And away we go...

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I have the sticker on my console but I can't read it due do fading. I poked around in the foam between the stringers this afternoon and it seems pretty dry in most spots except for one area that was pretty wet by where the console was. I also took out Lot of the big junk of foam by the casting deck as that is where the fuel tank might go.



While I have the deck up I wanted to look at the scuppers and how they were attached. The first of these pictures is the port side and looks awesome. The second is the starboard and does not look so good. It does not really matter as I plan to raise the deck and go out the transom with the scuppers after I fill the existing ones.





I was surprised to see that the deck does not actually sit on the stringers themself but it sits on the hardened potter putty. I new there was potter putty under the deck but I figured it would have been compressed a lot more during installation.


You can see in this picture that the top of the deck is actually 1.25" above the stringers.

I will be removing all the foam in next few days. After that I will have some questions for you all. I used a simple claw hammer to remove the foam on the port side already and it came up pretty easy. Some spots right next to where the console was had a heavy odor of fuel at the bottom of it. I'll put up some more pictures later tonight.