. Looking... well.... I'd like to say great... but it really looks like a mess man!!! That stuff is nasty! At least it's comin' apart for you.
Man Glen... I'm off for a couple of days and your digging foam and torn the boat apart!!!! I figured you couldn't resist!!!
Keep up the hard work.
Jim
Big boats require a different selection of tools to strip.
The SB side with some foam removed.
It looks like they poured some foam then set the tank in and added a wood cleat above the tank on both ends bolted to the bulkheads, then they poured foam down the sides. All this foam is completley saturated, ( can you imagine what the inside of this would be like if it was a Glasser ). The area out side the stringers is also saturated up about an inch off of the hull all the way down the starboard side. This has caused the floor to buldge up approximatly 1/2 to 3/4 off an inch, pulling the rivets through the ply. One thing I have noticed with this boat is the stringers are not fastened to the cross ribs like all the other SS's I have worked on, but riveted right to the hull with half moon cut outs over the ribs.
Any ideas on getting the tank out would be appreciated
By the way the tank is half full, I guess I will have to start by emptying that.
Glen
I really "DIG" the shovel work you have accomplished so far, Glen!!
Wow, didn't think those hulls had that much foam in them. No, sorry...don't have a good idea on removing that tank other than digging out the foam around it. Sometimes, the slow road gets the job done, in other words, there maybe no quick fix for getting the tank out.
Hang-in there, work on it when you have the time.
Rusty
. The hoses were installed and then the foam was put in around them, well after so many years surrounded by the soggy foam the hoses were rotten, the fill hose had acctually been leaking gas into the foam for quite some time, wonder what a spark from the sending unit wires right beside the hose would have done???:facepalm: The fill hose I just pulled on and it came apart including the wire inside, the vent I had to cut part way. Any how the tank is out and I think in good shape I will have to give it the once and twice over. Good estimate from the foam and wood surrounding thank is 100lbs, no wonder it towed heavy, and I'm sure glad I didn't try a sea trial.
That's could have been a disaster... this is why it is so great that tinny owners can tear their boats apart and re-build them! Stuff just rots with time. People think wrongly that "well it worked last time, so why wouldn't it work this time". This is why re-building old stuff IS a good idea and good practice!!!
:facepalm:
Glen
Dood, I was all ready for you to run this big girl the whole summer before you tore into her. Just the few things you pointed out coulda put a serious hurtin on the dozerII family!
Even though I think Kanucks are all wierdos I'd never want ya to get all messed up and bloody man!
Smart move checking her out
. We northern folk brought stuff like the telephone, blackberries and hockey!!!! So go easy man!
