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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    Got the transom in tonight. Well prepared with all tools ready to go. Mixed a batch of resin and let that soak into the wood. Then mixed 1.5kg (just over 1 quart) of resin, added chopped fibres and then thickened with cabosil. That was trowled straight onto the hull, spread out to get it even...
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    Scarf joint turned out well, happy with that!
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    Thanks, done with a router using a ramp and cross slide to get the angle
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    Then i got on with getting prepped for bonding in the transom - I’m working on my own so have to be well prepared. To clamp the transom I’m doing the following. Put a cross brace in the boat to push against and then used the 1:12 wedges from the scarf joint jig to apply pressure to the outer...
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    Another successful day! Couldn’t wait for an answer on the stringers so went ahead and joined then with a scarf joint 1:12 joint so about 8x8 = 64sq“ of bonding area with epoxy Clamped with the old favourite battery trick to get a nice ooze of epoxy out of the joint. I reckon that’ll be okay...
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    Another question - I don’t a moisture path with bits of wood touching each other. What’s best? A. Each piece of ply fully glassed in on its own B. A single layer of glass between each piece and then the 2nd/3rd over the whole transom/stringer/bulkhead structure A gets more wet on wet chemical...
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    So, I’ve just found this thread https://forums.iboats.com/threads/lap-joint-vs-butt-joints-for-laminated-stringers.295527/ which suggests a half lap joint is acceptable. Thoughts on that too as much easier than a 12:1 scarf - don’t need to send time making a jig… Also, using 3/4” ply rather the...
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    So I owe you all a beer - grinding has taken about 10 hours total. Works been mega busy and I didn’t get much done last weekend we were away for some of it, honeyxdos, and a mate’s boat sunk so we spent Saturday afternoon getting the engine cleaned and running again. Still a bit to do but it’ll...
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    Last bits of wood below the floor are out! A bit of rot in the bulkhead behind the bow but there’s enough good(ish) wood to tie into and I’ll make sure the new wood is completely separated so it can’t be contaminated. Antifreeze inject to stop further rot in the existing wood? Plan is to put a...
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    The most noticeable thing has been the variation in thickness of fibreglass which is the biggest problem with the chopper gun - it’s very difficult to get a consistent thickness. By using cloth you know exactly how much glass is going down and where so you get a much higher quality product. Look...
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    Made some good progress over the last week or so, transom completely out, the whole floor including under the bowrider out and the stringers out. Will drill the pieces in the floor tomorrow and make a decision whether they come out or not. Will also take up most of the floor round the edge...
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    Setting records for boat destruction here with a transom out in about 2.5 hours. Started at 4.30 with a photo and a few measurements for the book so I’d remember exactly how to put it back together. Got the first layer of wood off to find this. Starting to rot, next to no glass at the bottom and...
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    Not over here they’re not…. Like rocking horse as no fresh water boating so it all just corrodes away
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    Agreed on the design life so it’s done pretty well. Our 1988 Searay was rotten as a pear at this age so this ones done well. It’s a quicksilver reman 12 bolt motor with a 2 barrel carb, dated from 2014. I split the risers from the manifolds and they’re in great condition for a raw sea water...
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    Still got water weeping out of the stringers so I know I’m doing the right things as the wood will already have started degrading. You can also see there’s no glass on the inside of the transom under the floor in the last picture. Plan is to get the transom and rear 9’ of stringers out this weekend
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    Ready to move forward again. I’m really conscious of the hull moving once the stingers get cut out. The trailer needed extending anyway as it wasn’t big enough, so that’s been done including tie down points so that I can block under the trailer and then between the trailer and the hull so it’s...
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    A few observations on the build method. Looks like the floor and strings were made as a single assembly out of the boat and it was fairly well glassed underneath but this meant the outer edge of the stringers has not been laminated to the hull and moisture which has got into the foam has been...
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    So by the end of today I’d got to this stage. I really don’t want to lift the cap if I can help it and I know it’ll make life harder to sort the bow but I think I can work around things. I’m going to do things slightly differently to keep plenty of stiffness in the hull knowing that I’d need to...
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    Forgot to add - 2 barrel 5.7 with an Alpha q gen 2 so good to step up from the gen 1 on the old boat. Progress to date: Picked her up on Tue 13 June and started stripping everything out straight away. The interior will be redone with a few tweaks so that’s all in storage till winter when the...
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