1975 18' rebuild

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it's hard to tell, but what i did was cabosil and screw the floor substrate(1/2" treated and dried ac plywood)down to the raised stringers and the ledger that i glassed to the hull sides. also i added a stiff knee from the keel stringer to the transom and the floor.

then i laid down two layers so far of 1708 on the substrate that i turned up about 2" onto the hull sides. i'm hoping this will add some rigidity the boat.

next i finished cutting the remains of the old floor from the liner and then cut the difference out for the amount that i raised the floor. (that was a real pita...i did that several times before i even got close)

almost forgot, while i had the liner out on the floor, i turned it over and cut out the anchor box. this was mainly so i could get at the coring of the forward cap area for repairs, but also because the original box was tiney at best. also while upside down, i cut out the rotten coring on the stearn boxes and added several layers of 1708 instead.




and now for the part that i can't seem to figure out...when i installed the liner/cap, it seems that the hull is about 5/8" shorter in overall length than the cap is! i realize that if the hull spread in width, that it could cause the reduction in length...but if that were the case, it seems like i would have had trouble installing the cap. but, it went back on with minimal effort. hey, at least i didn't come up with more hull than liner/cap!