moving fast!!!

Foamed and installed the gas tank today. Had to remake some of the wood support for the gas tank cover...

Looking nice man

Amazing work. Looking good!

Thanks guys. Got the hoses run to the tank and the cover screwed down.

Nice ya gotta love the wood some of these old tubs had it just looks awesome sometimes.

Yeah, I'm kind of a fan of the wood when it looks good. I know most guys get rid of a lot the wood when restoring these boats. I know 502ss did, and his boat looks great. With this boat I decided to keep the wood partly because a lot of it is in good shape, and I think it looks good. This will be a boat version of a "resto-mod" (on a budget).

I think that is a cool way to do it. its more of what the average Joe could do type build which I really dig being as I myself don't have huge sums of money to throw at my own semi resto project lol. Its cool to seen these boats put back to a semi original look with updated power etc.

awesome thread....I have a 79 panther to re do..your post and pictures have given me a lot of insight to the magnitude of the project at hand....I was considering cutting the tub around the bottom.to expose the stringers...but your approach seems to be the best way to maximise work areas for the repairs .....one question I have tho....is I was considering using lvl..or paralam...as my stringers.....unwaxed and epoxy resin wrapped....is the break in the stringers necessary from bulk head to bulkhead...or I was considering ordering full length and add bulkheads where necessary...since the whole enchilada is exposed.....again I love your detailed ..progress..i hope to do the same...as I progress..i am a newbie here and am so glad to have found this site....russ,ontario,canada

Same here Gh700x. I have 2 kids in college and #3 graduates high school this year. Thanks Russ, when you're taking the boat apart, keep in mind the deck and the "tub" are very heavy and you'll need some engine hoists and a lot of muscle. As far as the necessity of butting the stringers to the bulkheads. I don't know. That's how they did it. So we just put it back like that. One thing we changed though was originally all the stringers and bulkheads were made of two pieces of 3/8" plywood laid flat against each other (without resin inbetween). Which seems odd to me. I'm sure they had a reason to do it that way. We went back with single 3/4" plywood (or 25/32 or whatever the modern equivalent is)