spartonboat1
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- Apr 15, 2005
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- Hatteras Model
- 43' DOUBLE CABIN (1970 - 1984)
Fun posting about pulling the ship's bell from the bridge of my 1953 40' Chris-Craft. She (the bell) is about the same size as my Hatt's bell, which does not have a clanger (clapper); not provide by the PO.
So I pulled it off the CC and took it back to the Hatt. Well, its been 30 years (at least) since it was shined and it looked like a goner. But the Admiral started to try to polish it and a tiny shine came through. So I got interested and worked on it with a flourish. What do you know...she came up with a great chrome shine...beautiful and looks like new.
I took my brother-in-law a golfer's hat from the Buick Open (last ever), since he is a former scratch golfer, now a paraplegic from a barometric surgery gone bad. I told him I would trade him the hat for a block of good wood as a custom mounting block for my new, old, bell. He was happy to oblige, as he makes custom wood objects, and he cut some Walnut to my dimensions.
So the new bell was fully mounted, has a clapper, and looks and sounds like a million bucks, as they say.
So this 1953 ship's bell lives in on to ride the Great Lakes once more!
So I pulled it off the CC and took it back to the Hatt. Well, its been 30 years (at least) since it was shined and it looked like a goner. But the Admiral started to try to polish it and a tiny shine came through. So I got interested and worked on it with a flourish. What do you know...she came up with a great chrome shine...beautiful and looks like new.
I took my brother-in-law a golfer's hat from the Buick Open (last ever), since he is a former scratch golfer, now a paraplegic from a barometric surgery gone bad. I told him I would trade him the hat for a block of good wood as a custom mounting block for my new, old, bell. He was happy to oblige, as he makes custom wood objects, and he cut some Walnut to my dimensions.
So the new bell was fully mounted, has a clapper, and looks and sounds like a million bucks, as they say.
So this 1953 ship's bell lives in on to ride the Great Lakes once more!
