Shearwater 25LTZ rebuild thread

Anybody else got an old shearwater they want to stop mowing around?

Is that your shop? Drive by it often.

Excited to follow this thread as well. Love being able to read peoples real world experiences when rebuilding a boat. I've got a 21' champion that I always seem to be fixing something or another on. Nothing on a boat is as easy to fix as it seems so seeing y'all take something that has been neglected and return to better than brand new is admirable.
Best of luck!

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We need a subscribe button/feature for threads like these. Will be following for sure.

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If you hit the 3 dots you can bookmark it.

It doesn’t notify you of an update like a subscribe button would. It just creates a shortcut to the thread

Always liked the look of these boats.

Yep. Already pulled forward floor as well, just no pictures. It’s a poly tank and it’s still in good shape so that will stay. Just need to pump out the fuel that’s been sitting in it for the past few years.

Replacing fuel lines while it’s all taken apart. Hard not to just do them regardless of condition since I have open access to them. May leave the fill hose in place, but all other fuel lines and sender will definitely be new.

As far as I know, he is planning to keep the 300 that’s on it now. Just need to give it a pretty good inspection and replace all fluids, belts, filters etc.

Exterior will go to detail as last step. Pull of the rest of the old wrap, wet sand, polish, buff. Will get any fiberglass repairs done once we can see what can buff out and what needs repairing. Then probably getting ceramic coated.

Interior has some glasswork that needs to be done as well. Saving all of that for the end in case I screw it up more while I’m working on it

Still finalizing electronics package, but so far will be outfitted with a 12” Simrad or Lowrance MFD, radar, 4- JL 7.7’s in ttop, 2 or 4 8.8” JLs down low if I can find somewhere to mount them, Fusion Headunit, JL or Fusion amps, probably going lumitec for lighting, so on.

Playing with some new material for all the new switch/dash panels. It’s a carbon fiber look material that I think looks pretty cool. Cut first test panel and threw in the old trim and jackplate switch to test fit.

Yeah I feel like even with the weld mount stuff it can still be hit or miss sometimes. I’ve never had great luck using adhesive zip tie mounts, so I try to avoid using them if at all possible. Even if you get a good bond, sometimes it just flakes off whatever surface it’s adhered too. Almost have to sand a little pad down to bare fiberglass to get them to stick well in my experience.

I hope you're right, it's a PIA to work inside of a bayboat console.