Thread: What are you working on?

Freddie's back. Repair was a total success.

The CA, grind and fill, went just as planned.
Original break is still noticed, but looks more like a crack in the scales, than a break that's been glued together.











The wedge helps hide the crack better, once it was pinned back up.

You the Man!

Mike has been on a binder as of late. Inspiring as always!
Thanks for the share, Mike!!

Thanks . Just end of year when I have nothing going on.

Probably done for the most part, this year. Lakes are open, boating seasons about upon us once more. It was nice getting those last three going again.

This one isn't razor related, but there's plenty of sharp pointy things involved.





Gut and rebuild. Haven't done one in nearly 10 years, and if the persistent itching would stop, I might remember why I love my job.

This is nothing, wait till it's all out, then ya gotta grind the inside so I can reglass all the new wood that's going in.

Huh....I'm gonna get paid to be high, at work.

Are you converting it from inboard/outboard leg to outboards with a pod/outboard wells or is the cover on the transom temporarily there while you redo the frames?

Originally Posted by RezDog

Are you converting it from inboard/outboard leg to outboards with a pod/outboard wells or is the cover on the transom temporarily there while you redo the frames?

The top half of the boat stays attached to keeps the hull from turning into jello, once the floor, bulkheads, stringers and transom are removed. At least as far as it takes to reach solid wood again.

I've done a couple, where we separated the two halves of the boat. Then we braced the hull so it wouldn't move around while we were inside of it. Kinda changes the dimensions, if not.

But its just staying a I/O. Transom rotted, water had seeped into structure and flooring. You couldn't even walk on it without going thru.

Gonna be a lot of work, being I don't have my chopper gun anymore. So I'll have to cut all the pieces of glass matting, and lay it by hand. With the chopper gun, I throw resin at it, then the chopper gun chops and blows the glass in place. Then all I'd have to do is smash it down with a special roller.

I'm really not looking forward to the thousand pigmies with their tiny spears, feeling.

Mike, that seems to be an economic folly? Is it worth the expense to go that extreme? Has to cost a pile!
Seems resale of all the hard parts and fittings, scrap the hull..Buy a new boat?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Mike, that seems to be an economic folly? Is it worth the expense to go that extreme? Has to cost a pile!
Seems resale of all the hard parts and fittings, scrap the hull..Buy a new boat?

In most cases....yes. But now a day, it's cheaper to rebuild it, if the interior, trailer ,and outside of the hull is in good shape.


Like razors, but a lot easier to flip.
Ya buy um for next to nothing, drop a few $ fixing it up, sell it for profit.

At the cost for what they want for a new boat with V8 in it. Yeah, way more cost efficient. Just not many of us out there anymore that will do it, anymore. We got a pontoon boat tore apart in another room.

This is what we do during the off season, when we are shut down a few months.

What's that saying about a boat being a hole in the water......? Oh well, you could say.the.same about bikes and cars/trucks etc. I got to drive this thing the other night.



Hard to see it's so dark but that's a '91 Porsche 928S. Once in a lifetime chance for most of us to drive a car like that and I loved it but I'm glad I don't have to pay to own it. But, like boats, if you love 'em it's worth it I guess.