Re: 1968-71 Naden N-16 Big Fisherman Restoration
Looking good Peter, in one of the photos it looks like you have the side of the hull polished?
Thanks - I didn't polish it, but on the outside, I wirewheeled all the paint off, giving that effect. I still want to paint it. What the photos don't show is lots of scratches and dings, from years of being dragged in and out of the lake. My guess is that the paint will cover a lot of that up.
Those tabs are an interesting repair, I'm assuming by a PO? Just one cracked rib, that's not too bad, better than a whole rack of ribs!
Your at a milestone now, done with the tear down stage and onto hull repairs. Everything after that stage goes towards the finished product.
Winter is on the way, are you planning on hibernation up North or do you have a nice warm garage/shop?
The tabs are actually part of the original seating/flooring in the boat - there is a small 'step' - too small to be called a casting deck. The PO, rather than replace the busted rivets, simply put down 5200 thickly on the floor. Wasn't too bad to remove it. The only problem in replacing the rivets was it was a pig to get in there with the sledgehammer I was using as a backing plate. The underside of the boat is sufficiently dinged up in that location that the rivets didn't seat particularly well - so I suspect I'm going to have to do what I didn't want to do....use some 5200.
But when I do it, it will be pretty.
I'm really regretting not having an additional month of warm weather - the whole thing began moving much faster once the paint was off. Paint off to splash was only a couple of hours work...and that included the time it took to persuade the Admiral to be my bucking buddy.
Warm shop - yes....but in my basement, and the boat won't fit. Hibernation? Would be nice, but with four kids running around - not much chance of that.
