Had to adjust course a bit...There was a good bit of corrosion on the underside of the boat that I wanted to clean up and address before I continued on with replacing the rivets on the ribs. I got the boat flipped over in the driveway, removed the 3 ribs (not sure what to call them) that run bow to stern and started cleaning up the underside. Most of the corrosion is around the edges of those 3 ribs, I'm in the process of dremeling that stuff out and filling with jb. There's a few spots where it went through the hull right on the edge of the rib so idk how I'm going to fill that...can't really put a patch under the rib, might have to cut the head of a rivet a bit and try to wedge it in there just to fill the hole. There's also a bunch of spots that I'm not really sure what to do with...the metal looks slightly pitted and its got a rough finish to it but doesn't look like there's very much white corrosion in it at all, its mostly just black specks. Not sure if I should just try to sand it out or dremel the specks and fill with jb
Here's a pic of that...there's a few spots mixed in with white corrosion spots that I have to hit but idk how crazy to get with the darker stuff
Here's a pic of the bottom all cleaned up of the remaining paint spots, bondo and flex seal, just have to finish the dremeling and jb. I originally planned on cleaning all of this up while the boat was on the trailer and I am very glad I didn't because it took way more time than I expected
