Re: Completly rebuilding my 30' pontoon boat any ideas??
I have decided to just keep the motor "as is" on there till it goes. But I have some progress updates to post.
looking at the deck and pondering what to do with it over the last week, I decided to fiberglass the existing plywood. The parts of plywood that were buckling, you can see in the pictures, I tore up the first ply in the area. I took elmers wood filler and filled in all the gaps to create a smooth fiberglassable surface. I walked to the whole deck with a electric sander and smoothed out any rough spots i could find. I will tell you though if anyone ever is sanding wood with oil stains on it, be prepared to have your sandpaper ruined by the oil clumping up on the grit pretty quick.
Now that I have a nice clean and smooth surface to fiberglass, I question how much fiberglass resin I am going to need to coat a 28'x 8 area of plywood???? I have heard that it will absorb a lot of the resin. I am guessing about 5 gallons.
Another Item I have found for the boat is a center console, its 200$ with a tach and speedometer and stainless steel steering wheel. its about 4x3wide, needs to be cleaned up. I originally was going to fabricate my own fiberglass center console. So the question i have is, has anyone fabricated there own console, and if so is it worth doing? im guessing the wood and fiberglass is going to tally up a bill.... or is $200 worth a already built and decently sized one?
