Time for another (1979 23' Resto)

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Originally Posted by strick

Watching with great interest as I have the same boat sitting here. Wondering if the liner is too much trouble to re use. would save lots of fairing....cut and paste if you will?

strick

Possibly, would definitely take some serious cutting and pasting up front where the cabin was. Something to think about as that would definitely same me some serious fairing time.

Did some work this weekend. Started with the trailer, as I mentioned before, I didn't like how the keel sat on the PVC "V" up front so I decided to replace it with some front keel bunks. In addition I wanted to raise the boat up a little more on the trailer because the stern was very close to the rear most cross member as well as holding water in the keel up front as this was lower than the stern. I purchased some 10" bunk brackets to replace the 8" ones that were currently on the trailer (the old ones had some heavy corrosion in some places anyways).

Borrowing my friend's trailer stands made the process of lifting the boat extremely easy, not to mention safe. Wish I knew he had these when I initially replaced the main bunks, gonna help for bottom work for sure.

Stands getting bolted on:



Lifting it up:





Test fitting to get the length right:



Made the forward bunks out of pressure treated 2x6 and covered in the same outdoor carpet as my main bunks. Used counter sunk 3/8" stainless bolts to hold the brackets to the bunk, I try to through bolt anything I can.



One complete bunk:



Both bunks installed, main bunk brackets replaced, boat now sits 2" higher than before and is no longer resting on the keel up front. You can see where it has some trailer rash from that PVC guide, hopefully that issue is resolved.



I then moved inside the boat to tackle getting the tank out. In order to gain access to the front of the tank, and give me some more room around it I cut the hatch lip going around the tank, as well as a good portion of the storage in front of the tank.

Obligatory about to cut glass pic (also you can see in the background the wife decorated for Halloween, our porch isn't normally a crime scene):



Cut, cut cut:





Bare plywood bulkhead, surprisingly good shape for being in the bilge for the last 40 years, this was underneath the storage area I cut out.



Not sure if I broke this pulling on the storage compartment breaking it free of the potter putty or if it broken in the past:



This also greeted me under the storage compartment. Some sort of transducer or something, not sure. It's completely in cased in resin, and the area around it is a pool of resin. Wire is cut going to it at about 8" long, so no idea what it went to in the past. Need to climb around underneath the hull and see if I can find the exterior of it.



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