New Member with New Boat

[Seacraft84]

Are you going to do a Yamaha or Suzuki 150?
I will probably get to work on my Master Angler in a couple months.
Are you going to keep the spray rails on?

[everybody]

I'm leaning toward the Yami, but they are both great and price and warrenty will influence my choice. I plan on keeping the spray rails. One is in good shape and the other is crack and split so, I think I'm going to glass them over and make then one with the hull. This weekend I cutting and fitting the floor.

[Seacraft84]

I believe i will go with the Yamaha. My father just took one off his boat and is willing to sell it to me.
How far is your bracket set back off the transom?
I am going to get a guy local to weld me a bracket and was curious what kind of measurements to give him.
How high are you raising the floor?
Where are your scuppers going to be?
Thanks

[everybody]

The floor will be 2.5 to 3 in higher when done. The bracket places the engine 28 in back. When your ready I can give more detailed measurments. I'm not sure about the scuppers. I have some ideas but want to test fit the floor before I make my final call. Some have directed them out the side and that mod looks pretty straight forward. I like Stick aproach, but want to make sure the floor is still below the swim platform for a straight shot.

[Seacraft84]

Right on. Thats sounds to be about the same approach I am going to take. I also am unsure about the scuppers. I redid a 23 about 3 years ago and ran them out the side and found some thru hulls that had a recessed flap to keep the water from coming back in. It worked pretty good, so I may take that same approach. I also had raised my floor about three to four inches.
Just trying to sell my motor on my Master Angler right now then I will start on my restore.
Are you going to put any kind of strips of wood along the sides of the boat to secure the floor to or just use raise the stringers alone.?

[Seacraft84]

Put the 150 on the boat a couple days ago. 41mph full throttle, 28mph @ 3800rpm. Two guys, 30gal gas, t-top w/curtains. May be able to get 45mph out of it raising the motor and different prop.
Got another month of fishing in and then start tearing it down.
I may raise my floor 4-5in as the boat sits now. Maybe moving the gas tank forward I could get by with 3-4in higher.

[everybody]

seacraft 84 I glued cellular vinyl molding to the side of the hull then glassed over it. Its on good and won't rot out. I havn't put up pics in a while so. . .

Heres my template

Lay up with recessed hatch for fuel tank acess

trendy beer shot

friggin' aligators. How long do I let the dura tec dry before layup?

[everybody]

Heres some more shots of the floor. I used 3 sheets of a/c fir. I tabbed both sides of all three sheets togeather with 1708 and epoxy then glassed both sides with straight bi axal no mat. I rolled the play wood with thickend epoxy first so the wood would not soak up all my epoxy. I then layed up 3 panals with iso poly resin to save some fairing and mold the recessed areas. I bonded te panels to the wood with fpr liquid nails.



This will be my bilge acess and scupper channel

[everybody]

Hopefully I can get my deck in the weekend and mold the big fuel acess lid so can tear down my molding table and park cars in the driveway again.
I'm happy with my process for the floor but the panels could have been cleaner. I can fix them but Its going to take time. I can't afford to start over I've got too much resin and glass invested in them.

[Seacraft84]

Looks good. Keeps us posted, as I will refer back to your build when I get into mine.