'81 Ski Tique Stringer Job

Haven't been able to find an answer to this question in the other threads.

My stringers are bedded and clothed in. Is it better to wrap them in a continuous length of biax before the 2 bulkheads are in, or install the bulkheads and then biax around them? Just curious from a strength standpoint.

Is that the original steering cable I see?? If so and you are doing what you are doing, might as well spent another $100 or so and buy a new one and put it in now. Don't do what I did. That was the only thing I did not replace in my rebuild and it broke, for whatever reason, a month after I was finished and right in the middle of a perfect day on the water. Had to be towed in.

MMT wrote: Would it hurt to secure it with a few stainless staples prior to epoxy? Just a limited few to hold it in place.

I would say thats probably a bad idea. You'll need to apply epoxy on both sides of the material to get it to wet out fully. The staples would prevent you from making any minor positional changes, so they might induce air bubbles. I dont think they would help much anyways.

For the over-the-top layer, wet everything out, then wait until the resin starts to kick (tack up). That should be enough for the biax to hold around the stringer. Prior to that, it does not want to stay put.

Looks great! I really like thee double battery set up you have in the floor.

We're tossing around the idea of tearing into PicturePat's 84 this winter and might have to steal this idea since that boat has zero storage for keys, phones and wallets.   

Your strainer/raw water pickup seems to take an interesting route next to the manifold. Mine has the pickup in the same placement but the hose runs under the trans around to the other side looping over the trans before it enters the trans cooler. I'd be a little worried about the hose getting hot with it on that manifold. I'll see if I can dig up a picture.

Love the carpet!!!

Congratulations! She is looking good

I'm glad you like the brown easter grass carpet. It is what was OEM in the boat. I really wanted something a little more modern looking, but just could find the right color so I went with OEM. I didn't like it at first, but it has really grown on me now, and I love it. It just has that nastolgic look.

what kind of wood did you use for the stringers?

Jwbolton wrote: what kind of wood did you use for the stringers?

It looks like a generic pine was used for the secondary's but it's hard to tell on the primaries! It doesn't look look good old Doug Fir (recommended) It looks like Common SPF (spruce, pine, fir) which includes Hemlock which is a common construction grade lumber. I don't see any evidence of CPES!       !!