Hey everybody....The project kinda came to a slow down with all the summer "honey do's"....work.....and abit of walleye fishin. But I'm back at it hard again. I got pics of the tear down but am having trouble getting them on here even after resizing them and much swearing it still tells me there too big...Thats a whole other project...(me and a computer)...LOL Anyway, got her all cleaned out ...old wet foam gone, wiring mess out, rotten trasom gone. Used gluvit on all the rivits and seams in the hull...got new transom cut out and put together with waterproof glue and SS screws, pre drilled all the holes and sealed it with the left over gluvit tonight. Also put the aluminum stringers back in tonight. Ran a piece of 1 1/2" PVC from the transom to were the consel will set and from the bow back to the consel for the wires I want to run so they won't be visable under the gunal. The only thing that will be under the gunal will be the throttle and the shifter cable tucked up tight out of sight. I'm going to replace the pour in foam...(the stuff that caused alot of the deck rotting) with blue closed cell foam. This will leave about 1" of air space between the ribs and the hull so any water that gets in can make it to the bilge area. The next thing will be the new deck and I have some question on what to do here. I'm going with 3/4" exterior ply and I know it needs sealed. I'm not putting carpet back in her because I believe that also added to the rotting of the old deck.I'm going with "Durabak".So my question is seal the wood with epoxie, or poly resin ? The Durabak is a polyurethen product. I have read in some deck boat magazine they don't use anything but the Durabak. If it is recomended to use glass resin, should I need to use cloth as well or would it not be nessesary? Any suggestions with this and the posting of my pics wolud be of a great help... Thanks again for the great site....
