Rebuild Repower

[Slightly_Twisted]

Ok so I’ve disappeared since September, it is has been very busy!
Finished off all the stringers, Bulkheads, and side support/ bulk heads.
That really wasn’t that bad, I still had the temps for glassing just slowly picked my way though it. The next phase was where most of the time went. I almost bit off more then I could handle, I was going to buy a bracket mount it and be done, but it didn’t work out at all. I was looking for a used one and couldn’t find it, get 4 different quotes for news ones and the cost just made it impossible. So after reading and re-reading a few different builds I decided to build my own.
I had all the supplies other then the resin, so the whole bracket just cost 10 gallons of resin. What could go wrong hahaha!!

The mold ALMOST broke me. Trying to get the curve of the transom correct, the level of the tub correct, and have both sides identical took almost 2 weeks. I think I ended up redoing the whole frame work three times. I’ll try and describe what ended up working in the next few posts, right now I’m just going to do a photo dump and then edit the posts.


Once I finished up all the internal fiberglass, I drilled out the bilge drain to about 2 1/2 inches, the back filled with thickened resin.