the long road ahead - 67 Nautique resto/mod

As John Lennon said- "Whatever gets you through the night is all right...   all right".   

Trying to gauge the amount of epoxy needed. Your boat has a few feet on mine so hopefully I can get by with 5 gallons. Bubble gum and duct tape would be about as good as some of the glass work in my boat! I have yet to see an iceburg in our coal plant heated lake LOL.

I agree with Mike- 5 gallons wont cut it, even on a 16' boat. There is very little difference in size between the 1st Gen SN and the Skier/Tique. I wouldnt guess it will take more than 10, but probably closer to 10 than 5.

The last couple nights I finished covering the mains with the first course of biax. I also layed biax on the exhaust plates, rudder mount, and up to the aft part of the log area where I had a crack I repaired. I got a bit ahead of myself last night and consequently left my shop a tad early and had a couple of bubbles appear that pissed me off when I saw them this evening. Tonight I spent grinding out the longitudinal notches and drains in the mains. This saved me time on the front side laying the glass, but it takes a bit of time to clean up, too. It is still better for the notches in that you would have to grind them a bit anyway, but they created a few bubbles, so I would cut a small hole next time, not just slice into the to relieve the air. I think the drains are definitely better as I could shine a flashlight though them and shape them pretty easily. I measured the thickness of the pieces I cut out. Where I double layered the biax in the engine and trans mount areas it is a tall 1/8". The sections on front and to the rear of the mounts it is 1/16". I am still debating the additional layer from the top of the stringers down. I still have the section at the rear to layup where I extended the height for the fuel tank mounts.
I am not sure if I would do the notches again or use wedge type supports. Both have their positives and negatives, but cutting out the glass tonight got me at least thinking about it. I would also radius my top edges better than I did as it would decrease some of the work keeping air bubbles out.
I hope to get done with what I want to accomplish in this phase by this weekend.

Pete,

I do remember that now that you mention it. My drains were good, it is the notches that were a PITA.

Happy Birthday to The Norwegian Crusher! Have contacted Correct Craft twice now for a born date/build sheet.   The first time they told me that the hull number I gave them was too long, so I sent them a picture and they said they could not find anything on that number. Any suggestions on obtaining that information?

Did you have to keep asking or did they just one day pop up and say "hey we found it"? I don't want to pester them, but will if thats what it takes.

I agree and was kind of joking, but did you submit a request once and they responded 6 months later or did you touch base once a month or so and they finally came through?

I emailed and then followed up every couple months.

CTC - Correct Craft
03535 - Serial number
0573 - Date of Certification May 73

SKMs -? I believe represents Skier Model.

BKH

Pete-

Keeganino wrote: The first time they told me that the hull number I gave them was too long, so I sent them a picture and they said they could not find anything on that number.

Thanks BKH- I knew I had seen the formula on CCF before