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  1. Barramundi NQ

    Cox Craft 85 Gutted and Rebuild.........ing

    Some pics of the transom install
  2. Barramundi NQ

    Cox Craft 85 Gutted and Rebuild.........ing

  3. Barramundi NQ

    Cox Craft 85 Gutted and Rebuild.........ing

  4. Barramundi NQ

    Cox Craft 85 Gutted and Rebuild.........ing

    This is the transom boards cut to size and laminated together. As you can see the plan is to run the transom at full height as the motor well is being cut out and an aluminium motor pod going on.
  5. Barramundi NQ

    Cox Craft 85 Gutted and Rebuild.........ing

    Here's one of the 3 thermolite sheets I got on Friday. Yes I dipped in hard at $430 a sheet for 17mm or 3/4 inch
  6. Barramundi NQ

    Cox Craft 85 Gutted and Rebuild.........ing

    This is the back end of the old girl... lots of dodgy fibreglass to be ground out and cleaned up
  7. Barramundi NQ

    Cox Craft 85 Gutted and Rebuild.........ing

    So here's the transom devoid of plywood and now with 4 layers of glass, 2 csm and 2 double bias (biaxial?) with slightly progressively larger layers each time and a final layer of our Aussie equivalent of your 1708 in a 200 mm or 8 inch band around the entire transom to hull transition.
  8. Barramundi NQ

    Cox Craft 85 Gutted and Rebuild.........ing

  9. Barramundi NQ

    Cox Craft 85 Gutted and Rebuild.........ing

    Hello Iboaters Its been a while but I've been able to put some time into the old girl over the last month. I've actually started putting fibreglass back into the old girl...that means I'v spent a lot of time grinding the old glass ...... If you can see there's a fresh line of glass about a...
  10. Barramundi NQ

    Cox Craft 85 Gutted and Rebuild.........ing

    view from above the old transom with all the ply gone. Lots of mould and discoloration from some sort of dirt between the layers of glass that weren't really properly bonded to the original glass from the factory. So some history as I see it. This was the second transom and the second floor...
  11. Barramundi NQ

    Cox Craft 85 Gutted and Rebuild.........ing

    So here's the transom completely devoid of all the rotten plywood. The entire boat appears to be made completely of csm with next to zero 1708. Naturally I'll be adding some strength to everything that I do. Only Timber left is the remnants of the floor (see the plywood edge by the battery...
  12. Barramundi NQ

    Cox Craft 85 Gutted and Rebuild.........ing

    Transom plywood and gel coat skin removed . Just a hot wet mess. Water oozing out as I cut the gel coat in the boat. I used a diamond blade on the grinder with the vacuum sucking up 99% of the fiber glass dust as I went. As you see I did have some good gloves on. Other PPE included quality...
  13. Barramundi NQ

    Cox Craft 85 Gutted and Rebuild.........ing

    Port transom ready for removal....Extremely wet due to the cap being removed some years ago and water has got into completely.
  14. Barramundi NQ

    Cox Craft 85 Gutted and Rebuild.........ing

    Hull nearly ready for the grinder
  15. Barramundi NQ

    Cox Craft 85 Gutted and Rebuild.........ing

    Seriously long piece that came off . I'm beginning to wonder if the old girl was only a couple of trips away from falling apart!!! Cheers from the Sunshine Coast in sunny Queensland OZ
  16. Barramundi NQ

    Cox Craft 85 Gutted and Rebuild.........ing

    ​​​​​​ The colour change is evidence of a dry edge of where the bond has failed
  17. Barramundi NQ

    Cox Craft 85 Gutted and Rebuild.........ing

    This the hole i made on one of the last trips I made to the Great Barrier Reef when I used to live in Cairns North Queensland. I'll show the Aluminium plate that was used by a well meaning friend to seal the fracture and hole... There's a saying about all boat captains the navigate the reef...
  18. Barramundi NQ

    Cox Craft 85 Gutted and Rebuild.........ing

    Same again for the port main stringer and the center stringer Another big piece. The chisel is now my new best friend.....Almost zero grinding so far The grinding days are ahead of me
  19. Barramundi NQ

    Cox Craft 85 Gutted and Rebuild.........ing

    This is the area below where the fuel tank used to sit. I believe that this is the original glass for the Gold Coast factory Circa 1985... See the chisel? I just looked for an edge glass joining the main hull and drove the chisel between the hull and the csm tabbing over the the center stringer...
  20. Barramundi NQ

    Cox Craft 85 Gutted and Rebuild.........ing

    Large chunks of CSM that was delaminating at almost every point of contact
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