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    Best value pre-made fiberglass filler alternative to making Fiberglass PB

    Gotta build an airtight containment tent if you're gonna do it in the garage. But I digress... How about the Total Boat Structural Repair Putty for pre-mixed?
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    Best value pre-made fiberglass filler alternative to making Fiberglass PB

    Does your fear of cabosil come from experience, or just what you've read? Speaking from experience, it's not that bad if you're careful. Wear a respirator and gloves (you'll already be doing this for the vapors). I preferred mixing in my MEKP to my resin first, then adding cabosil in a few...
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    Steering pin replacement

    Definitely time for a new pin. Agree with above...spring for the SS one.
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    97 Sunbird Spirit 150 Hull Repair

    Not sure on the first question, though I'd probably want to check and make sure steering isn't out of adjustment before adding a guard. For the second question, if all you're going to do is tie fenders...sure. But you know if you put a cleat there, it'll eventually get used for tying up the...
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    1986 Invader v210 help

    "Inheriting" and "acquiring" boats is expensive! Agree with the others - it's a full gut and restore. Replace transom, stringers, and bulkheads. In that first picture, is it a layer of plywood on top of each other? If so, that's a deck-over, which means someone band-aided it in the past...
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    Fiberglass resin question

    Ouch on that price. If you have to buy more wood, save your money and just buy exterior grade ACX radiata pine plywood.
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    1988 Bayliner Capri 1950 Resto Begins

    Don't buy finishing resin. Just buy laminating resin and a small container of wax and make your own finishing resin when you need it. I bought 50 yd of 1708 and 50 yd of CSM. I used about 30-35 yd of the 1708 and about 20 yd of the CSM on my 19 ft boat. You will end up needing more than 10...
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    1988 Bayliner Capri 1950 Resto Begins

    I think cheaper boats used chopper guns, and nicer ones were marketed as "hand laid". Unfortunately on mine (1987), some of the hand laid glass was sloppily done, and none of the stringers had glass all the way up the sides.
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    1988 Bayliner Capri 1950 Resto Begins

    Typically if you leave the outer skin on the boat, proper transom thickness is achieved with 2 layers of 3/4" plywood and about 2-3 layers of 1708 fiberglass...maybe a couple more depending on how your specific rebuild goes.
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    Bayliner Capri 2150 resurrection.

    If you plan on keeping the QJ, I highly recommend getting Cliff Ruggles' book and Doug Roe's book. And you are right, there is only one bowl, but there are secondary wells that are fed from the bowl through two tiny holes, which can get clogged.
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    1990 Bayliner 2651 resto

    I splashed at the end of 2022, and we are reaping the benefits of a fully restored boat now! It was a LOT of work, but the results have been worth it.
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    1990 Bayliner 2651 resto

    Being done with grinding is a huge milestone. Yes, 2 layers of 1700 should be fine for the mounts. Perpendicular with 1700 shouldn't matter, as it's a 45 degree bias. The stitching runs the direction of the roll and will impact how it lays around bends, but once cured in resin, it carries almost...
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    Bayliner engine swap??

    Meh, my thru-hull exhaust doesn't bother me or any of my passengers at all, and I've never gotten any dirty looks. I am running the OEM mufflers that go between the elbow and transom, though.
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    Transom and floor replacement

    If you're not going to remove the cap, cut the boxed in area out and dig out all the foam. When you rebuild the boxed in area, cut a hole about 3" in diameter near thr top edge and fill with 2-part pourable expanding foam though the hole. Reinstall the plug you hole sawed out with PB or some...
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    99 Monterey 276 Transom Replacement

    Hollow definitely = rotten. But definitely rotten does not always = hollow. Most of the time tests like "sounding" or looking for flex while standing on the drive are crude and don't tell the full story. Rot is a cancer, and these tests only detect the very end-stage of the disease. If the glass...
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    99 Monterey 276 Transom Replacement

    A "sounding test" won't tell you if it's rotten or not. Only if it's hollow or not.
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    Small hull repair

    I would just buy from US Composites. Less chance of it having set on a shelf for over a year somewhere.
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    Small hull repair

    You'll need to spend about $100-$200 in materials. Get some natural gelcoat, cabosil, and some gelcoat tints. Mixing the natural gelcoat and tint to match your boat will be the hardest part. Tint a smallish batch of uncatalyzed gelcoat. Apply some clear packing tape next to the repair area and...
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    I bought 50 yd of 50" 1708 and 50 yd of 1.5 oz CSM, then sold the remainder when I was done with my restoration. I estimate I used about 35 yd of 1708 between learning / wasting material and what ended up on the boat. My boat is 19ft.
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    Gipsy - 1996 Sea Ray 210 Bowrider restomod

    Just buy a full width roll (38" or 50"). Then you can cut strips to the desired width. I used a 50" roll. For tabbing, I would cut my strips to the desired width off the roll, then cut them in half so they were 25" long. This size was easy to handle by myself, and if you're doing 2 layers, you...
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