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The Randy "Wildman" Corson Way!

Chris

Chris

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Hey Gang,

You're about to find out, that you're in for a special treat.

I've been bugging Wildman for a bit, to do a build up thread on one of his custom Checks. Randy "Wildman" Corson as you may know, is one of our long-time supporting vendors here on the forums and is also the local Checkmate/Liberator dealer for the Florida area. Randy's rigging, customizing and painting talents are very well known in many circles, and because of that, Randy often ends up doing work and shipping to people from all the U.S, Canada and the world!

Those of you who are regulars here on the Check forums and/or on Scream and Fly, will probably have seen pictures of Randy's amazing rigging and customizing work, and most importantly his relentless attention to detail.

Wildman has personally designed and even taped off graphics for some of his custom ordered Checkmates - some of you may recall seeing some of them on the forums in the past.

So in this thread, we're going to give you a run down of a "build-up" on one of Randy's latest custom rigged Checkmate creations.

I hope you'll enjoy watching this 2400 Pulsare's journey, which starts with some build photos of it at the factory and will eventually end with it all rigged up with only the best stuff and ready to go to it's future customer! :devil:

Enjoy!


-Chris
 
Here are some pics of Randy rigging up the custom yellow powder-coated setback bracket.

This one gives 14" of setback. It has 5" of lift built into the bracket and the stainless steel jackplate has 7" of lift. :devil:





 
Back into the garage it goes for safekeeping beside a 30' Liberator!

Randy's garage is air-conditioned so this Checkie gets to sleep for a bit in comfortable 72 degree environment. :)

More pics to come - stay tuned! :banana:

 
Way to go Randy. This is going to be great. I will be watching for the Masters trick's as I still have to install my gages and wire the boat.
 
When I retire from the fire dept. I'm going to move down south next to Randy's House and go over there and hang out ALL DAY,EVERYDAY!!!!:bounce:
 
That kind of work on a spankin new checkmate would be way too ambitious for me to attempt, but he is blessed with a finely tuned skill I can definitely appreciate... great work!!! Can't wait to see the final product! :surf:
 
Here I am trying to hooking up the control cables to the new Livorsi controls. Not cheap, but very cool!

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Here, my friend Eric is putting teardrop aluminum diamond plate fenders on the new trailer. New mag wheels and 60 series tires are coming next week!

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Here's some pics of the rigging in the back of the boat.

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I finally got my new billet switch panels today. They are milled out of 1" thick plate so that the switches are recessed and can't be accidently switched on



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I got the interior all back together. Water testing will start tommorrow. I'll post exterior pics tommorrow when I get the boat outside.


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