Wellcraft 210 Elite Restoration NEED HELP!!

[Lou C]

When I did mine I didn't know as much as I have learned here, I did coat the underside with thinned epoxy, and it's still solid 20 years later, however if I knew then what I know now, I would 'glassed it fully.

 

[eggs712]

Another vote for glassing the underside. I've added a layer of CSM, as poly resin alone can flake off without glass.

I also used adhesive to hold the decks down, so no screws or places for water intrusion. Possibly overkill, but gutting a boat is too hard of a job to risk re-work too soon.

 

[Lou C]

I also glued my deck down but I did use some screws, the main thing is to countersink them and cover with sealer, and any holes you have to drill for seat mounting must be sealed. I didn't do this, but it would probably be a good idea to over-drill the hole and fill it with epoxy and then drill the epoxy for the hole for the screw.
Another thing when using foam, what I did instead of installing the deck, drilling holes to pour foam and then re-inserting and gluing the circular pieces that have to be cut out, I foamed it before installing the deck and cut the top of the excess foam off level with the stringers, less worry about the expanding foam popping anything loose, and you can verify full coverage/expansion. You could (I didn't) glass over the foam with epoxy to keep it from absorbing moisture too.

 

[Pmt133]

I glassed sacrificial pads for the seat mounts. Being they're higher than the deck water intrusion to the pad is only an issue if the thing sinks. I also used short screws so it doesn't hit the actual deck.

All the screws I used were back filled with sealer, filled with peanut butter then glassed over. Again, if water makes it that far so be it.

 

[Elite210Captain]

The bilge section is completely Glassed and ready for gel coat I probably will add a layer of csm to the keyhole wouldn't be to hard. Ive gone through almost 15gallons of laminating resin so far including the transom install, I did 1.5oz csm with 18oz woven for the bilge and found that the woven is extremely annoying to deal with ao I have my composite guy order me a roll of 1708, apparently he said I can bring my boat in and his guys can finish it up bilge forward in about 4hours so im gonna take him up on that offer as I've completely ran out of time and now the rain is coming this Friday. I'm not sure what the purpose of that piece of wood is at the bottom of the bilge but I ended up grinding out the old one im glad I did because it was soaked in water under all that glass and gelcoat.. wood wasn't mulch it actually was still stiff but it was soaked..... anyways prefabricated a new one and glassed it in....

 

[MikeSchinlaub]

The wood in the bilge is to screw the bilge pumps down.