Here we go, diving in, hope there's water in the pool... Just Another Tinny Rebuild

[Racingman24]

Re: Here we go, diving in, hope there's water in the pool... Just Another Tinny Rebui

And that brings me to the last set of pics before I'm finally current with where I am today...

Not again! Yes, I had to take everything out...again.

The original seat support next to the new one I had made so I can add a seat to the Port side

Close up of the new brace

All of the bracing, the back one and middle two are for the seats, the front is for the steering console

 

[Racingman24]

Re: Here we go, diving in, hope there's water in the pool... Just Another Tinny Rebui

And that can only mean one thing....

A floor!!!!!!

A self growing floor at that....coooool.

And of course, a little sneak peak of where things are headed.

 

[Racingman24]

Re: Here we go, diving in, hope there's water in the pool... Just Another Tinny Rebui

Any questions?

 

[ezmobee]

Re: Here we go, diving in, hope there's water in the pool... Just Another Tinny Rebui

Looks great! I really like the framework for the casting deck. How will you attach it to the hull sides? Very very nice work.

 

[Racingman24]

Re: Here we go, diving in, hope there's water in the pool... Just Another Tinny Rebui

Looks great! I really like the framework for the casting deck. How will you attach it to the hull sides? Very very nice work.

Ya know...I'm not 100% sure about that quite yet.

I'm thinking that it's going to be really difficult to attach the framework itself to the hull...so I think I'll join the "face" of the deck [the wood that's going to go vertical] to the side and then the floor of the deck to the hull as well.

I'm thinking that through the strength of the floor and face riveted to the frame, then to the hull should be enough. I guess we'll find out.

 

[ezmobee]

Re: Here we go, diving in, hope there's water in the pool... Just Another Tinny Rebui

Starcrafts have a piece of channel riveted up there. It's crimped to make the curve
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w200/ezmobee/New Boat/DSCF2390.jpg

 

[Racingman24]

Re: Here we go, diving in, hope there's water in the pool... Just Another Tinny Rebui

I might do something along those lines...guess I hadn't thought about that.

Guess I'll see how sturdy it seems with just the few small rivets I was planning on, and if it's weak, I'll put something like that on.

Thanks for the link!

 

[Racingman24]

Re: Here we go, diving in, hope there's water in the pool... Just Another Tinny Rebui

O, I forgot to say...The floor is riveted in...mostly. All but the rear most piece. That's staying out until the very last min so I can mount the bilge and livewell pumps, put in all the fittings and run the wiring. Once that's in, then that last piece will get riveted.

In the mean time I'm working on permanently attaching the casting deck frame to the floor, but I forgot to pick up a few things tonight, so I have to grab them tomorrow and get crackin'!

Any/all input is always appreciated...even though I'm getting close'ish to the end, there is still a lot of work to be done, and sometimes I struggle with just wanting the thing done now, and get frustrated with it.

 

[Triton II]

Re: Here we go, diving in, hope there's water in the pool... Just Another Tinny Rebui

Hey RM, don't get frustrated, it's great to see so much progress... good work mate! With my floor, I changed out all the self tappers that held it in place with blind rivet nuts in the floor stringers and 3/16 round head bolts from above. It looks great and makes every piece removable. I think it was Alpheus who gave me the idea and pointed me at the right tool for setting the riv-nuts.

TII

 

[Racingman24]

Re: Here we go, diving in, hope there's water in the pool... Just Another Tinny Rebui

I have been progressing....I promise!

I just haven't had any time for updates, as I've spent the last 3 months reading oops!'s thread! Ok, it really didn't take me that long, but wow that thread is long, and He's nuts, but man, that thing looks GOOD.

Ok, time to resize and upload, hopefully I'll have a nice little update here in a half hour or so....

 

[Teamster]

Re: Here we go, diving in, hope there's water in the pool... Just Another Tinny Rebui

Way cool,..

I redid a Alumacraft 16 foot tiller a few winters ago,...

I wish I had found this site before I did it and had taken the pictures you did,..

Looks real good!!

 

[Racingman24]

Re: Here we go, diving in, hope there's water in the pool... Just Another Tinny Rebui

Alright, as I said before, the floor is riveted down....That was really, Really hard on the knees.

First we drill some holes....

Then we put in the rivets!

Really, I spent most of the day on my knees, and it hurt. But I had to make sure the wood was tight on the stringers before I could pull the trigger so to speak

I guess it takes some really hard concentration to put on some 5200, all but I think 2 of the rivets have it on them....I kinda forgot on those when I first started.

What it looks like when it's done. And I kinda ended up with a bigger gap on the one side than I wanted, but it'll be ok, as that's where the console sits.

And a nice close up on my purdy rivet job

 

[Racingman24]

Re: Here we go, diving in, hope there's water in the pool... Just Another Tinny Rebui

Then it was time to go out and get a few new little "toys" for the boat.

Yay for the little things that make you feel like you might actually be getting close to the end of this project!

And of course, I needed to add one of these....as the original set up NEVER HAD ONE!

A Bilge! WoooHooo! All nice and shiny new.

 

[Racingman24]

Re: Here we go, diving in, hope there's water in the pool... Just Another Tinny Rebui

Moving Along...


Once the floor was in, then we could start adding things on top of it...like a casting deck!

Before I installed the framework, I added some "large flanges" for a super secret cool thing....that you'll see in about 2 min.

Close up of the large flanges, you can really see the size difference here too. And I also added one to the leading edge as well under the angle, you can kinda see it poking out.

Lets rivet it down!

I mighta gone overboard with the rivets, but I don't want this thing to move at all!

And of course, here she is all locked down and ready for more

 

[Racingman24]

Re: Here we go, diving in, hope there's water in the pool... Just Another Tinny Rebui

I kinda suck at making curved cuts, I tried once, spend like an hour an a half on it, made a template and still managed to screw it up. So, for the second go round, I had my brother [a contractor by trade] come over and cut this piece, he had it done in about 15 mins....and it was perfect! damn him and such. But he really is awesome for doing such a perfect job

Can't forget the livewell!

Off to do some glassin'.....

.....And some sandin'....

.....to make it look like this!


Now, you remember those little extra flanges I put in, well I'm sure you guess why they're there, but just in case you didn't pick up on it....

Storage Compartments!

 

[Racingman24]

Re: Here we go, diving in, hope there's water in the pool... Just Another Tinny Rebui

I think that's it for now. I have a few other pics, but I need to complete a few more "steps" before I want to post them up.

The deck floor is carpeted, with the little hole for the seat cut out, so we're moving along, just not as quickly as I'd like. Of course, being sick as crap for the last week has really limited me too.

But, fear not, the coming week shall hold many days of work, and hopefully a few updates!

 

[Racingman24]

Re: Here we go, diving in, hope there's water in the pool... Just Another Tinny Rebui

Way cool,..

I redid a Alumacraft 16 foot tiller a few winters ago,...

I wish I had found this site before I did it and had taken the pictures you did,..

Looks real good!!

Thank you, Really! And to anyone in this thread that has offered me good wishes and compliments, THANK YOU! I mean it!

It means a lot to me when people appreciate the hard work and sweat and blood [some fresh meat coming off this weekend Rotozip at full speed+Thumb= Owwie and lots of red life jello] that have been put into this project. It's going to be an awesome, AWESOME day when I can show my Grandpa and see his reaction.

 

[ezmobee]

Re: Here we go, diving in, hope there's water in the pool... Just Another Tinny Rebui

The deck looks great and the framework for the casting deck is quite impressive. Great work!

 

[Racingman24]

Re: Here we go, diving in, hope there's water in the pool... Just Another Tinny Rebui

The deck looks great and the framework for the casting deck is quite impressive. Great work!

Thank you.

I really had no idea what I was doing when I built the framework. I kinda knew what I wanted, but wasn't really sure how to get there. So I winged it. Which turned out pretty decent for the most part.

I knew when I started that I wanted a livewell, a seat, and some flip open hatches to store stuff, as the original design gave me about 2 cubic feet of storage. Originally, I was going to have the livewell in the rear part of the deck [I even toyed with having a plexiglass window so I could watch the fishies! ] with the seat and some storage in front. Well that would have put the front most fisherman almost out of the boat, so that had to be changed.

The whole design, of both the framework and the boat in it's entirety, have under gone many changes in this whole process....and I keep telling myself that those are changes for the better.

 

[Triton II]

Re: Here we go, diving in, hope there's water in the pool... Just Another Tinny Rebui

Once again, nice work RM! Hope you're feeling better and you can save the thumb! What are you covering the casting deck with?

MB