Re: Replacing stringers and floor in 91 glastron
Originally posted by jcafla1:<br /> I purchased a 17ft glastron and it had a bad floor. I separated the cap from the hull and cut out most of the floor. I noticed some of the stringers were bad so I cut them out as well. When I did this the boat opened up and the cap will not fit. Is the boat worth fixing? I have purchased the supplies and have some carpentry skills.<br /><br />Thanks,<br />jcafla1
Probably only the gunnels spread out and the bottom didn't change. Much. Like Rudy says, support is needed, usually the trailer is enough. If you have enough room to work on the floor with the cap on, pull or push the sides back in and reattach the cap as near to original as you can, using the same screwholes etc. Mainly what you have to look for is that there is no hook or concave spots in the bottom (from uneven trailer support etc) and that there is no twist in the hull, which you can see by looking at it from the side and comparing one gunnel to the other. They should be paralell, on one plane. Once you laminate in new stringers, the shape is pretty much locked in place, once the floor is in, it is locked in place. You have to be carefull that your weight doesn't distort the shape while you are in the boat working on it. A good idea would be to check the transom to see if it's rotted also, which is a distinct possibility. Whether the boat is worth fixing sort of depends on what you have into it, how old it is etc. To have a transom replaced could easily be $1500, to do the floor and stringers could easily be $2500. It's a lot of dirty, nasty, hard work is why it costs that much. There are a lot of used boat, motor, trailer packages around for that price. Sam
