Re: First boat Resto in progress " advice needed"
Well I had to take a break from my project due to my kitchen flooding out Arrrrrrr anyway, I am back on the boat now. I installed some side clets which my boat did not have before I figured it would make everything better and easier to line everything up correctly, I chose to use some angle iron for floor simulators or "floor frames" which I can set on the clets and line everything up, one mistake I made was using the old stringers as patterns for new ones, I guess I should have made them from scratch but it is too late now. The way the manufacturer lined the stringers up was pathetic! They were no where near the same plain, the ones on the outer sides would have been about a inch away from the sole, there is no way this floor was sitting right on all these stringers. The floor would have been concave shape if it were forced down on the old stringers. I have one of the engine " bildge" stringers PL'd in place, I hope the way I did it is ok? The PL bedding under some places on my stringers will be reletively thick, meaning my stringers are close to about an inch off of the hull in some locations. I would think it will be ok though cause the manufacturer had them about the same way only worse, they had foam under them " you know the same foam they fill the boat with" no adhesives or fillets and the stringers were only glassed on 1 side, when I was removing them water was coming out of the foam with the cutter. looked like they only put down 1 layer of glass which was not very thick at all!
I have been grinding and ruffing and scuffing the last 2 days trying to get prepared to pl in my stringers, I hope I have ground enough and not to much? I just ground it till the little circles dissapear and the surface is smooth? this is the right procedure isnt it? I didnt figure the mat would go on to well with these little round circle bumps "air bubbles", in alot of places there wasnt any old fiberglass mat to remove since the stringers were only glassed on one side. Now my questions for the glassing, I have never done this before so I am a beginner, since my bedding is so thick in places " partly cause I dont have angle cuts on the bottom of my stringers and the hull isnt flat, will the epoxy and the glass adhire to the PL premium adhesive???????? and do I really need a fillet there? or is it pretty possible to do a inside corner with 1.5 mat? also does it really matter if I get a air bubble in it if it is only on the PL? the reason you guys dont like air pockets is because it will trap moisture and rot right? so it wouldnt matter since PL wont rot????? Hope I dont get any bubbles at all but I wouldnt count on it being my first time. My stringers are marine grade ply, CPES'ed, and are coated with epoxy, so I have some cash in them and my worst nightmare is having to grind on them with the grinder! The thought of it makes me cringe!!!! I am ready to tab this first one in as soon as I get everything acetoned, so any advise would be appriciated. I hope my thick bedding is fine? it is clean, I am surprised it didnt bubble up more than it did, it is reletively flat for the most part. I am drilling holes in that angle iron and I ran wood screws into the top of the stringer to hold it into place while I am working on them, that seems to work real well, and I would think it will keep everything in the same plain so that the sole will sit on the stringers just perfectly unlike the manufacturer had it. It would take a ton of peanut butter if I have to fillet these if mat wont stick to the PL? I also added drainage holes at the back of the stringers I hope this is also ok, I will have to try to glass that hole well, I had to have some drainage area and I didnt know where else to put the holes. please help cause I am worried! hahahahha
