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    I didn't want to restore this 1997 Islander this summer

    It’s not an exhaustive list, not in exact order, and some items may be iterative. None the less making a list helps me stop ruminating in the evening and gives me something to track against and know I’m progressing.
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    I didn't want to restore this 1997 Islander this summer

    I’m going to let this set up for the week, next weekend I’ll back it into the lake on the trailer and see if I can find anymore leaks and mark them with a sharpie. After those are replaced/re-bucked/5200ed then I’ll put gluvit on all the seams and rivets, then I will hit everything that had...
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    I didn't want to restore this 1997 Islander this summer

    Sweating foam because it’s hard to get out and expensive to replace. I need about 2200 lbs of floatation, or 36 +/-cf of foam.
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    I didn't want to restore this 1997 Islander this summer

    Well, about 40 rivets all together. Two needed a little “patch”, essentially cut a fender washer from 5052 Al.
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    I didn't want to restore this 1997 Islander this summer

    Progress. I need just a few 5/8” rivets, had to put pop rivets for now.
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    I didn't want to restore this 1997 Islander this summer

    I had done a lot of drilling and hammering out rivets already, but today is the first day I started cleaning them to get ready for new ones. Some of them were patched over by the PO with presumably JB weld. I opened up this. Most of the corrosion is minor and all the rivets are going with 5200...
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    I didn't want to restore this 1997 Islander this summer

    Stripped and pressure washed. If my buddy comes through tomorrow I’ll start putting rivets IN.
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    I didn't want to restore this 1997 Islander this summer

    Every time I go to do something on this boat I think to myself that if I don’t go the extra mile and then have trouble I could have prevented while I’m on the water I’ll never forgive myself- particularly where the safety of my kids are concerned.
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    I didn't want to restore this 1997 Islander this summer

    I regret this. If I could get half of what I’m into this boat, I’d get out of it right now.
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    I didn't want to restore this 1997 Islander this summer

    I’d rather be fishing. . .
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    I didn't want to restore this 1997 Islander this summer

    Here is where I got so far on foam removal. Everything remaining is dry as far as I can tell, and really adhered. I am going to pull it out this weekend though, I don’t want to miss something and do this twice or be out there on the water wondering if I should have looked under there when I had...
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    I didn't want to restore this 1997 Islander this summer

    Joe, Thanks for your input. I use MDO for concrete forms at work, but we order truck loads of lumber from another area, I’ve never found a local source for it. I wouldn’t hesitate to use it if it were readily available. I have taken all the port side foam out from the cuddy cabin bull head...
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    I didn't want to restore this 1997 Islander this summer

    Wake, like chop sized. This boat usually skips over stuff like that at the angle I took these. What course did you take to learn to handle your boat, or what course do you recommend?
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    82 Starcraft MR 180 floor, slight refit and leaks

    I’ve read all of both of your threads I think. I have just torn my boat down for more repair than I want to take on but here I am. Your thread has given me a ton of information and encouragement to just press on and get this done, and to just lean into it and do it as well as I can. I’m very...
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    I didn't want to restore this 1997 Islander this summer

    The pitting on the outside for sure was caused by the bunks. There is some on the transom too that is sort of radially proximal to the bunks that was probably affected by them. I don’t think those bunks had been on there long before I got the boat. I imagine that the paint under the boat helps...
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    I didn't want to restore this 1997 Islander this summer

    The trailer is a galvanized trailer as well, it was reacting pretty serious to the PT bunks. I suspect the galv trailer actually limited the damage to hull. I wire wheeled and cold galvanized the deteriorated areas when I had the boat off the trailer, and replaced all the hardware on the bunks...
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    I didn't want to restore this 1997 Islander this summer

    The trailer bunks had been replaced with PT, one of the first projects I did when I got the boat was to switch them to redwood. Sure enough on the outside of the hull there was some minor pitting in the foot print of the bunk, I acid washed it, scrubbed with fresh stainless wire brushes, and...
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    replacing transom, has anyone used AL square tube instead of wood?

    I did it, 2x3" Al tubing rig welded into a frame that was then welded into the transom of my 14' Klamath dlx. It was over kill, but when I sold it the buyer was awestruck with it and didn't negotiate the sale price from what I had advertised. I wouldn't do it again, it was more work than it was...
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    I didn't want to restore this 1997 Islander this summer

    I'm also on the fence about how to finish this project out. I can afford to make it nice, I am an experienced finish carpenter and have made all sorts of things, I know I can do a good job. But I just want to fish. I got two part foam to replace what I cut out, and gluvit for all the rivets...
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    I didn't want to restore this 1997 Islander this summer

    I got some Seymore zinc phosphate primer to spray on the inside. I liked Alodine, but didn't want to deal with the toxicity. For price and availability this won, but I'm only half convinced it's what I want, I'm also on the fence if I should prime surfaces where I will apply 5200 or Marinetex...
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