1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17'

[jasoutside]

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17'

I was going to use 1 3/4 sheet of foam

K, quick clarification...

Your foam is 1 3/4" thick?

Or, are you planning one piece of 3/4" to be laminated to your deck?

 

[Pmccraney]

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17'

The latter..

 

[jasoutside]

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17'

10-4

In that case I'd say this is a good move...

laminate 2 3/4 sheets together with PL and then have it really bomber strong...

Beware though, you'll spend some serious dough on PL to lam the two foam pieces and lam the deck to the foam.

I think I remember you saying the thicker foam (like 1.5" or 2") was not available in your area, that right?

 

[Pmccraney]

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17'

Yeah - I can't find it anywhere.... (largest I found was 3/4 in the blue)... Well, actually, they did have some 1.5 sheets, but it looked like white bubble styrofoam of yesteryear...

 

[jasoutside]

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17'

white bubble styrofoam of yesteryear...

Yah, that stuff won't help ya a bit for this application.

Swing by my local Menards, they have tons of 2" Pink Panther foam!

 

[Pmccraney]

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17'

Little update from last weekend:

Got some deck boards down and sort of eyeballing the new gas tank that came in today... Its going to work out just right...

I think I've just about got the placement figured out...

Have a good evening.

~pmc

 

[jbcurt00]

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17'

Great looking deck you have developing over here

 

[GT1000000]

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17 Foot

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17 Foot

Looking good!

 

[jasoutside]

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17 Foot

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17 Foot

Deck going down, nice!!

 

[Decker83]

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17 Foot

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17 Foot

Just trying to catch up on the forums. Looks like you have come a long way in the last few days.
The deck looks great. The tank looks much better than the last one.
Did you seal the underside of the deck.

 

[Pmccraney]

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17 Foot

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17 Foot

Thanks fellas. Yes, Decker, I sealed the underside with epoxy resin. You can see a little bit on the topside/edges (the darker spots), which is a bit of spillover from where I did the edges.

Also, the extreme aft piece is 1/2 thick, because it is going to be hidden under my rear casting deck. Basically, just wanted a flat place to store some batteries, etc... The rest of the deck coming forward is 3/4. I am actually going to smooth out the joint/transition with some Fiberglass cloth and epoxy so the water will run downhill a bit under that casting deck and back to the bilge...

 

[jbcurt00]

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17 Foot

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17 Foot

You can make PB w/ epoxy too and ramp the 1/2 to 3/4 joint some 1st. In epoxy, over & under epoxy, saw dust or wood flour would work as filler, else, I don't know if it's micro balloons or cabosil etc

 

[Pmccraney]

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17 Foot

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17 Foot

Deck is down: Feels pretty solid, and I don't hear any squeaking... I have some 6 oz. cloth left over from the glasser project that I may put down on the main deck surface for extra strength, water proofing, hiding the seams a bit, and a nice textured finish... (may require a lot of resin, but that's the plan right now). Expoxy resin and cloth are compatible, right?

I think I got the front layout figured out in terms of gas tank, livewell/fishbox, etc... Hope to start on bow deck soon....

 

[jasoutside]

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17 Foot

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17 Foot

Any room to hang a disco ball in there somewhere?

I've heard you've got moves that would amaze

 

[Trooper82]

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17 Foot

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17 Foot

Grats on getting the dance floor down PMC!

 

[GT1000000]

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17'

Nice, I am starting to get tin-envy...:facepalm:

Dance floor? you could cover it with this stuff and make it just like Travolta's Saturday Night Fever dance floor... http://electroluminescence-inc.com/ELtape.htm ...

Looking really good PMC...

 

[KennethfromGA]

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17'

PMC,
First off let me say I've enjoyed both this thread and Man Vs. Boat lots of good stuff all around. I was wondering though if you could post a few more pics of your motor stand. I have a believe the same motor and will be needing to build a stand for it soon.

Thanks,
Kenneth

 

[jbcurt00]

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17'

Here's 1:
Building your own outboard motor stand

And another: http://forums.iboats.com/showthread.php?t=266008

PMC's looks good too, and may have been based on 1 of these....


Nice work on the deck!

 

[KennethfromGA]

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17'

Thanks JB,
I had one of those links saved on my old phone but lost my bookmarks when I upgraded. I was wondering though what if anything PMC or anyone else for that matter did to beef up the stand for the bigger motor. Don't know if it's needed but as PMC mentioned his first stand was an epic fail.....????

 

[Pmccraney]

Re: 1988 Sea Nymph GLS - 17'

thanks fellas, it feels good to actually be able to walk around in a boat I own... Never experienced such an unusual phenomenon before...

While you guys know that I am not camera shy, I will spare you the disco moves... It would be more than you could handle anyway: :facepalm:

So, not much happened this weekend (had daddy duty with 4 kids all weekend because the wifey needed to tend to some family biz in baton rouge)... The one time I tried to sneak out and work on the boat, my 2 year old decided to take one of my boat sharpies and color all over the walls, the floor and herself.... Not good (at least acetone works on painted sheetrock and brick).

There was one very positive boat-related development this weekend... A fellow iboater hooked me up with a perfect windshield for this rig (I am not going to mention any names, but I can definitely hear some noises coming from this box... Its either a puma, or the faint screams of a starcrafter glasser VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!!

Kenneth, on the o/b stand - the best thing I can tell you is to make it beefy; mimic your transom angle, use long screws and joining plates, and don't get in a hurry. I tried to convert from my old fiberglass stand which was a straight vertical and not very beefy, and this is it after the board broke loose and then it fell over:

Then, I did my homework and came up with something like this:

Have a good one fellas.