free boat what to do?

[hadaveha]

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cant I get 1 more season before I need to replace this transom {joke}

 

[hadaveha]

hows the best way to know for sure if your boat is a cap and hull, or a hull and floor set up

 

[jigngrub]

cant I get 1 more season before I need to replace this transom {joke**

You could put a 1/4" aluminum saddle plate over that transom and get another 10 yrs. out of it!:facepalm:

To find out if you have a cap or cap and liner, clean all that junk out of the boat and look for the bottom of the cap on the inside of the boat. If you can't find the bottom of the cap you either have a liner/tub or you haven't cleaned out enough junk.

 

[hadaveha]

I've got all the crap out of it I think I'm going to have to take the rub rail off to be able to tell

 

[jbcurt00]

I'm pretty sure thats a hull and liner, not a cap.

Thers still going to be a seam behind the rubrail channel.

 

[hadaveha]

You are spot on jbcurt it as just as you said, and I tore some deck out and it is wood stringers looks like 2 1bys

 

[kcassells]

PSSSssst... Cut down some tree branches, cover up the boat, put it behind the shed and get back to it later when the other half isn't around.

 

[hadaveha]

I think she has hidden cameras everywhere I try to stash my project boats. But she knows this one was free

 

[jigngrub]

I think she has hidden cameras everywhere I try to stash my project boats. But she knows this one was free

Well it's a real good thing she thinks "free" boats don't cost any money eh?!

I'll have to have a little talk with the lovely Mrs. H the next time I see her...

 

[JameO]

I'm a firm believer in doing what ever ti is that makes you happy. If you don't have a project, and your looking for one , well fix er up. If you have other projects to strip er down scrap er out, and get your other projects done. But really, what ever floats your boat.

 

[kcassells]

I think she has hidden cameras everywhere I try to stash my project boats. But she knows this one was free

Good to hear from ya!

 

[hadaveha]

my problem is old boats are like stray dogs I seem to want to take them all in and save them. this little boat is so unusual to me. the floation is above the deck its under the raised bow in the front, and under to like stern corner pods I quess you would call them. another very unusual thing is the transom and the back say 30 percent of the deck and stringers are beyond rotton, they are mud. but from that part of the boat forward its all solid as a rock, I quess that's from the foam being above the deck, I think it must have sat with water in the back and tiltied bow up and with no foam to wick water forward everything forward stayed dry

 

[hadaveha]

thanks kcas your boat looks great I check in on you pretty often

 

[hadaveha]

Ok guys I started my demo work and I'm itching all over even my face I'm done I'm going back to tin. Anybody wants this thing they can have it

 

[Woodonglass]

ROFLMAO...SISSY!!!!!!:whoo::bolt::congratulatory::eyebrows:

Did you look like this...???

 

[hadaveha]

I got a whole new respect for you fiberglass guys, you guys are hard as nails

 

[JASinIL2006]

ROFLMAO...SISSY!!!!!!:whoo::bolt::congratulatory::eyebrows:

Did you look like this...???

That's a handsome looking fellow, there, WOG! Pity those tinny boys don't get to wear all the cool gear we do, huh?

 

[64osby]

Ok guys I started my demo work and I'm itching all over even my face I'm done I'm going back to tin. Anybody wants this thing they can have it

Congrats on figuring out what donor boats are good for. Salvage all useful parts for a nice Tinny and scrap the hull.:watermelon:

 

[hadaveha]

Lesson learned here that's for sure I thought a shower would help call tinner

 

[jigngrub]

So wearing the proper PPE isn't overrated? ... and waiting for the weather to cool down so you're comfortable in that PPE is pure foolishness? I don't understand, I thought working with fiberglass was like working with cotton candy? :cheer2: