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Well I got the stringers and bulkheads done and painted before mother nature turned the temperatures down.

More progress was made encapsulating the rear stringers under the aft deck ! Stringers are done and now moving on to patching and glassing the bulkheads.

Encapsulated more stringer sections over the weekend.

Smileybritton wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 25, 2020 9:12 pm

Nice work! Looks great!

Thanks !! Its a slow process but progress is being made !

WayWeGo wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 21, 2020 1:56 pm

An option to using wood backing plates is G-10 (fiberglass) panels that can be epoxied to the hull just like wood. They never rot...

I like that idea !!!

WayWeGo wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 21, 2020 1:50 pm

Very nice -- thanks for documenting here so others can see how to do it!

Thank You ! I will post more in progress pics as I go along.

I just recently removed all the wood backing plates in my F32. The struts, rudders and fresh water valves. Im using 3/4 inch marine ply and they are slightly larger then the fittings and I rounded the corners. Off hand I don't know the dimensions of the bolts. I can measure them later today for you....

Bonded another stringer down last night ! One more piece to go tonight then the encapsulation starts.

prowlersfish wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:43 pm

That is some nice work !

Thank You ! I'll admit it isn't easy !! Very Labor Intense !

dab62 wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 19, 2020 1:04 pm

You sir, are a better man than I. That is an impressive amount of work! Best of luck!

Thanks for the compliment ! I have a ways to go yet but I will be so glad when the stringer a nd bulkhead replacement will be done !!

buffalobill wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 13, 2020 9:39 am

Wow, that looks bad. Could you post pics during replacement? Would you consider steel fabrication along with the new wood? What bilge paint do you use? Thanks.

I wouldn't use steel as a replacement. I think it would be to heavy.

More pics of the bonded stringers

Well during the summer I made new stringers.
Created templates out of foam insulation board and then transferred them to 3/4 inch Marine ply.
I bonded 4 layers of ply to create 3 inch wide stringers. Bonded the stringers in the hull and then will encapsulate them in fiberglass.

Built an A Frame to pull the motors. Then some bulkhead and stringer repairs and a fresh coat of Bilge paint. More pics to come.

This was the fuel filler neck of my starboard tank and you can see it was also inside the tank.