Latest Posts by formosa41 - Page 2

Two steps forward, one step back! Had to cut a new hole in the deck to make repairs below. Just too tight of a squeeze to fit my butt in the anchor locker and reach around the Sampson posts... Also, refinished the dragons for the boat!

Almost finished with the recore job. Maybe 2 square feet at the very peek of the bow, and a bit more in the cockpit, and I get to check that off the lest. I rolled the tarp back for the first time in a long time. It was nice to see my progress in the daylight! We had to quit and go play at the river for a while as it got to hot to do epoxy. We returned after the sun went down for a bit to epoxy on the fiberglass on the bow.

Clean up after grinding the old core out...

Re-core continues at a snails pace.

More deck core replacement.

Cabin side #1 back on...

Work on the propane locker/lazerett/cockpit seat is progressing...

Once all the panels were trimmed to fit, i held them all together with some fence boards so i could remove the wall in one piece. Now I need to fiberglass the inside of the wall before reinstalling it permanently.

Farley Mowatt’s "Boat, Who Would Not Float."

Lazerette and propane locker getting some love over the holidays.

Hatch #2 restoration starting...

WOW! That looks awesome!

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Bracing holding the roof in place while walls are removed.

One more piece on.

First piece of 1/2" marine plywood tacked in place. Now, I just have to march all the way around....Twice! Original cabin sides are 1" thick.

Starting to get serious now!

Ouch!

What a sad Friday, I was lowering the keel and lost the cable that was attached to the crank … And BOOM goes the keel against the boat ..😪

Paradise, the day she became mine.

My old Yamaha 25

Front boards are cut and test fit. I had to reinstall the dinghy davits to calculate the holes I needed to drill through the back piece. I then cut the two ugliest holes I have ever done...they weren't photo worthy. Next up, pull it all apart, fiberglass the propane locker box, reinstall everything, fiberglass everything else.

Since the boat is on the hard, this is what I use for my land based adventuring. If I could just fit the motorcycle in the boat...

Once the teak was all removed and deck cleaned up, the top layer of fiberglass is cut off and rotten core scraped out. Then the lower layer of glass is sanded with 40 grit and new marine ply epoxied in place. The ply was cut using the top layer I cut off as a template. Next up, the top layer will get epoxied back on, then all the seams get glassed using 4 or 6" fiberglass tape.

Hmm, works hard for no pay....what's this Tom doing for the next few months? I'll pay him double! Lol

Deck off 😢

Special thanks to Tom Shaw for all his unpaid hard work!

I hated to get rid of the teak deck, but at the same time, I'm glad I won't have have to maintain all that teak. Either way, it had to come up. The core of the deck had rotted and made some squishy spots. It was a very messy job as after all the teak was removed the whole thing needed to have a layer of epoxy ground off, that I'm sure was there from from a previous repair. The issue of the rotten core is infamous in these boats, and why they are often referred to as Leaky Teakies. The problem is that all that teak is screwed through fiberglass into the core. If the teak deck is not meticulously maintained, every one of those million screw holes eventually leaks into the core.

Just a bit of corrosion in there. Time to rebuild or replace the starter.