Spring Project(s) 74 20SF

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With the temp finally being in the mid 50's here in Va Beach this past weekend I took the opportunity to start on my spring projects for the SF 20. Project list includes:

• Refinish the console (currently has 200+ holes in it)
• Repair all the cracks and holes inside the boat
• Make new fore and aft hatches, fuel tank hatch is in great shape as it was redone last fall
• Port scupper has a very slow leak, rather than repair the straight down scupper design, I'm going to move them to drain through the stern and put the ping pong ball scuppers on
• Repaint boat
• Mount the trim tabs I bought for it last fall
• T-top

Trying to have this finished by June at the latest.

Tore her down this weekend with the help my dad and some friends (bribed them with beer and the "you fish on the boat, you work on the boat" motto). Couple of teardown pics:












The two huge open spots on the dash and where the wheel was were covered with starboard bolted on.




Previous owner swore up and down it was bottom paint that he put on it to sell, I just opened the can of stripper and it seemed to start falling off, seems my suspicions of a "home depot special" were true. The other layers of bottom paint are a little more rugged and will require some sanding.




Couple of our aquatic vehicles:



Rainy here all this week but hopefully get to work on the console some in the shop. Forecast for the weekend is another beautiful mid 50's and sunny so will be sanding away.

Oh yeah, color I'm going with is Awlgrip's Sea Foam:



I think she's gonna be purdy.