New V-20 project

[Curapa]

Ok, so it's been a while... My baby is now 9 months old and I'm finding time to work on the boat again.

I have replaced the transom and the stringers. I'm working on the bulkheads and rear top cap now.




I'll be tackling the top cap from underneath. I plan to close off the hatches to nowhere and speaker holes along with make the access hole smaller to accommodate the new hatch on the way.



I'll be working from the rear to cut down on fairing.

[Curapa]

I have gotten plenty of parts in lately. Deck drains, hatches, fuel fill, fuel hose (that crap is expensive), pull up cleats, pop up bow light,....

[Striper80]

Looking good. It's amazing that you've gotten so much done with the young baby. Keep up the good work.

[bradford]

Looking great Curapa! Love reading about other deck off/cap off rebuilds. Gonna start tearing into my Chaparral 21 as soon as I can get about 5 or 6 smaller short term projects out of my way.

That's a pile of money in the picture with all the hardware. The small details like those are what really end up costing in a rebuild.

Before you get too far have you thought about having the deck drains go through the back of the cap/liner instead of the deck? Gets them up an inch or two higher and lets them drain better. Wish I had done it to mine, still considering it, plus putting in access hatches above them to help in getting to and inspecting the scuppers and drains.

[Curapa]

I actually thought about drainage quite a bit. I ended up raising the deck 3" to get it above the water line a bit more. You can see in the pics that one side of the cap is already cut and the other side isn't. I also plan on criss crossing the drains so they bail out of the opposite side, this way when we are all in a corner landing a fish we aren't in ankle deep water. The deck drains I bought also have a ping pong ball in them to help stop water from coming in.

We took little man to the beach for the first time this morning and I was able to tab some bulkheads in after we got home.

[nymack66]

Awesome work and detailed pictures.

[Curapa]

I had a moment of free time this afternoon so I did a test run of filling in the holes in the rear cap. I started with a piece of dry erase board, applied several coats of wax and screwed it in place.





Then I put a few layers of CSM and 1808 down.