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Hi guys,

Looking for some build advice. My 196 front hatches always end up full of water and I would like to build a new shelf in my console. The initial shelf was set by the previous owner and fell middle of last season. The wood shelf was very temporary solution to keep me going last year. I know I could fiberglass a new shelf in there but curious of any faster simpler solutions. Thanks
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Generic Aquasport Rebuilding Topics / Re: 1973 196 rebuild question
« Last post by RickK on Today at 05:39:50 AM »
We are having a problem now with our gallery. I have our host helping figure it out. Bare with us.
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Generic Aquasport Rebuilding Topics / Re: 1973 196 rebuild question
« Last post by Duffy1470 on May 31, 2024, 06:17:23 PM »
Anyone else having gallery problems? I am getting a blank blue screen.
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Generic Aquasport Rebuilding Topics / Re: 1973 196 rebuild question
« Last post by Duffy1470 on May 31, 2024, 02:15:59 PM »
Something wrong with my machine or the gallery. Will post pics later
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Generic Aquasport Rebuilding Topics / Re: 1973 196 rebuild question
« Last post by Duffy1470 on May 31, 2024, 02:11:40 PM »
Good info dbiscayne.  Thank you. Here are a few more pics of hole patching and bow eye prep.
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Generic Aquasport Rebuilding Topics / Re: 1973 196 rebuild question
« Last post by dbiscayne on May 31, 2024, 09:27:33 AM »
Theres some science to the stringer design and how it works with the adjacent hull 'flat' areas. They need to work together and have similar stiffness properties. A stringer thats overly stiff next to a hull panel that flexes a lot, ie small boat, can cause problems. I've seen two separate cases of a hull tear along a stringer because of exaggerated differences in stiffness of the two. I'm no expert at this, but from what I've read and seen its good practice to not have a wood stringer laying directly on the hull, instead they should be separated with small spacers, +/- 1/8" then a proper fiberglass fillet connecting them. With all that said, as long as you don't beat the crap out of the hull it might be OK without that gap.
Seacraft also used the fiberglass box stringer and they've got a great reputation.
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Generic Aquasport Rebuilding Topics / Re: 1973 196 rebuild question
« Last post by Duffy1470 on May 31, 2024, 08:21:01 AM »
Looking forward to your response as I am struggling with same question.
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Aquasport Discussion / Datacenter problems for the past couple days
« Last post by RickK on May 28, 2024, 07:44:01 PM »
Hi All,
Sunday the site went down and I was told the datacenter in Dallas was hit with some severe weather and lightning. Anyway, it torched a few servers which had to be replaced, all the hard drives were also torched which also had to be replaced and rebuilt software wise. A backup which was only a few hours old was restored, so we didn't lose any data but there is an issue with the photo gallery. We will work this out over the next few days. The gallery software is old and the company dropped support for it several years ago. When we upgraded from PhpBB to SMF forum software we searched far and wide for a way to export /import the gallery into something much newer without success.  The photos are stored in the gallery but the links and how the gallery software works with a forum is what we can't export, it's some kind of homegrown DB.
Anyway, hang in there with us, keep your photos handy and we'll be back to normal soon.
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Hi Rick, Thankfully Suzuki marine came through with specs. She's down at the boatyard for her refit now!
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