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    How smooth should hull be when tabbing in stringers

    It looks about how mine did...I think you're good. In line with what Scott's saying, if while grinding you see a spot that looks light start to appear, chase it for a little bit, as it's probably a bubble / delamination from the original layup. On my boat, I could tell if I got all the way...
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    Smoker Craft 192 Floor Restoration

    Oops, I obviously don't know my boats. :cool:
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    1990 Reniell 170M

    Why are you going to cover the gelcoat stripe? I would just wet sand and buff it if it's oxidized. You can make it look brand new, and a lot better than putting vinyl over it.
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    Smoker Craft 192 Floor Restoration

    The deck is probably stapled down directly to the stringers. Unless this exterior textured vinyl product is made for a boat, you may want to do something more marine rated like non-skid gelcoat on top of the fiberglass you lay over your new deck. It's not as hard as it sounds. Brace yourself...
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    1977 Crestliner Muskie 7**, Outboat Restore Project

    You should fill the gaps under your stringers. PB is harder than pine, hands down. It's not a hard vs soft thing. The reason you hear people say to leave a gap is so that you can have room to fill it with a bedding material (PB) and get a consistent contact patch between the stringer and...
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    1708 for stringers

    I bought a 50" roll too and cut my own strips. I used a pair of Wiss 10" shears ($30) and they made it through my whole project, but they could stand to be sharpened after cutting that much glass.
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    Engine mount support on a '85 Peterborough Monza Runabout-Need Help!

    Oof, I did plane (didn't finish it though), hot rod, boat, and I'll never have a chopper!
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    Boat tool box

    A small multi meter and a flashlight are good additions to the tools mentioned above. Replace batteries in both at the beginning of every season.
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    Deck cleat question

    I used sapele mahogany. It wasn't as expensive as I thought it would be.
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    1987 Power Play XLT-185 - floors, stringers, and upholstery

    I swapped my 21P cleaver to a 19P Laser II yesterday and so far I like it. The boat get up to about 4600 RPM now and gets out of the hole better. I'll just keep the 21P cleaver on the shelf for when I get the Vortec 383 done. 😎 Happy 4th weekend folks!
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    1968 Glastron Transom question

    In my boat there was a bulkhead that was not glassed in - just tabbed in with glass but the middle was just gelcoat over wood. Of course it was super rotten. You may have no glass in the area of the transom you're looking at. You could lay some glass over it to add strength, but if you have any...
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    1996 Century Boats 1800 Center Console Refit and Modernization

    Deliverance....hey...that's my neck of the woods! :cool:
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    '65 Lyn Craft Seabreeze 1500 Sport Runabout

    Nice, Buck. I'm sure you're glad to see it a uniform color!
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    1987 Power Play XLT-185 - floors, stringers, and upholstery

    Late to post this, but it's been a helluva week. I got the engine dressed, changed the needle valve, seat, and idle air tubes in the QJ carb, and got it fired up and running on muffs Sunday around lunch, then we headed out to the river. The boat performed great. It was a huge weight off my...
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    1995 7.4 Thunderbolt starting

    Help learn a guy something who has little carb experience... Is the thought here to give it as much air as possible to start on the extra fuel that's in there from the flooded shut-off? The accelerator pump adding a squirt of fuel doesn't make it just that much more rich? And, is the idea to...
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    4000ft Above Sea Level Carb Settings 4.3 Merc

    Try posting on the forums at Cliffs High Performance. Cliff Ruggles posts frequently hand he may be able to help guide you. He also carries high quality QJ parts.
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    Fiberglass repair on jet boat bottom

    1708 is going to build a lot of thickness fast and the edges are going to be a lot more work to fair in. Also, if you sand down into the biaxial strands, you're compromising the strength of the 1708, negating the need to use it. I would probably use CSM to build up then gelcoat, wet sand, and...
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    Thunderbolt IV issue?

    The exhaust elbow should be getting all that hot during operation, and the TB IV should have phenolic standoffs that further thermally isolate the unit from heat. Not saying your TB IV isn't the problem...just that it shouldn't be seeing all that much heat, in reality.
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    Merc 350 sputters, dies, won't restart after heating up

    Cool. I'm just saying it's a thing since you had never heard of it. We're not all marine mechanics with decades of experience who know all the marine lingo yet...many of us who are willing to tinker on our boat engines have automotive backgrounds, so we use the terms we know, and are...
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    1979 Glastron Carlson CV-23 restoration

    My brother has a CV-19 with the 455 / berkeley combo but the furthest he's gotten on it is pulling the engine and jet pump, and is about halfway through the gutting process on the hull. He's been too busy to touch it for about a year. But, if interested, send me your contact info in a private...
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