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    1987 Power Play XLT-185 - floors, stringers, and upholstery

    My wife was fine with me working on the boat today (Valentine's Day), so I made more progress. I installed the rest of the conduit for the fuel hose that will run beneath the deck, and notched the front piece of the deck to clear the conduit. I spent a good amount of time measuring and...
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    ‘73 Bee Craft

    Yep, the black mud means it's totally gone. If your trailer has bunks instead of rollers, that may support the hull enough. But, the smart thing to do would be to build some additional support onto the trailer to hold the sides of the hull. I had talked to some guys that restored the same...
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    1987 Power Play XLT-185 - floors, stringers, and upholstery

    The deck is cut to shape. There's still a lot to do before it goes down for the last time, but I'm happy to be at this point.
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    Fibreglass boat floor replacement - do I need to use fiberglass?

    The stuff I'm using (from US Composites) says it expands 25x - 30x depending on temperature. Calculate your volume in cubic feet, divide by 30, and mix up / pour that amount. If it's not enough, you'll have to top it off. If it's just a little too much, it shouldn't add THAT much pressure.
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    ‘73 Bee Craft

    If you gelcoat the hull instead of carpet, you still will want to sand/grind the surface for good mechanical bonding of the gelcoat. Since you're already going to be sanding/grinding, I'd just sand/grind the carpet old glue. I considered using PL in my build but ultimately decided against it...
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    ‘73 Bee Craft

    Don't look at the whole project - look at the task in front of you and figure out what the next task will be. Try to stay on track and not get down a rabbit hole of chasing perfection on something, or on working on things that aren't a necessity to getting the boat on the water. Pull up the...
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    '90 Maxum 2100SR - restoration & conversion

    Are you going to put the engine in before the cap goes back on? I haven't decided yet, but was thinking I'd get the cap back on first.
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    1987 Power Play XLT-185 - floors, stringers, and upholstery

    I've been distracted with other things this week, so my pace has slowed a little. More drive/engine maintenance parts have been getting delivered over the last few days. I also got a little bit done tonight on the hull. I PB'd the engine mounts into the bilge. The grain on the mahogany is...
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    Fuel tank to engine hose routing

    Thanks guys...not sure how I missed the replies. Yes, that's my project (first boat with an engine) - 1987 Power Play XLT-185. It's got a Mercruiser 260hp V8 and Alpha One Gen 1. My full gut/cut thread is here with lots of pictures along the way.
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    1987 Larson DC-215 restoration

    My boat project was in another state for about the first month I owned it and I was going to work on it on weekends - that got old really quick. Having your project at home will feel good.
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    ‘73 Bee Craft

    Correct, the bottom of the stringers follow the profile of the hull and taper off, at least on my boat. Look in my thread in the December/January timeframe and you can see what my stringers looked like. I made foam-board templates and test fit them before cutting my stringers out of plywood...
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    ‘73 Bee Craft

    None of the work to replace stringers and the transom is necessarily hard, it is mostly just time consuming. I'm approaching 4 months of having the cap off my boat and I work on it nearly every day for at least an hour or two. The tools you need are pretty basic - mostly woodworking stuff...
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    1987 Power Play XLT-185 - floors, stringers, and upholstery

    Finished installing cleats tonight. More mechanical bits for the engine and drive showed up today too.
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    1987 Power Play XLT-185 - floors, stringers, and upholstery

    Rear decks are PB'd and screwed down. My wife's hand print is pretty much fully covered. I'll have her do another one over by the other hand prints when I glass the top of the deck. I put a screw every 6" on these...I'll probably open that up to one every foot on the rest of the deck.
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    '90 Maxum 2100SR - restoration & conversion

    Also - did you do one or two coats of gelcoat on your ski locker and fuel tank bay?
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    '90 Maxum 2100SR - restoration & conversion

    For my ski locker I had my heat gun blowing 300F air into the cavity at the front for 30 minutes. I was getting ~90F air at the outlet. But I forgot to heat up the foam resin cans so I didn't get the expansion I expected on the first pour. Oops, haha.
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    Restoring a 1990 Larson

    Yeah, grinding was definitely my least favorite so far. Once I finish the boat I'm going to have to do a serious deep clean of the garage from the rafters down to get all the leftover dust out. I'm also looking forward to the mechanical side of things. What's it take to go from an Alpha One...
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    1987 Power Play XLT-185 - floors, stringers, and upholstery

    I'm using #10-24 SS screws/lock nuts to attach the cleats to the stringers. First I used a level/straight edge to set the height of the cleats relative to the tops of the stringers then clamped and drilled. Disassembled, cleaned, then I piped hairy PB on the back of the cleat, stuck it to the...
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    ‘85 Chris Craft Scorpion transom, stringers, bulkheads and upholstery

    Demo is looking good. If your stringers are truly ok, the scarf method should be ok, but you've got it torn down this far...if there's any concern with them, now is the time to replace. Use a circular saw with a shallow cut depth to saw a grid into the transom, then knock out the chunks with a...
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    '90 Maxum 2100SR - restoration & conversion

    Yeah, still trying to think through how I will do mine. I wish someone had one of the Mercruiser jigs for rent! I'm sure I'll get it figured out though.
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