Plugging along, got the transom skin and knees out. the plywood is soaked but man it doesn’t want to come out!! Going to chip away at it for now.

One question the 81CC I rebuilt had foam throughout, this one doesn’t. did wellcraft change that in some years.

No foam in my '85.

My 84 had foam everywhere.

As does my '83.

Got everything cut out. The stringers were soaked up to the bulkhead before the cuddy. I lucked out I’m not going to have to take the cap off. I sealed the dry stringers with Peanut butter and will build off them.

So next up the grinding!!! Yeah can’t wait :cen:. I’m going to wait until is cools a little more then get to it.

Wow! :clap:

wierd...my 84 only had foam in fuel tank area.

Wow it’s been a long time
 

So hey guys it’s been a few few months and ALOT has happened since I last posted. Well just not that much to the boat. I was informed as I was dismantling the boat that our basement was getting finished this winter... by me. We also were putting in a 60 by 20 garden. Only problem with that is we live on the side of a valley so we have NO level ground, 120 tons of fill/topsoil later, fencing, tilling, etc I finished that. The basement was next.... so 6 months later I can restart on the boat. Well during that time a mouse condo started in the boat :cen::sick:. They ate EVERYTHING!! All the new wiring, the entire cuddy was destroyed, and the largest nest I have ever seen was in the cuddy floor.

After seeing the destruction I had to come up with a new plan. I was perry down and didn’t document much until now. So the new plan.

1. Cap had to come off to get to the mouse condo in the cuddy floor
2. Since I was there the strings under the cuddy might as well come out and replaced.
3. Rip out all the wiring (all new as of two years ago)
4. The bracket I was getting got sold under my nose to another guy, so I am going in deep and doing my own.

So as of today I’m ready to start rebuilding.

More pics
So to explain the photos a bit.

I had some older light poles I used as a make shift crane. Didn’t take any photos but lifted the cap off. Not that bad.

Put it in the garage and blocked it up really good. I have 5 keel contact points and 4 on each side of the keel. Started cutting and grinding, man I hate that. Got everything smoothed out and ready for new glass.

I decided to use wood as I can got it out here easily, all the composites plus shipping was so expensive I couldn’t do it. Made the new transom will do two layer for 3/4 marine ply tabbed in with 6in then 12in 1708 tape and then two full covering sheets.

Testing fitting the transom wood I found I couldn’t get the curve correct. The wood was stronger then the glass. Everything I tried bent the existing transom glass to the wood and distorted the transom. after trying 4 or 5 different ways I ended up settling on drilling 13 holes through the boat and wood with a full sheet of the 3/4 in plywood backer plate on the outside of the transom. I then took some 1/2 threaded rod and made my own bolts that had continuous threads. I’ll have to do the two layer of wood separately so I can bend the wood to the transom and not distort the glass. What a pain in the a$$ but I will match the curve. Going to get the first layer on tomorrow morning. Will bed with thicker resin and glass dust. Feels sooo good to start putting things back IN and not ripping them apart!!!