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    assistance with round seat backs

    I've begun work on cutting new plywood for seats, got the bottoms of the front and back cut last night and tonight, then made the bracing for the front seats, drug out the 1/4 inch ply for the seat backs disassy the best of my 2 front seats, and cut a new piece to match, tried bending it...
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    No Floor to Floored

    Pic 1, was saturday morning, much clean up, and more grinding, i went to bed late last night itching pretty good, but i had the bottom of the boat ready to proceed today, the wood for the bilge area was cut. I woke this morning, and was in the boat at 8 am making templates to use to cut the...
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    Disappearring Floor

    Whole lot of soft floor ok now for the floor, had to cut it out since the rot went most the way to the bow. It appeared to have nothing more than expanding foam under it, so is home depot lowes, expanding foam in a can gonna work to replace what i have cut out? under the bow they had just stuck...
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    ooooooops, there went my transom

    well, each day that passes, shines a new light on the whole in my wallet. I awoke to a sunshine day and a intact transom, i will fall asleep inchy, with no transom plywood. First question the brass insert, the drain hole for the bilges, what do i use to replace this because its gone now...
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    marine paint or bust

    OK Guys I was leaning toward automotive paint to go over the original gel coat, i bought alittle 17' boat and it had a severely chips scratched and gouged YELLOW paint over original brown metal flake gel coat. I scrapped the yellow of the top and side 2/3 of the boat, and then i went looking for...
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    bottom paint or automotive for bottom

    OK guys, i bought a new (actually old 1975) boat, someone had repainted over the factory brown metalflake gelcoat, it was scratched and pretty ugly, so i went to work yesterday scraped 99% of the top down to just below the water line back to gelcoat. Now the question is can i go to the local...
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