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This last weekend I did some major cleaning of the dust on the boat that was left behind from all of the grinding. I also gave the area that was ground a good cleaning with acetone. Which by the way will eat right through a rubber glove. Here is a bulk of the area that has been ground and where the stringers will be fiberglassed. I am putting some miscellaneous pictures of the boat on here. Here is the bow section. The prop that came with the boat. I believe that it is a 13-3/4 x 15. Which to me means 13-3/4 diameter and a 15 pitch. The Johnson Hood for a 1975 85hp motor. I have supplies for fiberglassing that is supposed to be here by the end of the week. Which doesn't really matter much right now since it is not warm enough to fiberglass. But I figured with fuel prices rising I would go ahead and get them before the shipping prices go up. This is a good time stop and create a list of things that I want to accomplish with this rebuilding. 1. Form out of the foam pan...

February 19, 2012 Grinding is now complete. I guess that I am one of the lucky ones who doesn't get itchy from fiberglass dust. No pictures this weekend because of too much dust and I don't want to subject my camera to that. Next I have purchased some 3/4" foam board to do my templates of the stringers and bulkheads. I believe that I will be able to get by, if I have figured correctly, with 1 sheet of 3/4" Aruaco Plywood. Also on another note my local lumber yard has MDO plywood in stock!! Both in 1/2" and 3/4" thicknesses. So I know where I am going to get my deck plywood. Hopefully next weekend I will get the boat out to give it a good washing down. I want to wash off the tarp and hang it up to dry and wash/vacuum the whole boat to make it free of dust.

Okay I have done some math on my stringers and bulkheads...let me know if this makes sense. There is 519" of area on both sides of the stringers 288" on both sides of the bulkheads So add those together and that give me 807" of total area or 67.25' or 22.42 yards. I figured that I will use 4" 1 1/2oz CSM tape for the first layer - Which uses 1.25gal of resin for a whole roll (110yards) but I will only figure for 25 yards...or .23 of a whole roll - So .23 x 160oz of resin (1.25gal) = 36.8oz of resin for the 1st layer Layer 2 I will use 6" 1 1/2oz CSM tape - Which uses 1.75gal of resin for a whole roll (110yards) - .23 x 224oz of resin (1.75gal) = 51.52oz of resin for the 2nd layer Layer 3 I will use 6" 1708 Biaxial and according to this website 1708 takes a little less resin to wet out than 1 1/2oz CSM so I will figure at CSM values: - .23 x 224oz of resin (1.75gal) = 51.52oz of resin for the 3rd layer Layer 4 will be a copy of the 3rd layer: - .23 x 2...

January 28, 2012 Does it look like I am ready for some grinding... Day one of grinding is in the books. I will call this a success. Here is the amount of area I was able to get finished: Here are some of my observations: -The safety equipment worked out great. I didn't have very much dust on me at all. -This is the time of the year to grind. 40-45 degrees outside is much better than sweating in the heat.

January 23, 2012 Well the weather just didn't cooperate with me this past weekend so I didn't get any grinding done on the boat, but I did get plastic down where I wanted to try to keep dust from getting. Also I have the tenting structure built and have pictures of those... I don't think that it looks too bad: Here is what it looks like with the tarp on in the inside:

December 31, 2011 I did get some time to do some more inspecting...I have checked the trans om and it is fine. Because I don't have any space to store the cap I am going to leave it on and work around it. I believe that I will be able to do that... Now that I have done some research I am going to remove the bulkheads and stringers from the back to the bulkhead that is under the drivers seat. Everything towards the front of that is dry and solid. There are 3 stringers and the 2 outer stringers end at that bulkhead...here is a Visio drawing of what I plan to do. January 8, 2012 Here is a good picture of what I am up against... This boat has been worked on before but it looks like there is only one thin layer of mat and the resin was just glooped on to keep the stringers up. Also the fiberglass underneath wasn't properly prepared as the "newer" glass is just popping up. It did make stringer removal very easy even though some of the wood was solid. But now a...

Here is my Restore Blog about me replacing the deck on our 1973 Ozark T164 boat. First things first...we were able to get the boat out for one test run back in November before it got too cold to go out. It was a fun 30 minutes or so running around Carlyle Lake. It has an 85HP 1975 Johnson. When we bought it, it had a soft deck towards the back of passenger area (don't worry I knew about it when we bought it and don't have a lot in it). Here are some pictures of the boat... Here is a picture taken from the port side looking into the passenger area after removing the rotten deck and cleaned it up some: