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Is there a way to dissolve poured in foam?
I have a ProKat 2860 - no wood in this boat - that due to a bad bit of luck and a couple design flaws has the foam in the forward part of the sponsons full of water. The shower drain actually went into the foam instead of into a...
Has anyone here done significant work on a Prokat 2860 or similar?
These are wood-free hulls, but they seem to have some foam in the front part of each sponson. they also have a floor in the forward bilge area that prevents access to the actual bottom of the keel area...which does not seem...
Not too proud to admit that sometimes I find boat handling in tight spots to be a challenge with my recently acquired '88 Bayliner 2450. Way, way harder to maneuver at slow speed than my buddy's Parker 2310 which I've been driving for years. Especially in reverse, there are times that big...
So.... My free boat ain't so free after all. See my thread in the hull repair forum if you want the gory details.
Anyway, today I was replacing the prop that the PO hit some rocks with...and I noticed some leakage on the shifter seal.. Drained the oil and YEP! its got water in it. Since I know...
Gurus of aquatic propulsion...
I have a 1987 Bayliner ciera 25' with penta 225D (350 GM V8) and 280 outdrive. the PO did some rock boating and the current prop has some bend in it. It is a 15x17 elephant ear.
The boat runs nicely...33mph @ 3800; 40mph @ 4500...which is as high as that...
so, there it is. if you look closely you can see the outline of the repair in the space under the two portholes. the gel is a wonderland of fisheye, orange peel and roller marks....most or all of which would come out with some wet sanding with 400. Since I plan to give this boat away in a...
Ok, so we are getting close...
I've got six layers on the large repair: csm-1708-csm-1708-1708-csm ... all sanded down and ready to start fairing in. it doesn't show real well, but after sanding the heck our of the top two applications, its actually fairly smooth.
I am using glass beads and...
Glass gods... tell me: how screwed am I? Am I doomed, or is this the way its supposed to go?
I started grinding it out and I found ... BINGO! automotive bondo and automotive primer. It became fairly easy to figure out where the delamination was by wat parts of the foam(?) came out like...
I've spent the last several weeks reading everything I could find on this site (a lot!) and others about doing repairs on a fiberglass boat... I'm hoping the gurus of 'glass will chime in here on my best path forward. Here's the background;
I was given a 1987 25' Bayliner Cierra. Its not...
