Potter 23 Hull's second chance at life (Rebuild Thread)

[flyingfrizzle]

Due to the weather coming in and the slow dry time of the epoxy I decided to hold off on installing the transom core into the hull. I tried to make the best of my time and did a few other items and some cleaning in the hull. After cutting the stringers and engine bedding back I noticed the wood in the bedding was half rotten. I cut the tops of the boxes off and pulled all the rotten wood out of them. Looks like the water got into the front side of them and couldn't drain out. The tank platform was also half rotted out on one side as well. Like most of these hulls they laid the board on the center keelson and glassed just the top side. The wood rotted out as all the bilge water could get right to it. The port side had started to pull away from the stringer so I cut most of it out for now. There is a ton of potter putty on the stringer tops that bonded the old deck down that is very thick. Looks like some spots didn't even touch the deck where it was so far apart. I took a pull bar and hammer and chipped most of it off and sanded down the rest. I did notice where someone had took the deck out cut threw the top of one of the stringers. That will need to get repaired latter on. Also the holes the factory poured the two part foam into didn't get sealed back off. Plans are to raise the deck just an inch or so to ensure it will self bail later on if the owner goes with a heaver four stroke or twins. Plans for now are a single 3.0 Mercury under 500lbs but one day it may see something heaver. I will have to raise the stinger tops up slight to bond the deck back to them if we raise the deck any and probably would of needed to do so even if we didn't due to the gap there now. I did some final fitting of the transom core to make sure it fit tight. The edges where the steps are for the VDR are a little snug not letting it drop all the way down. I pulled it back out and trimmed it down just an hair so that it would fit like a glove once I bonded it in permanently.

Engine Bedding:





Gas tank shelf:



Stringer tops with potter putty:


Attachment 16088


Fitment of the core:






Hours: 7

Total hours: 50