Cox Craft 85 Gutted and Rebuild.........ing

[Barramundi NQ]

The remnants of some glass repairs over the old girls life....out with the old

 

[Barramundi NQ]

Large chunks of CSM that was delaminating at almost every point of contact

 

[Barramundi NQ]

This is the area below where the fuel tank used to sit. I believe that this is the original glass for the Gold Coast factory Circa 1985...

See the chisel? I just looked for an edge glass joining the main hull and drove the chisel between the hull and the csm tabbing over the the center stringer and the starboard stringer
This gives you an idea about how large a piece came off in piece. this was a typical size I could remove

Cheers from Queensland Australia

Barra

 

[Barramundi NQ]

Same again for the port main stringer and the center stringer


Another big piece. The chisel is now my new best friend.....Almost zero grinding so far

The grinding days are ahead of me

 

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This the hole i made on one of the last trips I made to the Great Barrier Reef when I used to live in Cairns North Queensland.

I'll show the Aluminium plate that was used by a well meaning friend to seal the fracture and hole...

There's a saying about all boat captains the navigate the reef off Cairns " there's two types of captains, one that has hit the reef, and one that will hit the reef"

 

[Barramundi NQ]

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The colour change is evidence of a dry edge of where the bond has failed

 

[kcassells]

Good to see you back at it.

 

[oldrem]

Glad to see you're back on it. Lots of fun ahead

 

[nurseman]

Well, well, well, look what the cat dragged back in! Good to see you back at it!

 

[Barramundi NQ]

Good to see you back at it.

Thanks kcassells. I do have some plans for the old girl. eep:

 

[Barramundi NQ]

Glad to see you're back on it. Lots of fun ahead

Cheers Eric Never say no to encouragement!:lol:

 

[Barramundi NQ]

Well, well, well, look what the cat dragged back in! Good to see you back at it!

Hey nurseman, Have been watching your rebuild thread with a little envy. I've been stuck in a bad place for a while and some major life changes but hopefully I'll be keeping the momentum going this time round.

 

[Barramundi NQ]

Seriously long piece that came off . I'm beginning to wonder if the old girl was only a couple of trips away from falling apart!!!

Cheers from the Sunshine Coast in sunny Queensland OZ

 

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Hull nearly ready for the grinder

 

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Port transom ready for removal....Extremely wet due to the cap being removed some years ago and water has got into completely.

 

[Barramundi NQ]

Transom plywood and gel coat skin removed . Just a hot wet mess. Water oozing out as I cut the gel coat in the boat.

I used a diamond blade on the grinder with the vacuum sucking up 99% of the fiber glass dust as I went.

As you see I did have some good gloves on. Other PPE included quality half face respirator and safety glasses. Long pants and long sleeves.

The only fiber glass that got me was as I was sitting on the bottom of the hull some of the csm glass fibers went thru the seat of my pants, So I had an itchy butt for the rest of the evening. No photos will be uploaded in that regard!!

 

[Barramundi NQ]

So here's the transom completely devoid of all the rotten plywood.

The entire boat appears to be made completely of csm with next to zero 1708. Naturally I'll be adding some strength to everything that I do.

Only Timber left is the remnants of the floor (see the plywood edge by the battery cables?) that's the last part of the structural part of the hull. As the floor is right on the chine it'll take some care not to grind through the hull as i get rid of it.........looking forward to that lol

 

[kcassells]

Hey nurseman, Have been watching your rebuild thread with a little envy. I've been stuck in a bad place for a while and some major life changes but hopefully I'll be keeping the momentum going this time round.

All you'll need are clamps!

 

[Barramundi NQ]

view from above the old transom with all the ply gone. Lots of mould and discoloration from some sort of dirt between the layers of glass that weren't really properly bonded to the original glass from the factory.

So some history as I see it. This was the second transom and the second floor. Multiple repairs some ok, some dodgy as!

Questions

I'm assuming that all the blackish lines from the hull to stringer tabbing will need to be gone?

Is the discoloration a bacteria?

Will grinding it the dirt ( bacteria) spread it around in really small amounts only to come back and bite me in the ass later?

Cheers from Sunny Queensland

Be safe in the hurricane

 

[Barramundi NQ]

All you'll need are clamps!

Yes indeed..... I too have clamp envy!:fencing: