That's a fair point; I got nailed with the instrument panel I bought.

Many thanks.

Alacrity; many thanks for that. I've e-mailed the chap and await his resonse. These look great!

I'm getting my boat back this weekend and I'll start to piece it together next week. Hopefully, it'll all go back as easliy as it came apart!

It's encouraging what you can pick up on e-bay after a year constantly searching! I wanted to replace my Instruments and hunted down these ones over the past twelve months. All were "new old stock" and all came from the U.S.A. The speedometer is the original one as I couldn't find a replacement - I ...

I sent my "mercontrol" box, steering wheel and boss off to be powder coated. The chap I used really is a specialist and thoroughly masked all areas that needed it. I attach a some "before and after" pictures. I hunted for ages to find the "mercontrol" decals on line to no avail. I have therefore sca...

Hi Peter,

CurlyJo is at Balmaha on Loch Lomond; i'll post a picture after the next time I'm up there if you'd like?

Cheers,

Ian.

The new deck and cabin sole is almost completely formed now with only a few minor adjustments required before it is adhered. I was concerned that we wouldn't get a true line where the two sections of laminate butt up to the divider at the windscreen. I'm over the moon with the alignment and (to me!)...

Robin is indeed correct; I've used the same laminate as he did. Robin was kind enough to give me the contact details of the supplier. Although my stringers are certified "sound" by the boatyard, the cabin sole had one or two soft spots on it - probably due to many years of indelicate passengers jump...

My new deck has been shaped and following some fine tuning, will be adhered to the hull shortly.

I got some of my "bits" back from the chromium plater today.

They came up ok!