The restoration of Never Monday, 1989 340DA updated 08/29/07

never monday

never monday

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Oct 5, 2006
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Lake Lanier, GA
READ DOWN FOR MORE PICS AND STORY. Commentary is always welcome.

Old SRO member know most of the story, but I'l share it again for ClubSearay.

I bought this boat at salvage auction. It was stolen and scuttled in Lake Norman, outside of Charlotte NC. The hatches were broken out, a side window, and two holes in the lower mid bilge. One appeared to be from a shotgun the other from a pick ax. I had her shipped to me at Lake Lanier and put it on the hard. She arived on Sept 1st and will splash SOON. I have almost all of the interior out to remove the fabrics and make new panels. When it's done it will be a black, gray on white scheme with a wood interior. Eventualy, cash dependant I'll repower her with Yanmar's 6LPA-STP. It's a 315hp turbo diesel.
Pat
 
Heres what I started with.
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After she arived I started removing all the interior. This allowed me to remove all the nasty fabrics in the boat, and get to the holes. I had planed on redoing the furniture anyway.

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After getting the water tank out I found alot of rotten wood in the floors. A few cuts and out it came.

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This was the best day so far, I'VE GOT GLASS!!!!!!!

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I picked this up the other day. I'm still not sure I want to use it.

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Looking forward to keeping up with this project, and glad to see you moved here from the SRO
 
J Levine said:
Looking forward to keeping up with this project, and glad to see you moved here from the SRO
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WHEW ... looks almost like that storm badgered 400 dancer on eBay we discussed on SRO lately ... well, not quite as bad ...

Had this vessel sunk before, or how did it get into such a poor shape??
 
Never Monday: Looking forward to seeing your pic's again. It looked like it was coming along real well! :thumbsup: JC
 
Well crap.....
I'm in the water, and taking on water. I can't find the source. It's comming from an area foreward of the starboard exhaust outlet and about 6" lower. THere's a bulkhead glassed in and the water is comming from behind it. It might be a crack I missed while focusing on the holes. Oh well, I'll haul out again on Monday
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Depression OVER...I have a running engine, YAHOOOOO
I now have faith the other will run next week when I get some exhaust hose. Now where to empty these fuel tanks. 350 Gal is a lot of bad gas.
 
never monday said:
Depression OVER...I have a running engine, YAHOOOOO
I now have faith the other will run next week when I get some exhaust hose. Now where to empty these fuel tanks. 350 Gal is a lot of bad gas.
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Pat

My dancer only holds 172 (80 port/92 Starboard, I think) You have more tankage? Where'd they put it?

S
 
I figured that out after revisiting the manual. i was thinking 175 x 2 tanks.

Skip,
How far can you go on the standard tanks? I am thinking about retanking for more capacity.
 
never monday said:
I figured that out after revisiting the manual. i was thinking 175 x 2 tanks.

Skip,
How far can you go on the standard tanks? I am thinking about retanking for more capacity.
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The only time I've gone any appreciable distance, on the last leg of the trip down Lake Huron, I went about 85 miles on 136 gallons of fuel - which really sucks if you're the one paying for the fuel :smt089 but I was trying to hit the open fuel docks in order and before they closed and was delayed by weather... so I was running at about 3500RPM/27knots - 5/8nm/gallon. Earlier in the day, I was running about 3250rpm/24knots and got about 3/4nm/gallon. I am told if you can stand it and run below 3000rpm/21knots, you'll get about 1nm/gallon. I haven't been able to disprove that yet :grin:

Retanking seems like a good idea. The 88-89 340 express cruiser has 300 gallon capacity, which makes a lot more sense, imho.

Of course, YMMV. Literally.

S

(EDIT: Corrected typo - 3.4nm/Gal to 3/4nm/mile or 0.75nm/gal... 3.4 would be VERY optmistic)
 
Just curious, where is your tank(s)? Mine are they positioned to either side of the mid-cabin. If yours are similar, you might have issues increasing capacity. If you have a single, then you might be OK...
 
MarkD said:
Just curious, where is your tank(s)? Mine are they positioned to either side of the mid-cabin. If yours are similar, you might have issues increasing capacity. If you have a single, then you might be OK...
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(EDIT) UNDER the mid cabin, in the center. Severely limits your options unless you get very creative. Since Never Monday is ground up, Pat might come up with something very clever :thumbsup:

BTW, The EC has 252 gallon capacity, I was incorrect.
 
When you haul the boat out to find the leal, stick a hose in there and start filling it up. Wherever it leaks out is where your leak is. Good luck!
 
admin said:
When you haul the boat out to find the leal, stick a hose in there and start filling it up. Wherever it leaks out is where your leak is. Good luck!
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Thanks.
I thought about that. My concer is it's without having pressure on the water I don't think gravity will be enough. We'll see.

On tanks. I have the two mounted under the aft cabin. I calculate about a 250 mile range. I would like to be in the 500 mile range class. So the pan is to remove all the vacuflush crap and go standard pump head with a 15G tank. I think this will allow adding a 100 ish G tank midship outside of the aft cabin. I'll have to relocate the generator. The other option it up in the V berth. I think I could get 100ish up there. Remember I'm going diesel so I don't need to worry about flamability.
 
SkipBarnes said:
never monday said:
I have the two mounted under the aft cabin.
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Do you really need the aft cabin? Seems like a huge opportunity.
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I have a 2 1/2 YO boy who will be traveling with us. One of my requirements was a tru two cabin boat.

I'm out I found the hole/crack. It was under the stand when I was in the yard last week. It looks like it landed on something when it went down. There is a hole about 1/2" in dia. and a crake about 8" long right under the chine.
 
While hanging in the slings you could see the water pouring out from a hole/crack where it was on the stand.

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After about 20 min of grinding and fairing. i'd removed a 1/2" of glass and this is the outcome.

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It looks like this boat went hard aground at one time and was less than properly repaired. I can't get to the back side to add renforcement. So I'll have to glass in about 6-8 layers from the outside and fair and paint.

ETA to the water, 1 week, mabey 10 days.
 
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