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    89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS

    Re: 89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS Thanks, Woodonglass!! I don't know why I didn't think of that!! I'm sure that's pretty typical, but I was overlooking the obvious, maybe. I've just been thinking too hard about ALL my projects. This will actually give me an area to...
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    89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS

    Re: 89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS Please advise on bottom joint glassing question at bottom. As I stated in the last post, I had to grind a small area of the stringers in the front as they were forcing the deck board too close to the walkway. It was making it...
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    89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS

    Re: 89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS I just wanted to post an update on my boat progress. I've got too many irons in the fire, and I just can't seem to get one project done. Anyways, I took some cardboard and layed it out in the front of the boat in order to get an idea...
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    89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS

    Re: 89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS After I glassed my wooden blocks in, I did a final sand down in the ski locker and gas tank storage area. You can probably get a look at the trapezoid blocks glassed in these pics also. I hope to start working on the foam under the...
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    89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS

    Re: 89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS So, as I posted in a few previous posts, I was planning on glassing some wooden blocks to the sides of the stringers to screw the deck to. I didn't want to screw into the nida bond stringers, and I was unsure just how well it would...
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    89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS

    Re: 89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS I just got some free time to post a few pics of the fiber glass work on the new arch bar under the walk through. I've actually gotten to the point of laying a second topical layer (didn't wrap it around) of the woven roving for...
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    89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS

    Re: 89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS I finally have some time to post a couple pics of the arch bar that I'm creating under the walk through. So, I made the mould for the nida bond exactly the same as my other moulds. Cut cardboard.....lined it with wax paper, stapled it...
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    89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS

    Re: 89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS I thought I would post my recent thoughts and actions. I decided that the walk through area needed some sort of support other than just the plywood that sits on top of the stringers. The rest of the boat obviously has bulkheads that...
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    89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS

    Re: 89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS Here's a couple more pics of the stringers, bulkheads, and cross sections that I think you'll enjoy. Many people have commented on the thinness of my stringers, so I'm posting this pic of the thickness after glassing. It's right at...
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    89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS

    Re: 89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS I thought I would post a few pics of my fiberglass progress on the stringers. It's definitely coming along. If it weren't for my real job, I could get more done. Lol. If that was the case, then this would be my job. Well I haven't...
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    89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS

    Re: 89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS couple more pics...... I just took these shots, so you could get an idea of how level they all are with each other. hopefully I got more csm in the other day, along with some more 435 resin. I finished up doing the first layer of csm...
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    89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS

    Re: 89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS I've been working hard on the boat. I've actually started fiberglassing the stringers and bulkheads to the hull. But first....here's some pics from the stringer leveling process that I didn't get to post last time. This is the back...
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    89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS

    Re: 89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS So, here's a picture of the completed stringers and bulkhead before the leveling process. Pretty solid! I feel pleased with the results. At this point,I was ready to start grinding them down to at least a similar height, just not...
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    89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS

    Re: 89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS Well, I've been distracted with other shiny things!!! Its always seems like I'm in that weird climate oddity. It's always too cold during the winter to do things....So, I'll wait till the summer when it warms up a little. Then, when...
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    89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS

    Re: 89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS Sorry for the late update, but I'm flooded with projects right now. So, two weeks ago I worked on finishing up the front ends of the stringers. I had to hurry up and get these in, so I could start building moulds against them for the...
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    89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS

    Re: 89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS Well, I ran out of nida bond. I poured another section on the left hand side of the boat. The mould was pictured in the last post, but here is the results. And here is a close up of the two pours bonded together. While it was wet...
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    89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS

    Re: 89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS Ok, so the next part was done this past weekend. I have poured three sections of nida bond for the stringers in the front so far. I really thought I had my mould perfected this time. I cut many half inch blocks of wood and drilled...
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    89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS

    Re: 89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS Well, the weather was nice for a few weekends, and I managed to get some work done on the old boat. I finally finished up glassing the transom area where I had made some cuts underneath to assess the wood quality. I wanted to get all...
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    89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS

    Re: 89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS I'm glad to hear that people are reading and enjoying my thread. I've been unable to work on the project here recently, but soon will be on it again. Here is a picture of the engine mounts with the bolts through it. My next area of...
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    89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS

    Re: 89 Four Winns Freedom 170 Floor / Stringer Rebuild PICS After i peeled this cardboard waxed paper off,i ground down the nida bond a little. I wiped the whole thing down with acetone. I then proceeded with a layer of csm, let it dry, then woven layer of fiber glass, then ground down the...
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