Beginning my 1987 Fisherman 20 Restoration

[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.

[Myfathersson]

Kind of slow progress of late. But I got the bulkhead and side supports glassed on their exposed edges.







And this weekend got them placed in the hull and bedded:







And then cut the sheets of 17oz biax for the coming glassing:



This evening after work I laid those pieces against the individual plywood pieces and cut them to accurate form. Hopefully I can get 3 or 4 a night glassed the next few evenings after work. The sun going down by 8pm really limits evening progress!

Thanks for looking - Greg

[Myfathersson]

Six of the 11 secondary structural members are glassed in! 3 a night so far. The last five I should be able to knock out in one evening but my brother is coming in town for a music festival for a couple days so we'll see when I get those done.









My Great Dane even got into the fun and got herself a little epoxy tag

[Pipe_Dream]

I think it's tremendous. You're making great progress.

[scook]

I think you’re going to end up with what the V20 could have been if they’d taken more care in the original builds. It’s a great hull and I love mine but the build could have been better executed and yours is going to be rock solid

[Sangster]

Read from the start today, nice! Any update?

I did see someone mention no foam from the factory in 1983 V20's? Is that true?