How much to register your Chris Craft? I have been prcrastinating this for a long time. Just put up and ad to try and find sombody that does fiberglassing so I can this ole girl done. Sitting way to long thanks Roger

Sorry I didnt reply in a timely manner I never got a response on my email. I contacted the guy by email that knows how to do this I am totally stupid on this and really dont want to damage my boat. I will wait to see if he replys. Any other advice would be greatly appcricated. Thanks Roger

I really need to pull my head out guys and get started on my X-K when you have no freinds and there is no boat restoration shops for at least 400 miles and you out in the boonies you feel totally isolated. The engine is done its been done for two years and sitting on the shop floor with a tarp over ...

Is the 22 xks rarer than the 19s are far as production?

If you have a good compressor this will isolate about 90% of it. Go to your napa or any good parts store and rig up a fitting that will screw into your cylinders head and connect your quick coupler from your air hose.Make sure the fitting doesnt go deep into the cylinder broken pistons are not good....

Where there less made of the 22s than the 19s? Thanks Roger

How much is the request for the hull card info? Thanks Roger

I know this has been put up before but how do I look up the hull card for my 71? Its been awhile since I have been on here. Thanks Roger

If you have standard rotation starter any starter from a Ford 352,360 ,390,427.428 all these are the FE engine family, Make sure you use the properly sheilded marine aplication starter solinoid. Other wise take it to your starter rebuilding services that the member suggested. Unless Chriscraft used ...

This is my view on this subject. Poly Urathane is a very durable product. When applied properly will last for years. The old days of Acrilic Enamnal you had to spray your base coat let it tack up then spray your clear coat then you had to let it dry for 30 days and let it shrink and let all of the s...

My 71 has a factory pedistal tach on top of the dash I have seen butt loads of pics of other x's but have not seen one with a factory pedistal tach on top of the dash. Any body eles have one? Mine also has a factory spot light mounted on the top of the bow I know its factory becasue this boat is all...

I have a 71 X that has not been touched what do you need exactly?

I dont mean to sound stupid here guys but what is All Grip? I have done auto amd body in the past but boat finishing is all new to me.

This product is almost 100 dollars a gallon I found some on ebay for $1.99 no BS! So I ordered 4 gallons of the polish and four gallons of the wax. So will see what happens. Will keep the members posted on what I find out.

I have been seeing this product on line called Yacht Brite. There has been testominaly's about how the product works and I have not seen one bad blog on the product. This product is supposed to remove heavy oxidation then you follow up with ther polish to protect the finish. You can even use it on p...

I have a 81 Wellcraft that I am fixing up to sell. The top section of the cuddy has the grip texture in the gell coat and some light to moderate oxidizing, I was going to use Mequiars cleaner wax on it. I had a guy from Arizona tell me to use one of them Magic eraser with some soft scrub first to ge...

This is my two cents on this subject. I used to do Auto body and paint. I know nothing about gell coat ok. why cant a guy strip off the gell coat I asum you can use paint stripper sand it down and primer it using a good quality urathane primer guide coat it out then shoot a good quality two stage ba...

How do we contact the museum for hull card info? Thanks Roger

Sorry for the late reply . I usualy have it set up if sombody replys to my request that I am notified VIA email. I didnt get one. Thank You so much for the information on my boat.

I had put my X up on Peters website and he was going to get back to me with the info and never did can anybody help me find out info on my boat? Its a 71 Hull no ORCZ192011V THANKS ROGER

Ok that answers my question. I will try a finer grit disc first untill I get comfortable with it. Thanks for putting up with me this is all new to me. Roger

Isnt is going to ruin the fiberglass underneath if I take grinder to it? Shoudnt I take a electric sander with 180 wouldnt that be better the fiber glass is not real thick on the boat. Sorry to be a pain in the butt . But it sounds like a grinder would do more harm than good or is the gell coat real...

Ok that is what I needed to know. What grit sandpaper should I use? Thanks for your help Roger

I have a hatch on top of the bow so what you saying it reinforce the flat part of the bow on both side of the hatch so it doesnt flex? I have spiders clean down both sides of the top clear to the back of the boat edges are really hard to get to. I think I see what you talking about if you had an inc...

If I understand you right you are talking about reinforce all the top section with wood and glass mat underneath> I have spider cracks even on the edges this sound very difficult. I just want to sand down to the fiberglass and repaint it, I wont be able to do this successfully? Like I said I just wa...

I used to do auto body and paint but I know nothing about gell coat. I have a lot of spider cracks on the top of my hull. Can I just sand down it down to the fiber glass then prime and paint it. Is the spiders just the gell coat alone? I am going to sell the boat so I need to keep my cost down. I am...

Sounds good thanks Tim!

Oh cool another member with a X ! I am on Pacific time Time what time zone are you on. I wouldnt make much brownie points calling at midnight your time. I am in Nevada what state are you . This is really interesting I am very interested in how you rolled this baby over. Thanks Roger

Ok since where on the subject of blocking up a boat I wanted to post my blocking of my boat. Its the first time I have tried it a buddy came over Sat and we got it done blind leading the blind. What can I do to shore it up a little better? Its a little wobbly dont step on my go nads to bad guys I wa...

Yes your imput is important Jim! I am going to strip all the teak off the boat I didnt think about doing the back side good idea! So if I use like 220 grit sand paper and sand by hand then clean it with Comet and let it dry I can then put the siken on it how long will it take to dry out in the sun? ...