79 SN rebuild

Ill be on spring break next week so the game plan is: get all the foam stripped out by friday, and order all the fiber gla$$ supplies this afternoon.

Hopefully all the $upplie$ should be in by friday... hopefully..... Then have the secondaries as well as the mains glassed in. Which I'm thinking that will be my full week of work tied up in those 4 pieces, then all that is left is the smaller stuff. Which ill be able to knock out the small stuff easy on the weekends and some week days.

Nick

There is only the one bulkhead where the conduit comes through. The rest is just a mountain of foam.

well so far the mains and secondaries came out like butta! Surprisingly the main was relatively in one piece
Sorry for the crap image quality, all i had was the ole camera phone.

It's certainly funny how thing work out. Before I had the project, I had plenty of time. Now that I have parts all over my garage, we don't have any time at all.

I've decided to remove my deadline and just keep getting to it as much as I can. It will be done, soon enough.

Yours will be too.

Jeff

so here is the list of stuff im gonna order tonight:

(brushes and rollers ill pick up at a local shop)
5 gallon us composite medium hardner $263
2 gallon us composite medium hardner $117
1 50yrd roll 2" e glass tape $16.25
1            4"               $26.95
1            8"               $58.00
1 roll 110yd 4" wide epoxy mat tape $24.95
2.5 qt milled fiber $16.25
15 yds 7.5oz cloth   $71.25

Ill pick up the biaxel later on i know ill need to order some more resin eventually.

it made sense to just order a roll of the epoxy mat tape, than to order a 20yard piece of 38" wide epoxy mat.

If you are gonna order tonight it might be too late, but I am not following your layup schedule. The standard layup is 2 layers each of cloth tape 2", 4", and 8" over the fillet followed by a layer of 12" biaxial over both fillets and one over the top. You will need at least 2 rolls of each tape to get all around the stringers and the floor to hull. To go from 4" to 5" is not going to give you much contact surface to the hull and stringer. Waste of time IMO. The purpose of going bigger with each layer is that it ensures you are bonding to the hull and stringer adding strength.

Not sure how mat would be a replacement for chopped strand. Just use cabosil as your filler. Makes nice fillets, and bedding.

A shop vac with hepa filter works great for cleaning up the dust. I vacuumed as I went.

ALso you are wasting your money not getting 10 gallons right off the bat. There is a significant discount when you order 10 gallons, and you are going to use it all. WHen you add in the shipping and everything else it makes a lot more sense to order everything all at once.

79SNbrady wrote: Which everything else like wood for lift ring in the bow, ski plate form, and around the mufflers im going to replace now. The wood for the stern lift ring and rudder will be replaced next winter when i restore the outside of the boat.

You are going to put it back together, paint the bilge and then next year cut the wood out of the rudder mount and lift ring???? You are going to have to pull the gas tank again, and make all that mess again? Does not make sense. Your talking about a few extra hours of work now verses disassembling it again after you have just put it back together. I suggest you do it now. There is no benefit to waiting.

Second to what Keegan said. Plus, it's hardly and more money to do it now. Do your rough templates for the floor and you'll see where your scrap is gonna be from the two sheets of marine ply that you'll already need. There's more than enough left to cut out all those transom pieces. Then it's just a little extra resin and cloth.

Nick, boat is coming along looking good !

I know this is a big jump but here she is back in the water! I'll post the rest of the pictures I have.
I enjoyed this project immensely an ready to start my 87 Martinique