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Maritime 1480 Rebuild

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wingnut:
Alright, time for a new project! True, it's not an Aquasport but 1) I like you guys better than THT and 2) as far as I can tell, there are exactly ZERO photos on the internet showing what a Maritime 1480 looks like belowdeck. Posting all of this in hopes that someone will find the information useful at some point! For those not familiar with Maritime, they're built in New England and are similar to Whalers but ride better and are (in my opinion) built better.



Anyway, I picked up this one up for $500 (with trailer and garmin plotter, but no motor). I'm looking to make it a tiller skiff for island hopping and hauling my lobster traps... got tired of filling my 170 up with mud and seaweed from the traps! I sold the console for $300 so I'll call it a bargain, as these 1480s go for upwards of $8k in fair shape, and more like $15k in good shape with good motor. The gunwale got crunched riding on a dock in a storm, so I knew I had some glassing in my future.





Below deck was a bit of a mystery. Maritimes used to not have any drainage, no garboard plug, nothing. They were filled with foam, but they used a below deck rigging channel inside the stringer that was not sealed at all. Basically, the plywood deck and foam below were completely saturated.



Scooped out all of the wet foam. Did some exploring inside the stringers, and it was only wet where the cutouts are shown. Added PVC drainage tubes between stringer cells, poured new foam, and reglassed.





I had planned to do a Coosa deck, but it was backordered several months. Didn't really want to go with ply, so I used Divinycell H80. I figure with the foam deck and wet ply/foam removed, it's about 400 pounds lighter.





Glassed bottom of the Divinycell with 1 layer of 1.5oz CSM, and top with two layers 1708 (all epoxy).

wingnut:
Did a bunch of grinding on the gunwale and formed up the hull shape with XPS foam.





Four layers of 1708 on the inside, lapped over the top to match the current gunwale shape. I ground out a 4" wide scarf joint which I think will be sufficient.





I have the outside ground down and ready for one last layer of 1708, then I will probably have to put it to bed for the winter... tough to get epoxy to kick when its -8 degrees outside! Planning to finish it off with gelcoat and nonskid this spring. Will post a couple more photos next week once I get the last of the glass down and fared.

RickK:
That came out great.  :13:
I don't know how many layers of 1708 you have on the lamination but I would want to make it stout for the next dock encounter.

wingnut:
Thanks Rick! I agree on making it stout. It will end up having 5 total layers (4 currently). I’m looking to match hull thickness which is just over 1/4”. I have one more layer to do on the outside, and it’s just shy of 1/4” so I think I’ll be ok. Also, I’m not quite as hard on my boats as the guys I bought it from!

It will have a standard Taco vinyl rubrail next spring after gelcoat, unless I think of something more innovative in the meantime.

Tampa Bay Mike:
Cool little skiff, and nice work so far. 👍

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