Hey Craig,
Stopping by to check progress... Cradle looks tough brutha! Congrats on the 5k!
Making some headway my friend!
Thanks Bear
Hey Craig,
Its great to see another father son team working on a boat. My son and I spent the day grinding out the old strings on ours. We did get some strange looks from the neighbors not sure if it was what looked like snow flying on a 75 degree day of the 2 guys in goggles and respirators that did it though lol.
Hghvoltage, thanks - its been a fun project together so far. I bet you got some looks, haha we laugh at each other every time we put our hooded tyvek suits, respirators and goggles on, we're like the reject space crew, haha
Today we wrestled with the side flotation boxes and the transom. Man those side boxes came off hard! Glad we did though. Half the foam was soaked and worst of all we found the supports it was all tied to were mostly rotted and worst of all it looks like the factory was in a hurry the day they put them in. Just slapped on with a piece of fiberglass.
We got about a third of the transom out. I originally thought it was only the area we were working on but have since figured out it goes the entire width of the stern. More grinding and cutting to go to get that the rest of the way out.
Once that is out it's time to cut out the cross braces and start trying to carefully remove the stringers in a way we can use them for templates for the new ones.
Question, it looks like these go all the way from the back to the front and step up to the fishing deck height. Can I put a bulkhead at the start of the new fishing deck and then split the stringers at that point? That way the new fishing deck redesign has shorter stringers to deal with and the main deck area stringers are easier to cut.
