1973 yates restoration on a shoestring

[lagoon bandit]

I have a early 70's fibetglass v-haul to flat boat needless to say that everybit of wood is now rot<br />however I will be doing this on a shoestring budget<br /> <br />I posted this thread because I know that I will be asking lot of question on this<br />the transome is shot as well as the floor I have began removing the floor I have the back bench out and 3/4 of the floor removed<br />but that brings me to my first question my boat has NO FOAM at all and from the looks never did<br /><br />So dose anyone know how I do the math to figure out how cubic feet of foam that I need?<br /><br />Dose anyone know any good websight to buy foam at a good price?<br /><br />what is the best solvent/cleaner to clean up the inside hull of the boat it is nasty and all the good stuff rot, fungi,mold,liquid wood,etc<br />Also when I removed the outboard I did not plug the fuel line so I had about 3 gallons of gas drain under the floor so I also need to remove that gas as well?<br /><br />also would it be worth cover the inside of the boat with a good layer of glass for some extra protection and to make sure there is no leaks?<br /><br />thanks<br />-Richard

 

[Solittle]

Re: 1973 yates restoration on a shoestring

Riichard - Forget the foam for now. You have a long way to go before you need to even think about foam.<br /><br />Whenever you have some free time read your brains out of all the posts in this section of iboats. What you are starting to do has been done scads of times by the guys here and most questions have been asked and answered many times. <br /><br />To clean out most of the nasties you need to use a wet/dry vacume. I would get the gas out before I put the wet/dry vac in the boat as the gas fumes may be explosive.<br /><br />Any leaks that need to be fixed should be addressed from the outside in. Putting an extra layer of glass on the inside won't cut it.

 

[lagoon bandit]

Re: 1973 yates restoration on a shoestring

Ok I have removed all of the floor completly when I was removing the little chips and stuff I found a rottred board screwed to the hull<br />so I removed the board and found a hole that had been patched up sometime ago<br />at that point I relised that the patch mainly consisted of plummer's puddy and glass that was sticking to paint so I removed the patch and I have removed all paint and it is bear glass 6" around the hole<br />now for the description!!<br />The hole is located ON the starboard side(right side if sitting in boat) of the keel basicly I only have a 1/2 of a keel for 6" in front of the hole I have a few screw holes and behind the hole I have a 4" crack. <br /> --[___].... <br /> <br />Sketch of hole the hole is about 1" wide and 6" long<br /><br />keep in mind I have the roundness of the keel on bottom and the middle stinger on top<br /><br />Also I have a 1 1/4 hole in the hull were the old live-well would fill with water I will need to patch this hole as well<br /><br />Now for the repair!!<br /><br />I have glass(matted and hair),resien, "bondo-glass" and lots of time, and epoxy but no marnie epoxy<br />The 2 main concerns are it leaking and the new patch peeling away due to speed( I have seen it happen)<br />this is what I am thinking the crack,split,and screw holes I epoxy up. then I lay one layer of glass down on top for backing then I go on bottom and put some "bondo-glass" in the 1"x6" hole file "bondo-glass" down to shape of keel the glass both sides<br />Dose this sound like it will hold???<br /><br />Anyone have a better sugestion???<br />-Richard