Glued in the engine mount pad.. And finish whith a center stringer.. The temps here have dropped and so has my bucket of resin...Lol... I want to mount on boat and load it up with weights before installing plat form.... I want to get a good loaded water line..

Hey Martin - Looks good!! What are you using for a vacuum pump?

Hi It is a yellow jacket .. I have a 7.5 cfm and a 1.5 cfm.. also have a 8 cfm robinaire.. They work fine for what I do.. Lay up of small parts...

Hey thanks for the comments .. But I will confess this is definitely a learning curve.. And a big one at that. I installed the center stringer this afternoon. and pulled the bracket from the mold. then went down and tried to weight it.. I would say that is comes in around 160 but i did not trim off excess and install the top.. I have got what i had expected and that was the glass pulled from the mold creating some warping to the inside of the mold. It appears to be all the same all around the bottom is flat and looks god. but the radius corners and forward and aft look awful.. Lots of fairing that has to be addressed. the glass bows inward from the side and the front and back of mold... It looks to be about a 1/4 in in the center on the front and the back. and the same for the sides...If I had t do it again I would use foam and therefor I would not be using much glass and resin.. I think it would be easier to build the bracket... Anybody try it..

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Bracket weight 160 No trim .. No top

Not bad for you first one! 160# seems a little heavy without the top.

strick

I agree with the weight. How high are your sides on the bracket

okay started back on the transom to fit the bracket.. I know this bracket is pretty ugly now. But it is still not trimmed out. nor faired, Definitly not as purdy as others but hey this aint no beauty contest....Yet.haha. where was i oh yea transom
As you all can see I had som issues with getting my outer skin to adhere to my new inner skin.. and as I looked long and hard at the new bracket and all the effort that went into that I decided to rip the old outer skin off. There were just to many voids and air pockets.. you can see all the circles and well the voids when i pulled the skin... Not to mention the outer skin is just mat glass.. anyway ripped it off and ground down the entire transome. The new glass layup is as follows. 2 layers of 2 oz and two layers of 18oz 90 biaxial.. then the new skin is 2 layers of 1708 biaxial and one layer of 2oz mat for the final outside layer.. ad of coarse a whole lotta sanding and fairing.. I feel much comfortable with this new glass then the old stuff..

transom void and removal
 

never ending Itch bomb

Taking the bracket to a very large scale this time to get actual weight and then I can start trimming the fat...

Strick where did you mount your bracket on your 20 sf... My bracket is 48 inches wide by 25in deep.. and also the sides of your brackets look to be about 10in high.. is that true..thanks for all the help

will measure tomorrow and let you know

strick

If you are 25 inches deep with the tub . . . do you have a 30" shaft motor?

Sorry on25" offset not deep.. 22 in deep..

Shaft is 20"

Hey Martin - uh oh . . . a 20" motor on a 22"/23" deep bracket will probably have some issues. Even if you get the bracket height just perfect. The bracket may block water from the prop (b/c it's an obstruction hanging 2" to 3" below the cavitation plate).

With a 22"/23" depth and a 25" shaft motor there is a little wiggle room to adjust the motor height up or down.

Understand.. I am going to buy an extntion kit for the lower...to25 inches..if i need to..so with my 25in setback .. I can bring the bracket 2 inches... Just trying to figure out how high i need to mount the bracket to transom.. On your smaller brackets what is the height of the sides of the bracket .. Looks likecto be about 8-10 inches. From the chine of the bracket to the top of swim platform

Martin, here's an earlier post I sent to Strick with some mounting measurements on my Hermco bracket. http://www.classicseacraft.com/commu...=24103&page=10 In general you want to mount the tub as low as possible to get maximum flotation. The top of the solid green paint (not bootstripe) in pictures in that other thread is 11 5/8" above bottom of flotation tub. Bottom picture below shows where my motor is currently mounted.

The AV plate on my motor is 3.5" above keel in attached pic. I've since raised motor another 1" from where it was in this picture, and it looks like it needs to come up another inch to get the AV plate out of the water when on plane. I'd guess that an AV plate height of somewhere around 5 to 5'5" above keel would be about right for my rig, but that's with a 30" setback. With a 24" setback, you'd probably want to start out with an AV plate height of around 4", but mount the motor so you could later raise it 1 or 2 holes. Hope this helps. Denny

Othanks denny yes I got it now... Thanks again for all your help... I know it was in the other posts.. but I tens to forget esp. After all the boat porn on here... Thanks again

the sides on the bracket that is mounted to the 20sf are about 11" deep. The sides on the bracket that is going on the 20 sceptre are 10.25" deep.

strick

Thanks strick... Hope to get this thingmounted this weekend... Boss just gave me veterens day as a payed holiday.. Yippee.. Weather is very beautiful for grindin glass.. Lol

Finished grinding and shaping tub Platform layout
 

Just pulled the platform out of the mold. Came out pretty nice comparde to the tub. Just need to fit it in the am... Will put one access hatch in the middle and so I can glass the center stringer to the platform...

On my radius I had a hell of a time bending the 1/8" luan believe it or not... So after cursing up a storm i decided to pull a sterlite Tote from the attic and cut the top off. I made sure it was stamped PP before I proceeded..After all I didn't want to get yelled at for nothing.. anyway this actually worked out really well and the Gelcoat came out beautiful... will fit the top Monday.. and start back on the transom.. until then hope you all had an itchy Weekend. two layers of 2 oz and two layers of 1708 sandwiched with nidacore and two layers of 1708 to finish off.. part weighs about15-20 lbs..72 inches wide x 24 deep Will weigh total when I get done...

Thanks to everybody on this thread who helped me my millions of questions. I know I sounded like a broken record at times. . Strick, Bushwacker and BigShrimpin.. also Don with Hermco. and the Seacraft community

Not much goin on here. Sanded the hull out and glued the top deck down.. Waitng on some deck parts so i can finish the bracket and decks