I must like punishing myself

[billythekid]

Well it has started, with the weather looming last weekend of northeast 25 knots plus, I decided it was time.

I woke up at 7am put on my work boots and my wife knew she wouldn't see me all day. I sipped my coffee and came up with what I wanted to accomplish.

I broke out anything with a saw in the name including but not limited to pry bars big and small, drills, hammers chisels and I even had to bring in the tractor.

I went at the boat like a rabbid spider monkey, slicing and dicing and the throwing and hurling everything out of the boat into a truck that was bound for the junk yard.

[billythekid]

transom was mush as with anything else that was wood based in the boat. I had the hull gutted before lunch time and the motor, outdrive and the rest of the mechanicals by 1 then I went to town cutting and grinding all the crap out of the boat. filled up a dozen trash bags with foam .



pulled the the transom out and the skin and first peince of plywood came out easy, the second piece of plywood was wet but still as strong as the day them put it in

[billythekid]

I called it a day and went to get rid of all the garbage and of course make a pit stop at home depot.

I bought a cordless Makita grinder to add to my Makita tools and it has proved itself pretty handy.


Sunday I wanted to clean the transom down to the glass and cut and grind any crap out of the boat all in one day, to keep the misery of itching down.

I also set up some saw horses for the cap and cut and grind it down clean.

[billythekid]

a lot has happened since my last restore, we moved and I had to build a new shop that you will see in the pics. Sold after Hurricane Irene and thank god we did because sandy put 6ft of water through my old shop and 3ft in the house!! Let me tell you moving a shop and setting back up was the worst thing ever!!!!

The liner was cut just in front of the engine box and I wanted to get it back together so I put another saw horse in rear and some scraps of ply and screws to put it back together to get glassed.


screwed it together and and slapped some mat and 1708 down on it to put it back together.

[billythekid]

I decided to core the hull and cut the the liner to a make a gunnel with 6" sides, I took some white sided hardboard from home depot and put some mold release on it. Then reverse screwed it to the old rod locker opening I cut the screws off so I could glass up the inside. I laid 2 layers of mat for a skin coat then 1 layer of mat and one layer of 1708 on the inside that was an opening . I then mixed up some Dynaglass to fill the contour between the old and new and laid a layer of 1708 up over the new and down onto the underside of the cap.

[billythekid]

I decided to go old school and mount the motor to the transom, I am planning on building boxes on each side and building a engine cowling like the old Seavee's or the Conch's.

I took a bunch of measurements and decided what I wanted. I leveled the boat out and pulled some lines.

I broke out the the dynabrade angle diamond bit cutter and sliced the transom like a hot knife through butter.

I also broke down and made a purchase that I should of done 10 years ago and that is a Fein turbo II vacuum. This is one if those tools that is awesome.

by the way I cut the transom for a 25" motor.

[billythekid]

video of dynabrade cutter matched to the Fein vacuum, zero dust end of story. and the suction from the vacuum keeps it stuck to the boat.


http://s113.photobucket.com/user/roc...a/612.mp4.html

[NoBones]

All this in a weekend......

Here I thought I was doing good over this past weekend
just getting my Hewes re-do ground down.....



Keep it coming Billy!

[DonV]

Jeeez Ken....most folks are able to only use one grinder at a time!!! You 'da man!

[Capt Chuck]

Originally Posted by DonV

Jeeez Ken....most folks are able to only use one grinder at a time!!! You 'da man!

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