Need advice about glassing in floor/sole

[RidgeRunner]

Get as much gelcoat ground down as you can. A fleck here and there isn't gonna kill you. You need a strong mechanical bond when attaching new glass to cured glass, mechanical bond is about all there is with PE or VE. 40grit and leave ridges to give the glass something to hold onto. If you let the new glass cure, you have to grind it rough again to apply subsequent layers. To save on grinding, do wet on wet application whenever possible.
If you had 1708 coming out the wazoo you could use it for both sides of the plywood and step back to 5/8" or 1/2" plywood. You having fun yet?
AND We want to see some pictures.

[Kracker Jack]

I'm having a blast with this boat. My girlfriend picked out the color (fighting lady yellow). I figured I would include her in on something. I'm learning to wet on wet as much as possible. I want to thank everyone for there help so far. My tramsom is ready to go in this weekend everything is prepped and cut out and ready to go all I need to do is go buy my cabosil tomorrow.

[reelapeelin]

Spare poited out a method of using a router to remove gel coat...w/a 3/4" or better bit, and that bit dropped 3 layers of masking tape(to match the depth of the gel coat), it'll take it off quick...obviously needs to be a flat enough surface to accomodate the router shoe...haven't tried it, but sounds good...Spare said worked very well...

[Kracker Jack]

Yea im to close to the edge of the boat to use that method. Thats an awesome idea. I started doing some repair on my console lastnight, like filling in some holes from the old gauges. Im only gonna have an RPM gauge on the new console configuration I dont need all those other gauges cluttering up the console. Im gonna be posting pictures in a couple days documenting my transom install I will put those on my build thread.