62-Racer Stringers

[65Bowrider]

Lots of restorations going on, so I thought I'd bring you up-to-date on the 62 21'.

After much deliberation on what material to use for the stringers, decided to stick with the original Moesly concept, afterall, it worked for 40+ years!

Used 1-x spruce, epoxy coated, then glassed in with 1708/mat.
Here's the pictures.
First, put a ribbon layer of 1708 over the steps for reinforcement.

Skip preparing the 1x spuce boards

The spruce stringers have been coated with epoxy

Stringers are set into place with cabosil & 3M glass bubbles and temporarily braced

And final step of 3 layers of 1708/mat overlapping so entire hull has atleast 1 new layer of 1708, 1x2 spruce added to top of outboard stringer with 2 additional layers of 1708 to bring to needed height. All layers of a stringer were done on the same day, so there is a good chemical bond.

The outboard stringers are to new cockpit sole height which will be approx 6" off chine to allow for a scupper system.
The inboard stringers will have risers/supports added to bring them to the new sole height, same as done in the 60's.

Now we're working on where everything will go below the deck, all rigging, batteries, oil tanks, etc. Then will come bulkheads & flooring.
Until next time ...

[JohnB]

Nice
If you layed up all that epoxy in one day, you were working hard . Did it harden all the way so you could walk on between layers? or did you progressively put multiple layers down as you went (aka hot coat)?

I have been doing hot coats, and tend to like to work with epoxy that way. How much epoxy did you use?

[gofastsandman]

If it worked for 40 years.....Nice progress! Are we sore yet?
George is doing my 100 hr service and was hoping to get her back Fri. , but maybe tomorrow. Time is getting tight.
Nice clean work!
If I cut the classic part off the emblems, would it be ok to put them on my `89 tracker?
GFS

[Islandtrader]

Dad must be Proud

[65Bowrider]

We did the hot coat process on the two outboard stringers one day, and then on another day, repeated the process for the two inboard stringers.
On the 2nd day, we had to lay plywood down over the two outboard stringers so we could reach the inboard ones without stepping in wet fiberglass. Yes, a few sore muscles & lots of help from Bushwacker (Thank you Denny!)
Between our transom & the stringers we used about 11.5 gals of epoxy.