Progress has been super slow. Engagement party, people in town most weekends during the summer, work 50+ hours a week...ugh. Hadn't touched it in almost 6 weeks.
Finally spent this past labor day weekend getting some work done on it. Finished removing the remaining transom fittings and hardware. Cleaned out the old screw holes and motor mounting holes. Drilled some other test holes to see how shakey the transom core is. Eh, has some bad spots so I injected some penetrating epoxy. Pretty solid overall though. Going to roll with it for now, if I end up falling in love with the hull and ride, as everybody expects to with a SeaCraft, then we can go back and do a full transom, bracket, and newer power later on. Let the penetrating epoxy cure for a day and then filled all those holes with thickened epoxy.
I have the sanding supplies and face mask ready to go to town. The filler/fairing compound and the high build primer should arrive at the house by the time I finish up sanding.
Sorry, no boat pictures...But
I know many of you could be interested in this too. But I sort of impulsively dinged my boat project budget. My original plan was to attempt to flip it for a few bucks, I think it was a great deal. But now only -$700 later I'm not so sure I want to sell it. Serial number dates is to 1917. It's mostly correct, but has been refinished and has an incorrect mainspring housing, so it's not the perfect super high dollar collector that the serious guys are after. Fantastic shape though, and still think $700 is great for a 99 year old, WWI US Gov. 1911.
