Hey all, been lurking and reading for quite some time, finally bit the bullet and signed up.
Working on a 91 Javelin bass boat with a 120 Mercury. It's a single console fiberglass bass boat.
PO left it in the elements for a few years so the aft most floor drain was clogged with leaves and trash, which held water on the floor and let it soak in. Transom is also soft, so that'll get changed out. Plan is to replace everything structural and upgrade as I see fit. Original trolling motor, pumps, etc. This thing even has the original Sony cassette player!
I have the deck cut out, but I left a 3 inch lip all the way around so that I wouldn't have to refinish the fiberglass thats visible above the carpet.
Removed every screw I could find securing the deck lip to the stringers and cut all of the tabbing on the compartments up front and in the gas tank area. Also removed the rub rail and all 16,812 screws securing the cap to the hull.
Started separating the two halves last night, but it seems like there's something that I can't seem to find that's holding the 2 halves together still. Terrified of putting too much pressure and snapping the cap or something catastrophic. Did I leave too much of a lip and it could still be attached to the stringers below?
Should I cut the fiberglass where it meets the deck lip and leave no lip at all? If so, how do I glass the new deck to the existing finished fiberglass without ruining the existing black/gold/red metallic finish?
Working on a 91 Javelin bass boat with a 120 Mercury. It's a single console fiberglass bass boat.
PO left it in the elements for a few years so the aft most floor drain was clogged with leaves and trash, which held water on the floor and let it soak in. Transom is also soft, so that'll get changed out. Plan is to replace everything structural and upgrade as I see fit. Original trolling motor, pumps, etc. This thing even has the original Sony cassette player!
I have the deck cut out, but I left a 3 inch lip all the way around so that I wouldn't have to refinish the fiberglass thats visible above the carpet.
Removed every screw I could find securing the deck lip to the stringers and cut all of the tabbing on the compartments up front and in the gas tank area. Also removed the rub rail and all 16,812 screws securing the cap to the hull.
Started separating the two halves last night, but it seems like there's something that I can't seem to find that's holding the 2 halves together still. Terrified of putting too much pressure and snapping the cap or something catastrophic. Did I leave too much of a lip and it could still be attached to the stringers below?
Should I cut the fiberglass where it meets the deck lip and leave no lip at all? If so, how do I glass the new deck to the existing finished fiberglass without ruining the existing black/gold/red metallic finish?
