J Levine
New Member
- Oct 5, 2006
- 753
- Boat Info
- 1995 Sea Ray 370 Sundancer
- Engines
- Mercruiser 7.4L Blue Water inboard V Drives
Hey guys, I have not been on the blog for a long time now, as two years ago I purchased a project house on 4 acres of property and I have been a little short of time ever since. I still have my beloved 95 370 and continue to update it, did the canvas last season which came out great. The last 3 weeks of life have been quite challenging in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. My boat was washed off its winter storage blocks and basically sank in about 1' of water. If you are familliar with Ron DDS here on the site who has, or had 
, a 340 DB you can see the some of the pictures of what we went through at the marina. To make a very long story short it became very clear to me that if my boat, which was not too bady damaged was going to survive, I had to take matters into my own hands (story of my life) So when it became clear that there was no way that I was going to be able to "hire" a company in the middle of a disaster zone, and at a marina with no power or water, to come dry out the cabin of my boat, which got flooded with a few hundered gallons of sea water, I did it myself with my insurance company more than happy to pay me to do so. This involved trucking, on a 120 mile round trip, 250 galons of fresh water in a rented tank to the marina along with my own generator, pressure washer, shop vac and a rented carpet cleaning machine. Two weeks and about 1500 miles of driving later, I am pleased to say that the boat is dry after putting 100 hours on a rented commercial dehumidifer powered by a generator that needed to be refueled every 19 hours.
During this process I removed much of the upholstered parts of the interior (none of which got wet) and brought them home for safe keeping. Now that I have the cabin all opened up my wife and I are going to redo much of the interior and I can see many of you have also done since the last time I was on this thread. Outside of the interior flooding the boat has some minor fiberglass and bow rail repair that I will have done in the spring. The machinery did not get wet (thank God)
So here is my question and request for some help. I bought the boat in 2004 and when I got her the OEM interior carpet runners were long gone. I now am going to have new runners made and would love to get my hands on the runners out of a sistership to use as patterns. Does anyone have any ideas for me? Have an old set of runners laying around that I could borrow to pattern and then return to you? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Jon
, a 340 DB you can see the some of the pictures of what we went through at the marina. To make a very long story short it became very clear to me that if my boat, which was not too bady damaged was going to survive, I had to take matters into my own hands (story of my life) So when it became clear that there was no way that I was going to be able to "hire" a company in the middle of a disaster zone, and at a marina with no power or water, to come dry out the cabin of my boat, which got flooded with a few hundered gallons of sea water, I did it myself with my insurance company more than happy to pay me to do so. This involved trucking, on a 120 mile round trip, 250 galons of fresh water in a rented tank to the marina along with my own generator, pressure washer, shop vac and a rented carpet cleaning machine. Two weeks and about 1500 miles of driving later, I am pleased to say that the boat is dry after putting 100 hours on a rented commercial dehumidifer powered by a generator that needed to be refueled every 19 hours. During this process I removed much of the upholstered parts of the interior (none of which got wet) and brought them home for safe keeping. Now that I have the cabin all opened up my wife and I are going to redo much of the interior and I can see many of you have also done since the last time I was on this thread. Outside of the interior flooding the boat has some minor fiberglass and bow rail repair that I will have done in the spring. The machinery did not get wet (thank God)
So here is my question and request for some help. I bought the boat in 2004 and when I got her the OEM interior carpet runners were long gone. I now am going to have new runners made and would love to get my hands on the runners out of a sistership to use as patterns. Does anyone have any ideas for me? Have an old set of runners laying around that I could borrow to pattern and then return to you? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Jon
