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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    we are now working a bit faster than posting... a quick view of how we lifted the boat for foaming using the trailer fron wheel and some "shims" We lifted as much as we could until the back of the trailer touches the floor. It gave us a good slope and the foam was going to the bottom very fast...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Foam time... The left area is now completely foamed. It went pretty smooth overall. We used a trick learned from the video shared in a previous post by TimR71. The bow was lifted as much as we could using an hydraulic jack. almost until the back of the trailer touches the floor. this is...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    about the transom cutout, how would you guys repair this dent? grind, 1708 and filler or filler only? thanks for your advices
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Quick update The floor pieces are now in place, PBed and tabbed in in the hull. these are glued and screwed into the cleats only. again the idea was to avoid having screws through the protective glass of the stringers. We had a little drawback test fitting the gas tank, it is too close from...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    We are way over a due update on our project. Altough we did not post a lot lately we kept working on the boat. The front compartment floor is now in place. We have restored a small "pocket" to collect the water from the cabin floor and direct it to the drain pipe. We spent a lot of time to do...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Hello guys, quick update on our project. We have installed and foamed the small deck under the gas tank. our first experience with pour foam... fun product to use and to watch as it cures. We followed the advice about tilting the boat backward to ensure that the foam flow back all the way to...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Hello boys... It's been a long time since we posted something! We had to stop working due to my ACL Surgery and access to the forum wasn't possible anymore due to european GDPR... After some research, I ended up using a VPN and *tadah*.... We have acces ! Anyway, surgery was a success, I'm now...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    And finally we glassed the outter part of our stringers. Again there were some bubbles that needed to be patched and some that will need to... we still haven't learned the lesson, the surface need to be as clean/flat as it can be! Preparation remains the key... The overall result...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    We also repaired some cut we did in the hull (while removing the original wood and foam) with resin and fibers.
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    To illustrate what we speak about, here is a full res picture of the transom with the 3 layers of biax you can see that some areas appears more "white" than others altough the picture does not render perfectly due to light reflection. or maybe this is just due to the effect of many layers on...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    The stringers are glued in and waiting to cure. They are actually joining the remaining part of existing one in the section between the cabin and the fuel tank so that we sill be able to re-inforce them on both side. We cut the bulkhead and used them on random location to stiffen the...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Hello, We have finished to tab and glass the transom plate. The result is pretty decent I think given the fact that it is our first glas job ever (everyone has to start somehow :) ) one question about tabing layup: We have done it with the narrom ab first and the going larger and larger for...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Hello guys, Thanks for all the advice on the transom keyhole. Our transom wood went in the boat yesterday and I have to say that i was way more stressfull than anticipated. The room temp was quite low (18°C) and we mixed the poly on the low side to get more time but we had to do 3 different...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Little feedback on our transom work: This weekend we glued the 2 transom woods togeher using some epoxy and the typical clamps that can be seen in many posts 40x90mm solid wood and M10 threaded rod. So we mixed some more epoxy and glued the bit back in plance, we will see how it turns out on...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    More work on the Sea Ray yesterday but we didn't have the mojo, I guess it happens from time to time... I went to the resin supplier and I bougt the first set of products: - epoxy glue for assembling the wood sheets of the transom - poly glue to put the transom on the hull and make some filets...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Time for the weekly update, we worked last afternoon on the boat. we were supposed to start building new pieces yesterday but it turned out that grinding and preping is more time consuming than anticipated. welcome back itches... we built some wooden support for the hull as it became very...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    some questions for the experienced rebuilders and even the beginners :-) on the transom, we grinded off all the remaining wood and remaining of fiber, at some palces we can still see some CSM like fibers, the surface is not perfectly flat but I guess it will be cerrected with the PB used to...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Next afternoon was spent with the grinding of the old glass and lips. we had prettty decent success in removing the major glass buildup with a wood chisel and a hammer. you can see the big chunk that we removed this way. it appears that some previous repair were done by glassing over...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    ok, time for an update, we have been working on the boat for 2 afternoon and 2 evening since the last post. at first we tought about saving the starboard side of the boat stringer and deck + seat box. this was where we stoped after some rest, readings and brainstorming we decided to remove...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    on our boat the seats bases were glued and glassed over the floor. I can't see how you would replace the decking and not the seat bases unless you put a new floor over the existing one. Not sure it is a good idea if the existing one is rotten tough. on this photo you can see the floor with the...
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