Boy howdy, here we go...
So my 21 year-old son, his uncle/my 63 year-old brother, and I are committed to embarking on a family project together. We have arrived at complete tear-down and rebuild of a 14 foot fiberglass skiff. There are about a thousand different things we don't know about this process, but that's partially why we're doing it. We're all extremely hands-on types of guys who enjoy doing good work and if it involves a beer or two afterward, all the better.
I found us what was purely something that seemed interesting to start with. We liked the lines of the boat and it came with a very strong-running Yamaha Pro 50 OB.
I have many questions right off the bat that I'm hoping you guys will be able to help with- first of which is identifying the hull. The title describes this as homebuilt, but I highly doubt that's how this vessel started out life. It was heavily modified, and judging by the repairs to the hull, is either far older than it appears to me, or may have seen some type of commercial service.
Does this hull shape look familiar to anyone?
So the first thing we've decided after reading several rebuild threads on various forums is to go ahead with the tear-down. Right away we discovered completely waterlogged foam, which we have now mostly removed. (I pretty much assumed it would have that before we even put it in the water. It was extremely bow-high, and difficult to plane.)
Anyway, here we go.
We're committed to seeing this through to a high-quality, SAFE, good-performing, well-executed conclusion.
Pics to follow in rough order from appearance when we picked it up to current state of gutting/entropy.
Please, any observations, warnings, advice or even criticism will be appreciated.
So my 21 year-old son, his uncle/my 63 year-old brother, and I are committed to embarking on a family project together. We have arrived at complete tear-down and rebuild of a 14 foot fiberglass skiff. There are about a thousand different things we don't know about this process, but that's partially why we're doing it. We're all extremely hands-on types of guys who enjoy doing good work and if it involves a beer or two afterward, all the better.
I found us what was purely something that seemed interesting to start with. We liked the lines of the boat and it came with a very strong-running Yamaha Pro 50 OB.
I have many questions right off the bat that I'm hoping you guys will be able to help with- first of which is identifying the hull. The title describes this as homebuilt, but I highly doubt that's how this vessel started out life. It was heavily modified, and judging by the repairs to the hull, is either far older than it appears to me, or may have seen some type of commercial service.
Does this hull shape look familiar to anyone?
So the first thing we've decided after reading several rebuild threads on various forums is to go ahead with the tear-down. Right away we discovered completely waterlogged foam, which we have now mostly removed. (I pretty much assumed it would have that before we even put it in the water. It was extremely bow-high, and difficult to plane.)
Anyway, here we go.
We're committed to seeing this through to a high-quality, SAFE, good-performing, well-executed conclusion.
Pics to follow in rough order from appearance when we picked it up to current state of gutting/entropy.
Please, any observations, warnings, advice or even criticism will be appreciated.