Re: 1981 Bayliner Victoria 2750 - Restore or Bust
Wow guys I been gone for last 4 days I come back and your almost done with the boat. WOW!!!!!!!!! I am really getting excited to see it done. Did you put foam in the sealed areas? and your water sensors?
We're going with sealed chambers (air filled) for now. Those in the forward area are fairly small each (1.5 - 2 cu ft) and isolated from each other. I can, if I decide to, pour foam at a later date, or add deck plates for inspection in most of them easily.
No sensors. The more I thought about it, the more I reasoned that since we have all tightly sealed compartments, I'll just leave them be.
I would like to add a sensor to the sump at the half-full mark, as well as one in the bilge above the normal puddle level. Those would be interesting areas to monitor.
Oh yeah in the pictures above I can see that is where the head was. What is the balsa? I probably will be dealing with the same thing. I have to say you guys could be custom Professional Yacht Builders. Very impressed
A lot of boats use a balsa core. It's very light and strong on the end grain. So they cut balsa boards into thin (3/8" in this case) chops, then lay them side by side in a tile pattern and glue a piece of cloth to one side. This produces a sheet of strong, light material 3/8" thick that can be laid into compound curves due to it being made up of 3" squares. On this boat, after laying it cloth side to the outer skin fiberglass, they sprayed a layer of wet chopper gun over it and rolled it smooth. The inner layer is about 1/16" thick, over 3/8" balsa, laminated to 3/8" glass resulting in about 3/4" thickness in those areas.
