Winter Project

Aaron,

Outstanding. Absolutely beautiful. I can't believe you've been working on this project and not posting updates on the site. We love this stuff here. That's a fairly rare trailer
you have as well with the shrouds.   Enjoy it.
BKH

Sweet boat! Great Job! wish i could have done that with my 81...Have fun with it.
Scott

Awesome, awesome ,awesome. You should be real proud of the work you did on that one. Looks fantastic. And you've got my trailer, I've just about given up looking for one of those.

I started this project just after Christmas, it has been a long and expensive couple of months. I never thought the stringers would be that rotted until I pulled the floor up, It was almost scary to think that I had my family out in that all last summer. While into it that far I decided to replace all the vent, bilge and exhaust hoses (that exhaust hose is not cheap). I also replaced the bilge pump and made new battery cables. The only thing I have left is to finish up the engine and dial it back into loaction.
I would definetly enjoy doing another project like this I just don't know if the wife is ready for the epoxy,polyester, gel coat, and foam smeell through the house again.

Thanks for all the compliments

79,

Great job and welcome to the site!! Any possibility that you could bring that thing to the Green Lake reunion? I Hate the thought of ever having to do the stringers again, that sucks huh....Have fun.

Paul,

79'
    WOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!
You had to bust butt to do that in a couple months!!! There's nothin pretteir than a red-trimmed SN in the water!!! (unless you can get some of Pauls "rear" seat ornaments to go with)

Who dig the graphics? They painted or decals?
GREAT JOB!

Aaron: Let me add my AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!to everyone else's. What a job. Love the red! The paint and interior are worth whatever you paid. I had a trailer like that under my yellow '78 and always got lots of compliments. They are a rare item. As a side note; I liked your website. Easy to use. Always amazes me how talented some of you guys are. Again, congrats on a great job and welcome to the site. We love guys like you.

john

Absolutely beautiful...I appreciate all the work, sweat (and money) it took to get it to that condition. Hope to post pix of 67 Mustang in the near future.

Nice work.

yea....I'd say those stringers were rotten alright!


Echo what everyone else said.....impressive work!!

Looks Great...Good for another 30 years You do nice work.

Yo 79,

What is the gray sealer that you put on the flooring before you put on the carpet?

Paul,

Man that boat is awesome! How in the world did you complete such a task in such a short time? The look of that gutted hull reminds me of when I did the same to my my abused '86. How did you refill the foam in the hull when you were putting it back together?

Aaron, I have most of the foam out of my 75 Mustang and yep, a bunch of soft wood. Couple of questions:

On removing the stringers, I am assuming that you cut out all the encapsulating glass as well. Also, I thought I saw in this forum that you only did one at a time to maintain the hull integrity, right?

Does it make send to go back with marine plywood as you did? Appears that the original is basically layers of layed up glass, with wood for seat supports, post support, etc.

Thanks in advance.

Ed

Swatkinz, Im not sure if 79SkiNautique will be very active on the forums. He sold his boat this summer, I believe. He completed it last spring- this post is quite old.

Im still out here checking in with you guys from time to time. Possibly looking for another winter project. To answer the question of how much, With the seats, Carpet, Floor, and Engine I spent Just under $2000.

Im really missing the old girl but the wife and kids really enjoy the new Malibu.