Last year I destroyed my boat
I overpowered it, and the 20 year old wood just wouldn't take it. So now I'm rebuilding it really strong, and putting a 150 on her. New transom, stringers, dash, remove well, paint, blueprint hull, the whole thing. First heres a pic of the carnage I did. This didn't feel too good letting go at 60mph
Here it is after I removed the floor, and have started to remove the center stringer (the peice of wood going lengthwise). I actually broke the stringer almost in half
Thats where I have stopped. I can't get it inside because our house is listed right now, and my dad doesn't want the mess in the garage (all the grinding creates a lot of dust, not to mention how bad the resin smells), so its going slow. Next step is to build a cradle for it to help hold the hull in the right shape once the deck, transom, and stringers are removed. I have to drill out all the rivets in the rub rail, and seperate the deck from the bottom to make it easier to access everything. After the transom and stringers are glassed in (this is going to be an open stringer boat, no floor), I have to flip it and spend a quite a few hours sanding, guide coating, glassing to get the hull flat and the edges sharp. Plans are to add two additional stringers one either side of the center stringer with big gussets tieing them into the transom. The hull should be very strong, but at the same time be very light (I can lift the enitre boat on my own). I'll post back if anyone is interested. I know how dry this is to a lot of people
