Got the cap mounted back on, put the windshield on to square everything up. Then braced the heck out of everything to hold it in place. Then cut the bow footwell floor out, shimming as I cut. Once the door was removed, I sanded and clean up around the bottom and PB it to the hull floor. Once...
Now I'm getting ready to prep for paint. My question is what would be the best remedy for beach rash on the keel and minor scratches on the hull? (pic below)From what I've read, apoxy filler seems to be the most common. I also wanted to triple confirm that topside paint is ok below the waterline...
Loaded some more pictures. Once I had the stringers done I decided to hold off on replacing the floor to save the weight. I thought this would make it easier to flip the hull. This turned out to be more challenging then I thought. My first attempt was to build a brackets for the bow and stern to...
Its been a while since my last post. I've made slow progress. I managed to get all the stringers, bulkheads and motor mounts tabbed and capped. I also came up with and idea for adding in a ski locker without cutting out the keel stringer. I measured the spaces between the keel stringer and the...
Finally got the all the stringers bedded and filleted. It went fairly well, tried to be as neat as possible, that turned out to be the challenging part. I have a couple areas to sand but all in all happy with the results. Used 5 gallons of resin, but the hull is solid and the stringers are...
Sorry haven't posted in a while. I've been getting a couple hours here and there on the boat, so progress has been slow. I manage to finish laying a layer of 1808 on the hull. It amazed me how much this strengthen the hull, there is very little flex in the hull now when walking around in it. I...
Opinions needed!!
Turns out a co-workers father used to build fiberglass boats for living back in the 70's, worked for a local company for 20 years. I mentioned our project and asked if he could bring his dad by to check it out. While he was here I mentioned that we had originally planned on...
Patched up the holes I made during demo. Ground down around the hole flaring it out, then laid in 3 layers of ever widening 1708. Seems rock solid now. Use a paint stick wrapped in wax paper taped to the underside for one and custom crimped a short piece of copper pipe in the vise to match the...
Patched up the holes I made during demo. Ground down around the hole flaring it out, then laid in 3 layers of ever widening 1708. Seems rock solid now. Use a paint stick wrapped in wax paper taped to the underside for one and custom crimped a short piece of copper pipe in the vise to match the...
Looking for some guidance. We are starting to build stringers and bulkheads or I should say bulkhead. There is only one "bulkhead" that makes up the front of the bilge area and it only goes part way across. The rest of the "bulkheads" were just 1x2 running across the top of each stringer. Are...
I was cleaning up a little today, moving my shop vac and cyclone 10 times reminded me I was going to post how much I was impressed with the cyclone when grinding. I started out with no tenting in a garage (roughly 24'x28') thinking the holding the shop vac hose close to the grinder would keep...
So I decided today to measure my transom thickness to help decide if I should put a layer csm over the 1708 to finish it off or just call it good and it turns out I was just shy of my 2" target thickness so my solutions was to cut and lay in a 3rd layer of 1708 the width of the engine...
After some serious review bingeing of iboats last week, to lock in the order of events for installing the new transom, we got it done today! I have to admit it was a little nerve racking. Started by putting the finishing touches on the plywood, drilled some ooze holes, filled in the screw holes...
