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Someone has and I agree with reel, also add cloth or matting as you fill.
Doing completely in some sort of resin and cloth may not be pheisable (is that a word), but the best long run approach.

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I'll have to check the years but basically the 4cly 90hp Rudes can be improved to 140hp easily with the parts. The kicker is the parts, so many people have opted to do this that they are in high demand and rare. I got them to do one and ain't ready to share yet, only got one shot and they are real iffy as to the condition.
Basically change (or drill out the jets) the carbs and the reed plates.

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If only we had spellcheck.

Hey MJ, can we get spell check?

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You have a big project there and it will be Nice when she is done!!

But let me ask, how is it that all the stringers have no wood?? I mean there has to be something some place??

Now the reason I ask this is BS showed us a bot on another thread that had no wood and that was the way they made the boat, just empty tubes!!

Could it be that what you have found is dirt and stuff from the floor or even left from its build??

I just find it hard to believe that every stringer from front to back is empty cause of rot?

Call wellcraft ask them if they ever made no wood stringers?

ok I will shut up now, I have to sleep!!

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So where;s Glynn County ????
Gotta agree with others, thought it was posted somewhere that no wood was used on some models, and just the glass stringers was the strenght. Good project. keep those pics. a rolling for those few Pic. Ho's that we have here. ;) ;D

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MJ...go back and read it again...I think he says wood in the front as boat was stored tilted up ... when me, Franco and Willy toured the Pursuit Factory w/ Franco's brother, their stringers have no wood or any other core material ... open and hollow...but it's also not "stringers" in the sense we're talkin' here either ... all the stringers, cross-members, bulkheads, everything below the floor-deck is molded into one structural frame, then glassed into the bottom of the hull as one bow-to-stern unit 8) ...Willy got a pic of it, but Franco's brother said if he published it on the net, he'd have to kill him...



Oh yeah...it's feasible ;) ...

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Sorry I was (am) over at daddys drinking.

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I considered that maybe they should be empty. The bulkheads are plywood and glass byt the stringers... well I just don't know. I've heard both sides here and from friends. The guys at wellcraft had a resounding I dunno so no help there.

I'll pray to the sea-tow God and I'm sure it will come to me in a dream.

Interesting enough, the hull is supper solid even with empty stringer.

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Hammer,Glynn County is between Florida and South Carolina. Brunswick,Jekyll Island, about 70 miles south of Savannah and 60 miles north of Jacksonville.

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Thanks Tusa. ;)