Nice work.

Where are you finding gloves?

Question:
When you remove the core on the edges of things (bulkheads, gunwale etc.) what tool or process do you use to do that?

I've used a cut off stubby Allen wrench chucked into a drill to remove core in a cored hull for a thru-hull or transducer or whatever, but I cant imagine how you would do it for a whole gunwale or bulkhead.

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AutoZone had XL gloves today. Black, blue and orange ones.

A trim router with a straight paddle cutting bit and a steady hand mostly. If i cant fit the router ill use a die grinder with some kind of burr chucked in it. A sharp stubby 1/4” drill bit works well too. Im only going 3/8”ish deep in most cases, and in high impact areas.

Box with a couple drawers going in here.

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Gave her a bath

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Only took 54 beers to flip her

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Been dreading this part here!

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54 beers?? for the whole crew? That's not all that bad!! :) Looking like it's going to be time to add some hours on the old sander!

And the grinders and the fairing boards!

Giving myself 1 month to paint it...

You took on an ambitious project there. Did you ever learn what she hit?

Yea woulda been nice to have a cleaner hull, couldnt tell just how bad it was though. I think he said submerged piling? I forget... He owned it for 40yrs

Fixed the damaged areas first, starboard side ended up having to get about 6ft of the bottom step ground out and repaired too. Stem/keel got ground and glassed too. Faired al that and glassed the whole bottom with a 6 and 4 oz finish cloth for uniformity. Pretty much ready for highbuild after i sharpen the step corners back up...

Sprayrails got shaped and glassed too.

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Transom getting tabbed. 2 more full skins with tabs (theres 3x1700 on there currently)

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