byounghusband
Member
Well,
My thought of a winter project of stripping all the epoxy resin off the hull of my Jonboat has been moved up a bit... Bought this boat last fall and have been working SLOWLY on cleaning it up to float it to see what else I will do. See this post:
https://www.tinboats.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25259
I determined that the live well will need to be dry storage, so I re-filled the plug hole with resin and cut up fiber glass. I used duct tape on the hull to act as a block while it cured and planned on putting a patch on the hull to completely seal it. Well, the epoxy on the hull was beginning to separate from the hull and about 2' from the bow tip, it separated far enough for me to stick my arm half way to my elbow in between the hull and epoxy. This will NOT work out!!!
So my neighbor and I flipped the boat (after removing the motors and seats, etc..) and I began to remove the coatings. there were multiple layers.
Here is what I removed... Probably 40 lbs. Still more work to do.....
I guess my plan is to take the whole thing down to bare aluminum, weld or rebuck the rivets and Steel Flex the hull and then figure out what to do to the inside before decking it....
My thought of a winter project of stripping all the epoxy resin off the hull of my Jonboat has been moved up a bit... Bought this boat last fall and have been working SLOWLY on cleaning it up to float it to see what else I will do. See this post:
https://www.tinboats.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25259
I determined that the live well will need to be dry storage, so I re-filled the plug hole with resin and cut up fiber glass. I used duct tape on the hull to act as a block while it cured and planned on putting a patch on the hull to completely seal it. Well, the epoxy on the hull was beginning to separate from the hull and about 2' from the bow tip, it separated far enough for me to stick my arm half way to my elbow in between the hull and epoxy. This will NOT work out!!!
So my neighbor and I flipped the boat (after removing the motors and seats, etc..) and I began to remove the coatings. there were multiple layers.
Here is what I removed... Probably 40 lbs. Still more work to do.....
I guess my plan is to take the whole thing down to bare aluminum, weld or rebuck the rivets and Steel Flex the hull and then figure out what to do to the inside before decking it....