with resined glass inbetween.

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Finished another project am back on the boat. Front of stringers in and some ribs dry fitted

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I didn't take any interum pics but I have the I/O in and wanted to make sure things worked before I went any further, worked great planed out well. Just a little work to do on the outdrive and carbs. Now the fun part

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