Skeeter130
Seaman Apprentice
- Joined
- Jun 30, 2013
- Messages
- 30
Need help with old Betsy. Bought her two years ago and love the boat. Big open skeeter s-130 tiller with a 1991 60hp Johnson, and added a 2004 8hp Johnson 4stroke to the backside too. Took her all over the state fishing till 3 weeks ago when I decided it was time to fix the seat post that ripped out of the floor, no big deal right? Yea I don't think I would have done this till winter if I knew how crazy it was going to get. I pulled the carpet up and cut the glass out around the seat post base, went to lift the base out of its spot after I pulled screws and there wasn't much under it but floatation foam and some remnant of plywood with a big empty void between. I went and contacted some people and had a old buddy come over and he said "pop the top" time for a new floor. He's unable to help much other than phone conversation and texting due to work and family so I'm attempting this solo other than first glass layup which he said he would help on the first time to show me how to roll it and remove air bubbles. I removed the top and floor and it is bad news underneath. So far i have one stringer of the two stringer assemblies removed leaving the tabbing in place , one stringer assembly laminated, built and fit for good fit and floor hight (could not find 12' long marine grade fur plywood so I read and read and read and talked to many people and ended up using west system 105&205&406 to laminate a 12' long 9" wide 3/4" thick piece out of two 8' and two 4' 3/8" thick and the same for the small support that was 10' long 5" wide 3/4" thick), and now I'm unsure on what to do. I want to install one stringer assembly before removing the other. I left the old tabbing in intending to laminate it to the new stringers and supports, now after reading more it sounds like I can leave a little in as a guide and remove the rest for new glass to be used, also the stringers are not sitting on the hull they are off about 1/4" off, also there are 1" slots in two spots on each stringer and support that they allowed the flotation foam to go under the stringer to support it? What is my next step? What type of resin should I buy? Layup resin? Should I cut the old tabbing out or epoxy it to the new wood? I know about grinding old glass but why do people relaminate delaminated glass they don't grind or even clean with acetone?