Wooden Boat People
By McKenzieDriftBoat.com
Worse Before Better (Bartender Restoration)
As just any restoration project goes-though this is my first boat restoration, things get worse before they get better and you just have to keep the faith right? Anyway, I removed all the mahogany trim and found it had acted as a water trap in one area leading to wet rot that I gouged out and got to good wood:
I won't use the trim as it was, rather, I am going to use it as stock for my windscreen. The gunwhale was too far gone to be of any use and that will be replaced with new stock. There are lots of ringshank nails in this boat. What a nightmere! Drill, drill with larger bit, hopefully the head gets torqued off, drift or hacksaw. Do that a thousand times. Yippee! So I'm open to suggestions on that.
I opened up the rear bulkhead:
I have begun stripping the fiberflass sheathing. So far, the ply is in pretty good shape I'd say. Sadly, the spray rail isn't. It is going to be replaced:
That's about all I have to update. Right now, the boat looks like crap but, night is always darkest, right?
I won't use the trim as it was, rather, I am going to use it as stock for my windscreen. The gunwhale was too far gone to be of any use and that will be replaced with new stock. There are lots of ringshank nails in this boat. What a nightmere! Drill, drill with larger bit, hopefully the head gets torqued off, drift or hacksaw. Do that a thousand times. Yippee! So I'm open to suggestions on that.
I opened up the rear bulkhead:
I have begun stripping the fiberflass sheathing. So far, the ply is in pretty good shape I'd say. Sadly, the spray rail isn't. It is going to be replaced:
That's about all I have to update. Right now, the boat looks like crap but, night is always darkest, right?
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Permalink Reply by Greg Hatten on
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Excellent work. Quite a project. Keep the faith brother...
GH
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Permalink Reply by Karl Mueller on
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Update:
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Permalink Reply by Wil Bake on
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My rebuild will actually be completed tomorrow so I am in position to say, "hang in there, it will be better before you know it!!!" This is the crappy part, but it sure is nice when you are over the hump. I hear you on the ring shanks...I had about 100 rusted screw heads that I couldn't back out. Then once I got the bottom off I had about 100 more scews that had popped heads that I didn't even know about. Had to unscrew them all with a pair of plyers. My hands hurt for 3 days. I'll Tell you what though, it is awesome when you are done!!!!!!
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