I have found a 16'/17' crestliner runabout for sale, does anyone know anything about these boats. If so , would this be a good project boat?
Jim, Par, I got a question for you guys. Fine tuning the prep work I wonder if I may be grinding away too much material, from what I`ve read the...
Thanks Jim and par, enough said. I have asked the same to many, and got no straight answer. NOW I have, and I`m good with that. Jim, Par, don`t...
Jim, I left out a little bit on my last post. They used glass cloth on the joints (from stringer to hull), 3 layers. But none on the top. They...
Thanks Par,and you too Jim for sending Par here. I haven`t posted lately, work has had me by the leg. I have been googling about epoxy, cloth,ect....
Jim, for the stringers the factory used whatever to make a mold and inclosing with polyester to get the strength needed. I`m am going back with...
Thanks guys. Jim is there any way you know of to caculate the amount of epoxy I will need. One other thing, to cloth over the stringers can I use...
everything is down and out and after a bit more sanding, a lot of cleaning up all the dust I`ll be ready to start in the other direction. The old...
Sure If you don`t mind anything to speed up my progress. I`m no stranger to power tools(use them eveyday) but it is definitley an art working with...
Thanks Jim, I`ll difinitley give it a shot. I was really hoping I would be able to use the boat by the first to the middle of June. But unless I...
Everyone, I am having a hell of of a time doing the final clean up of the hull. I ahve looked here and there to find the right kind of disc or pad...
Well, shes pretty much gutted. All the wood is out, time to put the sawzaw up and grab the grinder. The guy that had the boat before me really...
Thanks Jim/dragon, there is somuch information on the net on boats (especially here) that it is harder to sift through that to find. I`m new at...
By the way, the pics of the transom are at the bottom of the page . Just scroll down to them and click on to enlarge. This guy is doing a pretty...
Use this in your browser, it should get you there. This is my first boat, I didn`t find the problems with this boat until after I had it for...
This boat has a step transom, was OK for the old 125-Force clunker. But I am remodeling the entire boat and the transom snd stringers are in bad...
