[Mikeyz]

Find a big tree and hope for the best...
Today I pulled the top cap off the boat. It was not very hard to do and it took longer to setup everything then to get it off the boat. I did get so good help from Mopar and dear old Mom driving. I am glad I went ahead and did it the foam is waterlogged and will need to be replaced. I also found some stringer damage under the floor that I would have never seen if I haven’t pulled the cap. Now the next step will be to remove all the foam and replace the damaged wood. I am wondering if while I am at I might do all of them (any thoughts) is it worth it to just replace all the stringers at one time since the cap off and will be easy to do now. I am also looking at a way to rebuild the Transom. I was thinking about doing it in layers using ¼ marine ply and fiberglass mat maybe do a sheet of ply then fiberglass mesh and repeat until it’s built back up to the thickness it needs to be. Would this be stronger than just two sheets of ¾ glassed together? I also will be looking into installing tubes for the wiring and fuel lines to make it easy to wire at a later date. I can’t wait to get to the building stage of the project so far it’s been a three week teardown but I see the light and it’s getting brighter.

Mike