Beginning my 1987 Fisherman 20 Restoration

[SkunkBoat]

Originally Posted by Slightly_Twisted

I’m going with something close to this video. Over all a good install OTHER then I have not idea why he doesn’t seal the screws into the stringers!! To me that is a failure waiting for water intrusion.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8m0sVshBrXQ.

don't like it. That tank is sitting in bilge water. That matting is holding water and whatever crap ends up in the bilge.
don't like it at all....

[Myfathersson]

Just to clarify - I am NOT considering foaming the tank in. Hazard of mentioning two independent thoughts in one paragraph :)

I am going to go with a poly tank - a Moeller FOLT5007 - https://www.oceanlinkinc.com/product...0-25-folt5007/ I have a gameplan of how I'm going to mount it, but waiting to detail the method until I have it in hand. I may wait to do the tank till spring. Not sure yet.

The foam I was referring to is the flotation foam down the side cavities either side of the stringers. If I'm gonna do it, best to do it while I've got it in 2 pieces. Just struggling with the decision either way.

[Slightly_Twisted]

Originally Posted by SkunkBoat

don't like it. That tank is sitting in bilge water. That matting is holding water and whatever crap ends up in the bilge.
don't like it at all....

Just rewatched the video. Skunk you are 100% correct. I totally missed he didn’t have a sealed compartment. Thanks for correction!

[Myfathersson]

Took advantage of a light schedule and the lowest forecast temps for the next 10 days and jumped in the tyvek suit and ground down the sole today. It's now ready to be re-cored. (Any of the darker areas are just moist from the power wash post grinding).











And before I was ready to start grinding (didn't wanna wake up any late sleeping neighbors) I got all the wing templates made from lightweight cardboard. And I scuffed up the new glass in the hull to receive the tabbing for the wings and bulkheads.

Have a company picnic this weekend so I'll infill smaller pockets of time with cutting the wings and bulkheads out from the sheet and prepping the pieces of 1/2" for the sole. Getting closer to slapping the two halves back together!

(Prayers that I measured accurately and they actually fit together after all this would be GREATLY appreciated LOL)

[Myfathersson]

Only had a part day today due to a picnic. So got out early this morning, turned on College Gameday and started cutting out the wings and bulkheads:



And voila:



Still need to finesse a few of the wings and make sure the tops are colinear across the stringers, and form the bottom edge of the bulkheads - decided it was a waste of cardboard to template those.

Then with the spare sheet of 3/4 ply out of the way I grabbed the 1/2 ply and started on the sole:







And then this evening after the picnic, I gulped a few ibuprofen thanks to the last roller coaster ride I took, and made up a kraft paper template of the foredeck. I'm debating using 3/4" for that for a couple reasons - #1 I have an extra sheet, but I look to be 1/2 sheet shy on 1/2", and #2 - I think it won't hurt with as unsupported as that area is. Going to sleep on it and decide tomorrow when I dig back in.

[scook]

You’ve been doing some nice looking work and your posts are excellent. It looks like you’re not a stranger to carpentry

[Myfathersson]

Originally Posted by scook

You’ve been doing some nice looking work and your posts are excellent. It looks like you’re not a stranger to carpentry

Thank you! And certainly not a stranger to carpentry.

[Myfathersson]

Got the rest of the core pieces I'm going to focus on before winter knocked out today. The foredeck - which I decided to do out of 1/2" cut from the kraft paper templates I made last night:





I'll have to get another sheet of 1/2" ply for the tank cover panel and the two gunnel fishing pole covers this winter.

Then massaged all the wings and bulkheads for a perfect fit. Those pieces are down in the workshop now and ready to get their rounded over tops and the limber passageways glassed over:



Lesson learned on the stringers. I'll glass the top edge roundovers and then just carry my tabbing up the sides to overlap the edge of that skin. I'll tackle that evenings after work this week. With the sun being down by 8pm now, finally having tasks of a scale that I can do in the shop is nice.

Should be really easy to then cut the glass for the tabbing to have everything ready to go next weekend to tab in the bulkheads and glass the sole. It's time to start thinking about gel coat repair below the waterline, sanding and bottom painting - want to do that before I put her back on the trailer.