Beat this!!! New Stringer Method(pics)

bucsfinsfan13 · Mar 23, 2009

Please Excuse the length of this post. This is my first post to Iboats. I purchased a 1970 Glasstron V 166 Tri-hull with a 1970 chrysler 85hp from one of my best friends. I am sure you have heard that one before. This guy will do anything for you...even sell you a good boat that "just needs a starter". By the way he is Cuban so "starter" is spanish for new floor, stringers, transom, and carburator rebuild lol. I know I know i am the one who bought it so the blame is on me and he bought it from someone who bought it from someone so. He and i both have been working on the engine but did not have a clue what lied beneath the floor. Anyhow, i will be doing a complete restoration of this boat along with converting it to a center console. But here is the kicker...the previous owner before my friend and I owned it, "fixed" the floor and stringers and then layed plywoood and indoor/outdoor carpet on top to give it a great finish. Check out the stringer and foam job below. Yes that is a branch that was shaved to make a flat surface for the plywood to lay on. The last pic is the hardware store where he got his stringers. LMAO

By the way i will continue to post the progress that is made along with pics and some video. Special thanks in advance to my friend Denny(the guy i bought the boat from) for the help with fiberglassing and painting.

slasmith1 · Mar 23, 2009

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Don't be pickin on my hillbilly hardware store.

1957evinrude · Mar 23, 2009

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so much for having best friends huh?

bucsfinsfan13 · Mar 23, 2009

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slasmith1 said:
Don't be pickin on my hillbilly hardware store.

LOL i am as country as they get but this is rediculous...i can not for the life of me understand why they did it. Maybe they thought green wood would take a long time to rot LOL

bucsfinsfan13 · Mar 23, 2009

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1957evinrude said:
so much for having best friends huh?

And now i would like to introduce everyone to my BEST FRIEND Denny. i got to say man i would not know the things i know now about a boat without your help

im going to take the cap off this weekend if the weather holds up but if not then i have the next three weeks off to get to work on this thing. My plan it to have it up and running by Cinco De Mayo and take Denny out in it.

BWR1953 · Mar 23, 2009

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bucsfinsfan13 said:
And now i would like to introduce everyone to my BEST FRIEND Denny. i got to say man i would not know the things i know now about a boat without your help im going to take the cap off this weekend if the weather holds up but if not then i have the next three weeks off to get to work on this thing. My plan it to have it up and running by Cinco De Mayo and take Denny out in it.

Take him out in it on Cinco de Mayo even if it's NOT ready!

jcsercsa · Mar 23, 2009

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Welcome
Sounds like you are well on your way !!I am doing a 76 tron , sportster, love it !!

Do you have any pics of the hole boat , would love to see her !!

When I tore in to mine all they did was put 2 pieces of plywood down and the carpet that !! my stringers were petty much mush !!! are your stringers fully glassed in ?? Mine sure weren't!! just made the hole thing rot, well look at it this way when your done she will be built better then brand new !!

OHH and in your last pic , there is something strange on that tree , there are these green things ????? It didn't look like a evergreen ???? lol

OK keep them pics coming !! John

bucsfinsfan13 · Mar 23, 2009

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HELLO WASHINGTON!!!! haha gotta love Chris Farley...God rest his soul. I will post some pics of the whole boat along with the inside for everyone to see tomorrow. I didnt get any pics today because i was so upset with the tree branches for stringers. Although they were glassed in they were still tree branches. my question is if you are going to do such a half a%$ job like that then why waist the time to fiber glass them in. Whatever. i am going to need everyones help so keep the info commin. i knew this boat was going to need some work just from other posts that i have read on here but i never would have imagined this. i cant wait to get the ole girl clean inside so i can dress her in some better clothes. Its like having a hot date for the prom and her folks dressed her up like a circus freak. it just aint right

83mulligan · Mar 23, 2009

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were they glassed in or was it birch bark and tree sap?

bucsfinsfan13 · Mar 23, 2009

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83mulligan said:
were they glassed in or was it birch bark and tree sap?

LMAO That is funny as heck man. you would think that later but they actually used glass. maybe they were trying to go green. that seems to be the thing to do now days, they were just ahead of their time.

1957evinrude · Mar 23, 2009

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Heres the pics for you Darrin. This is what it looked like the day that i got it. Im glad Darrin bought it from me. I wasnt even going to check under the floor could you imagin if i would have took my wife and 2 mth old son out in that thing and it would have sunk????? Good thing my cell phones water proof lol ill make sure to take it with me on the cinco de mayo lmao.

1957evinrude · Mar 23, 2009

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well that didnt work let me try again.

1957evinrude · Mar 23, 2009

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more pics

bucsfinsfan13 · Mar 23, 2009

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cool man thanks for the pics. i am off to bed now to go dream about my boat and what it will look like when i am done...oh and the tree house that someone tried to build under my floor LMAO. untill next time

oops! · Mar 24, 2009

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bucsfinsfan13 said:
cool man thanks for the pics. i am off to bed now to go dream about my boat and what it will look like when i am done...oh and the tree house that someone tried to build under my floor LMAO. untill next time

love the materials.......

ok.....your tutorial is called .....pics of work so far by jecesreca.....(that spelling allways mixes me up....lol)

johnnys boat just got done.....it is the identical hull....no different....
he knows every inch of what is under what and probly even the measurements of the stringer height and legnth....

and i love those boats.....our familys first fiberglass boat was a 75 t-156.
just dont take it out on big water .......just smooth small lakes.

cheers
oops

jcsercsa · Mar 24, 2009

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bucsfinsfan13 said:
HELLO WASHINGTON!!!! haha gotta love Chris Farley...God rest his soul. I will post some pics of the whole boat along with the inside for everyone to see tomorrow. I didnt get any pics today because i was so upset with the tree branches for stringers. Although they were glassed in they were still tree branches. my question is if you are going to do such a half a%$ job like that then why waist the time to fiber glass them in. Whatever. i am going to need everyones help so keep the info commin. i knew this boat was going to need some work just from other posts that i have read on here but i never would have imagined this. i cant wait to get the ole girl clean inside so i can dress her in some better clothes. Its like having a hot date for the prom and her folks dressed her up like a circus freak. it just aint right

HAHAHAAH yep I hear yea , thats just nuts !!!

And for me its like the the day of the prom , and she just went to the hair dressers !!!!! I hope to be painting mine here next week , Its been a long haul to get her here but man was it ever worth it !!when I took her out last summer and she just shot out of the hole !!!!! that was so cool !!! it still sends chills up my spine !!!!!!

Yep ooops is right I have it all in my thread , any time you need some help just give me a yell !!!

Where you at ?? when your gett your glass and poly, or epoxy , the best place i have found is USComposities.com there some really great people there , if your on the other side of the rockies jgeer is a good place I have heard , both have the best prices !!!

Frist thing you need to do is get your wood drying !! it can take up to a month to dry !!!

Ok time for me to get out and finish up my sanding !! John

bucsfinsfan13 · Mar 24, 2009

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John i will def. be coming to you for some measurments. i just cant seem to get a good pic of what they should be from the BRANCHES...LOL

well i am just getting home from my job. It is 1:15 in the morning here. I work second shift so it is really hard to get out of bed in the am and get on here.

I have to feed the hogs, milk the cow, cut wood for next winter, plow the fields...ok i am just BSing. I dont get to do alot to the boat before work but two more days and i will have three weeks straight off.

i hope to have the cap off this weekend and then start dismantling the tree fort under my floor HAHAHAHA.

I would like to meet the person who did this...although they prob. are on an island somewhere waiting to be picked up because their branches in their new boat didnt hold up as well as they thought.

Well until next time...drive fast and pass on curves

bucsfinsfan13 · Mar 25, 2009

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WELL WELL WELL i actually did drag myself outta bed to get on here before i go to work today. Denny and i are having a discussion about foam and what its used for. check it out its title is...

foam and what its for

I dont know how to show thread so thats as good as it gets for now.

Back to my boat, i have a couple things that i was thinking about. i want to use this stuff called NIDA-CORE for the stringers and transom. My brother, who is a guide in Florida, was telling me that all the old timers and new timers down there are using this stuff. They are going and buying early 80's model aqua sports and hydra sport center consoles and guttin them and then using this stuff to lighten the load. which in turn is letting them use less engine, less fuel, and if they run it up on a sand bar they can push it off. I have had to help him pull a boat in the flats for about a mile it seemed when the engine failed one time and between the threat of sharks, stingrays and the heavy boat it didnt make for a good experience. If he would have just used Nida Core then atleast the shark biting me and the barb from the stingray might not have been that bad

while pulling the boat from in the water. LOL

Also i am thinking the i need to take the cap off to make all the modifications, upon further review, namely jcsercsa's project, i think that i can do it without removing the cap. Take in mind that i am coverting it to a center console and taking the cap off might make it easier to cut the seating area out. Im just worried about fitting it back in when done.

bad4bear85 · Mar 26, 2009

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I think I'll wait till you take Denny out for the first ride. I'll stand on shore and watch...if no flares are seen I'll figure it's safe to be the "second" passenger to take a ride!...lol

jcsercsa · Mar 26, 2009

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bucsfinsfan13 You still have to prop the top in the back , like i did, just be carefully , if i had to do again I think I would do it the same way just prop it a little better up by the helm !!! John

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