Well after reading through many of your guys resto threads figured I'd start my own. When I got the boat the transom was shot along with the outer skin. Completely dismantled her to bare bones and went to work cutting the transom skin out along with digging all the damn pour in foam out (why in the hell do they even use that stuff??). After I got all that forsaken foam out started debating on how to clean it up cause there were quite a few corrosion holes and lousy rivets. Somebody before me did a real stellar job welding up the bow area where it must have hit the trailer at one time:facepalm: Decieded to pick up one of those smaller sand blasters from HF and do the inside of the hull with that. It got the job done but was a long process and a pain in the butt. After that I welded in a new 1/8" transom skin and went to work laminating the transom together and getting it mounted. Before mounting the transom however I had to figure out something to do about sealing this thing up and stumbled across Gluvit. Man that is a great product, never seen anything like it, boat hasn't leaked a drop since. Got that done and started reinstalling the rear corners and splashwell. Never did like how big the splashwell was and almost didn't put it back in, however figured being in the pacific it wouldn't be a bad idea to have so I shortened it up by almost half. Didn't like the idea of through transom drains for it so instead mounted a drain in the bottom of the splashwell that ties into the livewell drain in the leaning post. All new wiring, batteries, and pumps and the deck was ready to go back in. Well after reading through all your guys posts found out I screwed that one up:facepalm: Used rusto oil based and coated the deck top and bottom 3 times. The last coat on top threw in some nonskid and it came out great. Probably be redoing that not to long from now though after reading. Thank goodness its not to hard to get it all out. Well gave the inside a coat of rusto just to spruce it up. Took and welded up the cheese grader I had for a center console from all the holes from the PO's before and got it painted and mounted. Then gave the outside a light sand to knock down all the corrosion that had formed over the years. This is how it sits today after being done for 6 months. Sorry its a long read and I know I left a lot out but me and typing don't go hand in hand. Didn't get to many pictures but here is what I have. Still trying to find out info on this hull. From what I can tell not many were made and I only know of 2 others in exsistance.
