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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Currently my plan is to look for the good plan :) about the poor glassing i ran across other sea ray rebuild threads showing same type of pictures. For example kabookey with a 86 sea ray (i borrowed him the pic) strange though that a "high end brand" take these shortcuts. Altough we do not...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    more curiosities :-) This is a view of the compartment between the fuel tank and the front cabin with the foam removed. on the picture you can see that the stringer were not even glassed to the hull in this section. the foam can be seen betwenn the hull and the stringer. another thing is...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Question for the experienced rebuilders: how are the stringers, deck built by the factory?? the following pics are a piece of deck/stringer one can see that the stringer, cleat and deck are glassed from the inside with a very little to none glass on the bottom part of the stringer. The...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    ok we finished opening up the fiber on the transom : the sides are shot too the only good point is that is was quite easy to remove :-) Sea Ray factory used a lot of steel nails to glue the different plywood sheets together so it makes the removal a bit more time consuming. It also shot my new...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Hello everyone, After discovering the rot last summer, we decided to go for a full rebuild rather than a quick fix on this. by lack of time and because we still had to complete the engine rebuild, the hull was leftover for about 3 weeks from now we finally managed to resume the work on the...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Ok on to the rotten wood: this is the bilge area when we picked up the boat: about 3" of water sitting in there. It may have alert us but ... it doesn't We drained it, degreased it and hot pressure washed all the gunk We removed the fuel tanks to get in cleaned from the old fuel too and...
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    a few more general pics of the boat
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    1987 Searay Seville Cuddy Restoration - stringer and engine mounts

    Hello I've been reading a lot of posts on the forum so I think it's now good time to start our own. a bit of background on this new thread: we purchased the boat in oct 2016 with the trailer and 2 engines (one V6 and one V8). The look was fairly good, the hull looks sound and the trailer looks...
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