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1990 Outrage 19 Restoration and Repower
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| NCWhaler |
Posted on 08/10/16 - 7:59 PM
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I've owned this boat for several years and have used her to fish offshore in NC, waterski with the kids , walleye fish on Lake Erie and just cruise around with SWMBO. I'm a bit of a boat hoarder (seven total not including kayaks and jet skis) but if I had to choose one boat for the rest of my life, this would be the one.
She has had a busy life, being used for a long time as a charter boat before I owned her and it is time to give her some love. This spring, the old Yammie started to give me trouble even after rebuilding the carbs etc therefore I am going to switch motors from a Carolina Skiff 24 that I never use offshore, a sweet 2005 Suzuki 140.
Today over four hours I disconnected the dual teleflex steering cables at the outboard (1990 Yamaha 150,) removed the T-top, took out the batteries and battery boxes, removed the wood trim, began removing the bow rail and console and took out all the screws from the large deck plate.
A few months ago I sprayed new gelcoat on the sides of the hull, reupholstered the RPS, touched up the bottom paint, reinforced the trailer in some areas and restitched the T-top sunbrella.
As I proceed with the restoration I will provide pictures and commentary of what I find. The only surprise today was one of the steering cable tubes snapped right in half from corrosion in the thread area as I unscrewed the large nut on the starboard side. I guess this is one reason why motors from 150 HP up usually have dual steering cables.
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| NCWhaler |
Posted on 08/10/16 - 8:07 PM
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This was the mess after four hours and two beers:
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| JRP |
Posted on 08/11/16 - 3:57 AM
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Nice work! Your Outrage 19 certainly appears to be in good shape and well worth the effort of a restoration.
It's always interesting to me to see the contrast between your 19 Outrage I and my 19 Outrage II. I like the way you can unbolt and remove all the furniture/compnents of your interior, as opposed to mine which is all molded in place from fiberglass.
Btw, there is a brand new fuel tank for an Outrage 18 being advertised here on WC. This might be a good time to consider tank replacement since you have everything out of the interior and are repowering.
I have a 1992 Yamaha 150 engine that looks to be the same model as yours -- I hope mine will hang in there for a whie yet. It will be interesting to hear how the performance of the Suzuki 140 compares.
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| Joe Kriz |
Posted on 08/11/16 - 10:36 AM
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NCWhaler,
What year is this boat?
Your profile says it is 1990 but this post says 1989.
What does your HIN tell you?
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| NCWhaler |
Posted on 08/11/16 - 11:05 AM
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Sorry about the typo in the title, it is a 1990. Would you change it for me please?
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| Joe Kriz |
Posted on 08/11/16 - 11:20 AM
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Will do.
You appear to have an early 1990 model as you have the older standard console as opposed to the newer style console.
http://www.whalercentral.com/articles...icle_id=21
Can you tell us if you have the older 18' decals or the newer 19' decals?
I would also guess your HIN is ends something like this:
F990 to B090
The C090 had the newer console with electronics box.
http://www.whalercentral.com/articles...icle_id=58
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| NCWhaler |
Posted on 08/11/16 - 7:20 PM
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Yes, the HIN ends in F990. I believe I had the older decal style, with "Outrage 19" near the stern instead of in the middle of the stripe.
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| NCWhaler |
Posted on 08/11/16 - 7:27 PM
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Trying to add attachments of appropriate size and type, they sometimes won't attach, causing the post to duplicate. Frustrating.
Here is the RPS seat. The wooden core under the foam was pretty rotten, but served as a new plywood template and the foam was in excellent condition (the foam is the most expensive and difficult portion to replace when redoing upholstery.) 30 oz marine vinyl was inexpensive at $18 per yard locally in High Point and can be sourced even cheaper from the internet if you know what to look for.
I have three industrial sewing machines, each have a specific area of expertise. If you want to do upholstery, look for an old Singer 111-155 which has a walking foot mechanism that doesn't pull on the vinyl. They are available without reverse for $300 to $800 depending on condition and whether they have reverse and a servo or a clutch motor. The clutch motor is much harder to learn to use. Usually it isn't the vinyl that wears out first, it is the stitching especially if V92 or lighter thread is used and the thread is exposed to a high UV environment. I used V138 thread, but for really long lasting performance, PTEF thread can be used which is essentially resistant to UV. This is an aspect of restoration that anyone can become proficient in just by watching YouTube videos.
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| Phil T |
Posted on 08/12/16 - 4:53 AM
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FWIW - Anderson Manufacturing still offers OEM quality RPS seat cushions in the colors and textures.
www.amfg.us
(321) 267-7028
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| NCWhaler |
Posted on 08/12/16 - 4:59 AM
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It is great that aftermarket companies and Boston Whaler supply various parts for our aging boats! However, there is a lot of satisfaction in the process of making things yourself, which is more important to me than the cost savings. I spent my life in work that was inside and mental, and working with my hands on boats is almost therapeutic. My seat cost $30 or less for materials, and I plan to add a matching bench stern seat which would be quite costly ($1200) to purchase and wouldn't match my other upholstery.
I'd post a picture but still having a problem with appropriately sized JPEG files being called invalid. Seems to be happening when I resize pictures.
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Posted on 08/12/16 - 5:11 AM
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Another recent photo, rigged for king mackerel fishing with an aftermarket Todd leaning post/livewell seat. The two stroke 8 HP kicker is adequate for slow trolling and lake use aside from the lack of an alternator, but I now have a Yamaha T9.9 high thrust electric start kicker, which is a whole 'nother story as it was a little neglected.
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Posted on 08/12/16 - 7:12 AM
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How did you end up with aluminum legs on the RPS?
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| NCWhaler |
Posted on 08/12/16 - 8:28 AM
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Blackduck wrote:
How did you end up with aluminum legs on the RPS?
Not sure why you are asking that question? The base legs are made of a PVC-like material. They bolt onto a piece of plywood with T nuts.
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Posted on 08/12/16 - 9:11 AM
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The RPS Z legs were produced it two colors, a brown and a white.
Given the age of the legs, lighting, photographic rendering on the monitor, they could appear to be aluminum color.
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Posted on 08/12/16 - 11:00 AM
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I've never seen them in white, so I assumed they must be aluminum-Not easy getting old-
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Posted on 08/12/16 - 12:22 PM
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I was surprised too and learned this when I bought my 1991 Outrage 17. Legs were white.
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Posted on 08/12/16 - 2:53 PM
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Today (four hours) I finished removing the bow rail and moved the T-top off the boat, removed additional hardware such as cleats and rod holders, disassembled and tagged the wiring harness in the console, disconnected the steering cables from the helm and removed a black vinyl stripe from the console. Just need to remove the throttle quadrant and I can take the console off the boat. It is starting to look like a "boat in a box." Total thus far: 8 hours labor, 4 beers.
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Posted on 08/12/16 - 2:55 PM
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Bits and pieces removed, I tossed them into the Carolina Skiff motor donor boat:
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Posted on 08/12/16 - 3:04 PM
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This is a picture of the Yammie T9.9 kicker I reconditioned. It isn't going to match the Suzuki so that is a problem... I had been looking for one on CL for many months when someone asked me to give them an estimate to fix up their sailboat to sell it, as one of the bow cleats had fallen off etc. It needed a lot of work but had this nice kicker on the back, which I coveted. He had paid $4500 for the boat, but I ended up trading $1500 worth of tile work to buy the boat, then took the kicker off the boat and traded the boat for a nice Catalina 22 sailboat that needed very little work. Sometimes bartering can be a wonderful thing.
The motor had just had nearly $600 of work done on it by a Yamaha dealer's mechanic. Despite this, it didn't run when the owner got it back. They are fussy, and like to have the autochoke defeated by holding your hand over the intake when they are cranked. Also they do better starting if the throttle is goosed 3 to 5 times before engaging the starter.
No water was coming out of the tell-tale and tlhe impeller was trashed. When I took the lower unit off to change it one of the bolts was seized and broke in half, which took oodles of PB Blaster, heat, cussing etc to get out. The bits of the impeller were lying in the water intake. I also had to re-clean the carburetor that was cleaned by the mechanic. Yikes.
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Posted on 08/12/16 - 3:12 PM
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The aforementioned "sweet" 2005 Suzuki df140. It only has 270 hours, and a few weeks ago I updated all the maintenance items. This boat was stolen from me about six years ago and I recently recovered it. Yay!
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