Stringer replacement
 

Just finished removing the remains of the "wood" from my stringer. It was basically saturated with water.:eek: When I made the first cut with the die grinder I got sprayed. The water poured out the bottom cut.

oh boy...:(

I would never put wooden stringers in a boat , that is proof.

what is the alternative?

look at the + side, every minute you work on it means your a little closer to being done!

It seems that the main problem with this boat, is that none of the wood was sealed. Including the transom which was replaced. Also, all of the drain holes are drilled too high up in the bulkheads and stringers. So the water never fully drains out.

Coosa Bluewater26 . . . great stuff!

http://coosacomposites.com/

cool stuff, I bookmarked that site for future reference. Thanks

Coosa is great stuff. We've used it for stringers , bulkheads and even transoms. We now have a stringer mold that we lay up. Super strong AND WILL NEVER ROT!

Was gonna but wood back in, but I might look into that stuff. Looks good

its easy to work with to. cuts with simple hand tools. i use all cordless dewalt stuff because its so easy. just did some bulkhead and stringer work on the race cat with inch an a half. used my cordless circular and it only took a few minutes to whip up the panels. when its tabbed and caped in it is bomber strong although (and this is just my personal opinion) i dont really like it for transoms. i have seen some have compression faliure.

Brian what is your opinion on using it for transoms? do you use it in all transoms of your boats? I respect your boats quite a bit and god knows all i ever saw of Mac and Warren was their transom :D its just that i have had had some issues with the product handeling compression over time. i would assume that you laminate 3/4 rather than using a full 2 inch board. if so does this eliminate the above mentioned issues? Thanks, lookin forward to seeing your boats kick ass for another season :cool:

I did 2 boats w/ the coosa transoms , never had any problems. Will Smith told me to always use 2 3/4 inch plywood and lot's of glass for transoms , that's what we use now. He also turned m onto some great plasticore for bulkheads. Will(PHANTOM) is a great friend and knows his stuff.

So you guys are telling that it is better using composite high density panels instead of wood ??
Because a lot of people told me they are good surface for reconstructing or bonding damaged surfaces, but noone told me to use them as stringers..
I bet it would be really easy to cut and shape them.

I used them to make my father happy with a built in swimming platform with 1,40 mt long plug, now his boat is a 50 ft....
BTW made everything calulated for going bigger in lenght, now the boat handles really better and goes by far 3 mph faster ( not a fast boat but an halmatic hull of 50 ft with twin 405 Hp going 25 mph...30 tonn displacement can be scary...)

Tried to upload these pics...

Finished Product ( painted in awlgrip )...Boat is high because of the tender missing