16’ supersport restoration questions

[boatsboatsboats]

Hi all,

I will post pictures when the functionality is working, but I’m working on restoration of a 16 ft smoker craft, which I understand to be pretty much identical to the StarCraft 16 ft SS. It’s completely gutted right now as the floor and transom were rotted out. I have a new transom cut and getting ready to start on the floor, I’ve already replaced about 30 through-hull rivets. Spent most of today sanding all of the old carpet adhesive off of the sides of the boat. I have a couple of questions that I am hoping this group can help out with:

1. Does anyone have any pictures of what these boats are supposed to look like? I am trying to keep it as close to original as possible. Specifically the front seating area, that had been converted into a fishing platform when I got the boat. Also would like to see what the carpeting originally looked like, based on the adhesive it looks like it went all the way up the sides and even behind the styrofoam on the sides, or did it wrap underneath the styrofoam to help keep it in place?
2. Is there anywhere where I can get a pattern for the floor as well as the bow seats? The boat didn’t have the bow seats when I bought it and the floor was too rotten to cut a pattern from.
3. Any suggestions on what to seal the floor with that won’t affect a carpet adhesive? I was thinking to use 1 part boiled linseed oil, 1 part spar varnish and 2 parts mineral spirits.
4. Anyone have any good sources for marine carpet/adhesive?

Thanks!!!

 

[Watermann]

Yeah Smoker is Starcraft. Would help to know the year but they're all pretty much the same, this is what I have.

 

[redneck joe]

Welcome to the forum.
Doubt you will be able to find a pattern. Buy cheap 1/4 inch underlayment, some people call it luan, to make patterns.

Google 16 ss if you want to replicate otherwise rebuild to what you want.

Carpet would not have been holding in the Styrofoam.

Pics are hard now but can be done. See post 7 and 9.

File uploads no good again?

Seems for me today, that file uploads are failing in the same way they did back in August of last year: https://forums.iboats.com/threads/photos-not-saving-to-server.773767/ Had it both on my phone earlier and now on my laptop... both were on my WiFi so technically it could be ISP related?

forums.iboats.com

 

[redneck joe]

Yeah Smoker is Starcraft. Would help to know the year but they're all pretty much the same, this is what I have.

I bet you are the guy on the dock with the funny hat...

 

[Watermann]

I bet you are the guy on the dock with the funny hat...

Nope, try again.

 

[Rasdiir]

Hi all,

I will post pictures when the functionality is working, but I’m working on restoration of a 16 ft smoker craft, which I understand to be pretty much identical to the StarCraft 16 ft SS. It’s completely gutted right now as the floor and transom were rotted out. I have a new transom cut and getting ready to start on the floor, I’ve already replaced about 30 through-hull rivets. Spent most of today sanding all of the old carpet adhesive off of the sides of the boat. I have a couple of questions that I am hoping this group can help out with:

1. Does anyone have any pictures of what these boats are supposed to look like? I am trying to keep it as close to original as possible. Specifically the front seating area, that had been converted into a fishing platform when I got the boat. Also would like to see what the carpeting originally looked like, based on the adhesive it looks like it went all the way up the sides and even behind the styrofoam on the sides, or did it wrap underneath the styrofoam to help keep it in place?
2. Is there anywhere where I can get a pattern for the floor as well as the bow seats? The boat didn’t have the bow seats when I bought it and the floor was too rotten to cut a pattern from.
3. Any suggestions on what to seal the floor with that won’t affect a carpet adhesive? I was thinking to use 1 part boiled linseed oil, 1 part spar varnish and 2 parts mineral spirits.
4. Anyone have any good sources for marine carpet/adhesive?

Thanks!!!

I had decent results with that floor sealing formulas (also known as the WoodOnGlass Old Timers Formula), once the OTF stops absorbing don't forget to top it with 2-3 coats of straight spar varnish. I found Lepage contact cement worked well enough to hold my vinyl onto the floor, and I will be sealing all my storage box boards the same way and using carpet also with contact cement.

If you are in Canada then JT's Outdoor Fabrics is a decent place to get vinyl and carpet.

 

[redneck joe]

I chose paint over nautelex but good advice if going that way.

 

[redneck joe]

Nope, try again.

Ah, right... the chick in the red hat.

 

[BWR1953]

I chose paint over nautelex but good advice if going that way.

Yeah, paint has the great virtue of being easily applied, repaired, updated or even a color change. I like it a lot, even though I prefer carpet underfoot.

 

[redneck joe]

Yeah, paint has the great virtue of being easily applied, repaired, updated or even a color change. I like it a lot, even though I prefer carpet underfoot.

Budget dependant i, planning snap in but some of that awesomely realistic fake grass they have nowadays.