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Originally Posted by Billsseacraft
Weekend update on the teardown of the 23.
Saturday we spent about 3.5 hours removing the floor and getting the flotation out from the side of the boat. The pressure washer made short work of the floatation removal. My Brother DonV had a spinning pressure washer nozzle that made things really easy. Lots of clean up but way better and faster than manually removing. We were able to remove the entire front step up in one piece and it will be repurposed by Gofastsandman. All screws around top cap from previous rub rail was cut with a carbide tipped blade and vibrating Rockwell cutter. 2x4 and floor jack popped it up no problem. Im going to leave it in place until it gets to shop for glass work.
Sunday:
We were able to remove all the stringers and flotation all the way to the back of the knees that attach to the transom. Figured it will be a lot easer to cut those when the top cap and transom are removed. I would roughly guess that we removed 500+ pounds of fiberglass and wet Flotation. We found the secret behind removing flotation was to cut inside of length of stringer then the tops and we could get in there with a pry bar and pop flotation loose. About 50% of the time we could remove 2-3 feet of flotation out at a time. Much cleaner job than yesterday minus all the cutting dust.
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Who is the guy in the red hat?
Thanks a bunch for saving the step up. I thought it might be too wide to consider,
but I see it is narrower than my memory.
Pressure washers make short work of foam.
The clean up is heavy.
Merry Christmas!