stringer pieces in place.

[warthog5]

Big, I think your gonn'a be itchy laying down in the bottom like that. HeHe

Looking good. So did you decide to go ahead with the MDO for the floor, or go Nidacore?

[Bryan A.]

Don't get down on yourself you inspired us all!!!!

[Bigshrimpin]

Warthog - I'm still undecided . . . I'll most likely end up with 1/2" marine ply - just cause it's available and fits within the budget.

Trayder - If you hadn't introduced me to these finer boats contender/seacraft boats . . . I'd still be pounding my brains out in an old 17ft sportcraft thinking that the ride was totally awesome. Thanks again for opening my eyes to these amazing boats and for creating the site. I've learned a ton from everyone especially you, strick and warthog. I'd be friggin lost without this site to exchange/borrow ideas.

If you do end up redoing another seacraft [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
perhaps you might consider a 23ft cc, flush deck, pilot house, and a diesel inboard with the greasel conversion (www.greasel.com) . . . so you can run the seacraft off vegtable oil.

[warthog5]

heck we could just put a tractor motor in it. John Deere. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I've got a buddy who moonlights doing Desel work on boats around Orange Beach,Al.
he told me of 7 boats that he knows of that switched to John Deere this year.

[RingLeader]

Looking good. I didn't know that you had even started the project yet. Shows how out of touch with the rest of the world . I'd highly recommend NIDA or even coosa for the floor, but both can get a tad bit expensive.

You can get the bare NIDA for about $50 a sheet. Figure 5 sheets will be the total for that hull. Then you are looking at at least one layer of 1808 on the underside and 1-2 layers on topside and lots of resin!

[Finster]

WHATS THAT SMELL??.........HUUMMM, OH YEAH IT'S MAKO. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[Tashmoo2]

Bigshrimpin & others who have raised deck,

I have an '81 18 ft Sea Craft and want to raise the deck to make hull self bailing.

The posts I searched show the inner liner removed. Do you reuse the liner by trimming the top edge so it fits under the gunnel?

It would seem to me that it is easier to cut it at the foor and reglass it to the liner after the stringers are raised. I'm sure those that have done this know the best way. I would sure appreciate some advice before I make a lot of extra work

[Mark]

On an 18' I would retain the liner because you already have a gunnel cap that overhangs it. In my 20' there was no overhang, thus no capacity to hang rods underneath. I think in your situation you could cut just the floor out, raise the stringers (very smart) and then put a new/higher floor in.

I considered doing this to my SC18' before I went the complete redo route with my 20'. Those 18's are nice boats [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Tashmoo2]

Mark,

Thank you. Are you the same Mark that has the perfect "10" 20. I saw the pictures and think you gave me some advice before.

[Bigshrimpin]

After a long break . . . Here's an updated pic with the fuel cavity and the new bulkhead?? One more will go in tonight behind the fuel support.