Got a few parts back from the powder coater, especially the intake. Now I can get it set.





I took the boat off the dolly and set it up on jack stands, just so I could crawl around under, without any thing in the way.





I measured the two center strakes at the front and the rear and marked the center.




I measured the first set of outer strakes at the transom and marked the center.



I used a laser to shoot the keel center line. The idea is to make sure that all the center marks line up, dead nuts, with the laser and You have a perfectly straight centerline of the keel.











The intake is in and set at 4.3*
Fri day night about 12:30am I finnaly finnished up setting the intake. I got to say this one did not go as smoothly as the one in the Kona.
When I set the intake intake in the Kona, the keel was very thick, and I had to actually cut down into the hull to get the shoe low enough to be in the plane of the keel. On this one, the keel is only a heavy 1/4"- 3/8" and the inside of the bilge was rally un even, so the intake was rocking back and forth on a high spot. I had previously ground and built up , when I mocked up the intake a few weeks ago and had the intake working. I think when I gel coated the bilge, and did some filling, i might have built up a little, and I actually had to grind a little of my fresh gelled bilge, in the rear.
This was the first time I used poxy putty. Is this stuff supposed to be this stiff. I was so stiff that It was very difficult to mix together. I used marine tex last time and it is very loose and easy to mix.
I had to play with the intake a lot to get it right and the dam digital angle finder seemed to give a different reading every time i touched it. I had to keep resetting it and rechecking it, from keel to intake, just because i wasn't confident in the readings. It would read correctly and then I would touch it and it would get off and not go back to the right reading.
Finally I got a consistent reading 4 times in a row and said that was it.
After I had it set and cleaned up and cured, this morning I zeroed the digital angle finder to the keel and checked the intake angle one more time. Bingo it was right on 4.3*


I had to do a little grinding on the fresh gel.



I used poxy puty. This stuff was stiff as hell and hard to mix. I had used marine tex last time and was easy to work with.





I had to jack around with the dam intake a lot, to get it where I wanted it, but I finally goter dunnn.







Drilled all the thru bolts.



I am going to set up an build the engine plates before I flip it over and blend the bottom, so i put the boat back on the dolly, to get ready for the next step.