Why not have fun. It is actually fun and I am learning a TON. Of course the grinding sucks but other then that I have learned a LOT about boat building and materials and my boat as a whole.

Jon

I think this one will be better then new as well. I have used better resin, glass, and wood to do the repairs

This is one of the stringers for the sides of the gas tank. I made the mistake of leaving the wood in the back of my truck and it was not flat. It took a curve sitting in the back of my truck for two weeks So I had to find a way to make it straite again. The solution that I came up with was to snap two chalk lines on a board 5/8" apart. Then I put screw holes along one and used the other as a guide. I then straitened out the wood along the lines. Worked very well for two of them but one still had a little bit of a curve on top, not a big deal as long as teh bottom is super strait. It was.

Jon

I then rounded over the top of the stringers a little so that the glass would make the curve and not have air bubbles.

We then painted by brush the resin onto the stringer. Then put the fiberglass over the top and drapped it down the sides. After a while we realized it was going to take for ever and looked over at the chopper gun next to us We turned off the glass feed and used the resin spray to make the process take a LOT less time.

Spraying the other side.

Then the bulkhead got glassed up.

Stringers all glassed up and ready for the gas tank braces to be glassed on. I did that today but no pictures. The red color of the glass is due to the hardener that we used, it was red. The reason for the red is to know that we have mixed the resin and hardener fully.

Pretty interesting Jon. Who owns that shop? Doesn't look familiar.

Kurt

Kurt it is owned by Joe Berkman. It is near Browns one street farther out towards the point. He used to work for Mark Linsey with Burn and all those guys. He is now building a boat that he calls the G20. It is a real nice center console fishing boat.

Jon