Just my two cents - Given the options you've provided I'd put in the marine plywood, Hydrotek is great but expensive and Okoume plywood is soft which for me tends to mean that it is bendable... they actually promote that it is a bendable plywood. So again for me with your options I choosing the...
So love my tin boat and decided to add a hydraulic jack plate to it for skinnier water fishing. Issue I see now is the cable steering needs to be just a little longer or have better flexibility in it. I was wonder if anyone has a suggestion on how to make this better with out replacing it with...
13JUL17 - Found One this can be Deleted!
I am looking for a project boat for this winter and spring. I'd like to find a late 80's or early 90's 16 to 178 foot tracker (or similar). No motor require and preferred as I have a 2004 Mercury 40 hp setting in my garage. My location is central...
BTW- thanks of the link. I am wondering why you went with 5052 versus 5086 Aluminum. I'll be purchasing my sheet goods next Friday and would like to know prior to ordering, thanks
I wondering if anyone has or can point me in the correct direction of someone who has removed the entire transom. In my hast to repair the current outside skin (of the transom) I've over heated the aluminum and warped it. So I want to drill out all the rivets and replace this panel. Ideas...
Well it is slow going but I've managed to get a solid deck surface to work from. I've installed cross members of 1"x 1" angle 6063 (T6) with a sheet of .080 5024 Aluminum on top. Each side under the sheet has be filler with pour-able form from US composite. As you can see I also received my...
TexasLoneStar56 - thanks for the reply.
I have attached some pictures of what it look like after I removed the aluminum cap of the transom. The transom was a build up of outside (boat exterior) .080 aluminum with 2 layers of 3/4" plywood in between the interior sheet of .080 aluminum. The...
I've been hanging around reading and learning as I start the restoration of my father-in-law's blue fin (god rest his sole). My first question is during demo (which I did not take photo's - figured that was boring), I found the the rear aluminum panel (exterior skin) not only hand a number of...