Va Beach v20 project

Kracker Jack · #1 09-30-2011, 07:16 PM

Well here she is fellas!!!! after spending the last 10 years in a cow pasture she finally has a future. This boat I found out started life as step lift. The cap was cut off and cuddy and 10 inch cap was put in its place.The floor is rotted and the transom is also gonna be replaced.I will still have that odd recess in the floor were the step down to the cuddy used to be. If anyone has any pictures of floor configuration from a conversion such as this please post some pics. feel free to give me all the input you think i need. thanks guys!!

Destroyer · #2 10-01-2011, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Kracker Jack

I resized the pictures and they came out to small but when they are regular size then they are to big to load.

Make an account on photobucket, then upload your pics to there, then insert them in your post as an [img] file and they will display nicely.
It will look something like this:

Example [img] my file [img]

RWilson2526 · #3 10-01-2011, 08:52 AM

yea what Destroyer said....I'm really wanting to see what it looks like.

RidgeRunner · #4 10-01-2011, 10:20 AM

Don't worry about the pictures your signature picture is enough for me. You still have the Albermarle? Working on a project 20v. You have the sickness.. LOL

Destroyer · #5 10-02-2011, 03:21 PM

Nice pics.. if you roll over any of your pics on photobucket you'll see a pop up window with several different formats for displaying the pics.. The one on the bottom is the [img] format. click on it and it will be copied... then just paste it in your post here and it will display ... like this:

Kracker Jack · #6 10-02-2011, 07:16 PM

This boat has the original motor that came with the boat at least it seems that way.both boat and motor are 74's. its so funny to see a 135 hp that has a manual trim for the motor. Meaning there is no trim. You unlock the motor and drop it down to the choosen pin height. and it then has a helper type shocks that assists you to lift the motor back up to transport or store. Now thats what I consider old school. my old 25hp on my skiff and my 40 hp evinrude is set up like this, just have never seen it on a motor this size. I might keep it like that and just use that gimble bracket for my other 135hp that im gonna repower it with. I think it would be old school and make it seem like a classic. I also have a used only in freshwater seadrive bracket that a few guys on here have kinda talked my out of using (maybe). I want this boat set up light and simple kinda work boat style. This boat will mosly be used in shore striper, cheasapeake light, cheasapeake baybridge tunnel. with a total of six rods 1 cooler and 2 guys and a live well running the original dual 20 gallon saddle tanks, is a 135hp rude feasible power for this light load rate? Thanks everyone for all the help so far you are a great bunch of guys. I have the boat stripped now of consol, tanks and bench style seat and the old motor. I have a few questions for demoing the floor. question #1 Should i set my saw blade depth to barely cut out the ply wood but keeping the bottom skin and then laminate my new ply wood to the existing botom skin waterproofing my under side of my new floor? Or should i remove top skin,core and bottom skin and then glass the bottom of my new deck plywood and adhere it to the stringers then glass the top of the floor? the reason im asking is a boat guy told me that keeping the bottom skin them laminating new core to it is a method that can be used he said you just kinda scoop it out then roll out your resin to prepped bottom skin and roll resin on your precut core material then screw it to your stringers and put a bunch of bundles of shingle on top of the plywood to weigh the floor down till resin kicks. Also maybe a tip to some guys im sure its been done before but i came up with a easy way to get a rough template for your transom. I screwed my full sheet acx plywood to the out side of my transom today and pulled the plywood up tight to the transom with 3inch screws then just traced the template to the configuration of the outside of the boat. its gonna be a little big but i can fine tune it from there with a jig saw. Atleast you get your template close and saves a bunch of time measuring, Just an idea. I also went and bought a new digital camera today beacuse i will document ever step of this project because this will be my first project of this extent and want to help to show people that if they take there time and do there research that they also can rework there own boat. I will start demo this weekend so get ready for the pictures!!!

RWilson2526 · #7 10-03-2011, 05:05 AM

Good luck with the rebuild...you have your work cut out for you. Interesting thought leaving the bottom skin of the floor. Never heard or seen that but that doesnt mean much. The one drawback I could see is that as long as you are going through all this work I would think you would want to get a look under that floor for any fixes that might need to be done down there. With the bottom floor skin that wont be possible....

reelapeelin · #8 10-03-2011, 07:20 AM

Great project, Kracker!!..gonna be a nice one when yer finished...glad to hear you got a new digital camera to document the progress and all the hard work ahead...

...when you get it, set it on a low pixel setting, best for downloading for use on forums, emails and the like...

Kracker Jack · #9 10-04-2011, 07:31 PM

Kracker Jack · #10 10-04-2011, 07:42 PM

Here are some better pics. PO did a real dosey on her!!!!! terrible terrible terrible!!!! good intentions with the wrong applications. Will start demo this weekend. He used mostly resin and hardly any cloth the demo is gonna be a cinch. Any hints or tips to help me out is welcome. like places to cut floor?