pre-stringer replacement questions

[oops!]

Thanks to everyone on this site for all the super knowledge they are sharing!
im just about to re-fit my 68 sea ray 19 foot I/O with transom and stringers'
just a few questions i cant seem to find direct answers to.

1. do I attach the new stringers directially to the floor making sure of total contact between the hull and new wood stringers?, (of course laying the new stringers on a new mat of glass)
or leave a small gap in places, (bow area )

2. also, would it a good idea to put thin rubber (closed cell, like tire tube rubber) between the hull and srtingers to keep the vibration and noise levels down? as well as putting it between the underside of the floor and on the top of the stringers?

noise level is one of the major considerations in this re fit.
i dont want to hear a sound from the motor or feel any vibration at all.

3. should i make small "water channels" in the pockets so if water does get in there, (the foam area) it can drain into the bildge?

I keep reading and learning here.
the demolision starts on the first of the month.(interior, carpet and such)
the 4.3 merc comes out nov 15. grinding starts on the 18th.

cheers!
oops

 

[VinceJ]

Re: pre-stringer replacement questions

Dang it oops! You are getting out in front of me and my 64!...Ok here is what I have learned...there are at least a zillion different opinions on laying your stringers....1) you can lay a strip of foam under the new stringer, kinda like the stuff they use for expansion joints in concrete jobs 2) Have heard someone used a cut up innertube 3) if you use SeaCast, they say you can just pour your stringer out of the bucket using the old glass that was lapped over your old stringer that you dig out as a form cap it and be done with it that of course is the condensed version 5) you can tear your stringers out after leveling your hull and bracing so it doesnt become a friggin pretzel and grind you glass and lay in preformed 6) or you can just hand lay new wood stringers with a barrier of some sort between the stringer and hull so you dont have a serious hard spot runnin the length of the bottom of your hull allowing unseamly and probably untimely damage to occur to all that hand laid classic glass that you no doubt are trying to make a masterpiece .

All condensed versions of everything I have heard and read...did I do ok fellas?

By the way, my boss just paid me for responding to this oops!...gotta love it

 

[Nova II 260]

Re: pre-stringer replacement questions

Good reading

 

[oops!]

Re: pre-stringer replacement questions

tee hee
thanks vince!
im in the shop tommorow and floors gonna come out! picks to follow

Cheers!
oops!