Center of gravity location MA20?

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I should say where I foresee needing to put the weight

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What year is your MA? BTW, nice work!

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Its a '78.

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Lots of progress this afternoon and evenng. It was raining so I brought the console inside the shop. Got all the instruments, radio, wheel, and throttle cut in and dry fit. Pretty happy with how it turned out. Built a new glove box lid and a shim for the throttle lever so it doesn't hit the face of the console. Did these with 3/4" starboard and they came out great. Now the throttle lever is just shy of the console face at full open.

Now a bit more fairing and some primer and she'll be ready for paint.

I am tired. But looking forward to fitting the floorboards tomorrow.

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Well the past few weeks have been crazy busy. Besides one of the busiest starts to the season we have ever had at our business, I have been laboring every night and weekend on this silly SeaCraft. It will be worth it in the end though!

I haven't gotten as many pics as I'd like, mostly because I'm just pushing through the projects as quickly as I can...

New floors glued and tabbed in. Primed the waterways and gloss areas of the aft cockpit and casting platform. I was going to just paint the inside of the hull, and leave the roving texture, but I didn't plan well enough and protect it when I tabbed in the floor and casting platform, so there was fairing going onto the roving and when I primed a section I decided it would look like crap to just paint it! So, yesterday I layed lightweight fairing over the whole interior, sanded it back, and painted it with BilgeKote. Its not perfect, but it looks better than roving would have, and I'm pretty sure once I put everything back together I won't even notice the bad spots.

I'm thinking I will get the gloss sprayed on the waterways and console this weekend. I hope. Then its on to bolting in parts, mounting the motor and rigging things up! The end is in sight!

https://drive.google.com/folderview?...Hc&usp=sharing

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Gloss is painted! Console, aft floorboard waterways, instrument panels. All Cloud White.

Hope to get some pics tonight when it is safe to go back in there.

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sounds great ,, need picts, please ..
that's what its all about!!

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Well. Got the console filled with instruments. And it's lifted into the boat. Still have the rest of the wiring to do but that will go pretty quick.

Still got some work to do on the floorboards and to finish the nonskid. I want to get everything dry fit before I mark out the waterways for the nonskid.

Hatches are all bolted in. Hydraulic hoses and cables are ordered. Outboard is ready to bolt on.

My wife is a pretty good seamstress and is making new coaming bolsters. We have made them before for our clients powerboat. There is a pic of them coming together in the Google gallery. We painted doorskin to seal it, then ran bolts through and hot glued them in place. Then Joy glued on the nice draining foam. She is in the process of cutting the material to be stapled on. They are going to turn out really nice. And, it goes with the theme of getting the boat back to as close to "classic" as I can (or want..) Besides, when I thought about filling all the holes in the coaming and making it look nice, I figured there was about the same amount of work to make new bolsters!

Still haven't made a final decision on seats. This might wait till we can find a good deal on something. It is going to kill me to put the ratty old green seats we got with the posts back in there... At least just about everything else will be final.

The hope is to have the boat ready for next Wednesday night. First race of the year for the YC and I am supposed to run race committee. We can do it in the YC boat but I would much prefer to show off our restored SeaCraft

https://drive.google.com/folderview?...Hc&usp=sharing

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Just ordered seats. Todd "Key West" style. They are on closeout from Todd but the shipping was ridiculous. So, I had my wholsesale supplier order them on their next Todd shipment so I don't have to pay shipping. They don't come with cushions but Joy will make cushions (better than factory...) with matching material to the bolsters and the rest of the cushions, so they should look very nice.

Pics coming soon of the bolsters installed. Getting close...

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Oh, one nice part I did that I forgot to mention is the aft motor well barrier, the panel that further seals off the motor well from the cockpit. Previously this was a fiberglass panel that was screwed into place. It was heavy and being screwed into place made accessing the motor well and the bilge hatch a pain in the ass. So, I bolted down a piece of plastic U channel on the front of the motor well for the panel to sit in. I built a new panel of 1/4" balsa core with fiberglass skins; it is much lighter than the previous solid fiberglass panel. The panel will sit in the U channel and then I'll use barrel bolts on the upper section to secure it in the motor well. That way, to remove it, simply undo the barrel bolts and the panel will pull right out. I'm also going to build a storage space for when the panel is not needed and out of the motor well. It fits perfectly under the deck all the way aft. This will be one of the final items that gets finished up, but there is a pic of the U channel in the motor well in the Google gallery. Here is the pic: