Re: Heavy boat
I figured I'd follow up on this.
I got an email with a pic of the Glastron I gave away, the new owner is well into fixing it, but the deck wasn't what I had figured it was, there were two layers of 3/4" pressure treated planking in between all that plywood, glass and carpet. He at this point has removed over 1000 lbs of old floor and wet foam.
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Two layers of 1x4 PT planking, top layer front to back, lower layer side to side. These are set ontop of four front to back pt 2x4's laying flat and screwed down to the old floor. They glassed over the 2x4's, but not the planks, The front kickpanel was also built this way, on top of an existing 2x12 beneath it.
The transom was not only backed up with a 3/8" stainless plate on the outside, which I kept along with the motor, it had one on the inside, meaning that someone had to have the top off this boat to install all this, and still didn't replace the rotted wood. There was no transom wood left at all, only two stainless plates which were cut the shape of the transom wood.
I'm not sure if he plans to continue, but I do know he stripped out all the old floor and transom, the lower hull also had many gallons of trapped water from were the original floor had collapsed and turned to what looked like compost blocking the bilge drains between the compartments. The stringers are also completely gone. Either way, it gave me a good motor and a good trailer, I gave away the bare hull. I kept the steering and the tanks too.
