driz
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I asked last year about this new to me find for $800. It runs like a top but behaved badly. Can't trim down or it likes to porpoise and act skiddishly. It has a 50 Merc with 4 blade prop? and Stingray fin?. I took off the fin and it drove even worse needing to be trimmed way up to get it going. Weird. Also seemed heavy so this week I took out the center deck.
Out came the carpet and about 20lbs of sand. Wood was ok except for boggy around the edges so I will replace that. Interestingly the supposedly wet foam is dry as a popcorn fart. I wasn't expecting that . So I pulled the carpet off the rear section yesterday and got it down to the aluminum floor . Lots more sand. No more carpet for this boat nowhere. I hate that crap, all it does is keep things wet.
I pulled the plastic console to fix the multitude of cracks they caused by using darned rivets to fasten it to the base. Got that all ground down using a die grinder with one of those cheap 1.5" rolllock disks. Nice and rough just right to take and hold fiberglass matting. I will try to resize some pics and show the progress as I go.
For now I will concentrate on finding if the foam under the wells and gas tanks is wet. That is the most likely place I can think of for water issues and as the pix show it looks like things got swamped back there some time or another.
Out came the carpet and about 20lbs of sand. Wood was ok except for boggy around the edges so I will replace that. Interestingly the supposedly wet foam is dry as a popcorn fart. I wasn't expecting that . So I pulled the carpet off the rear section yesterday and got it down to the aluminum floor . Lots more sand. No more carpet for this boat nowhere. I hate that crap, all it does is keep things wet.
I pulled the plastic console to fix the multitude of cracks they caused by using darned rivets to fasten it to the base. Got that all ground down using a die grinder with one of those cheap 1.5" rolllock disks. Nice and rough just right to take and hold fiberglass matting. I will try to resize some pics and show the progress as I go.
For now I will concentrate on finding if the foam under the wells and gas tanks is wet. That is the most likely place I can think of for water issues and as the pix show it looks like things got swamped back there some time or another.
