1973 Fabuglas Trident 146 Restoration

[amazin112]

I made an impulse buy off of Craigslist for my first boat. It's a 1973 Fabuglas Trident 146 with a Nissan NS70A 2 stroke engine, 28lb trolling motor, cheap eagle fish finder. I got it all for $500, I thought it was a good deal so I jumped into this without doing any research which was probably a bad idea.

Come to find out the engine needs an impeller, which I was lucky to find from a gentleman in Australia who makes them himself because Nissan no longer makes them.

The battery is dead, the fish finder doesn't appear to be working, but the trolling motor does work.

My brother and I are going to do a restoration of it starting with the floor.

Here are some pictures of the boat as it was when we purchased it.

 

[jbcurt00]

Re: 1973 Fabuglas Trident 146 Restoration

Welcome to Iboats dry dock

Check thru the threads in Don's how to thread, it's got lots of good info. oops' hull extension thread & friscoboaters' restos are both in that list.

 

[amazin112]

Re: 1973 Fabuglas Trident 146 Restoration

Thanks for the link.

Here's what we've got going so far:

 

[amazin112]

Re: 1973 Fabuglas Trident 146 Restoration

Here are the rest of the pictures of the removal of the floor and stringers, and glassing the new stringers in.

We were able to save most of the fiberglass channels that the stringers were sitting in so that we could re-use them by sliding in the new stringers and fiberglassing them to the old fiberglass tying them in.

In the third picture you can see where we re-glassed the whole sump area to prevent the stringers from getting wet again. The tunnel that is there runs straight back to the rear drain plug and was clogged with rotten wood and other junk. We used compressed air and a shop vac to get all of the debris out.

We also cut out the plywood for our new flooring, we have applied resin to the bottom of them and attached them to the stringers. I am going to order some epoxy resin and other supplies so that we can do the top side of the floor.

More to come!

 

[twmattox]

Resurrecting an old thread in the hopes that the original poster is still around to answer a couple questions...

I have a 1972 Fabuglas Trident. The floor where the back to back lounge chairs bolt is a bit soft; I think. I can feel where the stringers are and it is quite stiff in those areas. However, move about 6" off of the stringer and it is a bit soft. My floor is fiberglass. I assume there was plywood under the fiberglass floor that was resting on top of the stringers? I am assuming that the 15+ holes the previous owner had drilled in various places under the seats is what is resulting in the spongy floor?