Scott, are you saying 6-12 months of work at 8 hrs a day or 8 hrs/week? The inside of the transom has no paint or gel-coat and looks like it's in pretty good shape, at least what I can see of it.
Any chance I could get someone to take pity on me & find a crew to give me an Extreme Boat Makeover? lol
2 15 hour days on the weekend and 2-3 hours a night for about 2 months straight..... then you get burned out.... your wife yells at you, etc. you take up drinking, you swear at the boat....
you take a week break
by then the itching stopped, so you can start again....
expect to put in the following on a typical bow runner:
30-40 hours of carefully taking all the rigging out of the boat, marking the bags, taking pictures, measurements, etc. this is everything, all the interior, the drive, the motor, the rub rail, the glass, etc.
2 hours of mumbling to yourself wondering WTF you got yourself into
4-6 hours making a cradle for the hull
2-4 hours of un-caping the boat
2 more hours of soul searching
8 hours of carefully cutting out the floor, measuring the stringers, etc. removing foam
8 hours to verify your measurements, take pictures, sketch up what was there for you to re-make it as it was
8-12 hours of carefully trimming out the stringers to the floor and cutting out the transom inner skin
4-6 hours of removing the transom
24-40 hours of grinding fiberglass
2 hours of mumbling to yourself wondering WTF you got yourself into
acceptance that you are now neck deep in a project.
6-8 hours of rough-cutting your new stringer and transom wood
2 hours of cleanup
6-8 hours of finish carpentry to get it all to fit, including rounding all the corners over, etc.
2-4 hours of laminating various wood bits together
4 hours of wiping everything down with acetone
2 hours of PB'ing the transom in place
2 hours of swearing at the clamps and running around catching stuff that is oozing
2 hours of installing the stringers
8-10 hours of PB'ing everything
8 hours grinding something that went wrong and re-making something..... like the smoldering bucket of resin that has the brush stuck in it that is now stuck to the hull
2 hours of cleanup
2 hours of wiping it down with acetone
4 hours cutting tabbing
2 hours of wetting tabbing and laying it in place
1 hour of swearing at the tabbing because it keeps lifting off the wood
1 hour of grabbing the staple gun and in a fit of rage, stapling the resin soaked cloth in place
6 hours of grinding off all the nibbs and FUBARS
2 hours of cleanup
2 hours of wiping it down with acetone
2 hours final tabbing of the transom and stringers
2 hours of skinning the transom
2 hours of minor grinding
1 hour of cleanup
4 hours of fitting the floor panels
2 hours of wiping everything with acetone
2 hours of skinning the underside of the floor panels
2 hours of PB'ing and screwing the floor in place
4 hours cutting tabbing for the floor
2 hours of tabing the floor
1 hour of minor grinding
2 hours of cleanup
2 hours of sitting back with a beer making motor boat noises as your wife is calling the loony bin for you
1 hour drilling all the pour holes for the foam because you forgot to do this prior, even though you have made this mistake before
2 minutes mixing foam
5 minutes pouring foam
1 hour of cleaning your self up because you have foam stuck to your head
2 hours of cleaning up the areas you need to remove foam from
1 hour spot patching the pour holes
1 hour spot grinding
3 hours of cleaning
2 hours of wiping everything down with acetone
2 hours laying 2-3 layers on teh floor
2 hours making engine mounting blocks
2 hours pb'ing and tabbing the engine blocks
2 hours of minor grinding and clean up
1 hour of 3-4 layers of glass over the engine mounting blocks
3 hours cleaning everything
2 hours wiping everything down with acetone
2 hours applying gel coat to the bilge, transom and floor, using wax on the last layer
take a break for a week
8-12 hours installing new carpet
40-60 hours of cleaning things as you re-install everything
does not include multiple trips for supplies, or any exterior hull restoration.
this does not include the inevitable mistakes, such as cutting a hole in the hull, making a few resin trophies, etc. expect to add about 80 hours for mistakes and rework.
if you have to restore the exterior gel, add 300 hours
not trying to scare you away, just trying to point out the real effort needed on any boat over 15 years of age that needs a restoration
