Removed my deck

[Liam]

nice parquet

[Liam]

here is how you glass in a girder at the wellcraft factory

[Liam]

probably gain a few knots when I remove the couple of hundred pounds of doubled up 2x12 stringers

[GREYWOLF]

WOW what a mess, I hate hacks . do it wright or dont touch it

[RidgeRunner]

GW- None of our boats would have been built had Wellcraft heeded those words. LOL ! I like solid sawn 2x12 for stringers. You did open up a can of worms didn't you.

Gut check = That moment, right after the Wallet check!

Your demo looks good and you certainly got to the root of a lot of evil, fast.

[bradford]

Mine actually looked pretty good with the exception of the fuel tank compartment with all the foam trapping water and gasoline.

I think it was Skools who said the small squares with the alternating grain actually made the deck stronger.

I would think this would have to be the case vs the ease of just glassing a couple of large sheets of ply. Even if they were getting the ply wood scraps for free I don't think they would be saving.

[Liam]

The foam was remarkably dry,as was the port side stringers. I cut the transom cap off,that needs recoring.I plan to remove the rest of the foam,and clean up a little then pull the motor in the next couple of weeks(depending on weather) and figure out the transom,i know its toast,at least around the outdrive,likely totally at the bottom.

[SkunkBoat]

Originally Posted by bradford

I think it was Skools who said the small squares with the alternating grain actually made the deck stronger.
I would think this would have to be the case vs the ease of just glassing a couple of large sheets of ply. Even if they were getting the ply wood scraps for free I don't think they would be saving.

When you get water intrusion from a screw hole in parquet it ruins 1 square. When you get water intrusion from a screw hole in a sheet of plywood it eventually ruins the whole sheet.