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    Small hull repair

    You'll need to spend about $100-$200 in materials. Get some natural gelcoat, cabosil, and some gelcoat tints. Mixing the natural gelcoat and tint to match your boat will be the hardest part. Tint a smallish batch of uncatalyzed gelcoat. Apply some clear packing tape next to the repair area and...
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    I bought 50 yd of 50" 1708 and 50 yd of 1.5 oz CSM, then sold the remainder when I was done with my restoration. I estimate I used about 35 yd of 1708 between learning / wasting material and what ended up on the boat. My boat is 19ft.
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    Just buy a full width roll (38" or 50"). Then you can cut strips to the desired width. I used a 50" roll. For tabbing, I would cut my strips to the desired width off the roll, then cut them in half so they were 25" long. This size was easy to handle by myself, and if you're doing 2 layers, you...
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    1990 Baja 196 ESS

    The day you get th last rotten wood out of the boat is a relief. The day you start adding new wood and glass to the boat is another huge milestone. That ski locker lid will look amazing after you sand and refinish it. I put one in my boat that I bought on eBay, and it looked way worse. Teak...
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    1988 Bayliner Restore or Replace

    Correct. With Marine Grade plywood, you're paying for A grade veneers on both outer faces. Radiata Pine is specially grown to have less defects when making plys. The Arauco brand of Radiata ACX uses a phenolic (waterproof) resin for bonding the plys, and you get one A grade outer ply on the...
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    1988 Bayliner Restore or Replace

    There's no escape from it - you're either going to pay with money (buying a newer boat) or with time/labor by repairing the one you have. How do you know the stringers and transom are good? It's usually a bad assumption to make when the floor is rotten. My guess is you'll pull up the floor...
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    1988 Bayliner Capri with a 2.3L OMC Ford cobra

    Prop size will be WOT RPM dependent. What are you currently at with your 15p? With your 17p? I would wet sand and buff instead of paint or wrap. If you've got chalky gelcoat, start wet sanding with ~800 and go lower if needed. I had to go way down (300, I think?) then work my way back up to...
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    1987 Power Play XLT-185 - floors, stringers, and upholstery

    I mean it's possible. We were watching pretty close for wood, but I know you're never gonna see all of it. Whatever it was, I'm thankful that was the only damage.
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    1987 Power Play XLT-185 - floors, stringers, and upholstery

    Boat is still running great, but today one half of my whale tail pulled off and took some of the cavitation plate with it. :oops: I'm just going to ditch the other half of the whale tail and enjoy the boat the rest of the season, then this winter when I pull the drive I'll weld in some aluminum...
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    Making engine beds

    A wet-on-wet application will almost always be stronger. It shouldn't matter tabbing or covering first if you prepped the mounts well (fully covered in resin, no dry spots), but I would probably cover first then tab.
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    1999 Bryant gelcoat repair

    Uscomposites.com. You'll have to buy clear gelcoat and their color additives and mix it yourself to get the correct color.
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    Making engine beds

    Mark, I only did 2 layers of 1708 over the mounts. The original mounts in the boat (which were completely fine, but I had to rip them out to replace the stringers) only had one layer of 24 oz woven roving over them. So 2 layers of 1708 was more fiberglass than original, and the original mounts...
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    The scarf joints look great
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    Under seat storage

    Unless you have the money to do something like Coosa board, plywood with a layer of CSM over it is about as durable, cheap, and easy as it comes.
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    1968 22ft Crichfield

    100% walk away...for all the reasons the folks above said.
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    Making engine beds

    Start reading my thread from here and you can see how I did mine. The pieces of wood are vertical so the lag only penetrates the sapele. The two pieces of plywood are totally isolated from the sapele by way of CSM between the layers.
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    Making engine beds

    I would just laminate with poly resin, and maybe a sheet of 1.5 oz CSM between each layer. If you want to get fancy, laminate a piece of rot resistant wood (I used Sapele) in between your plywood, and position it so that the lag bolts go into that wood only.
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    1972 Checkmate MX-15 Rebuild

    Tough call, but I'm sure it will be for the best. A mostly white cap will be a much cooler (temperature) boat to be on, too.
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    Marine Carpet Glue For Wood Decking

    Agree with above - waterproof it before putting down carpet. I fiberglassed my deck then used Weldwood HHR to attach my carpet - worked great, but if you've never sprayed it before, there is a slight learning curve. It's a contact adhesive, so you basically get one shot at rolling the carpet...
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    Heavy Oxidation Removal

    Photos of the entire process are highly encouraged. My rebuild thread went to over 30 pages long by the time I was done (see the link in my signature)
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