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Beginning my 1987 Fisherman 20 Restoration
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08-24-2019, 07:05 PM
Myfathersson
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Join Date: Jun 2019
Location: Louisville, KY
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Yesterday evening after work I took advantage of the drop in temp to climb in the suit and cut a bit. Got the sole partially stripped. As expected all of the plywood was rotten and delaminating.
And then today I stripped a little more before deciding the wind was too high to cut and grind without perturbing the neighbors. So once I power washed the cap down I pulled out the stringer stock and started on the stringers. I started with my laser pointer setup to get my heights:
Look close and you can make out the green dot back on the transom:
I set the height by a couple of strings through screw holes in the hull transposed from their matching holes in the cap where I measured precisely to the underside of the sole, and compared it with my records of dimensions before cutting the stringers out:
Took new measurements from the hull to line and transposed those new dimensions onto the stringer stock:
And traced the tail and utility cutout profiles from the original stringer shells:
Cut carefully and set it in place for a test fit:
Measured to make sure I had the right offset from the reference laser line, made a few adjustments and then repeated for the starboard side. Voila - two accurate fit stringers:
Then carried each one downstairs to the router table and put a 1/4" radius along the top edge to ease wrapping the 17oz biax around the profile:
Tomorrow I hope the weather (specifically the wind) cooperates to let me grind and wash down the hull so that I can proceed to bedding these two in place.
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