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    1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration

    Re: 1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration It's hard to get going sometimes, but I managed to get the deck glued and screwed in place toady. I shot some canned foam around the perimeter and around the livewell to fill some voids. Maybe Monday I'll get started on glassing it in. I ran a...
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    1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration

    Re: 1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration I'm pretty close to having the hull preped for primer so I used some scraps of wood to build the contraption below to make it easier to flip the boat. Just bolt it to the transom using the drain hole and stern eye holes. Hook the hoist to the...
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    1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration

    Re: 1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration Hey WOG, here's what it looks like. For perspective, the larger hole is 3/8" dia and all others are 1/4". The worst areas were under two pieces of 3/4"plywood but there are lesser spots here and there around the boat. The cap is up-side-down...
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    1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration

    Re: 1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration I decided to set the cap back on the hull today to see how things lined up. I clamped the bow section and a few spots to hold the sides in place first. As you can see it came together pretty good. However, it's off at the stern - a little...
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    1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration

    Re: 1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration After seeing all the work some are getting done, it kinda shamed me into doing a little myself. I finally got the last piece of wood glued in under the cap today.The temp made it up to 69*F then started dropping so it's plastis and lights again...
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    1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration

    Re: 1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration I tried to pour a puddle of foam and quickly screed it off to fill some spots that were still a little low and here's what the results looked like. It did work to some degree without making it much harder to saw. All in all it came out much...
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    1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration

    Re: 1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration At any rate, I'm glad this part is over. I'd much rather be fishin' than workin on this thing any day! I had to keep it tarped and heated pretty much the whole time sinse the temps stayed abt 80*F the whole time. I'm not EVEN going to mention...
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    1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration

    Re: 1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration I took my time and let some of it cure, then sawed it off so I could place the waste pieces on top of the next pour to keep from having so much waste. However, I think pressing the waste pieces into the next pour may have interfered with the...
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    1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration

    Re: 1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration Ok, back to this nasty stuff ... if I'm going to put the foam back underthe deck for safety/flotation, then I need to do it while it's still going up into the 80's*F. I can paint (at least I think) when its a little cooler but the foam wants 80*F...
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    1982 Skeeter SS-1 Sport Fisherman Restoration...In Progress

    Re: 1982 Skeeter SS-1 Sport Fisherman Restoration....Hull question Re: 1982 Skeeter SS-1 Sport Fisherman Restoration....Hull question OK, WELL ... if we drag 'er out for a few months even - my wife'll just figger I "FINALLY" got er done and she can start savin' some money again. I was thinkin'...
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    1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration

    Re: 1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration I had to drill the rivets on the trim and coast guard capacity info tag on the top cap in order to get the wood off. So I've been wondering abt how to replace the tag. I think I can make a close copy using photoshop and then copy it onto rice...
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    1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration

    Re: 1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration I did a little clean-up/demo work on the rotten wood under the cap today. I thought it was gonna be a pain to get it off but it wasn't bad at all. Hammer and wood chisel and a couple of hours. Don't know why this piece rotted - what with all the...
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    1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration

    Re: 1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration Here's that pic again since it probably won't show. And here's one of the bilge and stringers I cut out to work on the transom. I've got to figure out what I want to do here. I don't like the way they had it. The stringers are hollow and have...
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    1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration

    Re: 1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration Tuesday and Wednesday I decided I'd take a break from the transom and work on the deck. I made a pattern for the front piece out of cardboard. Then a lot of trial and error to get it to fit. The rest was pretty straight forward. The problem is...
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    1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration

    Re: 1974 Ouachita Tri-hull Bass Boat Restoration Added another/final layer of tape around the transom today. This stuff really takes a lot of resin. I'm going to add a layer or two of csm tomorrow and call it a day on the transom. Time to move on to something else. I came almost square off the...
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