It's been a while! All fibreglass repair completed, some pictures from the rebuild: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Currently attaching pontoons...
Dear All, I almost completed the structural part of the transom, I need to complete the tabbing that attaches to the hull, but it got its shape...
Dear All, reporting some more progress. I've added the first layer of plywood (18mm) + 5 layers of 600gr/m^2 quadraxial (4mm thickness), and I am...
If you don’t glass the top of a ply transom; it WILL split open. Yes!! I haven't thought this might be the case, but I was planning to wrap...
Thank you for the pointers and additional insight! By the way your work is professional level (!!!). Yes, I agree with you that the cracks where...
Some progress (weekend jobs), after a loooooooooooooooot of grinding down (and some fibreglass experiments), i finally did my first repair....
Thank you, just to verify: it is my understanding that since the crack does not extend to the connection of transom skin with deck, you do not...
Thank you again! The crack is constrained to where the green polygon is, and is apparent only from the exterior side where the tubes attach. There...
Hi @fallguy thank you VERY much, and thank you for taking the time to make a drawing, MUCH appreciated! LEGEND!! A lot of information, I have one...
Hi @Simco - there are no stringers in the interior of my boat searider. There are buoyancy chambers glued under the floor, they are not in contact...
I've done full service in the standard things (thermostat, rebuild carbus, impeller, gear oil and lubrication and of course spark plugs +...
Hi @C. Dog , thank you for your response. The photo with the boat with the mercury is not my boat - I've put it for reference on how the transom...
I went with option 2, as it would otherwise be impossible to clean the ply from the tight corners at the edges of the boat. I also found few...
Yes, the water ballast will be kept - I've removed the aft chamber intact and I plan to reuse it - the same for the bow one. The boat is 1988,...
Thank you @Tops - yes I've seen this video, very informative. Apologies I didn't put pictures of the boat in the normal state, this is the boat...
