Giving a Bezoat a Second Chance

[Albert]

Albert,

Not sure if I mentioned this previously but I have reproduced Bezoats decals if interested. If so send contact to jschubert19j@gmail.com

John,
I have found a couple old picture of similar boats, when you say decals do you mean small or large ?
I guess I will follow that up with did Mr. bowman have a similar livery for all his boats? Or were they sent off ready to paint for those that he did not race himself ?

As I stated earlier in the thread the last paint job while weld done was not to my taste. Since it’s receiving new decks it will likely show off lots of bear wood but I really haven’t decided on a paint scheme yet.

[John Schubert]

Albert,

Not sure if I mentioned this previously but I have reproduced Bezoats decals if interested. If so send contact to jschubert19j@gmail.com

[DeanFHobart]

Looks like you are coming right along. Keep up the good work. Post pictures along the way.

[Albert]

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What a day, had 4.5 hours to spend working uninterrupted. Just me and the orbital sander.

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No major surprises, only the corner of one sponson that’s going to need some attention from the pro. Also removed all steering hardware and throttle. Sanding of the coaming is next then we’ll make a template of the fairing before removal. Then it’s removing old nails and it’s off to get new decks!

[Albert]

102554301_246348659994308_5091220829891514786_n.jpg 118681838_142890660828633_6248245036277710102_n.jpg 118651147_1220784221617652_2240862115677960832_n.jpg Still waiting on rings to arrive so I thought I would share some of the carnage from the motor side of the project. This was apparently a strong running 80 until the rod bearing let go, as you can see by the photo above some bearing material or possibly a piece of ring made it over the piston and played pinball. When I bought the motor it came with a 18mm replacement head. The 18mm head also had some pitting in the chamber, although no where near as bad, but it also looked like it had been decked quite a bit. Either way I decided to try and clean up the combustion chamber on the 14mm head.
The pictures speak for themselves, will this cylinder be down a little power...likely. But with no sharp spots to cause knock it should be safe to run. I'm about 80 percent done polishing. Need to level off a few high spots, but I'm pleased with how its come out considering the moonlike cratered surface I started with.

[Albert]

It was already all appart, this is just a quick mock up while waiting for rings to come in.


Had to get a new rod so it got new rod bearings and crank bearings while we were in there. Unfortunately the thing and probably some of the needle bearings made their way over the piston and really did a number on the small plug head. I’m still trying to polish out all the damage but I think I’ve got it to a state where it’s going to be salvageable. It may not cc out to exactly what the other cylinder does...but it will be close enough to run.

[ZUL8TR]

Luc

That 80 looks like it has a 14mm head by the plugs 1/2 out and no visible 18 to 14 mm reducer, that is good. When you get it all apart to ring it do the alignment of the block to the exhaust and that combination flat to the tower and set the megaphone parallel to the tower top. I set the meg to be a about 0.004 above the tower flat to allow for gasket squeeze to get a better seal. Also check the head for flatness which goes a long way to seal it on the block.

The manual is on Ric Montoya's site and explains the alignment of these pieces.

Inspect the cam on the points for a crack near the key way slot, vulnerable area for a crack here, how do I know this? They relocated the slot on the 102 what were they thinking on the 80???. The cams are made of unobtanium if you find one for reasonable $$$ grab it.

[Albert]

I’m sure it’s mundane to you folks but my 80 is rings and final torque away from being a complete power head. Hopefully they will arrive before the weekend. For today I had to settle on making some performance (by which I mean yellow) plug wires as the old ones were trashed.

[Albert]

Also looked up Tomskys rebuild, looks like he did a beautiful job.

[Albert]

Brian,
You are the third person in as many weeks to mention the ssoa to me.
Carruthers has attended some of those races in the past with some success, and I believe 31-ce out of Nova Scotia has as well.
Won’t commit to being able to make it out next year, but it looks like Standish is only about 6.5 hours away.
Who knows in a year or two we may be having some of our American cousins come up here instead.

Also just looked it up, looks like Tomsky did a beautiful job on his boat.

[bh/]

SSOA runs 4/5 races /yr , most within 200 miles of the NB border. re;   BZ: -search on this site under 'TomSki',  about 4 months ago, for pics and comment on his 70s BZ.

[bh/]

Brian,
Feel free to throw up a picture or two.
As I said in my first post in this thread, outboard racing was once very popular out here ( as I understand it was across North America) guess I just missed it’s hay-day by 40 years or so.

SSOA runs 4/5 races /yr , most within 200 miles of the NB border. BZ, search on this site under 'TomSki', about 4 months ago, for pics and comment on his 70s BZ.

[Albert]

Brian,
Feel free to throw up a picture or two.
As I said in my first post in this thread, outboard racing was once very popular out here ( as I understand it was across North America) guess I just missed it’s hay-day by 40 years or so.

[bh/]

-we have a '70s BZ being restored in Ottawa, a 'shovel-nose' , x/Jeff Hutchins. Oddly enough, it came out of southern NS.

[Albert]

Pete,
I think you’re right on a couple of counts here. Firstly I was confusing cowl for coaming. In fact I went to grab this picture from earlier this summer of two of Carruthers boats for comparison, but your right the difference does seem to be more on the LH side then the hight of the the RH side. Here’s a picture of an 80’s Carruthers boat compared to a present day.
I think the ticket might be just a little more room on the Rh side, as I did find myself getting over far enough to have my elbow resting on the decking at times.



As for safety, all Motorsports involve some risk, other than the additional danger of a prop which I don’t see being much more dangerous than a snowmobile track spinning at 100mph with 200 carbide tip studs in it rolling over you, or even coming off a motorcycle at speed. At least on the water the only thing you need to worry about is hitting other boats.

As for safety gear if anyone has a good used cut suit or expired lifeline vest for a 5’10 Frenchman who weighs in at about 170lbs shoot me a message. Last weekend I tried a few boats with a helmet and proper borrowed life jacket but If I was on the water with a full contingent of boats I think I wouldn’t mind the proper gear.