bbodin
Petty Officer 2nd Class
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- Jun 19, 2011
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Re: '78 Hydra Sport 168vee Restore Project
I gonna post some updated pics tomorrow. Many have been asking for them. I'm now down to cleaning up the sides of the hull so I can Tie the bottom glass to the sides.
I'm now gonna have to shop for some wood for the stringers and the transom. Shouldn't be hard to find some good stuff here. I'm really wanting to stay away from pressure treated stuff. It is just sooo heavy and I don't think it will take fiberglass well. I really don't want my new glass from delaminating from my wood after all of this work. It would be a disaster on a transom!
Also, when ginding down some of the old no-good plywood toward the bow of the boat ( I'll post a pic tomorrow ) the very bottom of the boat at the keel was about one solid inch of pure fiberglass resin - no glass. Seems kinda fragile to me. So I had to grind it all out, which left a few holes in the bottom since there were places there where the gelcoat was rubbed off. More fixing to do. I'll have to build that up with an Oops peanut butter mix. That will leave a good level place to put my center stinger.
All that pure resin with nothing in it seems to me that water could be wicking thru there. Very brittle as well. I'm surely going to put a keel saver there when I'm done with this project. We do alot of beaching slightly at the river on sand bars so the kids can swim. The keel needs the extra protection.
I gonna post some updated pics tomorrow. Many have been asking for them. I'm now down to cleaning up the sides of the hull so I can Tie the bottom glass to the sides.
I'm now gonna have to shop for some wood for the stringers and the transom. Shouldn't be hard to find some good stuff here. I'm really wanting to stay away from pressure treated stuff. It is just sooo heavy and I don't think it will take fiberglass well. I really don't want my new glass from delaminating from my wood after all of this work. It would be a disaster on a transom!
Also, when ginding down some of the old no-good plywood toward the bow of the boat ( I'll post a pic tomorrow ) the very bottom of the boat at the keel was about one solid inch of pure fiberglass resin - no glass. Seems kinda fragile to me. So I had to grind it all out, which left a few holes in the bottom since there were places there where the gelcoat was rubbed off. More fixing to do. I'll have to build that up with an Oops peanut butter mix. That will leave a good level place to put my center stinger.
All that pure resin with nothing in it seems to me that water could be wicking thru there. Very brittle as well. I'm surely going to put a keel saver there when I'm done with this project. We do alot of beaching slightly at the river on sand bars so the kids can swim. The keel needs the extra protection.