How many layers?

[Greg Mrozinski]

Re: How many layers?

Looking good. Time to get out your grinder and a bunch of coarse grit flapper wheels. Be prepared for a ton of dust. Make sure you wear proper protection. I know it will be hot but it will save you a lot of skin irritation.

 

[Wingedwheel]

Re: How many layers?

The weekend should be good. I'm about halfway through with the parts cut-outs. All the 3/4" is done, now I have some 1/2" to cut for side and rear supports and flooring. I'll be sealing with resin this weekend and hopefully beginning to put her back together. Here's a pic of my stringer jig I put together to get accurate measurements since everything was so rotted I had no patterns

 

[Woodonglass]

Re: How many layers?

Hey winged,

check out my post on how to post pics I think it will help

http://forums.iboats.com/showthread.php?t=410147

 

[Wingedwheel]

Re: How many layers?

Woodonglass is this what you mean?

http://forums.iboats.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=58499&stc=1&d=1278035783

 

[Woodonglass]

Re: How many layers?

Nope
You should be able to post pics that you have on stored on your computer and place them in the text of your posts. like this

 

[Wingedwheel]

Re: How many layers?

After work this week I cut parts and yesterday picked up fiberglass supplies. I started early this morning and using the gunk(thats what the supplier calls it) I attached my stringers, transom and hull stiffeners. Tomorrow I'll try and get the flats glassed and then install the box supports in the rear and do my foam. Hopefully I'll have the cap on by next weekend. Woodonglas, I'll try and put the bigger pics in later, I'm taking the Wife out on the SeaRay for a spin.

 

[Wingedwheel]

Re: How many layers?

What a weekend. A friend who came by to help me mix grabbed the wrong end of a knife and had to get stitches. Slowed me down a little but still moving. Then yesterday morning right in the middle of the first piece of glass, my wife told me she needed to go to the hospital for pain. Ended up staying there all day as she had her appendix removed. She is fine and I brought her home around 1:30 today. After I made sure she was comfortable I started working like a mad-man. It was sunny and close to 90 out so the resin was setting quickly.I got the front half of the boat glassed and cut the foam for under the floor per the instructions at the top of this forum. Hopefully I can get the floor down and put the support boxes,glass and foam in the rear of the boat. Everything went well until I was shaving the foam with a long cross-cut saw. I went a little deeper than I wanted in one spot, so I fixed the gouge with spray foam. I'll have the floor on it before anyone even notices. I also had to tear out the piece I started yesterday as I had to drop everything and go for my Wife. No big deal, I'd do the whole thing over for her if I had to...http://forums.iboats.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=58856&d=1278374539

 

[Wingedwheel]

Re: How many layers?

Good day today with a few hours for cutting parts. Darn there seems to be no end to them! I just about got them all done with half the floor, gas tank shelf and a couple of end-caps left. I'll try to get them together before the weekend so I can finish the glass, resin and foam in the rear of the boat and hopefully get my minor wiring changes done before I reset the cap.

 

[Wingedwheel]

Re: How many layers?

All done with the glass and actually got the cap back on after working late last night. I'm lucky one boat stays in the water over the summer and it gave me an extra trailer to work with. I'm sure I'll need two posts to get all the pics in.

 

[Wingedwheel]

Re: How many layers?

I had a little difficulty getting the cap and the hull to mate so I pulled them together with straps and set the rivits. I then removed the straps and installed the rub-rail. I had a little bottom paint left over from a 27' FourWinns we sold awhile back so I used it to paint the rear compartment.

 

[Wingedwheel]

Re: How many layers?

Got the engine back on today and hooked up the power trim, new bilge pump, made a stainless plate to put on the transom to cover the blemishes under the outboard bracket and basically got her down to re-installing the gas tank and carpet. I'll post pics of the finished product tomorrow and answer the original question I asked when I started the post. I would have finished today but the wifey wanted a ride in the SeaRay and my friend dropped by and I helped him figure out how to get the door panel off of his F-150. I'll be on the water by tomorrow afternoon for the maiden voyage. WHOOHOO look out fishies!!!!!

 

[Wingedwheel]

Re: How many layers?

Back on the water and other than a small leak from the live-well fitting due to it having a hairline crack everything is great. I did notice a small oil leak from one of my trim cylinders, but thats no big deal. I need to replace the hoses anyway, it just wasn't a priority while the boat was down. To answer the question I asked when I started this thread is whatever was there in the first place. I used 1708 CSM and before coating I cut strips and used tham like tape around the new parts. Then I went over everything with a layer of resin, used a brush to saturate the 1708 around the wood and coated it with another layer of resin. I learned that each boat has its own needs as far as fiberglassin and a larger boat with a deeper hull would definately use more glass than mine. I'm very happy with the way it turned out and will probably put it up for sale next spring so I can buy a new project. I think I'll go with a deeper V aluminum. My wife will love hearing that!