58 Sedan Bridge Official Thread

bhagan said:
Hey Chris! Yes! We were actually supposed to close on the sale of our 44 last september the Friday after IAN hit and close on the 580 that monday. We needless to say the 44 was destroyed when Legacy Harbour (downtown fort myers) was destroyed. We had good insurance and they cut us a check fairly quickly so we moved on the 580 still. Picked it up in Fort Lauderdal and for right now keeping it in Punta Gorda. We love "Love & Luck "II"!!! :D
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Nice. You can update the details near your avatar...

Too bad about Legacy Harbor. Nice place, and we spent June/July 2021 there just after taking possession of our boat... and while we were having the engine rehab work done. Eric was very helpful when it came to trotting out service folks for the other stuff we found we needed to fix, too!

Seems to me I somehow "captured" the coax after I removed the bunk room TV, so I could fish the out of there if I ever wanted to do that. Don't remember details, though...

-Chris
 
carterchapman said:
We live across the river from Legacy Harbor and look at it everyday - just sad - same at Tarpon Point our Marina.
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We have three friends that lost their boats at legacy. Really sucks. We just had dinner at pinchers at tarpon point. Nothing has been done yet.

Ken
 
missnmountains said:
We have three friends that lost their boats at legacy. Really sucks. We just had dinner at pinchers at tarpon point. Nothing has been done yet.

Ken
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Nothing at Legacy either...

We left yesterday for Atlanta/Chattanooga for four months - sorry we didn't get together this winter - I know you were busy. I had 6 months of miserable pain with my back/surgeries. Hoping for better next fall.
 
carterchapman said:
Nothing at Legacy either...

We left yesterday for Atlanta/Chattanooga for four months - sorry we didn't get together this winter - I know you were busy. I had 6 months of miserable pain with my back/surgeries. Hoping for better next fall.
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Once we get the dock done and our boat tied up, we will come and see you in the motor home. I am really sick of waiting on contractors.

Ken
 
Our sun pads are extremely close if not identical to @ttmott's, but I will try to get pics this weekend.

My old dock neighbor is now at the Marina we moved to so we could upgrade to the 58. He purchased a Marlow 70 just before IAN that was in Legacy Harbor and managed to survive with minor damage. It's here now all fixed up in New England for the summer. Unbelievable it survived with cosmetic damage after seeing all the damage in SW FL when I was there in October helping my parents clean up their house on Sanibel.
 
ttmott said:
The only attachment is at the very foot of the cushion. It slices into a plastic groove attached to the deck. Like the aft curtain.
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In your pic, the two Starboard pieces have piano hinges at one end. What do the fasteners on the "loose" end of the hinges screw into? The deck, right? Or...?

Our cockpit canvas pieces have beads on the top ends that fit into a channel (groove?) across the underside of the bridge. That what you mean? The bottom ends of each canvas segment fasten with bungie loops (aft pieces) or snaps (side pieces...

-Chris
 
ranger58sb said:
In your pic, the two Starboard pieces have piano hinges at one end. What do the fasteners on the "loose" end of the hinges screw into? The deck, right? Or...?

Our cockpit canvas pieces have beads on the top ends that fit into a channel (groove?) across the underside of the bridge. That what you mean? The bottom ends of each canvas segment fasten with bungie loops (aft pieces) or snaps (side pieces...

-Chris
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The back of the cushion that leans up has starboard inside of it; that gives it rigidity and where those hinges can screw into. Those hinges screw into that starboard. I only know this because I stitched up new covers a couple of years ago.
Yes the same as the cockpit canval bead.
 
Got it.

Ours is different, hardware shown here without pad:

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The stainless bows hinge up. No stop points; they'll do a 180-dgree arc except for the drinks tray blockage in the corners.

Near as we can tell, it looks like we need to move them to an approx 35-degree angle and then the "Sun Blocker Clips" (Sailrite's name for the nylon stand-offs) would simply rotate toward and press against something (Starboard, likely) -- maybe inside a sleeve -- on the back side of the reclining portion of the pad. Held in place by gravity, I guess.

I suspect I'll be able to have the canvas people make a zip-in/out sleeve on the back and then I'll fit a piece of Starboard (3/8" maybe?) inside that sleeve.

Have to admit, all this time, I paid only about 45 seconds worth of attention to how the thing might work. Low priority. So far, I only cared about a) securing the POS that came with the boat in the meantime, and b) replacing it with something that fits eventually.

The "a" wasn't all that elegant, because the tie-downs on the pad that came with the boat don't actually line up with the pad eyes on deck. The "b" was at first trying to track down OEM, or at least whoever might have a pattern; no joy. It never occurred to me to learn how the recliner-back support might actually function... until the canvas-measurer-guys (finally) showed up the other day and began to ask questions.

-Chris
 
On my 48, the bow pads are like the ones @ttmott has….FWIW
 

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Hmmm... Ken and Scott both have 2008 models, so at first I was guessing our 2006 and maybe 2007 models were different. OTOH, Tom's is a 2006, yours is a 2006...

So maybe what I have isn't at all a Sea Ray installation, maybe all after-market. I've been pretty sure the pad that came on the boat was aftermarket, but that's mostly because the tie-downs were so ill-fitted relative to the pad-eyes.

-Chris
 
Has anyone pulled out their bridge icemaker? I've got a small leak in the waterline and need to pull mine out to replace the icemaker line. Any advice on what's involved?
 
Yes. It is straight forward. Remove the frame. You have to lift the ice maker slightly to slide out. The cord is long enough to get it completely out.

The only thing to keep in mind it to sort the frame screws. The ones on top are shorter so that they do not punch through the countertop.

By the way, my small leak was actually the drain for the sink. Just had to tighten it a little.

Ken
 
Yep, relatively straightforward. Remove the frame, etc. I removed ours... and gave it away.

The water line from down below goes to a Seatech T fitting, 1/2" I think, with NPT threads. I couldn't find Seatech, but QEST makes pretty much the same thing. (Amazon)

One side of the T goes to the sink with 1/2" hose, the other goes to the icemaker. On the icemaker line, first there's an ON/OFF valve, then 1/4" clear tube with compression fittings at the valve and at the icemaker. (These days, those would more likely be stainless wound hose as for a household fridge icemaker. When we replaced the icemaker line to our galley freezer with a stainless wound hose, matching fittings took some shopping.)

You'd want to use soft sealing dope like Rectorseal for the plastic NPT fittings. And test for leaks before you start putting stuff back together. :)

Our original T cracked, so I had to replace that... and I suggest while you're in there, you might as well do that too. There's another internal framing piece between where the fridge lives and the icemaker lives... and I had to take that out to be able to get both hands on the work.

-Chris
 
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