Re: 17 sea ox restore
I am begining a resto of a 1979 17' sea ox center console i found cheap . I have not done this before so this is a first for me. so here is where i am at. transom cap and wood removed deck removed and stringers also. i know my typing skills are terrible but please bare with me. hull and transom down to bare fiberglass sides of inner hull also fabrication of new stringers 95% complete fabrication of new transom complete and i have moved to the fit up phase i will post some photos soon my question is about the fiberglass i will be using polyester resin for the entire resto i have a buddy that can get fiberglass cloth from a guy that builds wind turbins the props. and he gave me 5 remanents of mat 50'' x20' i know 1708 is the hot mat but they do not use that what they do use is quadaxial fiberglass cloth in 22oz no mat also 10oz biax with 3/4 oz csm mat on one side and he also gave me a 38''x100 yards of 1.5oz csm will this work for transom and stringers if so how many layers will i need .,,thanks
Hello and welcome to the Iboats dry dock, REELMIN...
Sounds like you have a pretty good handle on what you have gotten yourself into.
The first bit of advice I can give you is to post up some pictures of your project.
It will entice the membership to chime in because we love pics and it will help us see what you see and be better able to give advice.
I can understand that your typing skills are somewhat lacking, but you should try and slow it down a little bit and try to better separate your questions into good old regular sentences...
We'll work on proper grammar and punctuation, little by little...
The reason being is that a lot of the guys who are ready, willing and able to help you out, are also usually helping out a ton of other folks, and it is much easier to quickly read through a posting and get a good understanding of it before trying to propose advice.
From my reading of your post, I understand you have done all the demolition work and all of the necessary grinding and have properly supported the hull to keep its shape and have cut most of the structural pieces needed to start putting it back together...RIGHT???
OK, then...I also get that you will be using polyester resin and some 22 oz. quadaxial cloth without any CSM, plus some 10 oz. biax with CSM.
You also have on hand enough 1.5 oz. CSM to build several battleships...:lol:
The question you are asking is how much material to use to glue your transom and stringers in...
The short answers are...
You can use one layer of CSM between the two [ I am assuming you are using two 3/4" plywood plates to make up the thickness of the transom...and the reason I am assuming is because of the first advice that I mentioned...Pictures]...transom plates, then seal them with one complete layer on both faces and the the edges, with CSM.
Then, if the inside skin of the hull is just as smooth and flat as the transom plates, you can do the same to glue them into the hull,
IF NOT, you would be better off gluing them in with PB...
Then, when they are in place, you can tab them in with CSM and finally add a layer of the quad cloth...
Here is a link to a very good description by "Woodonglass", of just how to do the transom and the stringers...
http://forums.iboats.com/boat-resto...go-splashed-w-pics-384982-25.html#post3586813
You can choose to go overkill and add more cloth over the layer of 22 oz. quad, in which case you could add a layer of the 10 oz. biaxial, but that would be about the only major change I could see to the above method.
Installing the stringers could be done with PB after they have been sealed in a layer of 1.5 oz. CSM prior to being installed, then tabbed in place with a couple layers of the CSM, then slightly larger tabs of the 10 oz biax.
Looking forward to pics of your project.
Best of luck and have fun!
GT1M
