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    Stratos 1850 CC Rebuild Part 2

    This is NOT Johnny's first go round. :)
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    Repair of door latch

    What Mike said. Might be able to remove some of the wall behind it. Just for some maneuvering room.
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    Stratos 1850 CC Rebuild Part 2

    Installing the transom. As I mentioned, When I originally reworked the transom, I had some thin air gaps between it and the outer skin of the hull. This time, I had multiple holes where I could use threaded rod and get much higher pressure between the new transom and the hull. Wooden shims were...
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    Stratos 1850 CC Rebuild Part 2

    Time to LAMINATE!!! Using the alignment holes. I inserted 1/2" rubber tubing as I did the lamination. I used epoxy and 1708 glass between the 2 panels. It went very smoothly. Once aligned, I used 1 5/8" drywall screws and started from the center and worked my way slowly to the edge. As I...
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    Stratos 1850 CC Rebuild Part 2

    New transom time Using 2 sheets of 3/4" Coosa 30. Template made and marked. Ready to cut. Checking fitment. As the original transom had been bedded with thickened epoxy and glass, it was not an exact fit so I had to adjust the bottom edge of the first piece. I left a very minimal amount of...
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    Stratos 1850 CC Rebuild Part 2

    Transom Insanity! Well, I had some air voids when I did the transom the last time and it came back to bite me as seen here. Lessons learned. The typical, "Yeah, that's a wet transom." To quote Chong from Up in Smoke... "Hope you're not busy for about a month" With the cap off, it was much...
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    Stratos 1850 CC Rebuild Part 2

    Picture time. Been too busy to be posting. Stratos made their boats with a 2 part construction method. The hull was built out with a rough deck. and the cap was a bathtub that was then dropped in and glued to the deck of the hull and secured at the mating edges. When I did the initial rebuild, I...
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    Repair of door latch

    Can you finagle a piece into that void and slide it up? Can you post a picture showing the entire area?
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    1997 Bayliner Capri Stringer and Floor Repair

    My Stratos is a fairly deep vee center console and I realized that there would be flex once I pulled out the bulkheads. This kept it in place pretty simply.
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    1997 Bayliner Capri Stringer and Floor Repair

    When I ground down my Stratos to the hull, I originally used a heavy sandblasting hood. Most miserable day of my life. I do automotive painting as a hobby so I already had one of these. When you grind, get something like this. Compressor air is not healthy too...
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    Repair of door latch

    Can you get access behind it? Do you have some resin on hand and glass? I'd fabricate a backer plate and see if I could fish it in place behind the current fiberglass. Put a screw into the new glass backer to be able to pull it against the existing glass to test the fitment. If it fits well...
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    1997 Bayliner Capri Stringer and Floor Repair

    Steve, just be aware that you are not alone. Many of us here have cracked open a can of worms just like you did and have lived to tell about it. In fact, I missed a couple of things on my current Stratos and had to dig back into it. My stringers and bulkheads are all still dry and solid as a...
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    1988 THOMPSON 240 FISHERMAN REBUILD

    I covered a bit of this in my previous post. I like to seal the inside first and address the filling of holes on the outer skin later. Joe Buskin runs a youtube channel called fishbumptv that is an outstanding resource for us DIY types. I just put 3/4" sheets of Coosa 30 in my latest project...
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    1988 THOMPSON 240 FISHERMAN REBUILD

    Love to see the work! Myself, I'd go with 3/4" Coosa 30 across the board if you can find it. It is more expensive but lighter and will never absorb water in case you miss something. Experience talking here which is why I am redoing a transom. For the transom. On the inside I grind out where...
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    Stratos 1850 CC Rebuild Part 2

    Deck is off today! YAY! There are 2 small bulkheads that might have gotten wet so I will replace them with Coosa and glass. We're talking not even square foot. By the end of the week, the deck should be back in place.
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    How Do You Diagnose a Soft Spot in a Fiberglass Boat Deck?

    It is an IO. They still have a transom, just not as large of one as with an outboard. A 2015 is not that old of a boat so it might just be a deck issue. I would suspect that if you cut out a section to inspect the deck that you will find it to be wet. If it is wet, then the entire deck needs to...
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    How Do You Diagnose a Soft Spot in a Fiberglass Boat Deck?

    As Scott asked, what make and model. Also did you pay a lot for the boat? Sadly, and I know it is not what you want to hear, if the floor is soft, you have issues in the structure. Chances are even good that the wood holding the engine in place is rotted. About 13 years ago I came here with a...
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    Rotted Plywood Edges

    As advised. Replace it.
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    Is it Safe to boat, knowing you have partial rotten stringer?

    My Stratos had wet wood everywhere before I tackled the first rebuild. I had a couple of oopsies with it and went under the cap here again a few weeks back. Question to ask. Do you really like the boat? Do you want to keep it for a LONG time? A sad fact of older used boats is that you will never...
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    Stratos 1850 CC Rebuild Part 2

    It was 12 or 13 years ago that I took my Stratos 1850 down to a bare hull and built it back up. Money was much tighter back then so I couldn't afford composite materials. As fate would have it, water did get into the deck and transom so I resigned myself to another rebuild but this time using...
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