Hello,
After getting some great help on my boat resto I thought I would post this here and see if anyone can help! I have just got the boat off the trailer for painting so thought I would repair the trailer at the same time.
The trailer tows really nicely but the brakes don't work at all (as...
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This is the deck all weighted down:
I left a piece cut out at the back where the fuel pipes can get out. Later I'm going to make a raised bit here that funnels water to the bilge and hopefully prevents water getting under the deck (even...
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I'm really sorry I haven't posted for ages! After my last post I had to work every hour possible to get the boat to a waterproof stage that I could leave it in. The reason for this was that I moved jobs to another part of the country so had...
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Here are a couple of photos of putting the cap back on by myself as I did it when I had a days holiday so had no one available to give me a hand! I've put it back on so that I know it will fit after the deck is glassed in place. The only...
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I have now completely glassed in the stringers and bulkheads. I first tabbed them in with 2 layers of my combi matt then capped them with 1 layer. As usual with this project this took me a lot longer than anticipated!
I've decided not to...
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Here is the photo of the stringers and bulkheads cut to deck height. I did this by cutting off the excess with a power hand saw thing. I then used a power planer and belt sander to bring most of it to the correct height. The power planer was...
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I have now made and fitted bulkheads and deck supports to go outside the stringers. Towards the bow the stringers come out of the lowest chine as they bend inwards. The manufacturers had glassed in batons of wood into the rest of this chine...
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I've started on the stringers now. I am replacing the stringers similar to how I found them but mine are slightly thicker and follow the hull of the boat rather than sitting on fibreglassed batons of wood in the chines.
I think it was Oops...
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For the hole at the back of the chine I filled in some of the space with peanut butter so that it was easier to lay matt over:
I was then able to repair the hole exactly as I did with the others.
I used csm as the last layer on the...
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I made backing plates for each hole out of non-stick baking foil and cardboard which I pushed up against the hull with tape and support sticks.
Each hole I applied 1 layer of biax stitch matt (1708 equivalent) just bigger than the hole...
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The patching of the holes:
This is the hole in the keel:
Hole up in the bow from inside and out:
Hole at the stern end of one of the chines:
I feathered each hole from inside and outside using sanding pad on my grinder. The keel...
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I got my transom tabbed in today - milestone!! I cut pieces of stitch/combi matt to overlap the hull and transom by about 4 inches. I also cut wider pieces to then go over the top so that the tabbing is 2 layers thick. Dry fitting some of the...
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Here is the entire transom finally in:
I filled the chines in with peanut butter and all the gaps. I also tried to get a nice curve from around the edges of the transom and at the corners to make laying combi matt over the top easier...
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So...I have finally got the transom set in! I glued 2 bits of 3/4" birch exterior grade ply together using crestomer 30 and a tiling trowel for each piece of the transom. I cut the inner piece a bit longer so that it overlapped the other - I...
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Haven't got as much done this weekend as intended as I forgot to order the applicator to fit the adhesive but I do have the transom pieces cut and ready to glue then waterproof with CSM.
I've done a lot of reading to see how other people...
