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She looked ok at the beginning
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Before she went down...
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Started gutting her as everything was pretty much wrecked...
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On blocks to perform the transfermation
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Gutted and ready for a work up...
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Seats out, motor off, it had crappy vinal on the inside walls which i ripped off, electrics out...found a few soft spots in the floor which i had to fix up...
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Discovered some dodgy filler work on some cracks (should I say gorges) on the transom which needed some attention...
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Grinded and cleaned up the transom
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The right Gorge...
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It looked like the previous owner just put some filler in there....i grinded it all away to do a proper job. The transom wood underneath looked ok.
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The left Gorge...
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This is where I found the crappy vinal and ripped it off...there were side rails too covered with vinal which had caused the wood to rott.
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The inside walls
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Pulled off some speakers too which were goooonnneee!!!!
U can see one of the soft spots (well hole) in the floor where the previous owner just did a patch job, which i ripped off...man what a lemom...should have seen that...
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Hatch at the front...more crap vinal
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Another soft spot
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Just had a bit of fibre glass over the spot...lifted off real easy
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A whole in the bottom the culprit for it going down...
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it keeps getting worse and worse...
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Now for the fix up
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For the gorges i used some foam filler to get into the gaps in the transom, then some epoxy filler to get the rounded shape back into the transom.
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The other side
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Getting there
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Found some other suspect areas at the bottom right of the photo which also needed attention
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After filling the hole on the bottom I epoxied the hell out of it...(was my first real glassing work...so boy did i have some fun....nothing like learning the hard way...)
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Fixing the holes
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Now the transom
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Epoxied and glassed the transom, i think like 4-5 coats with 3 layers of chopped stand mat and a layer of the mesh finishing mat. Feels like a lot of strength in there now...
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No more Gorges...
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Cut out the bad spots, rest of the floor was still in good nick so just laid down 1/2" ply over the top and put some extra support down for captain chairs
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New Floor....
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Xtra support for captain chairs...
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2 extra layers of 1/2" ply
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Tnuts used on the bottom of the floor to hold the captain chairs
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bevelled edges for each layer for a better look
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A mate helping got the bevelled edges wrong so filler used to fill the gaps..
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Cheers Chris....
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Fibreglass is nasty stuff....
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The glassing begins...
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More to come...
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Putting a bench seat at the back also held down with tnuts...
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hopefully getting closer to the finish...the ? is the engine...
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Getting ready to sand and paint...all trimmings taken off
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A lot of sanding ahead...
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Its starting to warm so need to get all the hard yacker work done quickly before the heat is unbearable...
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Still have a few trimmings to take off, need to drill out the bolts as they don't budge plus the are in very tight spots...
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windscreen off
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Side rails on with makeshift rod racks inplace...
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Need to fill an uneven part of the floor where the joint was, thats the white expoxy patching at the bottom.
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Still a lot of work ahead...
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Backward look
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Side rails and rod rack
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Going to glass these in to add strength...
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put some strategic holes in the side rails for water to escape
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Different view of side rails and rod racks...
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Captain chair supports glassed in
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Hopefully enough strength there to support the captain chairs..
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