Re: 18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration
Been real busy on the boat last night and today. I'm a quasi-gov't employee so I'm off today
Last night I fit the transom in the boat. Had to break out the belt sander to get the fit perfect. While I was at it I did some sanding on all the deck boards. Not sure if that was necessary but I thought I'd just smooth them out a smidge. I angled and rounded all the edges for a better fit. I laid out my ski locker door trim and cut out for that so that's ready to go. I officially decided to abandon my sorta-infloor gas tank idea. I measured how far out into the boat it would come and it turned out to be fairly ridiculous. The 8 inches I had to add to accommodate the knee brace just pushed it out too far into the cockpit. Even though the box I'm going to build for a casting platform would cover it, I decided it was just a dumb idea and will be installing the tank above deck under the splashwell as it was OEM. Now I'm sorta wishing I'd just kept the original steel tank instead of giving it away. However who knows really what condition the inside of that tank was in so maybe it's for the best.
Before I went to bed I epoxied the two transom half together. This morning I got up and cleaned all the sawdust off the floor and set up all my deck board to be coated. The epoxy was very nice to work with. My heater is keeping it in the upper 60's-70 out there so it should set up nicely per the instructions. Pauly I haven't decided on that cloth or mat I'm putting in the top deck. Anyone have any advice? I may start a new thread in resto asking about that.
You can see my transom is sitting up on top of the boat clamped.
Here's the piece with the ski-locker cut out. I added some support to the thin edges around it.
