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Old 25-07-2008, 07:57 PM   #1
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Dateline Suva Project
I am at the begining of doing a full resteration project on my newly aquired Dateline Suva.

I will use this thread to show the full resteration from start to finish with pictures.

Hopefully someone will be intrested! :P
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Old 25-07-2008, 08:05 PM   #2
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What it looks like at first
This is what the boat looked like when i first got it (this wednesday).

I got it from Captin Caos through Boatmad!
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Old 25-07-2008, 08:07 PM   #3
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He told me he's cleaned it ! before you picked it up !!!!!


But Good Luck With Her will follow with interest ....
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Old 25-07-2008, 08:16 PM   #4
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First Stage clean and strip!
The first stage was to clean the boat and strip everything out of and off the boat.

Which included:

Seat Removal
Steering system removal
Cleaning white section of boat
Removing wooden slats
Remove from old trailer
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Old 25-07-2008, 08:19 PM   #5
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He told me he's cleaned it ! before you picked it up !!!!!


But Good Luck With Her will follow with interest ....
Yer it still needed all the white section cleaning tho!

But got it for nothing. Cant complain :P Its a great boat!

Should be a good little project for my first little boat!
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Old 25-07-2008, 08:38 PM   #6
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hope you enjoy the project
will follow your progress with interest
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Old 25-07-2008, 10:00 PM   #7
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Engine!
I am just wondering also if anyone would know where i could get a 40 or 50hp Yamaha for it?

Or a Mercury/Mariner 40 - 60hp?

Iv tryed ebay and boatsandoutboards! (and not alot on there)
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Old 25-07-2008, 10:07 PM   #8
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Well i am interested cos i bought that boat brand new at the earls court boat show when they first came out.
I know it is that boat cos i put the timber strakes on when i first got it
The strakes were not standard on the boat so i put them on cos it looked boring without. The dateline bounty had the timber strakes so i copied that.
I can give you some history if you are interested!
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Old 27-07-2008, 11:16 AM   #9
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Well i am interested cos i bought that boat brand new at the earls court boat show when they first came out.
I know it is that boat cos i put the timber strakes on when i first got it
The strakes were not standard on the boat so i put them on cos it looked boring without. The dateline bounty had the timber strakes so i copied that.
I can give you some history if you are interested!
Hi,

Yes some history would be great!
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Old 27-07-2008, 11:17 AM   #10
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Who stitched you up with that then?


Will look well nice when done.
Captin Chaos on here gave it to me for nothing.

Yer I am litrally stripping it right back and re-doing it all!
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My 1977 dateline suvo
my 1977 dateline suvo
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