Bought a 71 Caravelle 17' fiberglass runabout Friday with trailer and '72 85 HP Johnson OB motor. Questions are: after seeing the pics below, there's a crack inside the transom above bilge compartment, it DOES NOT go thru, not even a sign of any spider webbing on outside of transom whatsoever...
Bought a 1971 17' Caravelle fiberglass deep v-hull runabout, has an 85hp Evinrude, probably also 71 model but hasn't been ran in 4 yrs. We already own a good 88 model 60 hp Mercury. We don't know which would be the best, the Mercury is ready to go, but will it be enough motor for this boat? We...
I've not seen any pics like these, the middle of bottom of boat is chalky, rough, lots of holes, corrosion areas up against seam where middle "runner" fastens to bottom. (SEE PICS). We don't know if paint of any kind will fix this. Yes we'll GLUV IT the inside, but this has to have something...
Have 16' Starcraft stripped down supersport, bottom in bad shape, bad fiberglass patches over alum, bad flaking paint. We've taken off motor, steering wheel, want to turn over to strip rest of flaky paint and fiberglass patches, (some are hidden by bunks on trailer.) We're planning to use Easy...
Got my grey Marine Tex ordered, will be here tomorrow. I did find the 14 oz size on iBoats. Since our hole is completely thru keel cap, and VTBob had mentioned build up of Marine Tex from outside and inside, we're wondering if we can do the whole thickness at one time, or split it up so its not...
Just found out the gash that I'd been documenting since Thurs. in a previous thread, is actually a full fledged hole all way thru. SSChefer you said on our other thread not to weld, because its in a cap area with double rivets. Someone had stuffed JB Weld all way thru hole, and on inside...
I've been reading about methods of tightening rivets for a while and 2 posts said to hit the rivet from the outside, does it matter? We have the 72 16' aluminum Starcraft that has another thread going on about patching a hole in keel cap. Need exact info on correctly tightening rivets, and what...
I've been lurking for days, we have a 72 16 ft alum Starcraft, was a Supersport we learned from looking on Ebay but was stripped down long before us. We're 1st time boat owners and tried the boat out and all that but we decided before we get it to the lake we'd pull up the "just OK" ply flooring...
