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Welcome to It Don't Come Easy's Bio, you will see the long and sometimes painful journey making this boat what it is today.
1989 FORMULA 26 Performance Cruiser - Commissioned August 1988
Well since Formula doesn't offer a trailerable Cruiser and because of the sentimental value of my 26pc, I decided to re-do the whole boat during Feb-April of this year and I conned my pops into helping. The downstairs was stripped down, all new ultra-leather was fabbed to the old dinette area by the upholsterer I used to re-cover the cockpit vinyl, all the carpet was trashed and we laid brand new sculptured carpet and like the new models, we installed hard wood flooring, and all led lighting. While everything was apart we installed an aircontioning/heating unit under the front right v-berth and ran ducting to the galley and even aft cabin that also runs off the house battery bank we put in with an inverter. I pulled the engine and had it gone thru by a local performance marine engine builder that talked me out of a 496ho and bumped my 454 a bit from 330hp to 433hp/518tq. I installed a brand new transom assembly and brand new sweptback bravo 3. Boat runs real well today was the first day we actually got to relax on it since it was put together. It was pretty rewarding to kick back relax put the new grill to use and to crack open a few cold ones enjoying the hard work that was involved. There's a bug or two that still needs to be smoothed out but considering there's not much oem and the boat has been on the water for over 28 years it's all good! Many years of fun to come!
The new power painted with the same imron we used to re-spray the sides of the boat.
Dberkley, here is the pic of the AC routing.... the green you see isnt a salt water leak my blower vents leak rain water into the engine compartment sometimes.
The finished product of the galley.
1989 FORMULA 26 Performance Cruiser - Commissioned August 1988
Well since Formula doesn't offer a trailerable Cruiser and because of the sentimental value of my 26pc, I decided to re-do the whole boat during Feb-April of this year and I conned my pops into helping. The downstairs was stripped down, all new ultra-leather was fabbed to the old dinette area by the upholsterer I used to re-cover the cockpit vinyl, all the carpet was trashed and we laid brand new sculptured carpet and like the new models, we installed hard wood flooring, and all led lighting. While everything was apart we installed an aircontioning/heating unit under the front right v-berth and ran ducting to the galley and even aft cabin that also runs off the house battery bank we put in with an inverter. I pulled the engine and had it gone thru by a local performance marine engine builder that talked me out of a 496ho and bumped my 454 a bit from 330hp to 433hp/518tq. I installed a brand new transom assembly and brand new sweptback bravo 3. Boat runs real well today was the first day we actually got to relax on it since it was put together. It was pretty rewarding to kick back relax put the new grill to use and to crack open a few cold ones enjoying the hard work that was involved. There's a bug or two that still needs to be smoothed out but considering there's not much oem and the boat has been on the water for over 28 years it's all good! Many years of fun to come!
The new power painted with the same imron we used to re-spray the sides of the boat.
Dberkley, here is the pic of the AC routing.... the green you see isnt a salt water leak my blower vents leak rain water into the engine compartment sometimes.
The finished product of the galley.
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