RazorbackBoater
Seaman
- Joined
- Jul 27, 2019
- Messages
- 58
I want to thank all of you for the wonderful advice on this site. Without that advice, I would have never been comfortable with the project I have undertaken.
My fiancé's father had a small, old fiberglass boat lying in his pasture. It had been my fiancé's grandfather’s boat that they abandoned after he passed away in 1988. I saw the boat and decided I wanted to fix it up for her for sentimental reasons and as a project.
This boat is... junk. Absolutely not worth fixing. Everything on this boat is rotten or worn. With that being said, I intend to put her back looking better than new!
So far, I have loaded it on a utility trailer, taken it home, and ripped out the old rotten floor. I then flipped it over to inspect the hull and found three spots where it appears a cow stepped in the boat and cracked the hull.
The boat is 13’6” long. The last registration for the boat was in 1988. I cannot find any marking, stamp, logo, hull number or any other identifier to tell me the brand of this boat or when it was made. There is no Hull Number in the boat, so I assume it was belt prior to the federal law requiring hull numbers. The boat does still have the registration numbers on it, so I am hoping I can look that information up. Would any of you happen to be able to identify this particular brand of boat from the pictures?
It is currently green on bottom and white on top. I will be removing all of the gel coat to inspect and repair the hull. I plan to do structural repairs to any damaged areas and then apply one new layer of glass on the bottom of the hull. My plan is then to gel coat the bottom of the hull pink and the top white. (Colors requested by my fiancé).
On the inside, I will replace the transom. I am debating using a composite of some kind. I will never hang any motor bigger than a 9.9 hp motor on this boat. Do any of you have advice on the best materials to use on a small boat?
I will also have to replace the deck/floor and the one stringer. I am debating replacing the one stringer with some kind of a hollow fiberglass stringer so that it will never need replacement again.. Then I am considering putting foam for flotation on each side of the stringer and putting a solid fiberglass deck over the top. My goal is to use no wood on the stringer or floor. Have any of you ever done something like that in a boat this small?
Please give me any advice you can! I have read many other posts, and I think my ideas can be implemented. I know I will lose tons of money on this boat, but I am the type that I just want the project.
My fiancé's father had a small, old fiberglass boat lying in his pasture. It had been my fiancé's grandfather’s boat that they abandoned after he passed away in 1988. I saw the boat and decided I wanted to fix it up for her for sentimental reasons and as a project.
This boat is... junk. Absolutely not worth fixing. Everything on this boat is rotten or worn. With that being said, I intend to put her back looking better than new!
So far, I have loaded it on a utility trailer, taken it home, and ripped out the old rotten floor. I then flipped it over to inspect the hull and found three spots where it appears a cow stepped in the boat and cracked the hull.
The boat is 13’6” long. The last registration for the boat was in 1988. I cannot find any marking, stamp, logo, hull number or any other identifier to tell me the brand of this boat or when it was made. There is no Hull Number in the boat, so I assume it was belt prior to the federal law requiring hull numbers. The boat does still have the registration numbers on it, so I am hoping I can look that information up. Would any of you happen to be able to identify this particular brand of boat from the pictures?
It is currently green on bottom and white on top. I will be removing all of the gel coat to inspect and repair the hull. I plan to do structural repairs to any damaged areas and then apply one new layer of glass on the bottom of the hull. My plan is then to gel coat the bottom of the hull pink and the top white. (Colors requested by my fiancé).
On the inside, I will replace the transom. I am debating using a composite of some kind. I will never hang any motor bigger than a 9.9 hp motor on this boat. Do any of you have advice on the best materials to use on a small boat?
I will also have to replace the deck/floor and the one stringer. I am debating replacing the one stringer with some kind of a hollow fiberglass stringer so that it will never need replacement again.. Then I am considering putting foam for flotation on each side of the stringer and putting a solid fiberglass deck over the top. My goal is to use no wood on the stringer or floor. Have any of you ever done something like that in a boat this small?
Please give me any advice you can! I have read many other posts, and I think my ideas can be implemented. I know I will lose tons of money on this boat, but I am the type that I just want the project.