somekind of an inner liner you can take off from the hull?

That's weird is'nt it? never seen this before! and I restored 3 boat, splitting the deck from hull like you did...

Wow, what a job! I'll be watching.

Are you going to rebuild the whole liner or just the stringers & bulkheads? I would be interested in some patterns if you are pulling the liner apart. Randy

Every bit of the liner or "tub" as we have been calling it is rock solid. No rot anywhere. Where the seats bolt down is rock solid. It's all in great shape as far as rot goes. Now we did some minor damage around the edges here and there removing it. It'll be no big deal to fix when putting together.
This boats in really great shape to be 34 yrs old. I believe it spent it's whole life in missouri. The guy I bought it from was taking real good care of it. But it's age just caught up with it. Like some have said on this board, these older boats have to spend their lives under a roof to have any hope of no rot. This boat got all it's rot from the engine comparment. It traveled up the stringers from there, and there was just no way to repair it without taking the boat apart.
I wish we'd have known we were going to pull the deck off before I decided to the back part of the deck off to replce the transom. At that point we thought all we were replacing was the transom. Oh well, a little more work to do.

We got the gas tank out last night. It's in great shape and reusable. These things are an experience to remove. If the stringers weren't rotten it woulda been really tough. We were able to use a porta power to spread the stringers apart and break the foam out. We cut the front bulkhead out so we could get under the tank with some prybars. I'll try to post some photos tomorrow

Hell, most of the nova's and some of the scarabs had an bilge innerliner too...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...e/ee811a80.jpg

Nice looking engine compartment phragle. The liner really cleans it up a lot huh?

Here's what it looks like minus the tank...
http://www.blairautobody.com/Heaths%.../photo%204.jpg

And without the engine compartment bulkhead..
http://www.blairautobody.com/Heaths%.../photo%205.jpg

How much to you think the decks of these boats weigh?

I'd say the deck is about 600-800 lbs or so.

Been busy with other things lately. Here's where we are now. Still have a lot of cutting and glass work to do...
http://www.blairautobody.com/Heaths%...0stringers.jpg

moving forward !!!