Avenger Project

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http://s110.photobucket.com/albums/n103/tadpoleig/

This is slow going. That's okay. Terrible weather for boating around here until at least April. Go to this link to see what I've done so far. Cut out part of the floor - edge to edge, about 6" forward - and discovered the false bottome was filled with water. The stringers - I'm not sure what to make of them at this point. I drill into them and they feel solid. The wood that comes out on the drill is bright colored, like new wood, but it seems wet. It is slightly flakey. I'm hoping they can be saved with some drying out at some Gitrot.

This boat was built with no bilge, so I'm going to add one. The plywood of the floor is completely rotten. The wood is black, although it feels solid. I'm going to replace that with 6lb polyurethane foam instead of ply.

The top (deck) of this boat is laminated to the bottom. I decided to cut out part of the drywell to get to the transom. I think this is easier. More to come. Thanks for any insights at this point.

TG

 

[Solittle]

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If you have rot in the stringers drying and GiRot will do nothing.

 

[Chris1956]

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Blanche, Adding a bilge to that boat will be a real advantage. Make it small however (10"X10"), since their is likely not enough foam in the floor to float the boat now, and you will be removing some of it.

What kind of motor will you be using? A 115HP tower would be nice. A 115HP V4 J/E would also work!

 

[klos]

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That transom looks pretty bad. I wonder why they built that with three different pices of ply.
doesn't seem like that would support the O/B very well.

 

[croSSed]

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http://s110.photobucket.com/albums/n103/tadpoleig/

I did some more destruction over the last couple of days. See the updated pics.

The area under the bow is a total pain to get out. I'd like to be able to cut out the tabbing and get it out in one piece, like I did the rest of the floor, but there is practically no room to work under there. I tried using an angle grinder, but the glass dust gets so thick after only a few seconds of grinding, I can't see what I'm doing.

The false bottom was completely filled with bad smelling, brown water. Yuck. I vacuumed it up with a wet vac.

As always, your thoughts are welcomed. Thanks!

TG

 

[croSSed]

Re: Avenger Project - UPDATED 12/23!

Re: Avenger Project - UPDATED 12/23!

bump.

 

[croSSed]

Re: Avenger Project

I got the floor under the bow deck out. What a misearble job. My eyes are still watering from the dust hours later, after taking a shower. I was wearing a resperator but there was no way to protect my eyes from the glass dust. I might have bad dreams about this job.

I also ground a small hole in the bottom hull of my boat. I thought - in the cramped space and minimal light - that I was grinding away tabbing. Wrong. The hole is very small. I'm thinking I can patch it from the inside with a couple of tablespoons worth of thickened resin/microfibers/Cab O Sil mixture. Mix it up like peanut butter and putty knife it into the hole. From the outside I can "prettify" it later with some gelcoat.

I removed one of the stringers. It is completely water logged. Needless to say I will be replacing stringers also.

With all the crap removed, the boat is so light I can lift one side of it. Four guys could easily lift this thing off the trailer and put it any where they wanted.

I will post new pics to my Photobucket site tomorrow some time.

TG