SuperGrover
Seaman Apprentice
- Joined
- Oct 2, 2012
- Messages
- 36
Good evening and let me introduce you to 'Whipoorwill':
(I hope that pic link works!) She's a '76 and has been well used/loved judging by all the items that have been fastened to her over the years. By the time she's fully restored, I might have to change my name to 'Will' and I will be poor and whipped!
I'm figuring my resto will be in stages:
1 - Replace the floor under the consoles and forward (clean, Gluvit and bouyancy foam), renewing the bow interior and consoles as I go. Replace all of the electrics that I've ripped out (apart from the motor being connected to the battery, the controls being hooked up and the Lowrance wiring being snaked under the gunwales, all the switches and lights had become rotten on the backsides). Get the Merc running and the steering fixed. Deadline: summer 2013.
2 - Restore the rest of the interior (take up the rest of the floor - clean, Gluvit, pour in bouyancy foam, add centre ski type storage). Deadline: possibly summer 2014.
3 - Repaint above waterline (maybe next summer)
4 - Repaint below waterline
5 - Replace transom (it's solid as the last owner changed it himself about 5 years ago, I'm just not liking the bare wood!)
The floor up to the consoles was replaced 5 years ago by the guy we bought her from. Apparently the factory floatation foam was not touched. The flooring under the consoles and forward is rotten:
Those are two pieces of varnished 1/4" plywood laid down over the sponginess. I later found they were laid over another piece of plywood that was screwed down and painted blue:
So this past week in between rainstorms I was able to start the first part of the resto - dismantling the bow components to replace said floor. I'm impressed with how quickly it came apart (maybe a little concerned too - I will likely be overbuilding as I put it back together). The aluminum pop rivets drilled out easily.
The base of the bow seats has a crush mark on it:
I'm a little surprised at how little there is in terms of reinforcemet to some of this. The bow seat base for one, but also the flooring. Looking at the pics of other restos, the aluminum underpinnings of the floor stops short of the open bow area. The floor in front of the bracing is just suspended across that space until it's riveted at the very bow (there are two pieces of plywood that fill this gap and they're riveted together below wih a piece of aluminumn:
(I hope that pic link works!) She's a '76 and has been well used/loved judging by all the items that have been fastened to her over the years. By the time she's fully restored, I might have to change my name to 'Will' and I will be poor and whipped!
I'm figuring my resto will be in stages:
1 - Replace the floor under the consoles and forward (clean, Gluvit and bouyancy foam), renewing the bow interior and consoles as I go. Replace all of the electrics that I've ripped out (apart from the motor being connected to the battery, the controls being hooked up and the Lowrance wiring being snaked under the gunwales, all the switches and lights had become rotten on the backsides). Get the Merc running and the steering fixed. Deadline: summer 2013.
2 - Restore the rest of the interior (take up the rest of the floor - clean, Gluvit, pour in bouyancy foam, add centre ski type storage). Deadline: possibly summer 2014.
3 - Repaint above waterline (maybe next summer)
4 - Repaint below waterline
5 - Replace transom (it's solid as the last owner changed it himself about 5 years ago, I'm just not liking the bare wood!)
The floor up to the consoles was replaced 5 years ago by the guy we bought her from. Apparently the factory floatation foam was not touched. The flooring under the consoles and forward is rotten:
Those are two pieces of varnished 1/4" plywood laid down over the sponginess. I later found they were laid over another piece of plywood that was screwed down and painted blue:
So this past week in between rainstorms I was able to start the first part of the resto - dismantling the bow components to replace said floor. I'm impressed with how quickly it came apart (maybe a little concerned too - I will likely be overbuilding as I put it back together). The aluminum pop rivets drilled out easily.
The base of the bow seats has a crush mark on it:
I'm a little surprised at how little there is in terms of reinforcemet to some of this. The bow seat base for one, but also the flooring. Looking at the pics of other restos, the aluminum underpinnings of the floor stops short of the open bow area. The floor in front of the bracing is just suspended across that space until it's riveted at the very bow (there are two pieces of plywood that fill this gap and they're riveted together below wih a piece of aluminumn:
