1974 Arrowglass Restoration

74arrowglass

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Hello, this is my first post, but I have been reading the forums for quite sometime. Thanks for all the priceless information!!! My grandparents bought a 1974 15' arrowglass cougar new. I have now acquired it and an restoring it. I have already replaced the transom (with much help from previous posts) and "installed" the new stringers and bulkheads. This is where my first question comes. When I was grinding out the old supports for the stringers, I left a small lip to screw the new stringers to to hold them in place. So I set the stringers and bulkheads in a thick bed of PL polyurethane adhesive and have put a coat of resin on all wood. My question is if I "have" to put some kind of fiberglass support for the stringers? It seems rock solid as is. I can stand on the stringers and bulkheads with almost no movement. The boat originally had only 3 bulkheads that were not fiberglassed in and the stringers were only glassed in at intervals with glass only going half way up the stringers. I now have a total of 7 bulkheads every 18 inches. Also does the transom need to be tabbed in to the hull? I glassed 2 layers of 3/4" thick ACX ply together and then glassed to hull. I then put PL in between the small gaps around the edges of the transom. This seems very solid. The boat has a 1975 Johnson 70HP. It will be stored indoors on a trailer and very rarely, if at all, left in the water overnight. Basically I just want to be sure the boat is solid. I don't want to spend the extra money if it is not necessary because I know the boat will be EXTREMELY well cared for. Sorry for the long post..
 

Andy in NY

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Re: 1974 Arrowglass Restoration

Hello, this is my first post, but I have been reading the forums for quite sometime. Thanks for all the priceless information!!! My grandparents bought a 1974 15' arrowglass cougar new. I have now acquired it and an restoring it. I have already replaced the transom (with much help from previous posts) and "installed" the new stringers and bulkheads. This is where my first question comes. When I was grinding out the old supports for the stringers, I left a small lip to screw the new stringers to to hold them in place. So I set the stringers and bulkheads in a thick bed of PL polyurethane adhesive and have put a coat of resin on all wood. My question is if I "have" to put some kind of fiberglass support for the stringers? It seems rock solid as is. I can stand on the stringers and bulkheads with almost no movement. The boat originally had only 3 bulkheads that were not fiberglassed in and the stringers were only glassed in at intervals with glass only going half way up the stringers. I now have a total of 7 bulkheads every 18 inches. Also does the transom need to be tabbed in to the hull? I glassed 2 layers of 3/4" thick ACX ply together and then glassed to hull. I then put PL in between the small gaps around the edges of the transom. This seems very solid. The boat has a 1975 Johnson 70HP. It will be stored indoors on a trailer and very rarely, if at all, left in the water overnight. Basically I just want to be sure the boat is solid. I don't want to spend the extra money if it is not necessary because I know the boat will be EXTREMELY well cared for. Sorry for the long post..

I would glass the stringers in because if you leave them as is then they are exposed to moisture. If you ever get water below deck then those stringers wont last long at all.
 

jonesg

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Re: 1974 Arrowglass Restoration

yeh it needs the glass, resin alone doesn't work very well at all.

I tried no glass on a small electronics box last yr, this spring it looked like it was 30 yrs old already, falling apart.
So I just reglassed it again, being lazy, it'll fall apart again.:)

You wanna pull your deck up every yr?:eek:
 
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