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    Painting fiberglass

    Anybody got any experience painting with something other than gelcoat? Used non waxed poly to build the whole boat out and now colors seem slim and I just want it black. Just need to seal the glass for curing and make it black. A painter friend thought for sure a poly based primer/sealer would...
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    PVC board as stringers??

    Hey there friends. Project is marching along. Stringers are bedded in and am a day or 2 from starting some glass work! ( It's currently 81⁰ here is SE GA). New question. Thinking on saving my resin for the glass work and need to build a decent radius (fairing) in the corners with the stringers...
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    PVC board as stringers??

    Thanks for the info fellas. Bout to dive into it head first! Sorry for the late reply but you know... Life haha. Will keep y'all posted and post some pics of it. I wish I had more of the year down but I'm horrible about documenting with pics. I get in go mode and forget all about that stuff.
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    PVC board as stringers??

    Boat is a 1984 Harris kayot floteboat if it helps. I feel a manufacturer would use poly for the costs but I don't really know
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    PVC board as stringers??

    I've been wondering on this for a while about my boat, but how can I tell if it was built with epoxy resin or poly. I've bought some poly, and the whole boat is a yellowish tint which after looking at a lot of stuff makes me thing it's epoxy, but I for sure has a lot of csm used in the...
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    PVC board as stringers??

    Dear gentlemen, the day has come. Haha. I've ripped, torn, snorted, cussed, brushed, grinded, cussed, sanded, planned, planned, cussed some more, planned, and over cleaned all I can do. Next time I work on the boat it will be to build back! Pulled it out today and washed it with some simple...
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    PVC board as stringers??

    I did consider rigging up in the rafters. If it comes to that I might do that. I only have one open bay do hopefully I could get it high enough to secure it and work underneath it.
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    PVC board as stringers??

    I'm avoiding pulling the cap off at all costs, being it's huge and it's my first big project, but the motor and drive are coming out and I'll be redoing the bulkheads and transom. I do have a backhoe I can rig to pull the cap if necessary. The guy I mentioned that owned the boat store told me...
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    PVC board as stringers??

    Thanks! A good deal of what I've learned is from boatworkstoday's YouTube page. He's a great teacher and he is ultimately why I decided to go with poly. He does a few comparison videos you may be interested in watching. Showed that chop strand and other mats are help together with styrene and...
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    PVC board as stringers??

    Thank y'all. I know a guy here that used to build boats and still runs a marine store. I've asked him for advice over the last few months and he's confident if I do it right with wood my grandchildren (and I'm 33yrs old) will enjoy the boat as it's stored out of the weather anyway. Seeing...
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    PVC board as stringers??

    Exactly. I've been telling myself that this whole time and I still keep trying to find an even better way to do it. Haha.
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    PVC board as stringers??

    Thanks. I figured it had been talked about a lot. The boat is 22ft long and about 7ft wide and has 4 full length stringers and 2 half length stringers so I will just have to see what I can get out of a sheet of coosa and may just go with wood. Depends on price I know coosa is very high but also...
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    PVC board as stringers??

    Anybody have an experience, knowledge, or advice on using PVC board for a stringer? I'm restoring a 1984 Harris kayot floteboat. Pulled the floors out today to start my resto and the floor had been capped by one of the previous owners years ago. They used some pieces of PVC board to scab their...
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    OMC to Mercruiser!

    Which I do realise it will still take some good measuring but still.
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    OMC to Mercruiser!

    Yea bondo that's a great idea of using the donor boat outer hull to patch in and also have a template. I'm pretty nifty with a tape measure and was just gonna engineer the **** out of it but I like that idea. And Scott... That has crossed my mind several times haha. And isn't completely out of...
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