Hello folks,

I promised in an earlier post to update you on my re-bottoming project.

I purchased this 17' Tatman and it's in excellent shape, except it was 18 years old and the UHMW plastic on bottom was getting very brittle.  The screws were working loose and the plastic had to go.  There was even a slow leak along one row of the screw holes where they missed the framing member.

I decided that instead of replacing the UHMW sheeting on bottom, I would instead try a slick…