Bass Tracker rebuild, 1983 Tournament TX

[crwdz7]

Jigngrub,

I hate to resurrect such an old thread, but you did such a great job that I had a couple questions. I just started a bass tracker rebuild on a 1983 tournament tx and was am planning on going for a similar look as yours. I actually lucked out and received enough vinyl from my father. He did a boat a few years ago and purchased the vinyl but decided he didn't like it so went with carpet. I am replacing the floor and front deck, but I also plan to extend the front deck and add some storage compartments. I like how you handled the wood with the epoxy resin. I would like to epoxy resin the tops and ends of the plywood for the deck as you did, but I think I may do the bottom also on the piece that will be on the floor as I do get a little water under the floor at times. My questions are, what type of epoxy resin did you use and how far does it go? I estimate I will have somewhere between 2 to 3 sheets of plywood in varying pieces by the time I'm done. Also did you put anything on the inside of your compartments? I'm going to build mine out of wood and was thinking of lining them with vinyl if I had enough left.

I'm going to trim my lids similar to yours. I noticed earlier in the thread where you added some close up pictures of you lid trim, but i appears they have been moved and no longer show up in the thread. Any way you could get those back up?

Appreciate any help you can provide.
THanks Cod

 

[crwdz7]

I guess I'm confused. I had no intention to hijack. Just had some questions for him and was giving him some background. I'm new to this (obviously by the number of posts I have) so I will try again on his thread with just questions.

 

[jigngrub]

Jigngrub,

I hate to resurrect such an old thread, but you did such a great job that I had a couple questions. I just started a bass tracker rebuild on a 1983 tournament tx and was am planning on going for a similar look as yours. I actually lucked out and received enough vinyl from my father. He did a boat a few years ago and purchased the vinyl but decided he didn't like it so went with carpet. I am replacing the floor and front deck, but I also plan to extend the front deck and add some storage compartments. I like how you handled the wood with the epoxy resin. I would like to epoxy resin the tops and ends of the plywood for the deck as you did, but I think I may do the bottom also on the piece that will be on the floor as I do get a little water under the floor at times. My questions are, what type of epoxy resin did you use and how far does it go? I estimate I will have somewhere between 2 to 3 sheets of plywood in varying pieces by the time I'm done. Also did you put anything on the inside of your compartments? I'm going to build mine out of wood and was thinking of lining them with vinyl if I had enough left.

I'm going to trim my lids similar to yours. I noticed earlier in the thread where you added some close up pictures of you lid trim, but i appears they have been moved and no longer show up in the thread. Any way you could get those back up?

Appreciate any help you can provide.
THanks Cod

Hey Cody, thanks for showing interest in my Tracker thread.

To answer some of your questions:

1. I like this resin:

The 635 thin really penetrates the wood on the first and second coats for deep protection and the 3:1 hardener is pretty easy to work with. For the amount of wood you're going to have a 1 gallon kit should be plenty. The 1 gallon kit is actually 1.33 gallons when the resin and hardener are mixed together, 1 gal. resin and 42 oz. hardener.

2. As you can see in these 2 pics and post #12 of my thread, I lined my storage compartments with closed cell camping/sleeping bag pad for sound deadening and cushioning for stored items:



3. To install the angle trim on the hatches, I put the angle on after the hatches were wrapped in vinyl:

Before the angle.

After the wrap.

I mitered the angle at the corners:


I used 3/16 diameter closed end blind rivets with a countersunk head to attach the angles to the hatch lids, a fairly tedious task with lots of drilling and countersinking with the rivets on about 3" centers for a sturdy installation. You can find those rivets at a place called rivets online on the net, not many places carry the countersunk head rivets.

If you have any more questions feel free to ask and I'll try to help the best I can.