popping the cap on a bowrider

[Wildman]

I have 4-5 of them in various flavors also

Steve I only use my finger nails on the 'good' jobs.

Finding a picture (or somebody who has taken the floor out) of one of those little boats, would be invaluable for knowing how much Hull&deck putty is under there and where its located. But then again, you might get lucky and like my boat all those joints had cracks and after you cut the rivets it will just lift out.

[uncleboo]

You might try contacting 65bowrider. She redid hers and might be able to enlighten you. Don't know how deep she had to go with hers, though.

[rockdoc]

I might try to replace the bad wood with the cap in place; looks like a tough job getting that cap off. And it looks like it is riveted to the hull too, through the rub rail. I'm going to try cutting though a length of the glass tabbing and see how that goes; I'll report back.

Steve

[philfish]

Steve,

I'm new to the site and just read through your post. I have a 67 bowrider and I'm in the middle of doing the transom over. I removed a good section of the rear portion of the cap pretty easily. Yes, it is epoxied on and rivited too but once you drill the rivits it seems to come apart with some persuasion. I'm not sure about taking the entire cap off though.