Since the first stringer took me 8 or 9 hours to grind out I had to go to plan B. I got this planer from my friend as my crappy one was to whimpy and my good one is super expensive. It does the trick. Turned that 8-9 hours into about 3. You have to be real carefull and watch as you cut through each layer of glass and know were to stop. Now we are moving ahead the way I figured we should. I can not tell ya how many bags of trash I have removed and how many times I have filled up the vacume cleaner!!!

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And we are finished and ready for the new stringer. On this side I decided that I would start to pull the bulkhead in over some time so I put the ratchet strap on there and pulled it in.

Nice work Audio.
I enjoy it when people are not afraid to get into there boats. Literally

I can tell ya I am NOT enjoying it Actually this is not something that I would want to do again, but I sure am learning a TON.

Glassed in the second stringer today

Better picture.

Dude, I'm thinking that you are going to wish you had sealed off that cabin entrance! Just looking at that poor shop vac, I can only imagine what everything else including you looks like. What a great job! I'm hiring you if I ever need major boat surgery. Keep up the good work!!

No pictures but today I got the two outside stringers cut out. Will have no real time to work on it to get it ready for the new ones but hope that maybe I can get some more work done by the end of the week before I have to head up to Upstate NY.

Jon

Well today I had the big push. I ground out the old tabbing for the outside stringers and it is ready for the new ones.