Re: 1983 Procraft 1750V Boat Restoration
No, I'm working on a 1986 Dyna Trak 150. It's a older bass boat, but looks like pretty similar layout with the exception of the winshield, and console.
Oh okay. Well I hope you can benefit from watching my restore! These bass boats are tricky because the caps are really difficult to remove. On the flip-side of that, most structure of my boat is concentrated where I'm restoring it. The front and rear decks don't actually rest on the deck or stringers at all. Otherwise, I'd be in trouble.
I have a big question for the experts:
I made a couple sketches of a problem I'm running into.
As you can see below, the wooden decking underneath the rear deck/cap only runs along the edge of hull where the rear deck begins. There is some rot in both stringers extending towards the stern. The wooden decking has slight rot beginning underneath.
In the next sketch below, you can see that the rear deck/cap does not actually rest on the wooden decking below is. Thus, it seems to me that the narrow decking below the rear deck is only for providing hull rigidity.
My problem lies in that I can't replace the narrow decking below the rear deck because the cap/deck itself is in the way. To remove the cap would be a LOT more work, and doesn't seem at all worth it to me. Since the cap doesn't even rest on that part of the deck, it seems pretty unimportant.
Since the shell around the two stringers there is good, my idea is that I can get away with simply removing as much rotten wood as I can from the stringers, and then filling the void with Bondo body filler, which I already have a gallon of.
Will my idea work?