Hull is stripped. No more paint or green stuff.
Took the knee brace and Z brace off of the transom. The Z brace is cracked in two spots. Going to make a new one, rather than try to weld the old one. welding old thin aluminum sucks. The knee brace is broken where it bolts to transom wood, going to bolt some pieces of aluminum angle to it to fix that.
The bottom under where the knee brace mounts appears to have taken quite a bit of abuse. It is dented in, scratched up, and the rivets were wore pretty thin. Thinking about making a triangle shaped skid plate to fix/reinforce it. Probably attach it with some countersunk rivets.
Now that the paint is off, had a good chance to inspect the hull. No cracks or missing rivets. One small gouge in the bow, but it isn't split. Probably going to fill it with some JB Weld.
Took the knee brace and Z brace off of the transom. The Z brace is cracked in two spots. Going to make a new one, rather than try to weld the old one. welding old thin aluminum sucks. The knee brace is broken where it bolts to transom wood, going to bolt some pieces of aluminum angle to it to fix that.
The bottom under where the knee brace mounts appears to have taken quite a bit of abuse. It is dented in, scratched up, and the rivets were wore pretty thin. Thinking about making a triangle shaped skid plate to fix/reinforce it. Probably attach it with some countersunk rivets.
Now that the paint is off, had a good chance to inspect the hull. No cracks or missing rivets. One small gouge in the bow, but it isn't split. Probably going to fill it with some JB Weld.