1972 SeaRay restoration

Buck77

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24’ sea ray srv was given to me by my uncle. Thinking of making it a project and going through the whole thing... It definitely needs transom work. I’ve been researching it for quite awhile. I’d like to re-power it and am considering Converting it to an outboard... any insight would be great!!! The hull is in really good shape but I plan on redoing the entire interior.
 

CrazyFinn

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I am in the middle of a complete rebuild of a '74 Sea Ray SRV240 Weekender. It's a huge job - been at it for a couple of years now. The transom, stringers, floor, all of the foam under the floor had to go. Probably, if your transom is gone (mine had mushrooms growing out of it), all of the wood under the floor is long gone. Most likely only the foam holding the floor up!

That reminds me... I need to post some more pictures up here of my progress...
 
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Buck77

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Yeah, I’m planning for the worst... I’m not on any time frame. I’m a carpenter, so none of it looks too intimidating. I’ll try to get some pics up soon.
 

CrazyFinn

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Yeah, I’m planning for the worst... I’m not on any time frame. I’m a carpenter, so none of it looks too intimidating. I’ll try to get some pics up soon.

If it's anything like mine... the main stringers - on both sides of the fuel tank - had originally been glassed. They were completely rotten, but the foam and floppy fiberglass were still holding the floor up. The second set of stringers had just been wood - no glass. Apparently attached to the floor in the factory, then the floor is set in place in the hull. There was some green adhesive on the hull where those second stringers were, but during assembly the stringers never even met that adhesive for most of their length - I think they only served to stiffen the floor. When I pulled it apart, those stringers simply looked like brown dirt. There was a third set of stringers, probably about 3" tall, just about an inch inboard of the sides of the hull. They were also unglassed, and now completely mush.

The transom was so rotten, I tore the inner glass off with my hands, the "wood" core fell out as a pile of brown dirt...

I have a video up of how bad it was here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcDtxUo0e-g

Hopefully yours isn't as bad, but then again, if it's rotted at all, it all has to come out. When it's as rotten as mine was, it was easy to pull out!
 
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Buck77

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Kind of planning on exactly what you described... I have a few more weekends of work on the house, our winter wasn’t too bad so I got a good jump on things. I’ll probably start tearing into the boat in early June.
 
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