Michigan City for the 1st SBI Raced Held there...

I cant forget the Koshkonong Races & the 2nd Annual..

At the end of summer 2009 it was back to work on the boat.. I knew it wouldn't be in so I didn't want to miss summer since its only about 5 weeks long in Wisconsin... I bonded the transom in and filled in the gaps. I thought it would stick and hold good. I came back the next day to see it spouged out.. That created more work! So I ground down what didn't need to be there and added more.. since its only 5 weeks long in Wisconsin...

Ang wetted it out and we applied 3 layers of 1700 biax plus tabbing.

That was a big task completed. I was happy to have that behind me but, still knew there was a lot of work ahead of me.... Before I cut out the stringers, I made some jigs to help keep them in place while glassing them in. I thought I would use my 2 levels to make sure they were straight and vertical and use door shims with the keep them in place. O yeah, I spent almost a whole Sunday making my pattern of the stringer to replace. Talk about art and craft fair. Fyi, I lucked out and found poster board on sale at Walgreens.... 5 cents a sheet... I cleaned them out To connect all the pieces together I used a hot glue gun and strips of cardboard to increase the rigidity of them.

After completing that task I started to utilize after work hours on the weekdays. The first stringer was cut out. Yes I did find more damage from the mites. At this point I didn't care to take to many pics of the destruction. I was over it and was moving on! I started to think more of the fun times to come...

All the voids in the wood was from the mites......

Now to the month of September 2009.... The stringer was cut out and a lot of grinding needed to be done to make way for the new stringer. Talk about alot of dust!! I found the grinder with the flap disk to do the job the best. I didn't take pics of making the stinger but I bonded together 1/2" thick marine plywood. To get the length and keep the strength I staggered the joints. To bond together I used the 1300 biax that Dave suggested. Oh yea, I never said but, I did go the epoxy route. I sourced it from US Composites..

I thought fitting in the stinger would be a breeze. Boy, was I mistaken. This took about a week using after work hours. For this stringer I only used a belt sander. I quickly wizened up after that and bought a planer. That did save alot of time. But remember, once the wood is taken away, there is no way of adding it back.... "Measure once and cut twice.... or something like that"

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