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Petty Officer 1st Class
- Joined
- Apr 24, 2012
- Messages
- 205
Hi all,
First off I want to say that this is my first post here, finally! There's lots of great people with fantastic advice on here and I'm thankful for iboats as I've got a lot of help from searching the forums!
On to my post!
So I traded my old 12' aluminum that was fully customized for a 16' Marvac center console with a 78' mercury 800 that runs fantastic! It did just about 40mph when I took it out last week! And I got to keep my mint 69' mercury 9.8 and my bluetop optima battery also, now thats what I call a trade!!! Or is it....?
After close inspection of this boat, there was a large hole by the console that was neglected for many years... Unfortunately, it has taken in a lot of water over the years and I decided to rip the floor off in 2 pieces... So I cut about 3 or 4 inches from the edge all around and about 20 inches from the transom. So I removed about 80% of the floor and let me tell you these 2 pieces weighed in at 108 pounds soaking wet! And some water and rotted wood floating in the hull, nasty stuff...
So here is the thing, I've read up on replacing stringers and floors and after reading a bunch on here and seeing some videos on YouTube, I decided that it's too much of a job for me to handle, well at least the stringers are because I've never attempted them before, the floor on the other hand I can handle..
Well after taking a closer look it doesn't really seem that hard at all to replace the stringers. My question is, can I just cut the stringers to about 1/2" from the bottom where they're joined to the hull, clean them out and just replace the rotted wood with laminated PT ply soaked in resin?? That way I can just use the same tracks again? Or do I just grind the whole thing off and do it from scratch?? There are 3 stringers and 1 or 2 bulk heads, not sure because it's all worn out and glass is cut funny.. There also isn't any foam in the hull?? I thought there was suppose to be? Don't know if this is from the factory or if the stringers have been replaced before? I'd love to post pictures but I surf from my phone and can't seem to add photos from my phone. Also, the boat is resting on a trailer with rollers and the rollers under the bow area are pushing the hull up, so I'd have to suspend the boat on blocks I take it so the hull sinks to its natural depth/shape? Any help would be appreciated as I plan to completely restore this boat, she'll make a real nice and quick fishing boat! Thanks!!!
First off I want to say that this is my first post here, finally! There's lots of great people with fantastic advice on here and I'm thankful for iboats as I've got a lot of help from searching the forums!
On to my post!
So I traded my old 12' aluminum that was fully customized for a 16' Marvac center console with a 78' mercury 800 that runs fantastic! It did just about 40mph when I took it out last week! And I got to keep my mint 69' mercury 9.8 and my bluetop optima battery also, now thats what I call a trade!!! Or is it....?
After close inspection of this boat, there was a large hole by the console that was neglected for many years... Unfortunately, it has taken in a lot of water over the years and I decided to rip the floor off in 2 pieces... So I cut about 3 or 4 inches from the edge all around and about 20 inches from the transom. So I removed about 80% of the floor and let me tell you these 2 pieces weighed in at 108 pounds soaking wet! And some water and rotted wood floating in the hull, nasty stuff...
So here is the thing, I've read up on replacing stringers and floors and after reading a bunch on here and seeing some videos on YouTube, I decided that it's too much of a job for me to handle, well at least the stringers are because I've never attempted them before, the floor on the other hand I can handle..
Well after taking a closer look it doesn't really seem that hard at all to replace the stringers. My question is, can I just cut the stringers to about 1/2" from the bottom where they're joined to the hull, clean them out and just replace the rotted wood with laminated PT ply soaked in resin?? That way I can just use the same tracks again? Or do I just grind the whole thing off and do it from scratch?? There are 3 stringers and 1 or 2 bulk heads, not sure because it's all worn out and glass is cut funny.. There also isn't any foam in the hull?? I thought there was suppose to be? Don't know if this is from the factory or if the stringers have been replaced before? I'd love to post pictures but I surf from my phone and can't seem to add photos from my phone. Also, the boat is resting on a trailer with rollers and the rollers under the bow area are pushing the hull up, so I'd have to suspend the boat on blocks I take it so the hull sinks to its natural depth/shape? Any help would be appreciated as I plan to completely restore this boat, she'll make a real nice and quick fishing boat! Thanks!!!
and yes just imagine how fast it's gonna be when it's all done with!
