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1981 V20 Restoration
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Newbie here, Been waiting at the door to get in!
Had my son come home and tell me his friends father had a boat in his back yard that he'll give me. Asked whit it was and he said a 20 ft wellcraft, I told him I would have to take a look at it as I had one a year ago (70's ctr console) that sunk to recover the 150 suzuki 4 stroke on it, that boat and decks transom were a sponge and told them I dont want that boat. I went and looked at the cuddy my son was offered and decks were solid, transom, questionable. Hull and liner are almost flawless just highly oxidized Cleaned it out, brought it to the shop and dug deeper and deeper and deeper. Great winter project for my son and his three pals (all 22 yo) during these trying times, they said were game. they've been to the shop 5 out of 7 days a week after work doing the work (ok about 2/3 of the work) Plan is Seacast Stringers and Transom (and every other piece of wood in the hull Were planning on a 25' transom or option of full transom and bracket Pics I've seen with brackets they seem to squat with the engine weight further back. would love to hear from someone who has driven both variants (planning on a 200 yami 2 smoke) Larger fuel Tank planned, I will say they slapped these boats together. Fuel tank was foamed in (factory) almost 4 inches off center at an angle where I was able to suck 6 gal of unusable fuel from the tank with the boat level https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xCB...ature=youtu.be |
1981 v20 rebuild
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Nice hull, looks like u have a great project ahead. Your labor situation sound ideal for all parties involved.
are you going to recore the deck with ply or use a composite? keep the pics coming |
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Have not got into the deck yet, The original gelcoat on the decks is in excellent condition with no cracks or soft spots. looks like they sealed the decks fairly well.
Am thinking putting it back in as is leaving us the option of using the hull to build it as a center condole down the road. If I were to do the decks I'd probably go with coosa focusing on the hull for now. Boat was trailered most of its life and given to the neighbor who just let it sit at the woods line for who knows how many years My thought was to use this as a mooring holder and something the boys could use as their beater. The boys got all the wood removed from the hull yesterday and we started to align the transom cutout. original plan was to pour the transom without removing the liner, (the reason for the cut out from the rear)that changed when I saw the rot going into the stringers. most dont realize that the rot in the transom is a fungus and will migrate thru any wood connected to it, not to mention the bugs Hull has only one coat of bottom paint on it, will be redone in shark white |
What s the status of the merc 150? Just wondering, few guys on here still running that vintage motor always looking for parts.
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I was going to use it but the power trim is shot, ram, motors, etc
The rest of the motor looks good, turns over, was fogged before it was put away. Has 1100 orig hours on it. part it out I guess Had to cut it off the boat was going to bolt the powerhead to my bench and see if it fires up lol I know a lot of guys on the lakes love the old mercs too Havent got to it yet, sitting on a pallet since I took it off dec 7th lol |
Looks like you're well on your way to bringing her back to life. :clap: Only comment I will make is about the transom. Most people do not realize that it's curved, not straight across, so they cut away the back glass and leave the interior part of the transom sandwich like you did. (Which is exactly backwards from the way it should be done which is to leave the outside and just cut the inside glass). Damage is done, so no way to change it. Just be careful when building the new transom, try and get it back as close to original as possible.
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Transom alignment
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Funny you say its backwards, get into 30-40 footers and trying to do it from the inside is backwards. Not a problem at this end on alignment.
Got 4 skill saw blades same as the one used to cut it, tabbed in with 8 blocks. Dead balls on! will remove, fasten form for building up transom, glass it then reinstall tabbing it back in place between the blocks then removing the blocks and tabbing the rest. Making some headway as we pulled it from the woods 30 days ago today, into the shop 12/6 and the hull is now wood free Attachment 7963 Attachment 7964 Attachment 7965 |
Link works, thanks
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What year is that motor? It looks like it has the clam shell cowl , if you are going to sell it let me know
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1981 merc 150
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Attachment 7967 Attachment 79681981 It’s available. Power trim is junk and mounts were cut to get it of the boatAttachment 7966 |
Jan 2021 quick update on progress
Figured I'd give a quick update in pics, Transom poured with SeaCast
Very impressed with the SeaCast https://youtu.be/HPZaBuK5OIw This is our primary boating activities https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9g...ALvpASA/videos |
nice work.
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Excellent work, you are on your way to a lovely Boat :clap:
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Still at it
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Got started on the stringer pour this week, went well but a messy job. putting continuing on hold due to the cold temps not going to try to keep the shop 80 degrees when its going to be 9 out
added a pvc wire chase, moving the batteries forward of the fuel tank Attachment 7987 Attachment 7988 |
On a Cold Hold for glasswork, so it's prep,prep & prep
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To cold to pour or glass so it been triple check the leveling of the hull, stringer alignments/heights etc
Happy with the transom height, 24 5/8 right where we wanted it to be. Have to say these kids are rocking it! Attachment 8001 Attachment 8002 Attachment 8003 Attachment 8004 Attachment 8005 |
Stringers poured
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Got back into the hull over the weekend now that the temps have come out of the teens at night.
How much seacast does it take to do a transom raise to 25" and stringers on a V20 ? 10 5gal pails, Figured it to be approx 10,000 cubic inches (little under, 9700 ish) However we came up about a gallon short due to me not informing the mathematician to figure the spine of the hull into the equation. The block of wood in the stern for the bilge pump was torn out and the area was built up with seacast and glassed in. Attachment 8027 Attachment 8028 Attachment 8029 Attachment 8030 |
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grinding away
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Started playing with the liner, little modification to marry up to the transom
Stringers had 1/8 to 1/2 inch gaps filled with goop before we pulled the liner. Workmanship in the hull looks like it was started on a Monday and finished Friday afternoon. liner was a different team ! Set our forms on the stringers with the liner in, put in temporary now till the next batch of seacast arrives encasing the rod compartments in glass too Attachment 8038 Attachment 8039 Attachment 8040 Attachment 8041 |
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:love: One of the best V for 2021 for sure when you are done with this baby. I have to do my stringers one day, they a-ok for now
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update
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A lot going on and not much time to post
Got the stringers done to height after putting the liner in for measurements, back off last night and hull moved into glass bays for capping off the stringers today Have decided to rework the liner too since were in this deep, pulling all hardware off it, new bulkheads and more. Restoring original teak. Attachment 8048 Attachment 8049 Attachment 8050 Attachment 8051 Attachment 8052 |
date part two
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Did a test area of bringing back the original gelcoat. first pass on the gelcoat with 400 in the picture, will most likely go to 800, then 1200 and then to 1500 (or more) if needed. The 400 seems to bring the color back about 80%.
Nice thing is they were not bashful with the gelcoat back in 81, pretty thick Attachment 8053 Attachment 8054 Attachment 8055 Attachment 8056 Attachment 8057 |
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A few more from yesterdays progress. I just love the quality of the 80's teak
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Had her in for a fitting and sizing Sunday
Working the oxidation off on the hull and think paint job on the liner might be in order Attachment 8072 Attachment 8073 Attachment 8074 Attachment 8075 Attachment 8076 |
Looks great!
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Boys are cranking away on her I'm doing the initial sanding above the waterline till I get down to 800 then Ill let them at it. below waterline for now for them.
Had to pull them off the wellcraft to do the bottom and buff the hull on the big boat to get it in, They banged it out in an afternoon. 12:30 am think ill head home now lol getting to be a habit Attachment 8079 Attachment 8080 Some of our videos for your entertainment https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9g...lO55p54ALvpASA |
Nice!
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1981 Cuddy modified gas tank
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Modified the fuel tank size to the maximum we were able to get in thru the factory opening gaining 10 gal now a 70 gal tank.
one addition not on the drawing is a second ground tab by the fill Be here the end of next week. Attachment 8081 |
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Working on bringing back the original gelcoat
400-600-800-1000 then 1500 grit and one quick pass with some compound to find any holidays as I call them Whatcha think? Attachment 8087 Attachment 8089 Attachment 8090 Attachment 8091 |
:clap: man that looks great, I love the color, I went with White during my restoration just because it was my first time with Gel, now shoots I can do any color..Lol nice work keep it up.
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Have you ever use this product Aqua Buff? Go with 1000 then 2000 you will be amazed at the results trust me, I did very little sanding if any during my restoration with a cheap buffer from Harbor Freight.
https://www.amazon.com/POLISHING-Com...9548666&sr=8-2 The Best Fiberglass Boat, Metal & Automotive Paint Light Buffing & Polishing Finishing Compound On The Market! This is results 12 years after the restoration in 2008/09 |
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Were going to 1500 (maybe 2000) then a once over with a heavy duty compound, then Woody's Ultra Gloss fiberglass restoring compound and a coat of Colinites fleetwax and wash it only with Oarpine w/wax. Good for the season and then some Have 3 of them on the port side of the hull this evening @ 800 now, hope for the once over with compound by the end of tonight |
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